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Emmanuel Kwame Amoh is an Online Editor with the current affairs team at Media General, operators of TV3 Ghana, editors.3news.com and more. Email: emmanuel.amoh@editors.3news.com
Gunmen in Nigeria have freed a number of pupils who were kidnapped from an Islamic school in May, according to their head teacher. Some 136 students from the school in Tegina, Niger state, were seized by gunmen demanding a ransom. School officials say 15 students escaped in June and a further six di
Members of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) have threatened to resist any attempts to confirm any nominee as Chief Executive until the central government pays off the Assembly’s outstanding debts. As at 31st December, 2016, KMA's financial liabilities stood at GH¢119,213,333.22 as captured in sess
The Concerned Youth of Axim in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region has issued a 7-day ultimatum to the Nkosohene of the area, Nana Nkwantabisa, to retract and apologize for dragging the name of the former Member of Parliament, Catherine Afeku, and the highly recognized Kundum festival
If Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been a staunch adherent of putting in place digital structures to drive the economic transformation of Ghana, it should be no surprise to anyone who has come across his 2010 bestseller Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform in Africa - Ghana's Experien
The early hours of Thursday were charaterised by crowded residents of Effia, a suburb of Takoradi in the Western Region, as fear gripped the community after an armed robber weilding a gun and a matchet was lynched. An eyewitness (name witheld), who was at the scene, disclosed to Omanbapa morning sho
Chelsea legend Michael Essien has been named as one of two special guests to assist with the UEFA Champions League draw to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday, August 26. The Ghanaian will be joined by former teammate Branislav Ivanovic of Serbia. The two were part of Chelsea's maiden UEFA Champ
The Volta Region branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on its supporters to join Friday's demonstration planned to impress upon government to open the country's land borders. The demonstration, to be led by Ketu South Member of Parliament Abla Dzifa Gomashie, will be staged in
At about 12:30pm on Wednesday, August 25, the spectacle of how the Adum footbridge was free of its usual business scenes by traders was very surprising. In fact, until then the footbridge has been a major trading pavillion for some traders at the peril of the facility's structural integrity. The mor
The first group of 51 evacuees from Afghanistan has arrived in Uganda. The group landed at Entebbe International Airport aboard a private chartered flight on Wednesday morning, Uganda’s foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry says the group is transiting through Uganda and will move on to
Ivory Coast's first person to test positive for Ebola since 1994 has now recovered, the health ministry says. The 18-year-old woman from Guinea had travelled to Abidjan by bus two weeks ago and then tested positive for the haemorrhagic disease. Ivory Coast immediately held a vaccination drive to cov
General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Thomas Musah has stressed on the need for stakeholders to continuously devise innovative ways of giving access to quality education irrespective of the prevailing circumstances especially in times of emergencies and pandemics. “C
The Sekondi-Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (STCCI) has launched a digital platform to boost digital trading. The digital platform, www.chambersmarket.com, known as the Chamber Market and developed by the STCCI, comes with an app for both users on the I-system and Android system. The platf
The Nsein Traditional Council has denied receiving monies from the former Tourism Minister, Catherine Afeku, for the celebration of the Council’s Kundum festival in 2018. A section of the 2018 Auditor General’s report mentioned that Mrs Afeku, who is also the former Member of Parliament for the Eval
The Member of Parliament for the Karaga Constituency, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, cut sod for the construction of a police station at Pishigu in the Karaga Constituency. The project comes at a time criminal activities especially armed robbery have been on the increase, affecting movements and business ac
The Abodom Police Command in the Ashanti Region is investigating an alleged assault case reported by one Okatakyie Kwame Opoku Agyemang, an NPP executive of the Bekwai Constituency Reports suggest there was a brawl during an electoral area meeting by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) held at Bekwai Dade
