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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
Dear Nana, This is a personal appeal—an appeal motivated by my own observation of the deplorable conditions of service of lecturers at our institutions of higher learning. You promised so much for our educational sector, so let it not be documented that you failed lecturers. For the past three month
The #FixingTheCountry Movement says it views claims by former President John Mahama that elections are won at the polling stations and not the Supreme Court as hypocritical and disingenuous. The group is bemused that the 2020 Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is making
The Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC) has admonished the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to flush out foreign restaurants, hotels and outlets which do not sell locally manufactured beverages. Chief Executive Officer of GIHOC Maxwell Kofi Jumah laments almost all restaurants, hotels and liqu
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has hit at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) again, the second time in a week. In a post on his Facebook page on Thursday, Dr. Bawumia, renowned for being a piercing thorn in the flesh of the NDC, said that party has always been pessimistic anytime
A 55-year-old Covid-19 patient has been found dead after he escaped from the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital’s Covid Center in the Western Region. Narrating the sad event to Connect FM on Thursday, August 19, Deputy Director of Nursing Services for Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital Justina Amo Yartey
The District Chief Executive for Shama, Joseph Amoah, has said the Assembly will auction some of the faulty vehicles that have been abandoned for some years now. The DCE, who revealed this to Connect FM, said asset committee has to work on those cars soon and, after, a report will be sent to the Min
The Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has asserted that Ghana is best placed to attract investments into its petroleum hub because of political stability, geographical location, robust downstream sector, and its high quality crude oil. He was speakin
Member of Parliament for Atwima Kwanwoma Constituency and a Deputy Minister for Defence, Kofi Amankwa-Manu, has told constituents of Twedie to reject fears that the initiated Twedie Hospital project will be thrown out. He described rumours that the project will be abandones as malicious and intended
Head of Commercial Banking at Stanbic Bank, Abdul-Jaleel Hussein, has advised financial institutions to approach agriculture financing from a partnership perspective for a coordinated effort in driving growth in the sector. Abdul-Jaleel said this at the 2021 Annual Conference of the Ghana Associatio
The leadership of the Ghana National School Feeding Caterers Association has distanced itself from reports by some caterers demanding President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo sack Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection Sarah Adwoa Safo. The "faceless" and "nameless" caterers, inter alia, ac
The Member of Parliament for Salaga South Constituency in the Savannah Region, Hajia Zuweira Ibrahima, has appealed to the Feeder Roads Department of the Ministry of Roads and Highways to facilitate the rehabilitation of some deplorable roads, leading to farming communities in the Constituency. Acco
The Lagos state government in Nigeria has banned street begging and has formed a special team to stop the “menace”, local media report. The team is expected to begin operations in the next few days. A state official in charge of youth and social development told journalists that beggars on the stree
At least 47 people, including 30 civilians, have been killed in northern Burkina Faso, in a clash between Islamist militants and government forces. At least 19 more people were wounded after the suspected jihadists raided a military convoy escorting civilians on Wednesday, the ministry of communicat
Former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Koku Anyidoho has dared General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia to come out with any shred of evidence suggesting he created problems for the late Professor John Atta Mills while serving as Presidential Spokesperson. He
From today, Wednesday, August 18, families of Covid-19 infected dead persons will have to bury their relatives themselves because those in charge and mandated to do so are on strike. The Environmental Health Officers Alliance Ghana (EHOAG) has suspended the burial of all Covid-19 victims in the coun
