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The journey to crown a new queen for Ghana’s most celebrated beauty pageant kicked off Sunday with glamour, style, and class. Now the reference point for beauty pageants, TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) reality show launched again Sunday night in a very colourful ceremony live on TV. This year, 16 beautiful, eloquent, and talented ladies, representing all the 16 regions of Ghana, are eying the most sought after crown when it comes to pageants in Ghana. Meet the 16 contestants: Region: Upper East Name: Dobil Mmabil Talata Sandra Stage name: Talata Education: Graduate of Koforidua Technical University Age: 22 years…

The journey to crown a new queen for Ghana’s most celebrated beauty pageant kicked off Sunday with glamour, style, and class. Now the reference point for beauty pageants, TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) reality show launched again on Sunday, June 28, 2020 in a very colourful ceremony live on TV. This year, 16 beautiful, eloquent and talented ladies, representing all the 16 regions of Ghana, are eying the most sought after crown when it comes to pageants in Ghana. For the past 14 years, Ghana’s Most Beautiful has been the torchbearer when it comes to using beauty to project Ghanaian…

Ghana has now recorded a total of 17,351 positive cases of coronavirus, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated. He indicated, however, that 12,994, representing 75 per cent of the total cases, have recovered. “This means that, currently, we have 4,245 active cases, having conducted 294,867 tests, one of the highest on the continent,” President Akufo-Addo said in his televised address to the nation on Sunday, June 28. “Thirty persons are severely and critically ill, and we have a total of 112 sad deaths, constituting 0.6 per cent of positives, as we maintain one of the lowest death rates in…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to put an immediate end to the “war” he has declared on the people of Volta, Oti, Upper East and Upper West regions. This follows the heavy presence of armed security officers in the above-mentioned border regions. For the former president, the deployment of armed security officers to the border regions is against the oath President Akufo-Addo swore to the people of Ghana on January 7, 2017. In a statement issued by his Special Aide Joyce Bawah Mogtari, Mr Mahama said the deployment of troops to the regions…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended by three more months the incentive packages promised all health workers in the fight against coronavirus. The previous packages announced on Sunday, April 5 were for April, May and June with a 50 per cent allowance of basic salaries to be received from March in addition. In his 13th update broadcast nationwide on Sunday, June 28, President Akufo-Addo announced that the packages will cover July, August and September as well. “I am happy to announce that I have decided to extend the incentive package for health workers by another three months,” he stated.…

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) Jean Adukwei Mensa is expected to address Ghanaians on Monday, June 29 regarding the upcoming voter registration. The address at 5:30pm will keep Ghanaians posted on the preparedness of the Commission ahead of the exercise. This was contained in a statement issued by the Chairperson’s Secretariat. The new voter registration exercise is scheduled to start on Tuesday, June 30 and end on Thursday, August 6. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

The new President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, has told the BBC that his win in the rerun election was a “victory for democracy and justice”. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of votes in Tuesday’s poll. “I do feel like Lazarus, I’ve come back from the dead,” Mr Chakwera said, referring to the biblical character of the same name. In February, Malawi’s constitutional court annulled Mr Mutharika’s poll win in May 2019, citing vote tampering. The country was bitterly divided in the run-up to this week’s election. But Mr Chakwera said those who did not support him had nothing…

Manchester United will face Chelsea and Arsenal will play holders Manchester City in the semi-finals of the FA Cup. It is a stellar draw, featuring the Cup’s three most successful sides, with Arsenal the record 13-time winners. United, who beat Norwich to reach the last four, have won it 12 times, while Chelsea, who edged past Leicester in the quarter-finals, have eight wins. Both ties will be played at Wembley on the weekend of 18 and 19 July. The final is scheduled for Saturday, 1 August at the same venue. The draw was made at half-time of the game between…

Nine more persons have lost their lives to Covid-19 in Ghana, according to the latest release by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). This has seen the deaths rise from 103 as of Thursday, June 25 to 112 as of Friday, June 26. The total cases have also seen a jump to 16,742 after 311 new infections were recorded. Significantly, 12,720 of the patients have recovered and discharged, leaving 3,910 under care and management. There have been concerns raised about Ghana’s method of recoveries-cum-discharges with experts claiming they are a fodder to flare-ups in the cases. According to the experts, asymptomatic…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed that this year’s presidential elections, the eighth in the history of the Fourth Republic, will probably afford the Ghanaian electorate the clearest of choices to be made yet. Speaking at his acclamation as the presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Accra on Saturday, President Akufo-Addo lyrically pointed out that this year’s election will definitely be a fight between a current president and a former president. “[The elections] 2020 is between the current president and the president who was voted out in the last contest. “It is about leadership. “It is…