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Posters of disqualified aspirant for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tarkwa Nsueam Constituency of the Western Region Joy Joycelyn Andoh, announcing her as an independent parliamentary candidate have started to pop up in Tarkwa and its environs. The poster with colors similar to that of the ruling NPP has four hands holding each other, signifying unity, as her symbol. Her poster promises jobs, unity and empowerment with ‘Power to do more’ as her political mantra. Joy Joycelyn Andoh is among one other parliamentary aspirant who was disqualified by the FF Antoh-led vetting committee from contesting in the June…

Four remand prisoners have tested positive to Covid-19 at the Asamankese Police Cell in the Eastern Region, the West Akyem Municipal Health Director has confirmed. Dr. Samuel Agyeman Boateng explained that after a fumigation exercise, the police requested samples of prisoners be taken because some were coughing. Samples of 10 in-mates available then were taken. Test results from Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research (NMIMR) which came in confirmed four positive cases out of the 10 that were taken. The four are in isolation and doing well, Dr Agyeman Boateng said. Two have been kept at the unused female cells…

Amateur boxing in Ghana continues to attract talents from across the country. Over the years, it has become a conveyor belt feeding the professional sport. Osuman Faruza ticks all the boxes for one of those amateurs, who are staying committed to the pursuit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pISN2VpDnq4 By Juliet Bawuah|3news.com|Ghana

Marricke Kofi Gane, an independent presidential aspirant, has strongly kicked against the resolution by Electoral Commission, Ghana(EC) to compile a new voter register for the December7 polls. He has maintained that it is not necessary for the EC to compile a new voter register before conducting a successful election since the existing register was used in 2012 and used for a “successful” district assembly election recently. The chartered accountant and international development practitioner, speaking to Nana Yaw Opare on Yensempa on Onua FM on Monday, June 15, described EC’s resolution as needless and incoherent. He underscored the EC could go…

The National Identification Authority (NIA) will resume the registration of eligible applicants in the Eastern Region from Thursday, June 18. The exercise in the Region was suspended under controversial circumstances which even went to the High Court. The Authority had continued registering applicants in the Eastern Region despite President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s ban on social gathering on March 15. Many civil society organisations including the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) called for an end to the exercise as Covid-19 had been recorded in the country and showed signs of spreading especially in crowded locations. Though the High Court dismissed the…

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has been discharged from the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC), 3news.com can confirm. Mr Agyemang Manu, who was admitted on Tuesday, June 9, contracted the deadly Covid-19 in the line of duty. Hospital officials, who would not speak on record, indicated that the Health Minister is in stable condition and responding to treatment but not currently at UGMC. The sector minister, who has not been seen in public since the last media briefing on May 28, is reported to have taken some days off and was yet to resume to work. By…

Ghanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale and controversy are like twins. It’s either he loves the controversy or controversy likes him. The good news out of his controversy is that it leads to a debate about topical and interesting matters. Sometimes, it’s as if, that is where he wants the national and/or entertainment discourse to focus. Over the weekend, appearing before a showbiz programme on UTV hosted by the darling actress, Nana Ama McBrown, Mr. Wale delved into law-accusing bloggers of copyright and privacy breaches of his brand, name, and likeness. He referred to his infamous video on Snapchat in May…

As part of measures to ensure final year students of the Tamale Technical University reporting back to campus stay safe from Covid-19, students were asked to first go to the school clinic for screening. According to management, the move was part of measures to ensure all students go through the necessary protocols of Covid-19. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, June 14 reiterated that schools will be reopened to final year tertiary students on Monday, June 15 but only after strict safety protocols are adhered to. Tamale Technical University is one of the schools visited by the 3news.com. At…

The Director in charge of Diaspora Affairs at the Office of the President, Awuah Ababio, has given timelines for the evacuation of Ghanaians stranded abroad. Apart from the evacuation of Ghanaians in London on Wednesday, June 17, there is another one expected on the following week involving Ghanaians in New York, USA. “On the 28th of this same month again, we are going to have some evacuation from Washington DC. After that we shall move to phases,” Mr Awuah Ababio said on 3FM’s morning show, Sunrise. “We are going to be dealing with evacuation from Belgium, Canada, Italy, Germany, Denmark,…

On Sunday, June 21, the world will be celebrating this year’s edition of Father’s Day, a day set aside to honour fatherhood, paternal bonds and an occasion for the showcase of the love and gratitude people bear for their fathers. Leading Ghanaian media company Media General is marking this year’s Father’s Day by inviting members of the general public to celebrate Ghanaian fathers and all other men playing the role of fathers in the lives of people who are not their biological children. For this purpose, Media General is using its radio and television subsidiaries – TV3, Onua TV, 3FM…