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Veteran musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has accused some executives of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) of using the office for visa racketeering. According to the veteran musician, the Union office was being used to facilitate visas illegally for people. Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, who was speaking in an interview on Showbiz 927 on 3FM with MzGee @iammzgee, did not categorically mention who exactly was involved in the illegal deals but noted that it is rampant feature at the Union office. Watch the video for more: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B84Aw0_lDLY/?igshid=1csx3qfes9f2h Source: 3news.com|Ghana 

Supreme Court Justice Gertrude Tokorno is advocating that stakeholders in Ghana’s legal education should consider training solicitors to work in hand with barristers so as to ease what she refers to as unnecessary pressure placed on legal education and legal profession in the country. As a keynote speaker at the 5th Legal Luminaries Platform organised by the Law Students’ Union(LSU) at the Faculty of Law in the University of Cape Coast, Her Ladyship mentioned that training and certifying solicitors to work hand-in-hand with barristers could bring fluidity in the legal profession. Speaking on the theme ‘Finding a Balance Between Personal…

Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club has revealed a 30-man contingent for their upcoming trip to United Kingdom (UK) for the independence game against rivals Asante Kotoko in London. The list comprises of 20 players, five technical team and five management members. Below is the full list of Hearts’ 30-man contingent PLAYERS Goalkeepers: Richard Attah, Richmond Ayi and Ben Mensah Defenders: Mohammed Abdul Fatau (captain), Raddy Hokemba Ovouka, Robert, Addo Sowah, Christopher Bonney, William Dankyi and Benjamin Agyare Midfielders: Alhassan Mohammed, Nurudeen Abdul Aziz, Emmanuel Nettey, Frederick Botchway Ansah, Benjamin Afutu and Dominic Eshun Strikers: Joseph Esso, Daniel Afriyie, Traore…

All registered Ghanaian trucks refused entry into Nigeria will return to Ghana soon, 3news.com can report. This is on the orders of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Speaking in an interview with 3news.com’s Komla Klutse, a Deputy Minister of Trades and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah, said within the next two weeks all the trucks will be driven back home. “So, very soon we are going to see the return of these drivers,” he announced in the interview. Hundreds of traders have been left stranded since August, 2019 when the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria closed its borders over what…

Several property were left vandalized and some students injured as a free-for-all fight erupted between students of Atlantic Hall (ATL) and Oguaa Hall of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Friday night. It is unclear what triggered the fight but an eye witness said it started after some students of ATL beat up another from Casely Hayford Hall (CASFORD). The CASFORD student had come to visit a friend at Oguaa Hall, which was marking its Hall Week celebration. The incident sparked a free-for-all fight, leading to the vandalisation of property. Campus security called in to arrest the situation had to…

Scores of individuals have turned up for the Akoma FM blood donation exercise in Kumasi. The exercise, an initiative by Media General’s radio station in Kumasi, is to stock the Transfusion Medicine Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). The Head of Blood Donor Recruitment Exercise at KATH, Kwame Asenso Mensah, said the Blood Bank at the hospital on a normal day has to be stocked with 500 units of blood. “Without blood it will be difficult to run the operations at the hospital because of the number of patients who need blood on daily basis,” he said. “At…

A former TV3 broadcast journalist, Odilia Prempeh Agyeman, has been selected as a tutor for TV Production at this year’s International Careers Festival in Rome, Italy after competing hundreds of applicants for the position. The International Careers Festival is scheduled to take off from Saturday, March 7 to Tuesday, March 10. The International Careers Festival is a networking and meeting opportunity between brilliant young minds, institutions, companies, NGOs, and international organizations. The 11th edition will take place within the beautiful framework of the city of Rome. The key elements of the Festival are Guidance for an International Career – Simulations…

Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram Constituency Samuel Nartey George says the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has contradicted himself in the fight against illegal small-scale mining. “The president is a walking oxymoron,” he describes the head of state. According to him, President Akufo-Addo had described the fight as successful and yet said challenges still remained. “Operation vanguard has been largely successful even though problems still remain,” Sam George quoted the president as saying in his message on the state of the nation last Thursday. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) said this makes the president a contradiction to himself. “How…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that German automobile Volkswagen will start production as soon as April with Toyota also gearing up for production this year. “VW is building its plant at the North Industrial Area in Accra, and is due to start production by the end of April. Sinotruk has begun assembling its trucks. Toyota is scheduled to start the assembly of vehicles in Tema in the last quarter of this year. We have high hopes for this new industry, which has come to join our own Kantanka.” President Akufo-Addo was speaking on Thursday, February 20 in Parliament…

Customers of defunct savings and loans companies have cast doubt on government’s ability to pay their locked-up funds in full. This comes in the wake of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s announcement in his state-of-the-nation address that payment will begin Monday, February 24. The president indicated that it will disburse some GHؓ¢13.5 billion for the over 4 million customers, who have been affected in the financial sector clean-up. The Bank of Ghana revoked the licences of nine universal banks, 347 microfinance companies, 39 microcredit companies/money lenders, 15 savings and loans companies, eight finance house companies, and two non-bank financial institutions…