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Black Stars midfielder Thomas Teye Party has been handed a starting role in Atletico Madrid’s UEFA Champions League game against Juventus. Atleti face the Italian giants in their first continental game this season at the Wanda Metropolitano Wednesday night. Partey sat out in the club’s 0-2 defeat to Real Sociedad in the Spanish La Liga over the weekend. Manager Diego Simeone named the Ghanaian alongside the likes of Diego Costa in his starting line-up. The La Liga club is in Group D with Juve, Bayern Leverkusen and Lokomotiv Moscow. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Police have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of Nana Kwadwo Afodour, the Asamponhene of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Anumwar Sadat Mohammed, also known as Alhaji, was arrested in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on Monday, September 16. Police said he was arrested “through a collaborative effort of the Ashanti and Upper East Regional Police Commands, the Ghana Embassy in Burkina Faso and the Interpol Ghana and Burkina Faso”. Nana Afodour was murdered in cold blood on Sunday, August 18 at Ebuom near Atebubu. His body was found with multiple stabs. Reports say the perpetrators of the crime attempted to…

The Information Service Department (ISD) has hinted on a decision to use social media as a key channel to disseminate information and to propagate government’s flagship programmes and policies. It has resolved to carry out this exercise through the use of info-graphs and animation in reaching out to the masses in addition to using the traditional methods. Acting Director of ISD Charles Wereko revealed this on Wednesday, September 18 while speaking at the launch of Citizens Education and Awareness Raising Campaign on the upcoming District Level Elections and Referendum. He has said the rife use of social media in the…

The Municipal Chief Executive for Gushegu in the Northern Region, Musah Issah, is alleged to have prevented the construction of an 8-kilometer feeder road that joins the Kunayili and Saala communities to the Gushegu township. The Kunayili and Saala communities are two new settlements in Gushegu but residents are cut off from accessing the rest of the Municipality during the rainy season. The construction was a collaboration between the Parliamentary Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Malimali Yussif, and Might Construction Company located in Tamale. But information reaching 3news.com reveals some Constituency Executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) under the…

Iran has been banned by the International Judo Federation after it ordered Saeid Mollaei to pull out of the World Championships in Japan. Defending champion Mollaei ignored calls to withdraw from his match against Russia’s Khasan Khalmurzaev to avoid the prospect of facing Israel’s Sagi Muki later in the tournament. Iranian athletes are prohibited from competing in any sport against Israel. Mollaei lost in the semi-finals and has since been living in Germany. Earlier in 2019, the National Olympic Committee of Iran had said it would comply with the Olympic charter and the International Judo Federation (IJF), paving the way…

Mr. James Aboagye has officially taken the mantle as President of the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG). Mr. Augustine Abbey “Idikoko” the immediate past President of FIPAG, handed over the mantle to the newly sworn-in executives at a brief ceremony held at the Musicians Union of Ghana MUSIGA Head Office in Osu, Accra. Mr. Abbey during the handing over, took them through the books, changing of FIPAG account signatories, membership registration, among other pertinent issues concerning the association. “FIPAG is a well-established entity that is captured in the government’s documents (Film Act) that is the only recognised film producers…

The Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) has called on National Security to – as a matter of urgency – ensure that the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) stays true to its core mandate. According to Duncan Amoah, BOST has in recent times been focused on “completely tangential developments derailing it from achieving the core mandates and objectives as envisioned by the Act setting up this facility”. Mr Amoah noted in a statement issued on Wednesday, September 18 that BOST was set up about 20 years ago to ensure that there is adequate storage…

It is an undeniable fact that the prime purpose of a nuclear regulatory body is to ensure that all licensees operate their facilities and practices in a safe and secured manner at all times.  This implies that every country that uses radiation and nuclear technologies for socio-economic development needs a nuclear regulatory body to ensure that within their counties, activities relating to the peaceful applications of nuclear and related technologies are carried out in a safe and secured manner in accordance with international safety and security principles and with respect of the environment and property. The Look of an Effective…

Mid-week football nights are back. Emotions are on the rise. Bets will be lost. Upsets will be embedded in history and trolls will haunt you for a day or two and most importantly all eyes will be on players coming from different countries. It is the UEFA Champions League. This season, Ghana is being represented by five outstanding players. Thomas Partey The 26-year-old needs no introduction. Thomas Partey’s performances week-in week-out in the La Liga have many clubs coming after him. His long range shots that mostly turn into goals will leave many mouth-watering in the Champions League this…

Members of the Ghana Rugby national women’s Sevens team, the Ghana Eagles, reached out to Ghana’s national football team, the Black Queens, to show solidarity with them in their quest to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Japan. Both Ghana’s national women’s teams of the two largest team sports in the world, football and rugby, will be chasing the Olympics dream during September and October of 2019. The Ghana Rugby Women’s Sevens Eagles will take on eleven of Africa’s top women’s teams on 12 and 13 October 2019 in Tunisia for a chance to qualify. The national women’s football team,…