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The Queen and Duchess of Sussex are in Cheshire for their first royal engagement together. Her Majesty and newly-married Meghan are officially opening the Mersey Gateway Bridge and Chester’s Storyhouse Theatre. They will then attend a lunch at Chester Town Hall as guests of the city council. It is the first time the duchess has attended an event with the Queen without her husband Prince Harry. Thousands of people were already waiting at the venues hours before the royal pair arrived, with stalls set up on the streets selling flags and souvenirs. The Queen and duchess were greeted by hundreds…

President of IMANI-Ghana Franklin Cudjoe has taken a swipe at the Ministry of Communications in its response to a request by some 22 civil society groups to be furnished with all documents on the $178.8 million Kelni-GVG contract. The civil society organisations, under umbrella body Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, wrote to the Ministry on Wednesday, May 30, 2018, requesting the contract documents on traffic-monitoring to be carried out by Kelni-GVG. But in its response dated Monday, June 11, 2018, the Ministry acknowledged receipt of the letter but wanted more time to get the requested documents. “We are currently in the process…

The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has disclosed that changes have been made to the original physical specifications of the Kelni-GVG contract with government as per “belated” demands by the telecommunication networks. As per the changes, a further layer of protection and security has been added and that will ensure that only signaling information needed for purposes of traffic monitoring will be received by the National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), the implementing bodies. “No other information – either voice, SMS, video or data – will be received by Kelni-GVG servers,” Mrs Owusu-Ekuful explained in a…

Champions Manchester City will travel to Arsenal on the weekend of 11-12 August for their opening match of the 2018-19 Premier League season. Tottenham visit Newcastle first, then play Fulham at Wembley while their new £850m stadium is completed. Manchester United host Leicester City, Liverpool entertain West Ham, and Championship winners Wolverhampton Wanderers welcome Everton to Molineux. Promoted Fulham host Crystal Palace, while Cardiff visit Bournemouth. The three other fixtures on the opening weekend see Chelsea travel to Huddersfield, Southampton host Burnley, and Watford take on Brighton at Vicarage Road. The opening weekend in full Arsenal v Manchester City Bournemouth…

Pressure group Strategic Thinkers Network-Africa (STRANEK) has filed a writ at the court against the National Identification Authority (NIA) for not accepting the voters’ ID as one of the documents of proof for the national registration exercise. The NIA – as per the National Identification Amendment Law, 2017 or Act 950 – requires a Ghanaian passport, a birth certificate or two Ghanaian witnesses for the registration of citizens for the new cards, to be known as Ghana Cards. But there has been disagreement from certain quarters over the requirements. Most of the dissentients want the voters’ ID cards to be…

Government has constituted a five-member committee to oversee the running of football in the country. The interim management committee (IMC) will be chaired by the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, Dr Kofi Amoah. Members will be Cudjoe Fianoo, who will also serve as Secretary to the committee, former footballers Abedi Pele and Reverend Osei Kofi and lawyer and former sports journalist Eva Okyere. Peace FM’s sports anchor Daniel Kweku Yeboah will serve as the spokesperson of the committee. In a release issued by Minister of Information Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid on Wednesday, the…

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has formally petitioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, to launch “full-scale” investigations into the activities of Kwesi Nyantakyi, who until recently was the President of the Ghana Football Association. In a letter dated June 13, 2018 to the Attorney General, Mr Aremeyaw Anas said the conduct of Mr Nyantakyi as per an attached documentary evidence breaches “the general criminal laws of Ghana and especially the Anti Money Laundering Act, 2008 (Act 749)”. Find the letter below: Source: 3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

With barely 24 hours to go for the commencement of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, former champions Spain have replaced their coach with a former captain. Julen Lopetegui was sacked on Wednesday just a day after he was named replacement to Zinedine Zidane at Real Madrid. The announcement by Madrid is said to have stirred tension in the camp of La Furia ahead of their World Cup opener with Portugal on Saturday. A few hours after Lopetegui was sacked, the Spanish football federation announced Fernando Hierro as his replacement. The former Real Madrid and Spain captain is expected to coach…

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday posted a short video on Twitter subtly taking a swipe at Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia over the latter’s criticism some time back on the domestic currency’s depreciation against the US dollars. In the video, Dr Bawumia, definitely while in opposition, attributed the depreciation of the Cedi to weak fundamentals. He insinuated that the incumbent government was engaged in propaganda with the issue. In his tweet, Mr Mahama quoted the current exchange rate of the Cedi to the US Dollar and asked, ‘Weak fundamentals?’ https://twitter.com/JDMahama/status/1006839534536060928 Source: 3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

Some executives of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) are not happy with a “blanket” directive from the Speaker of Parliament to criminalise health professionals who turn patients away as a result of unavailability of beds. According to two of the Association’s executives, the situation should not be looked at on the surface but in detail to stamp it out completely from the health sector. On Tuesday, Speaker Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye expressed worry about the syndrome of patients losing their lives after being turned away from health facilities due to lack of beds. He ordered a probe, particularly, into the…