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#OneYearOn #NationalThanksgivingService pic.twitter.com/VQmTZSeydr — Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) December 5, 2017 A national thanksgiving service is scheduled to be held on Thursday, December 7 at the Accra International Conference Center. A poster tweeted by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday gave the time for the service as 7:30am with guests advised to get seated by 6:45am. The service will be themed: ‘Thanking the LORD who won the battle for Ghana’. Hashtagged #OneYearOn, the tweet insinuates that the service will be held exactly a year after the 2016 elections, which saw President Akufo-Addo – then candidate Akufo-Addo – beat six others…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s remarks at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron have left many praising him. Find below 12 of the statements he made at last Thursday’s meeting. “We can no longer continue to make policies for ourselves in our country, our region or our continent on the basis of whatever support the Western world, or France or the European Union can give us, it will not work” “It is not right for a country like Ghana, 60 years after independence to still have its health and education budget being financed on the basis of the generosity…

Russia has been banned from competing at next year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee. But Russian athletes who can prove they are clean would be allowed to compete in South Korea under a neutral flag. It follows an investigation into allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Games hosted by Russia in Sochi. “This should draw a line under this damaging episode,” the IOC said. IOC president Thomas Bach and his board – who made the announcement in Lausanne on Tuesday – came to the decision after reading through the findings and recommendations of a 17-month…

Founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga says his respect for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has “reduced” due to an answer he gave to a question about homosexuality. In an Al Jazeera interview on Sunday, November 26, President Akufo-Addo expressed fears that activism on homosexuality will rise in Ghana just like it did in developed countries some years ago. “I think it is something that is bound to happen like elsewhere in the world,” he said on Talk To Al Jazeera. But he added that “it is not so far a matter which is on…

Aliko Dangote was honored last night at the Bloomberg 50 annual gala dinner at New York’s iconic Gotham Hall. Bloomberg’s list of 50 most influential names who have had an impact on the world in 2017 included Dangote, Africa’s richest person, for his outstanding commitment of over $4B USD to increase Nigeria’s food production capacity. Represented in New York by the CEO of his Foundation, Dangote was joined by electric car visionary Elon Musk; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmon; Beatrice Fihn, anti-nuclear weapons advocate and Nobel Peace Laureate; Amazon’s Jeff Bezos; Robert Mueller, special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s potential…

Krobo Girls’ Senior High School has emerged winner in the senior high school category of a contest in agriculture for schools in the Eastern Region. Pupils from basic schools and students from the senior high school numbering over 600 converged at Koforidua for the finals. They were to put up a best case of practicals  in agricultural work within three months. Each school was to plant an interest crop, nurture and make business sense. Ankwa Dobro Basic School won the basic school category with Krobo Girls SHS winning the senior high school category. At the final ceremony, Deputy Gender Minister…

The normalisation committee of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) has asked the country’s sports ministry to end coach Hugo Broos’ contract. In a document widely leaked in the media the request comes after Broos failed to lead the African champions to next year’s World Cup. The request comes less than a year after he led the country to the African Nations Cup title. His current two-year contract has two months left to run. The 65-year-old former Belgian international led the Indomitable Lions to a surprise triumph in the tournament in Gabon at the start of the year. However, a poor…

The Director of Public Health of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Badu Sarkodie, says his outfit is liaising with the Ghana Education Service (GES) for a consideration to have all students screened before admission into senior high schools (SHSs). This decision comes in the wake of deaths recorded at Kumasi Academy Senior High School in the Ashanti Region. Four students have died in the past four days with the cause yet to be known. Though many attributed it to meningitis, initial tests have proven otherwise with bacterial infection said to be the cause. Speaking on 3FM’s Late Edition hosted by…

Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo says Ghana football has taken a step back in development due to the growing level of corruption in the local game. He was speaking at the launch of the National Anti-Corruption and Transparency Week in Accra, a government initiative to tackle corruption in Ghana. Mr Osafo Marfo’s comments echo the growing concern of the Ghanaian populace that football games in the Ghana Premier League is clouded by bribery that breeds friendliness despite the calls for competitiveness in the top flight to enhance the beauty of the game. Results in the League are widely thought to…