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Theresa May has signed the letter that will formally begin the UK’s departure from the European Union. Giving official notice under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, it will be delivered to European Council president Donald Tusk later. In a statement in the Commons, the prime minister will then tell MPs this marks “the moment for the country to come together”. It follows June’s referendum which resulted in a vote to leave the EU. Mrs May’s letter will be delivered at 12:20 BST on Wednesday by the British ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow. The prime minister, who chaired…

The Central Regional Police Command has deployed 126 officers from its fold and a crack team from the Formed Police Unit (FPU) to the University of Cape Coast ahead of the Casely-Hayford Hall Week celebrations. The week-long celebrations begin on Wednesday, March 29. In an interview with 3news.com’s Thomas Vincent Cann on Wednesday, the Public Relations Officer of the Command, ASP Irene oppong said the team will be there throughout the celebrations. Some will be on foot patrol, she said, and others on car patrol. ASP Oppong said the Command’s decision to tighten security on campus ahead of the celebrations…

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is not attending the funeral of veteran anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada at the request of his family. Mr Kathrada called on Mr Zuma to resign last year after he became mired in a series of corruption scandals. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is representing the government at the funeral. Mr Kathrada, 87, died on Tuesday. He was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela for fighting against white minority rule. He spent more than 26 years in prison before his release in 1989. He later served as an adviser to then-President Mandela in South Africa’s first democratically elected government.…

The family of the late chief of Walewale, Nba Duurana Mutari Mahami, has called on the Northern Region Minister, Salifu Sa-eed, at his office in the capital, Tamale. The call among other things was to officially announce the chief’s demise, which occurred on March 22 at his palace in Walewale. The family led by a member of the Walewale Traditional Council, Chief Mansu, invited the minister to mourn with the family during the seventh day funeral rite slated for April 9 in Walewale, capital of the West Mamprusi District. The family also requested the Minister to extend the invite to…

CYST Company Limited has launched its flagship mobile payments app Mazzuma. The new app was launched at the Economic Outlook and Business Strategy Conference held at the Tang Palace Hotel on last Wednesday. Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia was the keynote speaker. The Vice President challenged the stakeholders in the financial industry to mobilize efforts to achieve interoperability in order to achieve total financial inclusion. The Mazzuma app enables users to receive and send mobile money to all networks, thereby achieving interoperability at the telecommunications level. It can be accessed on the Facebook platform, allowing Facebook users to buy airtime,…

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The Ashanti Region branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it cannot guarantee the party’s leadership slot for the former president, John Mahama, come 2020. The regional branch says so many things can change from now to the time the party will go to primaries to elect a flagbearer. So, it will be premature for the party to conclude that it will go with the former president as its flagbearer, the branch said. NDC’s regional First Vice Chairman Alex Attivor Sawyer expressed the sentiments on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Tuesday, March 28. The show was looking at the…

Late Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Professor Albert Adu Boahen was broke as a historian and continued to be broke, his son has revealed. Charles Adu Boahen said his father’s plight made the good old professor advise his children against pursuing history. Mr Adu Boahen said his father wanted them to study engineering at the university. He, therefore, had to enroll at the University of Ghana as a Chemical Engineering student before abandoning that course after just one year for the United States of America (USA). The son of the late academic made this known at his…

An outbreak of meningitis in several states of Nigeria has killed at least 140 people, officials say. It has been reported over the last week in six states and has so far infected more than 1,000 people, the Abuja Centre for Disease Control says. Meningitis causes an acute inflammation of the outer layers of the brain and spinal cord. The current outbreak is the worst in Nigeria since 2009 when it killed at least 156 people. The disease is spreading amidst fears it could be out of control if refugee camps, prisons and police cells become affected through crowds, the…

Galamsey operations over the years have destroyed most of our agriculture lands, as well as polluted many water bodies in Ghana. This has subsequently led to water shortages in some parts of the country. The saddest part of this is that most of these illegal galamsey operations are carried out by Chinese nationals who use heavy machinery in their illegal activity. To add insult to injury, some of these Chinese galamsey operators have their own armed private security personnel who harass and intimidate locals. This poses a major risk for national security. The galamsey menace is, therefore, one that has…