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Senior Minister, Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, says plans are far advanced to establish a satellite campus of University for Development Studies (UDS) in Yendi. He made this known in his response to an appeal from the Overload of Dagbon, Ya-Naa Abukari Mahama II, at his palace when he paid a courtesy call on him at the Gbewaa palace. According to him, there are already existing plans to establish a university in the Yendi Municipality with its core mandate to run peace related programmes to champion peace in the Northern Region and the neighbouring countries. The Overlord said he has earmarked…

Rapper Sarkodie has been made an ambassador for government’s ‘Year of Return’ initiative, which seeks to encourage Africans living in the Diaspora to return home to their roots. The announcement of the rapper’s ambassadorial role was made at a Creative Industry Forum put together by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture at the National Theatre in Accra. The Forum, which is under the theme ‘Reviving Ghana’s creative industry’ brought together stakeholders and players within the creative arts industry in Ghana to deliberate and share ideas on how to further boost the industry. Speaking at the Forum, sector minister  Barbara…

Rapper Sarkodie has been made an ambassador for government’s ‘Year of Return’ initiative, which seeks to encourage Africans living in the Diaspora to return home to their roots. The announcement of the rapper’s ambassadorial role was made at a Creative Industry Forum put together by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture at the National Theatre in Accra. The Forum, which is under the theme ‘Reviving Ghana’s creative industry’ brought together stakeholders and players within the creative arts industry in Ghana to deliberate and share ideas on how to further boost the industry. Speaking at the Forum, sector minister  Barbara…

Veteran filmmaker, Ivan Quahigah, has blamed the seeming fall of the Kumasi movie industry, popularly known as ‘Kumawood’, on the continuous flow of foreign soaps into the country. The Chief Executive Officer of Farm House Productions Limited believes that the downfall of Kumawood has its causative roots in Ghanaians insatiable taste for Indian and Mexican telenovelas, which he said, have flooded the market. “We saw the demise of Kumawood, it’s because of the translation of Indian and Mexican soaps into Twi”, he said on TV3. Mr Quashigah was addressing students from Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) and National Institute of…

Veteran filmmaker, Ivan Quahigah, has blamed the seeming fall of the Kumasi movie industry, popularly known as ‘Kumawood’, on the continuous flow of foreign soaps into the country. The Chief Executive Officer of Farm House Productions Limited believes that the downfall of Kumawood has its causative roots in Ghanaians insatiable taste for Indian and Mexican telenovelas, which he said, have flooded the market. “We saw the demise of Kumawood, it’s because of the translation of Indian and Mexican soaps into Twi”, he said on TV3. Mr Quashigah was addressing students from Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) and National Institute of…

A staunch critic of homosexuality, Professor Mike Oquaye, has hit hard at persons engaged in the abhorrent practice, describing them as deviants in society who should not be accorded any rights as homosexuals. The legal luminary, who is also Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, argued that apart from the fact that persons engaged in homosexuality are humans, they “cannot have a right as gay”. “You [homosexuals] have a deviant conduct; it’s a deviant conduct like any other deviant conduct,” Prof Oquaye emphatically stated at the maiden Speaker’s Breakfast meeting in Parliament, in Accra on Wednesday. He, however, said that is no…

Two persons, including the Takoradi constituency treasurer of the New Patriotic Party, Mark Ofori, have been shot dead by some unknown assailants at Fijai in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. A relative of the treasurer whose name has not been given, also sustained gunshot wounds in the incident that happened at about 1:00 a.m. Wednesday. He is said to be responding to treatment at the Effia Nkwanta Hospital where he was rushed for medical attention. The armed men first stormed the residence of the in-law of the Western Regional Minister, Kobby Okyere Darko-Mensah, where they shot the security…

Ghana will mark the National Youth Day on Friday, November 1. The day is set aside by the Africa Union Commission to promote an increased awareness and recognition of young Africans as critical agents of positive change. Here in Ghana, the National Youth Authority(NYA), the government agency mandated to regulate and coordinate Youth Development activities, is marking the celebration with series of activities on the theme ‘Ghana Beyond Aid; The Youth Factor’ stemming from the vision of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. At a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday, a deputy Chief Executive Officer at the NYA, Akosua Manu,…

Ghana will mark the National Youth Day on Friday, November 1. The day is set aside by the Africa Union Commission to promote an increased awareness and recognition of young Africans as critical agents of positive change. Here in Ghana, the National Youth Authority(NYA), the government agency mandated to regulate and coordinate Youth Development activities, is marking the celebration with series of activities on the theme ‘Ghana Beyond Aid; The Youth Factor’ stemming from the vision of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. At a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday, a deputy Chief Executive Officer at the NYA, Akosua Manu,…

Three journalists from the Media General group – Portia Gabor, Esi Benewaa Otoo, Adwoa Adobea-Owusu – have been awarded by the Merck Foundation for their excellent reportage on issues of infertility amongst men and women in Ghana. The three were awarded under the Merck Foundation’s ‘More than a Mother’ media recognition awards. ‘Merck More than a Mother’ seeks to support men and women facing fertility issues as well as erasing the stigma against persons with issues of fertility, and the awards ceremony is also aimed at rewarding journalists in Africa and beyond who highlight issues of infertility in their work.…