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The US military has conducted an operation against the fugitive leader of the Islamic State (IS) group, US media report. Claims of a raid against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have not been confirmed. The White House said US President Donald Trump would make a “major statement” on Sunday, but gave no further details. Mr Trump earlier shared a cryptic tweet saying: “Something very big has just happened!” The IS leader has been wrongly reported dead on several previous occasions. Officials quoted anonymously by various media outlets said US forces targeted the militant leader in a raid in Idlib province, in north-west…

Rev Nii Amoo Darko, former chaplain at the seat of government, under late President John Evans Atta Mills has urged Ghanaians to accord the legacy of the late president respect and honour. According to him, the former president was respected worldwide and deserves to be honoured at home. Speaking to Nuong Faalong on TV3’s Hot Issues, he argued that monuments like the Asomdwe Park and the Mills Library built in honour of Mills are in a deplorable state and his legacy has been at the mercy of partisan politics.  “We haven’t done enough for his legacy…we should let go off…

Head of Marketing and Communication at Stanbic Bank, Mawuko Afadzinu, has been elected as president to lead the Institute of Public Relations Ghana, (IPR-Ghana) for a two year term beginning January 1, 2020. At the end of counting, Mr. Afadzinu who is the incumbent Vice President of IPR, polled 59 votes out of 81 to carry the day. The elections took place during the National PR and Communications Summit and 26th AGM held from Thursday, October 24 – 26, 2019 at Aqua Safari Resort, in Ada. His contender, Donald Gwira managed 22 votes. In the Vice Presidential election, Henry Nii…

Head of Marketing and Communication at Stanbic Bank, Mawuko Afadzinu, has been elected as president to lead the Institute of Public Relations Ghana, (IPR-Ghana) for a two year term beginning January 1, 2020. At the end of counting, Mr. Afadzinu who is the incumbent Vice President of IPR, polled 59 votes out of 81 to carry the day. The elections took place during the National PR and Communications Summit and 26th AGM held from Thursday, October 24 – 26, 2019 at Aqua Safari Resort, in Ada. His contender, Donald Gwira managed 22 votes. In the Vice Presidential election, Henry Nii…

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) says persons with substance use disorders, formerly known as “drug addicts” should not be left alone to their fate but must be supported through proper care by all stakeholders to restore them to healthy states. Mr Michael Addo, Deputy Executive Secretary of NACOB, said contrary to the popular view that addiction was due to an immoral lifestyle, it rather was “a chronic relapsing brain disease characterised by a compulsive seeking of drug use despite harmful consequences”. Mr Addo was speaking at the closing ceremony of the training on the Universal Treatment Curriculum (UTC) programme for…

Madam Annacleta Viiru, the Upper West Regional Girls’ Education Officer at the Ghana Education Service (GES), has said no girl has ever completed the Sawoubea Junior High School (JHS) in the Wa East District since its establishment about 25 years ago. She said the highest educational level girls in the area had ever attained was JHS two before being sent for marriage. Madam Viiru, who revealed this to the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Wa at the weekend, said the situation was worrying as the girls were denied their right to education and development. “Last year, about eight…

Peace Council member, Rev. Nii Amoo Darko has criticized government’s efforts at fighting corruption. Speaking to Nuong Faalong on TV3’s Hot Issues, Saturday, in response to fighting corruption, he said: ‘’If we are doing enough to stop it, it would have stopped, we need to set an example…’’ Rev. Amoo Darko was of the opinion the country was not tackling corruption as it should. He bemoaned the lack of political will in the fight against corruption. He argued that corruption had eaten into the Ghanaian system like a cancer and needs to be weeded out irrespective of one’s political bias.…

Government would no longer consider the option of seeking private sector participation in the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana using restricted tender, a government official has disclosed. Nana Damoah, Head of Communications at the Energy Ministry, clarified on TV3’s news analysis programme, The Key Points Saturday, that the restricted tender was introduced by the Finance Minister to prevent the cancellation of the Millennium Challenge Compact. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta had written to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Millennium Development Authority to ask permission to initiate new procurement processes to find a new private sector partner to…

Some youth resident at the Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi last Thursday went on the rampage and set some wooden structures suspected to be housing prostitutes ablaze over the death of a young man in the community. The 22-year-old man, identified as Akugure Limann, was alleged to have engaged the services of a prostitute but refused to pay, leading to the women and their pimps beating him to death. Eyewitnesses told the Daily Graphic on Friday that enraged young men in the area reacted in full force, breaking down the structures and setting them ablaze. Fracas It was alleged that…

Some youth resident at the Sokoban Wood Village in Kumasi last Thursday went on the rampage and set some wooden structures suspected to be housing prostitutes ablaze over the death of a young man in the community. The 22-year-old man, identified as Akugure Limann, was alleged to have engaged the services of a prostitute but refused to pay, leading to the women and their pimps beating him to death. Eyewitnesses told the Daily Graphic on Friday that enraged young men in the area reacted in full force, breaking down the structures and setting them ablaze. Fracas It was alleged that…