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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ghana to the Republic of Italy, Eudora Quartey-Koranteng, has presented letters of Credence to the President of Slovenia, Borut Pahor. The presentation ceremony took place recently at Slovenia’s Presidential Palace. The Ghanaian envoy was accompanied to the Presidential Palace by Jonathan Magnusen, Minister/Consular Affairs; Julius Eli Goka, First Secretary/Political, Economic and Diaspora Affairs. The short but colorful ceremony began with an inspection of a Guard of Honour, after which the Ambassador and her delegation, were escorted to the Credentials Hall, where she presented the Letters of Credence to President Borut Pahor. The Slovenian President congratulated…

A 23-year-old driver, who had specialized in stealing musical instruments from churches in Kumasi, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court. Kwame Owusu is said to be part of a syndicate which have been stealing instruments from churches in Kwadaso, Ohwimase and Patase in the Kwadaso Municipal and Kumasi Metropolis. He pleaded guilty to the charges and was convicted on his own plea by the Court presided over by Mrs Mary Nsenkyire. His two accomplices, identified only as ‘Kobby’ and ‘Striker’, are on the run and the police are looking for them.…

Workers who turn 60 years from January 1, 2020 will no longer receive lump sum payments from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) under PNDC Law 247. Such contributors will now have to turn to the fund managers of their second tier contribution for lump sums. However, the Director-General of SSNIT, Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang, who disclosed this at a breakfast meeting with some employers in Accra Thursday, said in addition to the lump sum from the second tier, SSNIT would pay a lump sum known as “past credit” accruing from earlier contributions by such workers before the coming…

Workers who turn 60 years from January 1, 2020 will no longer receive lump sum payments from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) under PNDC Law 247. Such contributors will now have to turn to the fund managers of their second tier contribution for lump sums. However, the Director-General of SSNIT, Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang, who disclosed this at a breakfast meeting with some employers in Accra Thursday, said in addition to the lump sum from the second tier, SSNIT would pay a lump sum known as “past credit” accruing from earlier contributions by such workers before the coming…

Amy says it all started when her husband seemed to know intimate details about her friends. “He would drop snippets into conversations, such as knowing about Sarah’s baby. Really private things that he shouldn’t have known about. If I asked how he knew these things, he’d say I’d told him and accuse me of losing it,” she says. Amy – not her real name – also began to wonder how he seemed to know where she was all the time. “Sometimes he would say he saw me at a cafe where I was meeting my friends and say he was…

Eating a cup of yogurt a day may lower your risk of developing lung cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers found that those who ate a daily serving of yogurt lowered their risk of the disease by 20 percent compared to those who did not eat yogurt every day. And people who ate a serving of yogurt a day – along with a high fiber diet – were able to lower their risk of lung cancer by more than 30 percent. Studies have shown some probiotics, live bacteria found in yogurt, have anti-inflammatory and cancer-fighting properties. The team, from Vanderbilt…

Sixty-three tertiary students from the Salaga South constituency of the East Gonja Municipality have received a total of 43,000 cedis to support payment of their fees. Each of them received between 500 and 2,000 cedis. The money, which was given to the students from tertiary institutions across the country, was drawn from the MPs’ share of the District Assembly’s Common Fund. Presenting the money to the leadership of the students in Salaga, the MP for Salaga South, Adam Salifu Braimah who doubles as the Savannah Regional minister, appealed to the students to learn hard to become the next human resource…

A 44-year-old Rastafarian contesting the upcoming district assembly elections has revealed he smokes Indian hemp, an illicit drug popularly referred to as ‘wee’. Kwaku Boakye, a.k.a. Motion, was mocked on social media platforms for his physical appearance after his posters emerged as assemblyman contestant for Santasi Electoral Area in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. He told TV3’s William Evans-Nkum Thursday that he is unfazed by the contemptuous comments people have been making about him and remains focused in winning the election drive development to his area. The man who is proud of his ghetto roots winning the election will give…

Ato Forson ‘abandons Ursula Owusu in a brothel’ over CST saga

The East Gonja Municipal Assembly in the Savanna Region has presented 580 dual desks to the Municipal Education Directorate. The gesture, according to the assembly, is expected to deal with the furniture deficits in the schools across the municipality. About 60 percent of the total 150 basic schools in the municipality lacked furniture, necessitating the action by the Assembly. Inadequate infrastructure and furniture, insufficient teachers, poor road network are some of the challenges facing the department of education in the municipality. The assembly in a bid to address these challenges, has provided various units of classroom blocks, furniture among others…