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Contestants of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful brought their creativity and marketing skills to bear as they took turns Sunday night to advertise the various products of sponsors of the show. Raising the curtains for Sunday’s performance was Bono East rep, Pena, who took to the stage to market products from DH Industries. Posing as a late afternoon radio show host, Pena took her show outside the studio to the market place to advertise the different products from DH Industries, including Madar Washing Powder and Madar Parazone as well as other cosmetic and personal care products. From the Savannah Region, Kasha mounted…

Contestants of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful brought their creativity and marketing skills to bear as they took turns Sunday night to advertise the various products of sponsors of the show. Raising the curtains for Sunday’s performance was Bono East rep, Pena, who took to the stage to market products from DH Industries. Posing as a late afternoon radio show host, Pena took her show outside the studio to the market place to advertise the different products from DH Industries, including Madar Washing Powder and Madar Parazone as well as other cosmetic and personal care products. From the Savannah Region, Kasha mounted…

A head-on collision has left five persons dead and eleven others injured at Akyem Nsutam in the Eastern Region. Driver of a Sprinter mini bus travelling from Kumasi to Accra was said to be overtaking vehicles ahead of him but ran into a fully loaded cement truck on the Accra-Kumasi highway Sunday morning. Passengers on board the Sprinter bus registered AW 221-14 were trapped in the mangled vehicle and took the intervention of the personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service from Kyebi to rescue them and remove the bodies of the deceased.The injured were then rushed to various health…

Adam Lallana’s late equaliser rescued a point for Liverpool at Old Trafford as Manchester United ended their flawless start to the Premier League season. Liverpool were in search of their 18th successive league win to equal Manchester City’s top-flight record set between August and December 2017 but had to settle for a point after a scrappy encounter. Marcus Rashford’s hotly contested first-half goal, allowed after a video assistant referee check for a foul by Victor Lindelof on Divock Origi, looked to be condemning Liverpool to their first league loss since they went down at Manchester City in January. Rashford finished…

Government has announced 50,000 cedi cash package for thousands of persons displaced by floods caused by continuous torrential rains in the Upper East Region in the last week. Victims have since Friday been receiving various relief items from the government and a lot more are being transported to the region to ameliorate the plight of the affected whose homes have been destroyed. “Government has also provided cash of 50,000 cedis… to deal with the immediate needs of the families that have been affected,” Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia announced Saturday at a durbar in Moyoro in Kassena Nankana municipality. Dr Bawumia…

Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison, has been selected to represent Ghana and to chair the Board of Governors of the Bretton Woods Institutions in 2020. He was selected last Friday at the 2019 Annual Meetings Plenary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group held in Accra. The chairmanship is selected on a regional rotation basis each year and 2020 rotates to Africa. Dr Addison was selected through “a meticulous process” based on his competences, Ghana’s standing and membership of the World Bank Group and IMF. “The selection of Ghana was done in…

Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr Ernest Addison, has been selected to represent Ghana and to chair the Board of Governors of the Bretton Woods Institutions in 2020. He was selected last Friday at the 2019 Annual Meetings Plenary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group held in Accra. The chairmanship is selected on a regional rotation basis each year and 2020 rotates to Africa. Dr Addison was selected through “a meticulous process” based on his competences, Ghana’s standing and membership of the World Bank Group and IMF. “The selection of Ghana was done in…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) Ghana is demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of all persons whose negligence led to the termination of the controversial PDS agreement. It said all public and government officials “so connected either directly or remotely to this fraudulent PDS deal be made to suffer all such consequences”. A termination of the PDS-ECG concession agreement is set to be announced by the government this week following evidence that PDS failed to fulfil all the condition precedent of the deal which took effect on March 1, 2019. It emerged on October 19, 2019 that President Nana…

Ghana’s self-acclaimed dancehall king, Shatta Wale, on Saturday launched his new album titled ‘Wonder Boy’, at his annual Reign Concert in Accra. The 11-track album features his popular hit track, Melissa. The event, held at the 16,000-capacity auditorium of the Fantasy Dome, saw thousands of Shatta Wale fans jam to back to back performances from the artiste and some of his contemporaries including Wendy Shay, Medikal, Fantana, Kuami Eugene, Kwaw Kese and Criss Wadle. The beautiful night was nearly marred when some fans pelted and hooted at Kwaw Kese, just when he mounted the stage to perform. But the vile…

Ghana’s self-acclaimed dancehall king, Shatta Wale, on Saturday launched his new album titled ‘Wonder Boy’, at his annual Reign Concert in Accra. The 11-track album features his popular hit track, Melissa. The event, held at the 16,000-capacity auditorium of the Fantasy Dome, saw thousands of Shatta Wale fans jam to back to back performances from the artiste and some of his contemporaries including Wendy Shay, Medikal, Fantana, Kuami Eugene, Kwaw Kese and Criss Wadle. The beautiful night was nearly marred when some fans pelted and hooted at Kwaw Kese, just when he mounted the stage to perform. But the vile…