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The Board Chairman of Ghana Water Company, Alexander Afenyo-Markin called on former President Jerry John Rawlings on Tuesday afternoon, to discuss matters arising out of a statement by the former President on allegations of impropriety at the company. Accompanied by the company’s Managing Director, Clifford Braimah, Mr. Afenyo-Markin who is also the Member of Parliament for Effutu in the Central Region, informed the former President that while there was a petition before the Special Prosecutor, the tenure of the matter in question occurred in 2016 under the previous Board of the company. Former President Rawlings said he had heard and…

Old Toms – old students of St. Thomas Aquinas – are set to mark their biennial homecoming ceremony at the school premises in November. This year’s homecoming anniversary dubbed: ”Made in Aquinas”, would see the ’Old Toms’, participate in a series of events including football, basketball and other camaraderie sporting activities. Under the theme: “Reviving the spirit of veritas liberat and discipline”, this year’s celebrations would commence on November 16 with a Remembrance Day ceremony and climaxed on 22 November with the sporting activities and a thanksgiving service. Bishop Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, an Old Tom, said it is important for…

A coalition of environmental health officers who graduated from three schools of hygiene in the country are demanding government gives them employment to avoid unrest. The graduates from the School of Hygiene in Accra, Tamale, and Ho who have since 2016 been at home without employment say it is their fundamental human rights for the government to post them to the various ministries, departments and agencies. At a news conference in Tamale, they vowed to embark on series of unrest should government refused to post them within 21 days. Of the 1,300 environmental health graduates, only three of them have…

Christians have been advised against extending  kindness to people when travelling from any airport as they could be used as carriers by drug traffickers unknowingly. Mr Jeremiah Joel Ghartey of the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB)’s Education Unit,  says, “Don’t accept to help anyone with his luggage or anything at the airport, let them carry their things by themselves, doing so can land you in prison for years”. Mr Ghartey gave the advice over the weekend  when he educated congregants of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Redemption Congregation at Tema Community Nine on “managing self at the airport, and drug abuse” ,…

Boris Johnson will set out details of his “final” negotiating offer to the EU on Wednesday in pursuit of a “fair and reasonable” Brexit compromise. The prime minister will address the Tory conference before submitting new proposals, intended to form the legal text of a new Brexit deal, to Brussels. Only by leaving the EU on 31 October can the UK “move on”, he will argue. Tory Chairman James Cleverly said the UK had been “flexible and pragmatic”, and now the EU must be the same. On the eve of his speech, Mr Johnson told a conference fringe meeting in…

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the European Union and the Government of Ghana last Thursday held a briefing in Accra for stakeholders of EU funded West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) – Ghana component. The briefing was held to present an overview of the programme to the media and foster dialogue among various stakeholders. The media briefing also created a platform for key partners to brief the media on various thematic themes and interventions to be implemented by WACOMP – Ghana component. UNIDO Programme Manager Juan Pablo Dávila Sánchez at a stakeholder briefing on the project in Accra, said WACOMP…

Old Toms – old students of St. Thomas Aquinas – are set to mark their biennial homecoming ceremony at the school premises in November. This year’s homecoming anniversary dubbed: ”Made in Aquinas”, would see the ’Old Toms’, participate in a series of events including football, basketball and other camaraderie sporting activities. Under the theme: “Reviving the spirit of veritas liberat and discipline”, this year’s celebrations would commence on November 16 with a Remembrance Day ceremony and climaxed on 22 November with the sporting activities and a thanksgiving service. Bishop Gabriel Edoe Kumordji, an Old Tom, said it is important for…

It was a race for who gets the magic hands last Friday when 10 beautiful ladies battled it out for the attention of professional masseur, Elijah, who was one of the eligible bachelors on TV3’s Date Rush. After watching a short profile of Elijah and hearing he is a professional masseur, all ten ladies kept their rush on, indicating that they were all interested in going on a date with him. It took a second and a third viewing of the continuation of his profile to get the number of ladies still interested down to four. While some of the…

It was a race for who gets the magic hands last Friday when 10 beautiful ladies battled it out for the attention of professional masseur, Elijah, who was one of the eligible bachelors on TV3’s Date Rush. After watching a short profile of Elijah and hearing he is a professional masseur, all ten ladies kept their rush on, indicating that they were all interested in going on a date with him. It took a second and a third viewing of the continuation of his profile to get the number of ladies still interested down to four. While some of the…