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The new comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) introduced as part of the current curriculum for basic education is already stirring controversy. Click here for a document on the guidelines of the CSE in Ghana Source: 3news.com

Three more contestants in this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful television reality show have been shown the exit after failing to garner enough votes from both the public and judges for this week. For five weeks, they proved themselves worthy of the GMB crown and survived one eviction, but that did not last as they were evicted Sunday after their sixth performance in the most sought after television reality show. It was an unexpected and sad end for Bono region’s Obaapa, Western region’s Esi and Ahafo’s Afia, as they scored the least on the chart for the six week of the 13-week competition. …

Three more contestants in this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful television reality show have been shown the exit after failing to garner enough votes from both the public and judges for this week. For five weeks, they proved themselves worthy of the GMB crown and survived one eviction, but that did not last as they were evicted Sunday after their sixth performance in the most sought after television reality show. It was an unexpected and sad end for Bono region’s Obaapa, Western region’s Esi and Ahafo’s Afia, as they scored the least on the chart for the six week of the 13-week competition. …

It was a night that saw the remaining 13 contestants in the Ghana’s Most Beautiful competition recount some mythical tales and beliefs associated with some towns in their respective regions. Contestants shared with studio and television audience, how these myths and beliefs came about, as well as their impact on the people and their societies. Upper East representative, Ayisha, mounted the stage to talk about the Apukwanmnyoong shrine in Bawku which, she said has a big baobab tree that makes noise to warn community members of any impending danger. Savannah region’s Kasha told the story of a mystery stone in…

It was a night that saw the remaining 13 contestants in the Ghana’s Most Beautiful competition recount some mythical tales and beliefs associated with some towns in their respective regions. Contestants shared with studio and television audience, how these myths and beliefs came about, as well as their impact on the people and their societies. Upper East representative, Ayisha, mounted the stage to talk about the Apukwanmnyoong shrine in Bawku which, she said has a big baobab tree that makes noise to warn community members of any impending danger. Savannah region’s Kasha told the story of a mystery stone in…

A survivor of the Nigerian “torture house” raided by police has described being there as “living in hellfire”. “If you are praying they will beat you. If you are studying they will beat you,” Isa Ibrahim, 29, told the BBC. Nearly 500 men and boys were rescued from the building in Kaduna, which was being used as an Islamic school and correctional facility. The police said it was a place of human slavery, with many detainees found in chains. Some of the victims had been tortured and sexually abused, the authorities say. The BBC’s Ishaq Khalid, who visited the building…

Brendan Rodgers says it will be a “big ask” for Leicester City to finish in a Champions League spot – despite continuing their strong start to the season with a thumping win over Newcastle. Jamie Vardy scored twice as Leicester demonstrated potential to secure a top-four finish by recording their biggest Premier League win to move back up to third in the table. The 2015-16 champions are three points clear of both Chelsea and Tottenham, who finished third and fourth respectively last season. Yet Rodgers played down his side’s chances of finishing in the top four, and said: “It’s very…

The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry Rawling has accused some leaders of his party of ‘purchasing power’ of the party though such persons know that their aim is not 2020. According to him, the said leaders are on a wild goose chase. “They have purchased the power of the party into their pockets even though they know that their aim is not 2020,” Mr Rawlings told cadres in Kumasi on Saturday. “Their main target is 2024 when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) would have been weak by then,” he said. The said this at the National Cadres…

Four people have since January died of rabies at hospitals in the Ashanti region. This was after they had been bitten by dogs infected with the disease. Officials from the veterinary services in the region are appealing for public support in the vaccination of domestic animals. Rabies, a fatal illness, is caused by a virus and transmitted through several means, especially when one is bitten or scratched by an infected domestic pet, usually dogs. Cases of rabies from cat bites have also been reported. The Ashanti regional veterinary office has recorded eight cases in 2019 of which four of the…

Ghana’s longest serving legislator, Alban Bagbin, says the systematic mass failure in the law entrance exams by law graduates is an indictment on the various law schools and their teachers across the country. One thousand, six-hundred and ninety-two law graduates from various law faculties in the country who wrote the Ghana School of Law entrance examination this year, failed to make the cut to enable them undertake the professional law course. Only 128 graduates of the total 1, 820 who sat for the exams passed, sparking agitation among the hundreds of law graduates and students across the country whose fate…