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Beautiful Ghanaian rhythms and dance moves were brought to bear during Sunday’s live performance by all 16 contestants of this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful pageant. You name them, from the Gome dance of the Ga people through to the Kuntum dance by the Ahantas of the Western Region fused with the Asafo dance performed by Fantes, all the ladies brought their A-game as they performed indigenous dances peculiar to their respective regions. Central Region’s Ekua raised the curtain for the night’s performances as she appeared on stage as a warrior performing the Asafo dance. She explained the Asafo dance is…

A US woman has undergone surgery after removing and swallowing her engagement ring in her sleep. Jenna Evans, 29, said she and her fiancée Bobby had been on a speeding train and she was forced to swallow the ring to protect it from “bad guys”. She woke at her home in California to realise the episode had been a dream, but saw her diamond ring was missing. She said she knew exactly what had happened, woke up Bobby to explain, and the couple went to a hospital. Ms Evans said she struggled to recall the situation to medics “because I…

Beautiful Ghanaian rhythms and dance moves were brought to bear during Sunday’s live performance by all 16 contestants of this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful pageant. You name them, from the Gome dance of the Ga people through to the Kuntum dance by the Ahantas of the Western Region fused with the Asafo dance performed by Fantes, all the ladies brought their A-game as they performed indigenous dances peculiar to their respective regions. Central Region’s Ekua raised the curtain for the night’s performances as she appeared on stage as a warrior performing the Asafo dance. She explained the Asafo dance is…

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The Ghana Education Service (GES) says the self-placement portal for the Senior High School placement is up and functioning properly after a hitch which caused the portal to be down. There has been issues with the placement system for the past few days, leaving many students dissatisfied with their schools while others are unable to access the portal for self-placement. Hundreds of parents thronged the placement help centre at the Black Star Square in Accra with their wards Monday morning to have their issues resolved, but there was no official readily available to engage them. [Video] One collapses as scores…

A US woman has undergone surgery after removing and swallowing her engagement ring in her sleep. Jenna Evans, 29, said she and her fiancée Bobby had been on a speeding train and she was forced to swallow the ring to protect it from “bad guys”. She woke at her home in California to realise the episode had been a dream, but saw her diamond ring was missing. She said she knew exactly what had happened, woke up Bobby to explain, and the couple went to a hospital. Ms Evans said she struggled to recall the situation to medics “because I…

Three security men have been murdered in Ashaiman in the Greater Accra region with some parts of the body missing. The lifeless bodies of the three, Ibrahim Bagada Sumaila, Joshua Afuugu and Kobina, were discovered at different locations Sunday. All three were found with their clothes covering their heads “with blood oozing from the eyes, nostrils, ears and mouth suggesting that some organs have been removed from the head part,’ a police report said. There was no robbery at the facilities they were guarding. A police report sighted by JoyNews said Abdul Razak Ibrahim, an agent of Apsonic Motors Ashaiman,…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned the increasing spate of violence against police personnel, saying such acts must not continue. He said recent attacks on police officers resulting in their death cannot be tolerated. “I condemn this attacks in no uncertain terms and I assure the Police Service and the general public that such criminal acts would not go unpunished,” he said at the 49th Cadet Officers graduation parade of the Ghana Police Academy at Tesano near Accra. 143 Cadet Officers graduated from the Academy after six months of training and are now Assistant Superintendents of Police. President Akufo-Addo…

Seven million voters are expected to head to the ballot box[/caption] Tunisia is holding its second free presidential poll since the 2011 uprising that toppled ex-president Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring. It was brought forward from November after the death in July of Beji Caid Essebsi, the first democratically elected president, who took office in 2014. Twenty-six candidates, including two women, are running in the election. It is widely viewed as a test of one of the world’s youngest democracies. Mr Essebsi won Tunisia’s first free presidential elections in 2014 and was credited with largely maintaining stability in the…

Pressure is mounting on authorities at Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast as parents of stranded students push to get their wards admitted. These students took advantage of the Senior High School (SHS) self-placement module between Monday and Thursday but the school is unable to offer them admission. The school’s position is informed by the fact that the Ministry of Education nullified all self-placements on Wednesday and reinstituted it on Thursday, requesting all self-placed students to start the process afresh. But the parents argued that they had previously visited the school and picked prospectus, which according to them is a seal…