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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is warning the public to be on the lookout for expired Lucozade products, following a detection of some expired products on the market. In a release by the FDA, some Lucozade products were intercepted by the Authority with the expiry dates tampered with and changed from September 2019 to September 2020. The FDA visited a warehouse located in Lapaz upon a tip-off from a journalist where they chanced on some persons changing the dates on the products. Two people who were caught tampering with the dates have been arrested and are in police custody…

Fancy Gadam says his debut show in Wa in the Upper West Region was a total flop. The self acclaimed ‘King of the North’ made this revelation on 3FM’s Urban Blend hosted by Miriam Osei-Agyeman. According to him, the low turn out did not discourage him from putting up a good show. “My first event that I did in Wa was a flop show. Nobody came there, empty chairs,” he said. According to the Gadam Nation boss, he did not let the poor turnout affect his stage act of performance in any way since he still delivered a stellar performance.…

Fancy Gadam says his debut show in Wa in the Upper West Region was a total flop. The self acclaimed ‘King of the North’ made this revelation on 3FM’s Urban Blend hosted by Miriam Osei-Agyeman. According to him, the low turn out did not discourage him from putting up a good show. “My first event that I did in Wa was a flop show. Nobody came there, empty chairs,” he said. According to the Gadam Nation boss, he did not let the poor turnout affect his stage act of performance in any way since he still delivered a stellar performance.…

The Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu, in his capacity as a private citizen, has dragged the Attorney General and construction firm, Waterville to the Supreme Court over the nonenforcement of a judgement debt retrieval order directed at the Government of Ghana and the company in 2013.The Supreme Court made the order in the Amidu vs. Attorney-General, Waterville Holding (BVI) Ltd & Woyome case brought before it by Martin Amidu on June 22, 2012.In Amidu’s application sighted by citinewsroom.com, the construction firm, Waterville Holding (BVI) Ltd was cited in the case as second respondent/defendant/judgment debtor.The Supreme Court on June 14, 2013, directed…

Songstress Feli Nuna has revealed her family objected her decision to pursue music as a career, but said she stood her grounds. Notwithstanding, she dared and resisted her family to venture into music. In an interview with Miriam Osei-Agyeman on 3FM Urban Blend, Feli Nuna said the situation created a misunderstanding between her father  and herself because he wanted her to pursue education instead of music. “My dad actually made plans for me to travel to China to further do my masters and I declined and it was an issue; like a big family issue in the house,” she stated. She…

Songstress Feli Nuna has revealed her family objected her decision to pursue music as a career, but said she stood her grounds. Notwithstanding, she dared and resisted her family to venture into music. In an interview with Miriam Osei-Agyeman on 3FM Urban Blend, Feli Nuna said the situation created a misunderstanding between her father  and herself because he wanted her to pursue education instead of music. “My dad actually made plans for me to travel to China to further do my masters and I declined and it was an issue; like a big family issue in the house,” she stated. She…

The Kumasi metro education directorate has bemoaned the low turnout of new entrants to kindergarten. Metro director, Martha Owusu Agyemang, entreated parents and guardians to send their wards to school to complement the government’s effort of making education free from basic to senior high level.  The metro education director, together with officials from the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, visited some schools in the metropolis to welcome pupils stepping foot in the classroom for the first time. They first visited the Ahmadiyya Primary A at Asafo which had the highest number of enrollment and yet they were less than ten pupils.  Other schools include…

A schoolgirl in Kenya has taken her own life after allegedly being shamed in class for having her period and staining her uniform. The 14-year-old’s mother said her daughter hanged herself after being humiliated by a teacher, Kenyan media reported. Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 200 parents protesting outside the school, reports said. Kenya passed a law in 2017 to provide free sanitary towels for schoolgirls. However, a parliamentary committee is currently investigating why the programme is yet to be rolled out across all schools. The girl’s mother said a teacher had called her “dirty”…

A senior economist at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), Dr John Kwakye, has identified Ghana’s constitution as contributing to corruption. He argued the 1992 constitution allows the president the power to appoint heads of public institutions, something he noted is one of the reasons a lot of corruption cases are recorded in public sector. “Part of it goes to the constitution. That we have the party in power take control of everything, especially the public sector appointment and so on, once the president replaces previous public sector executives and then put party people there who have contributed to your…