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The Ghana Health Service together with its partners have officially launched the polio vaccination campaign in Accra. This is to intensify efforts by the key stakeholders in dealing with the cases of type 2 polio virus. The vaccination exercise targets children under five years. There will be initial two rounds of house to house vaccinations in Accra. The first round begins from September 11 to 14, and the second round from September 25 to 28. A statement issued by the Ghana Health Service urged people to report to the nearest health facility with any sudden paralysis in children under 15…

A collapsing bridge on the Sokode to Bame road in the Volta Region has forced a temporary closure of the road. Concrete pillars on which the bridge is mounted have weakened and developed serious cracks exposing iron rods. Cracks have also developed on the surface of the road on the bridge while concrete barricades on the bridge have also been falling off. The National Disaster Management Organisation in Ho warned drivers and road users to avoid that stretch of the road due to the weak nature of the bridge. The Ghana Highway Authority later issued a statement announcing the road…

Six persons, who sustained gunshot wounds during the celebration of the Fire Festival on Monday, have been admitted at the Salaga Government Hospital in the Savanna Region. One of them, a 14-year-old boy, sustained critical condition wounds and had to be referred to Tamale Teaching Hospital where his condition was stablised. The victims, who are between the ages of 14 and 16, comprise of 4 girls and two boys. They were said to have been shot during the firing of musket as part of a procession Monday night to climax the festival celebrated by Moslems and traditionalist in the Dagbon…

It has emerged that SBC Beverages Ghana Limited, the sole franchisee and bottler of the Pepsi cola range of products in Ghana, used expired concentrate to manufacture two of its products released onto the market. Document sighted by 3news.com revealed that thousands of crates of RGB Mirinda Pineapple and RGB Mirinda Fruity which were manufactured from November 9, 2018 to August 5 this year, were produced with expired concentrate. A total of 183,136 crates of the two products were said to have been produced from the expired concentrate. Though the FDA directed the company to “recall” the products from the…

Three Nigerians and one Togolese have been arrested in Accra for unlawfully detaining and torturing two men serving as their house help. Samuel Ekeh and Ayena Tonton Komlan were chained and locked up in a toilet, and brutalized by the four suspects for days in a bid to coerce them to admit to stealing 5,000 cedis, the Police have said. The victims, who have worked for the suspects for the past two years, have since been issued with medical forms to receive treatment and examination. The four, 37-year-old Henry Inyamah Chinedu; 25-year-old Philip Obidile; 21-year-old Ezekiel Okwonkwo,  all Nigerians and…

A New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament  in the Ashanti Region, Frimpong Yaw Addo, has proposed an increment in the Value Added Tax (VAT) to cater for the teething sanitation challenges confronting the country. For him, adding a small percentage to the VAT to solve the sanitation challenges will not be a big deal for Ghanaians, “I am proposing that if we add some small percentage on the VAT for sanitation, I don’t think any Ghanaian will kick against that idea,” he stated. He underscored the need for “national consensus” on the proposal “so that everybody will come to agree with…

A New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament  in the Ashanti Region, Frimpong Yaw Addo, has proposed an increment in the Value Added Tax (VAT) to cater for the teething sanitation challenges confronting the country. For him, adding a small percentage to the VAT to solve the sanitation challenges will not be a big deal for Ghanaians, “I am proposing that if we add some small percentage on the VAT for sanitation, I don’t think any Ghanaian will kick against that idea,” he stated. He underscored the need for “national consensus” on the proposal “so that everybody will come to agree with…

The ultramodern University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) will from November 1 scale up its operations as contractors work earnestly to complete the facility for full operations to begin, management of the facility has revealed. The facility currently operates three clinics, pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology but authorities say they are now ready to “scale up significantly”. “All machines are in place. Maintenance agreement have been signed and so we now have maintenance schedules for these delicate machines…We can now safely use these machines,” Head of Customer Relations of the UGMC Barbara Owusu-Meng, said Wednesday. She indicated that although the facility…

Apple has unveiled its iPhone 11 range of handsets, which feature more cameras than before and a processor that has been updated to be faster while consuming less power. The company said the two Pro models would last between four to five hours longer than their XS predecessors. But it did not launch a 5G model, and some rumoured features were missing. Apple also revealed a new version of its smartwatch, which features an “always on” display for the first time. The Series 5 Watch adjusts how often it refreshes the screen to as little as one frame per second…

Music label Lynx Entertainment has announced that it has ended its contract with signee MzVee. This comes months after speculations were rife that the two parties have had issues, which resulted in a split. But in a release from both parties on Wednesday, September 11, the two noted the separation was mutual with no ill-feelings towards each other. “We wish to announce that after 8 years of a very  successful working relationship, Lynx Entertainment and MzVee are parting ways,” management of Lynx Entertainment said in its release. The music label further wished the songstress well and promised to continue supporting…