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The Media General Group has received 29 nominations in the 2019 edition of the Radio and Television Personality (RTP) Awards. Key on-air personalities of the media conglomerate including as Johnnie Hughes, Portia Gabor, Natalie Fort and Winston Amoah received nominations in 21 categories. Johnie Hughes who is a co-host of TV3 morning magazine show, New Day, is up for the TV Morning Show Host category award. The New Day show which focuses on topical issues fused with exciting entertainment content, received two nominations; TV Programme of the Year and Television Morning Show of the Year. News 360 anchors Portia Gabor…

The Media General Group has received 29 nominations in the 2019 edition of the Radio and Television Personality (RTP) Awards. Key on-air personalities of the media conglomerate including as Johnnie Hughes, Portia Gabor, Natalie Fort and Winston Amoah received nominations in 21 categories. Johnie Hughes who is a co-host of TV3 morning magazine show, New Day, is up for the TV Morning Show Host category award. The New Day show which focuses on topical issues fused with exciting entertainment content, received two nominations; TV Programme of the Year and Television Morning Show of the Year. News 360 anchors Portia Gabor…

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m (£469m) for its part in fuelling America’s opioid painkiller addiction crisis, a judge in Oklahoma has ruled. The company said immediately after the judgement that it would appeal. The case was the first to go to trial out of thousands of lawsuits filed against opioid makers and distributors. Earlier this year, Oklahoma settled with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma for $270m and Teva Pharmaceutical for $85m, leaving J&J as the lone defendant. An Oklahoma judge ordered US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson on Monday to pay $572 million for its role in fostering the…

Cocoa farmers, chiefs and residents along the Elubo-Enchi corridor of the Western North Region are upset about the deplorable nature of roads in the enclave. In June 2018, government announced it had secured funding to construct the Enchi-Elubo road but work is yet to commence one year on. Enchi and Elubo are known for the production of timber, cocoa and foodstuff, but the towns in the area have been cut off from the rest of the country due to the deplorable nature of their roads, especially the 71-kilometre road connecting Enchi to Elubo. The road is the main link between…

Some unidentified youth in the Karga District of the Northern Region have attacked a Fulani settlement at Bakurgu, killing several livestock’s belonging in the area. About 65 houses, motorbikes, bicycles and money have been torched by the attackers. Four of the Fulani who received cutlass wounds and swollen faces from beaten they received, are also receiving treatment at the Tamargu CHPS compound in the Karga District. Confirming the incident to 3news.com, the Northern Region Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Yussif Tanko said on Sunday police in Karga received information that some youth had attacked a Fulani settlement at Bakurgu in…

Some military personnel have allegedly assaulted some taxi drivers and removed their car batteries at the Effiakuma Number 9 taxi rank in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. A soldier, who had a confrontation with some taxi drivers, was said to have called in his colleagues from the Sekondi-Takoradi Air Force Base who arrived in military patrol vehicles at about 10:00pm Sunday, to assault the drivers. One driver, Mathew Amponsah, who was allegedly beaten severely, was later taken to a hospital by the military personnel for first aid and handed 10 cedis afterwards for use as transport fare to…

On 27th of July, I experienced my first induction ceremony into ‘real life’. It was my graduation. And from the many handshakes and cheers I was getting from comrades and loved ones, it was easy to think I was the happiest man amid the crowd seated in the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) auditorium. More so, it was a day I get to add onto the number of awards I have had over the past four years of my education. But it was wrong to think so. The morning came with mixed feelings, tilted more towards a cold foot. But…

The Criminal Investigations Division (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has begun a process for the extradition of Chika Nnodim from Nigeria to Ghana to face charges as one of the suspects named in the case of the girls who have gone missing in Takoradi. A collaboration between the Ghana Interpol and its Nigerian counterparts led to the arrest of Nigerian Nnodim in Nigeria on August 2, but he cannot be brought to Ghana until the process for his extradition has been completed. A source close to the police has told the Daily Graphic that the process began a day…

A lecturer at the University of Ghana (UG), Dr James Kwame Mensah, has earned a 15,000-dollar fellowship at the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Dr Mensah, who is a lecturer at the Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management at the UG Business School, was offered the fellowship on July 3 due to his excellent works on urbanisation. It was also grounded on the the Institute’s conviction that Dr Mensah’s urban-focused scholarship will help deepen and diversify the multi-disciplinary knowledge that Penn IUR seeks to cultivate. The lecturer is expected…

Government has met independent power producers (IPPs) as well as gas producers to come out with a sustainable strategy to ensure a viable energy sector. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance on Monday, the current energy structure poses serious financial risks to the economy. The meeting had representatives of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Energy in attendance. At the said meeting, it was agreed that an initial three-month consultation process begins in earnest. “The consultation will provide a forum for stakeholders to contribute to government’s energy strategy,” the statement signed Chief Director of the…