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A former contestant of TV3’s music reality show Mentor, Kymani Gaisie, has called for the rebranding and reintroduction of the talent show onto the screens. According to KGEE, as he was popularly known while on the show some years back, Mentor has had a great impact not just on him but on his colleagues as well. Speaking in an interview on TV3’s New Day with co-host Ayisha Yakubuu, KGEE said the show has played a major role in the life of its contestants; hence, it is important to bring it back to hone more talents. “TV3 Mentor must always be…

A former contestant of TV3’s music reality show Mentor, Kymani Gaisie, has called for the rebranding and reintroduction of the talent show onto the screens. According to KGEE, as he was popularly known while on the show some years back, Mentor has had a great impact not just on him but on his colleagues as well. Speaking in an interview on TV3’s New Day with co-host Ayisha Yakubuu, KGEE said the show has played a major role in the life of its contestants; hence, it is important to bring it back to hone more talents. “TV3 Mentor must always be…

Government has launched an ambitious programme to diversify the country’s agricultural export capacity to include other tree crops with equal economic values as cocoa.  The initiative, Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD), which is a collaboration between Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development is expected to fetch the country 12 billions dollars in export. Six major tree crops – coconut,  rubber, cashew,  oil palm, coffee and shea have been placed under the PERD programme. Minister of Food and Agriculture,  Dr.  Owusu Afriyie Akoto, said the six tree crops have the potential…

Government has launched an ambitious programme to diversify the country’s agricultural export capacity to include other tree crops with equal economic values as cocoa.  The initiative, Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD), which is a collaboration between Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development is expected to fetch the country 12 billions dollars in export. Six major tree crops – coconut,  rubber, cashew,  oil palm, coffee and shea have been placed under the PERD programme. Minister of Food and Agriculture,  Dr.  Owusu Afriyie Akoto, said the six tree crops have the potential…

The Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, has dared the Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, to have him removed from office if he deems him ineffective. Commenting on the exoneration of presidential staffer Charles Bissue by the Police CID, Mr Asamoa questioned why the special prosecutor complains more than he works. The Adentan Member of Parliament argued that Mr. Amidu could pick the CID report on the matter and interrogate it further, rather than crying foul that his work on the matter which is also before him, has been interfered with. “I think it is better for…

UTAG members at the University of Education Winneba (UEW), have condemned their local president for teaming up with the sacked vice chancellor, Prof Mawutor Avoke, to attempt to oust the vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Afful Broni. According to them, statements made by their local president Dr. Frimpong Kaakyire Duku in support of Prof Avoke’s action represent the former’s “personal parochial views…and does not arise form a majority or consensus decision of the entire UEWUTAG members”. Prof Avoke and six other officers who were sacked over alleged financial impropriety and procurement breaches stormed the university administration Tuesday seeking to…

Ghana’s gospel diva, Ivy-Q, has released her released her latest album that is set to take music industry by storm. The six-track album titled ‘Baba God,’ is the third album from the gospel musician and it features a number of legendary gospel artistes, including Rev. Edwin Dadson, Pastor Jonas Odoi and Rev Harry Yawson. Launched at the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) at Nungua in Accra, the album by Ivy-Q, born Ivy Dede Quarshie, is packed with very powerful African rhythm, which she said makes it very unique from her previous two albums. The album has songs like Baba God,…

The Finance Committee of the People’s National Convention (PNC) will be meeting the party’s Congress Fundraising Committee as part of efforts to raise funds for the party ahead of not only the congress but also next year’s elections. The scheduled meeting follows a proposal of members of the fundraising committee at the July 13 National Executive Committee meeting. In a letter written by the party’s National Treasurer, Akane Adams, and addressed to Chairman of the Congress Funding Committee, the meeting will be held on Thursday, July 25. The outcome of the meeting, according to the party’s National Treasurer and Chairman…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says incessant pleas on his government to construct roads everywhere he goes, clearly make mockery of the ‘unprecedented road infrastructure’ the Mahama government claimed to have built. “Among the top pleas from Chiefs and people everywhere I go on my tour of the country is road construction and yet the previous government says it embarked on an unprecedented road construction” the president said Tuesday. Speaking at a durbar of chiefs and people of Wassa East as part of his two-day working tour of the Western Region, Nana Akufo Addo wondered the areas Mahama’s unprecedented road…