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Government has announced plans to deploy a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) system aimed at comprehensively protecting transactions and interactions on the country’s digital space. Ghanaian businesses are becoming ever more dependent on digital information and electronic transactions, and as a result, face stringent data privacy compliance challenges and data security regulations. With enterprises increasingly under threat of cyber-attacks and malicious insiders, business entities access sensitive data and critical system, the introduction of the PKI system has been considered as timely. Over the years, there have been a few forms of authentication, which have been developed to safeguard critical and sensitive…

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has expounded what the real effects of President Akufo-Addo’s flagship one million dollar per constituency policy are. At a special breakfast meeting with Caribbean and African heads of mission in Havana, Cuba on Friday, 19th July 2019, Vice President Bawumia highlighted progress made by government to develop Ghana to the admiration of the diplomatic Corp. Dr. Bawumia recounted efforts made by government to ensure bottom up development that is inclusive and non-elitist. “For us as government we are very much concerned about the poor and rural communities. Many a time development goals pursued by governments…

Algeria fans were celebrating in Trafalgar Square on both Friday and Saturday Photo: RICKY VIGIL/GETTY IMAGES[/caption] A man was stabbed during a fight in central London where Algeria football fans were celebrating winning the Africa Cup of Nations. Algeria won the tournament on Friday and fans had congregated in Trafalgar Square for two nights in a row to celebrate. The Metropolitan Police said that at about 01:20 BST a man in his 20s was taken to hospital with a puncture wound. His injuries were not life-threatening. There have been no arrests. Algeria won the trophy for the second time -…

The final audition for the selection of the 16 contestants for the 2019 Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) reality show began Friday, July 19 in Accra. Young, beautiful and intelligent ladies who qualified from the regional auditions  – which took place in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale – took turns before judges at TV3’s Executive Theatre  to justify their inclusion. Unlike the previous years’, this year’s edition will have an addition of representatives from the six newly created regions: Oti, Savannah, North East, Ahafo, Bono East and Western North. It, however, turned out at the final audition that the six newly created…

American Keith Thurman was knocked down in the first round by Manny Pacquiao[/caption] Manny Pacquiao said he had “fun” as he became the oldest welterweight champion in history by beating WBA Super champion Keith Thurman in a split decision in Las Vegas. Thurman – previously undefeated – had promised to send the 40-year-old Fillipino into retirement, but was knocked down in the first round before a thrilling fight went the distance. “I knew it was too close,” said American Thurman. “He got the knockdown so he had momentum in round one. This was a beautiful night of boxing.” The 30-year-old…

A joint police-cum-military team is roaming the North Campus of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) apparently to foil a planned demonstration, 3news.com gathers. The officers were seen on Thursday morning. Most of them are in plain clothes but no one can take pictures of them, 3news.com was hinted. The officers are said to have been called in by the Vice Chancellor, Reverend Father Professor Anthony Afful-Broni, following rumours of the townsfolk planning a demonstration on Thursday. The demonstration is said to be against the Governing Council of UEW, whose tenure is said to have expired. The situation on campus…

The final audition for the selection of the 16 contestants for the 2019 Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) reality show began Friday, July 19 in Accra. Young, beautiful and intelligent ladies who qualified from the regional auditions  – which took place in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale – took turns before judges at TV3’s Executive Theatre  to justify their inclusion. Unlike the previous years’, this year’s edition will have an addition of representatives from the six newly created regions: Oti, Savannah, North East, Ahafo, Bono East and Western North. It, however, turned out at the final audition that the six newly created…

Human rights lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu has alleged that there was a collusion between the Ghana Police Service and some persons in authority in defying the High Court orders for bail to be granted murder suspect Gregory Afoko despite he meeting all conditions. Mr. Afoko, who is standing trial for the murder of a former Upper East Regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Adams Mahama, was in March, 2019 granted bail to the tune of GH¢500,000 but the state ignored the Court’s ruling and continued to unlawfully hold him in custody for about three months. In a dramatic…

A meaningless word ‘Sco pa tu mana’ coined by Ghanaian musician Patapaa has been added to the list of terms on the online dictionary site Dictionary.com and Urban dictionary. The Dictionary.com describes it as “a nonsense phrase made popular by a rap by the Ghanaian artist Patapaa…but coincidentally resembles expressions in Hawaiian, Malay and Indonesian.” The phrase ‘Sco pa tu mana’, the dictionary site stated, earned a ‘Know Your Meme’ entry in late June 2019 and the Urban Dictionary entries in July. The Urban dictionary defines ‘Sco pa tu mana’ as, “A word of Ghanaian origin created by Ghanaian music…

A meaningless word ‘Sco pa tu mana’ coined by Ghanaian musician Patapaa has been added to the list of terms on the online dictionary site Dictionary.com and Urban dictionary. The Dictionary.com describes it as “a nonsense phrase made popular by a rap by the Ghanaian artist Patapaa…but coincidentally resembles expressions in Hawaiian, Malay and Indonesian.” The phrase ‘Sco pa tu mana’, the dictionary site stated, earned a ‘Know Your Meme’ entry in late June 2019 and the Urban Dictionary entries in July. The Urban dictionary defines ‘Sco pa tu mana’ as, “A word of Ghanaian origin created by Ghanaian music…