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The nation’s designated postal operators, Ghana Post, has received two awards at the 2019 Ghana Shippers Awards held over the weekend. Ghana Post was awarded the Excellence in Innovation Company of the Year and got a recognition for its outstanding contribution to the shippibg industry. Innovations such as the introduction of a Reliable Tracking System, Central Valuation Centre as well as the Digital Address (Ghana Post GPS) have put Ghana Post in a more advanced tech-driven position to meet modern ways of doing business and meeting the needs of customers. The nation’s postal service firm has leveraged on technology to…

Former Member of Parliament and founder of the African University College of Communication (AUCC) Kojo Yankah has launched an African history-themed book titled ‘Jamestown to Jamestown: Letters to an African child’. The book is about an African child who was frustrated by the half-truths and justifications of the treatment she suffers as a result of being an African. It conveys a message to Africans on the continent and the Diaspora to reclaim their heritage and to correct some misconception that has divided the African people. According to the author Kojo Yankah, “Jamestown to Jamestown is a long painful journey of…

Over the years, rape victims have often been thought of as females. Rape of boys almost seems unheard of because society assumes it is only our daughters who are vulnerable. Well, everybody is vulnerable at a point in their lives. The multi-million dollar question is, “Where do sexually abused boys go to?” Who even has an ear to listen to them? How do our sons report irresponsible, grown adults who may want to take advantage of them? Will anyone even believe them? Every parent must be the first listening ear of their child. If our children resort to their friends…

The Ghana Education Service has directed that all senior high school teachers holding a degree earned through distance education or sandwich should be re-posted to basic schools. A letter  to one of the headmasters, sighted by 3news.com, insisted that the directive should be considered “serious”. District Directors of Education have subsequently written to heads of schools who have also communicated same to their teaching staff in that regard. “Following Directives from the Director General, all teachers who obtained their degree through Distance, Sandwich and Foundation Programmes and are teaching in the Senior High Schools are to be withdrawn and re-posted…

Member of Parliament for Mion, Mohammed Abdul-Aziz, has alleged the individuals and businesses that received over 283 million cedis in judgement debt under President Nana Akufo-Addo, are linked to the New Patriotic Party. Akufo-Addo gov’t has paid ¢280m in judgement debt – Finance Minister He has served notice to file a motion in parliament to invite the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori Atta to provide specific names of individuals and institutions that received the money. “I am disappointed to hear…a whopping sum of ¢ 283,500,000 has been paid by government in judgment debt to various individuals and institutions,” he said…

Kumawood actress, Tracey Boakye, has refuted claims that  former President John Dramani Mahama gave her a car for supporting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 2016 electioneering campaign. “He can’t buy any car for me,” Tracey told Christian Agyei Frimpong Saturday on Onua 95.1FM, indicating she never worked for Mahama as some have claimed. “I haven’t worked for him. Why does he have to give me a car for commending him? I supported him because of the good works he was doing. I will still support him and if I see that in NPP, I will do same,” she…

Kumawood actress, Tracey Boakye, has refuted claims that  former President John Dramani Mahama gave her a car for supporting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 2016 electioneering campaign. “He can’t buy any car for me,” Tracey told Christian Agyei Frimpong Saturday on Onua 95.1FM, indicating she never worked for Mahama as some have claimed. “I haven’t worked for him. Why does he have to give me a car for commending him? I supported him because of the good works he was doing. I will still support him and if I see that in NPP, I will do same,” she…

Some members of the Representative of the People’s Amendment Law (ROPAL) Implementations Committee have left Ghana for Senegal, to understudy how the francophone country is successfully implementing external voting regime. The team, being led by the Chairman of the ROPAL implementation committee and Deputy EC Chair in charge of operation, Dr. Eric Bossman Asare, includes the General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu. The team will thereafter engage Ghanaians living in Gambia and Cape Verde as part of the consultative process. The consultative engagements will see the team spend the next 5 days in the selected African countries. The committee,…

The MTN Foundation has disbursed a total of 200,000 cedis this year to the 3Foundation to tackle maternal health and child mortality in Ghana. The amount is to be used by the 3Foundation, under the ‘Think Heart, Save a Child’ campaign, to identify and support the needy in society access corrective surgeries for hole in heart conditions. About 7,000 children in Ghana are born yearly with hole-in-heart condition but affected children whose parents are unable to bear the cost of heart surgery are left to die, according to the Health Ministry. Speaking to 3news.com, Sustainability & Social Impact Senior Manager…