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Head Coach of the Black Stars, James Kwesi Appiah, has made two changes to his starting line-up, as they take on the “Wild Dogs” of Guinea Bissau in the last Group F match at the Suez Stadium in Egypt, on Tuesday. Striker Kwabena Owusu and Genk defender Joseph Aidoo, have been handed a starting roles in the crucial game, that would determine the future of the team in the competition. Aidoo, would partner returnee John Boye in central defence, when the later was suspended in the first game after receiving two cautions. This also follows the absence of Nuhu Kassim…

The queen mother of Tusaug Traditional Area in the Upper East Region, Poanaba Alaas Buudi I, has called for support to end teenage pregnancies, female genital mutilation, child abuse and other practices which she said have become prevalent in the area. Speaking at a durbar for the women association of Kusaug traditional area in Bawku, she observed these practices coupled with lack of economic empowerment opportunities were impeding the progress and well-being of women in the area. She thus appealed for support from government and other non-governmental organisations to embark on a massive sensitisation campaign of adolescent girls, particularly those…

The queen mother of Tusaug Traditional Area in the Upper East Region, Poanaba Alaas Buudi I, has called for support to end teenage pregnancies, female genital mutilation, child abuse and other practices which she said have become prevalent in the area. Speaking at a durbar for the women association of Kusaug traditional area in Bawku, she observed these practices coupled with lack of economic empowerment opportunities were impeding the progress and well-being of women in the area. She thus appealed for support from government and other non-governmental organisations to embark on a massive sensitisation campaign of adolescent girls, particularly those…

Ghanaians are at it again. Everyone is busily calculating the fate of the Black Stars in the ongoing AFCON. Some are doing addition: If Ghana beat Guinea Bissau, the Black Stars chances to the next stage with 5 points being the first or the second team to qualify, Others are doing subtraction: If Cameroon beat Benin and Ghana draw with Guinea Bissau, Black Stars qualify to the knockout stage with 3 points. Many choose to go the long way of doing the division method: when Ghana draw with Guinea Bissau and Benin beat Cameroon then Ghana go with Benin…

A group of teaching and non-teaching staff under the Ghana Education Service (GES) have vowed to resist what they have described as imposition of a group insurance policy on them by the government. The GES employees are demanding a refund of the 10 cedis deducted from each of them in their June 2018 salary as premium for the controversial GES-SIC. Under the policy, all teaching and non-teaching staff of the Service who die or suffer a permanent disability would be given a cover of up to 18,000 cedis depending on the medical report. Those who suffer illness such as cancer,…

A group of teaching and non-teaching staff under the Ghana Education Service (GES) have vowed to resist what they have described as imposition of a group insurance policy on them by the government. The GES employees are demanding a refund of the 10 cedis deducted from each of them in their June 2018 salary as premium for the controversial GES-SIC. Under the policy, all teaching and non-teaching staff of the Service who die or suffer a permanent disability would be given a cover of up to 18,000 cedis depending on the medical report. Those who suffer illness such as cancer,…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, has alleged  complicity of the National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, in the arrest and purported torture of two ModernGhana journalists and is calling for his head. National Security operatives last Thursday stormed the East Legon office of the online news outlet, ModernGhana, arrested two journalists, seized their equipment and took them out of access of their family, friends and superiors. Nat’l Security raids media house; arrests journalists & seizes equipment   After their release, one of the journalists, Emmanuel Ajafor Abugri, disclosed that at the time of their arrest, he and…

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has opened nominations for regional positions in the sixteen regions of the country from Monday, July 1 to Monday, July 8. A statement by Mr James Kwabena Bomfeh Junior, CPP Acting General Secretary and copied the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Monday, urged citizens and members of the Party to treat the exercise with all seriousness towards the rebuilding process of the Conscientious People’s Platform. “We have done it before and we can do it again. We must work at redeeming our ideas which are half-heartedly ill-copied through this Fourth Republican dispensation – of…

A Rwandan man has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the US for immigration fraud and perjury after hiding the fact that he was involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Jean Leonard Teganya, 47, “was convicted and sentenced for the most serious form of immigration fraud: lying about his status as a war criminal to win asylum in the United States,” said US Attorney Andrew E Lelling, in a statement issued by the department of justice. In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of…

A Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) commander is warning against the use of mobile phones in the kitchen, especially during cooking, as it has the propensity to cause domestic fire outbreaks. Commander at the Accra Metropolitan Fire Station, Lilly Ashong Robertson, explained radioactivity from mobile phone calls have the propensity to cause gas cylinders to ignite. She thus underscored the need to prohibit mobile phone use in the kitchen, as is the case at fuel filling stations, indicating that it is one of the surest ways to prevent domestic fires. Ms Ashong who is a divisional officer grade one at…