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Management of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has tasked consumers to report persons who sell sub-standard products on the market. Speaking in an interview on Onua FM’s Ye Nsempa, Business Development Manager of the GSA, George Kojo Anti said the clamping down on the sale of sub-standard products cannot be done by the Authority alone, and called on the general public to get involved. “There is a minimum requirement that every product should meet, hence in the Authority’s effort to set standards and certify products, consumers as well should take keen interest in clearing inferior products in the country. “There…

Boris Johnson has admitted he would need EU co-operation to avoid a hard Irish border or crippling tariffs on trade in the event of no deal. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the favourite to be next prime minister said: “It’s not just up to us.” But he said he did “not believe for a moment” the UK would leave without a deal, although he was willing to do so. Asked about a row he had with his partner, he said it was “simply unfair” to involve “loved ones” in the debate. Reports of the argument on Friday with…

Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas is set to premier a new documentary which captures a man of God who runs an orphanage, torture and  threaten the life of the orphans under his care in a children’s home. In the documentary, Anas reveals how inmates of a non-governmental organisation, Echo Hills Village, at Madina live under inhumane conditions, with caretakers physically abusing some of the orphans. Dubbed “Torture Home…When a man of God abuses children”, excerpts of the yet to be released documentary shows manager of the home,Rev Lawrence Lamina verbally and physically abusing some children. .Anas in a Facebook post…

Former Champions Opoku Ware School won the all-Ashanti Region one-eighth contest of the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz staged on Tuesday at the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS). OWASS beat Anglican Senior High School and Osei Kyeretwie Senior High School to make it to the quarter-finals. The two-time champions made their intentions clear from Round One as they hopped to the lead. Closely chasing them their heels was KASS, who fought hard to overtake the former champions. They were just one point short with the Problem of the Day and that may be the point that they never…

Chairman of the Governing Council of Dominion University College Professor Felix Nikoi Hammond has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to urgently reconsider the funding module of his government’s flagship programme, Free Senior High School Programme. While acknowledging that the implementation of the programme is a major step towards tackling socio-economic inequality, Prof. Hammond wished that “this step would be followed immediately with initiatives to radically enhance the quality of secondary education in Ghana”. He observed that giving every child an equal chance of going to secondary school is no mean achievement. The Free SHS Programme was implemented in September…

Rapper Strongman, previously signed to Sarkcess Music, has revealed that his recent “beef” with the VGMA Rapper of the Year, Medikal, was too personal than he expected. The rap music scene was set ablaze by the retaliatory punchlines of the two heavyweight rappers – Medikal and Strongman – when the former released a diss track after he felt the latter disrespected him when he claimed he saved the industry four years ago. Within the space of four days, the two artistes released a total of six tracks, each with aggravated intensity of punchlines to satirize the opponent. Medikal was first…

Rapper Strongman, previously signed to Sarkcess Music, has revealed that his recent “beef” with the VGMA Rapper of the Year, Medikal, was too personal than he expected. The rap music scene was set ablaze by the retaliatory punchlines of the two heavyweight rappers – Medikal and Strongman – when the former released a diss track after he felt the latter disrespected him when he claimed he saved the industry four years ago. Within the space of four days, the two artistes released a total of six tracks, each with aggravated intensity of punchlines to satirize the opponent. Medikal was first…

The suspected ringleader of Saturday’s failed coup plot in Ethiopia’s Amhara region is on the run, a senior security official has told the BBC. Four top officials, including the army chief, were killed while thwarting the coup, officials said. Flags are flying at half-mast after the federal government declared a day of mourning to mark the deaths. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has urged Ethiopians to unite against “evil” forces set on dividing the country. A heavy contingent of pro-government forces have been deployed in Amhara’s capital, Bahir Dar, and the federal capital, Addis Ababa. The US state department has warned…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) says steps are in place to ban the use of mobile phones among health workers. The step, according to the Director General of the GHS, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has become necessary due to the numerous complaints of how health professionals spend time on their phones while attending to patients. According to him, the new directive which will take effective by the end of the year would improve efficiency in health facilities. Dr Nsiah-Asare said this last Friday at the inauguration of three new polyclinics in the Greater Accra Region. “We will soon send letters round…