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Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah has named André Ayew as the permanent captain of the team. This follows a meeting with the top brass of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Normalization Committee (NC) after which approval and full backing was granted to the plans of the coach. Ayew replaces Asamoah Gyan, as captain of the Black Stars. Gyan, who has captained the Black Stars for a record seven years has been elevated to the position of “General Captain”. Subsequently, Kwadwo Asamoah has been named the deputy captain. President of the GFA-NC Dr Kofi Amoah has called on all stakeholders and…

A woman has written to Ideal Home, a home affairs programme on 3FM in Accra, revealing how her husband has been having sex with men after she stopped giving him anal sex. According to the woman who wants to remain anonymous, her husband, a well-respected pastor, has been engaged in homosexuality for the past two decades. In the revealing letter in which she is seeking help, the woman said she has had enough of the husband’s sexual orientation and can no longer continue keeping the ‘dark secret’. She wants renowned counsellors and panel who appear on the Saturday morning show…

A woman has written to Ideal Home, a home affairs programme on 3FM in Accra, revealing how her husband has been having sex with men after she stopped giving him anal sex. According to the woman who wants to remain anonymous, her husband, a well-respected pastor, has been engaged in homosexuality for the past two decades. In the revealing letter in which she is seeking help, the woman said she has had enough of the husband’s sexual orientation and can no longer continue keeping the ‘dark secret’. She wants renowned counsellors and panel who appear on the Saturday morning show…

Persons with hearing impairment are allegedly being refused registration for Ghana Card by National Identification Authority (NIA) officials at the various mass registration centres in Accra. NIA officials at the headquarters are also said to have declined to grant audience to the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) to deliberate on how persons with deaf could be registered in the exercise. GNAD claims some of its members who visited some registration centres in Accra were turned away, and in some cases, registration officials maltreated and spoke to them harshly without provocation. According to the Association, most of their members…

An agreement has been reached by authorities in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region, directing residents to allow staff of Power Distribution Services (PDS) access to homes to “pick current readings from their metres to generate actual bills for them”. This follows an emergency meeting held on Friday after days of clashes between residents and staff of PDS over electricity bills. The clashes, which saw the intervention of the police, have led to the loss of one life. The emergency meeting had in the attendance the Member of Parliament of Lower Manya Krobo Constituency, Ebenezer Tei Larbi,…

A senior lecturer at the Ghana Technology University College, Dr. Kester Quist-Aphetsi, says Ghana has what it takes to tackle cyber fraud and its related crimes in the country. He is optimistic that proper collaboration with the right agencies will do the trick for Ghana in that regard. He observed an assessment conducted by the World Bank and the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre of the Oxford University has shown vulnerabilities in Ghana’s cyber security, hence the need to consolidate efforts in fighting it. The digitization and introduction of e-services in Ghana, he noted, have also exposed the country and…

Government is considering reviewing passport fees upwards to help it break even and avoid the current losses incurred in the processing and production of passports. Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, said Ghana’s passports were highly subsidised making it the less expensive in Africa. She said passport processing was a service that the government did not intend to make a profit on and indicated that it would be wrong for the government to continue subsidising the price for acquiring passports. “So we are looking at it. We are…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings will on Saturday lead the cadres and sympathisers of the June 4 revolution for a tree planting exercise in Accra to commence activities marking the 40th anniversary of the event. He will plant the first tree in the exercise that will start from the Tetteh Quarshie interchange to the Legon ECG Park. It seeks to celebrate the environmental credentials of Mr Rawlings. The tree planting exercise is in line with theme for this year’s June 4th commemoration; “Developing a national character for sustainable good governance”. The spate of indiscriminate felling of trees without recourse to…

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 has given a firm indication of initiating a legal action against producers of the popular 2018 American superhero film, Black Panther, over alleged patent and copyright breaches. According to the Ghana National Folklore Board, Marvel Studios, who are the producers of the record breaking film, used the country’s famous and celebrated traditional fabric, Kente, in some of its scenes without appropraite permission. Marvel, according to the Board, was required under copyright laws, to have sought permission from it before going ahead to use Ghana’s kente in the film that broke several box office records netting 1.344 billion dollars as of…