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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…

The Ghana National Gas Company Limited has agreed to partner the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation to rehabilitate the deplorable 28 kilometre Esiama – Asasetre road. The two companies are providing an amount of Ghc125m for the road which has been classified under the oil enclave roads. The road which leads to the birthplace of Ghana’s first and iconic President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s birthplace, has become a scar on his memories for years. It is ridden with potholes, making travelling on it bumpy and uncomfortable. The road emits dust during the dry season, and creates poor visibility for drivers. It gets…

Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw, has warned the government against using the nation’s petroleum resources as collateral for loans. “We should desist from contaminating the crude oil trade with other economic transactions such as loan agreements and the rest. And let’s do a purely crude oil trade. If we make gains from that, we can use the gains to go and repay whatever loans we have. Because after all, whatever we gain from that goes to the state and the state is at liberty,” he said. Dr Manteaw gave the warning on Thursday…

Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw, has warned the government against using the nation’s petroleum resources as collateral for loans. “We should desist from contaminating the crude oil trade with other economic transactions such as loan agreements and the rest. And let’s do a purely crude oil trade. If we make gains from that, we can use the gains to go and repay whatever loans we have. Because after all, whatever we gain from that goes to the state and the state is at liberty,” he said. Dr Manteaw gave the warning on Thursday…

Tumu Senior High Technical School in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region has been closed down indefinitely after students rioted on Thursday Night. 3news.com’s Upper West Regional correspondent Yakubu Abdul-Gafur reports that Students during the riot allegedly vandalised the headmaster’s bungalow and that of the assistant headmaster and senior house master, as well as the store room and dining hall. According to eyewitnesses, it all started after school authorities seized mobile phones belonging to some final year students on last Wednesday and destroyed them after holding an emergency assembly meeting in the school. This did not go…

Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. Speaking in Downing Street, May said it had been “the honour of my life” to serve as Britain’s second prime minister. Her voice breaking, she said she would leave “with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude”. The prime minister listed a series of what she said were her government’s achievements, including tackling the deficit, reducing unemployment and boosting funding for mental health. But she…

President of the National Union of Ghana Students Tinkaro Asare Osei has been appointed by the Commonwealth Students’ Association to be the representative of the Commonwealth Association in Ghana. The Commonwealth Students Association (CSA) unifies and embodies the needs and aspirations of national student councils and other student organisations in the Commonwealth. It was launched in 2012 at the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (18CCEM) in Mauritius, where student leaders gathered to make recommendations on the current issues in education and strengthen their role in the Commonwealth’s education sector. The main aims of the CSA are “to promote unity…

A resident of Daboya in the Savanna Region, has sued the Attorney General and Electoral Commission at the Supreme Court over what he described as attempts to suppress Ghanaian voters through the limited voter registration exercise to be conducted by the Commission. The plaintiff, Umar Ayuba argued that conducting the limited voters’ registration at the district offices of the electoral body will disenfranchise a high number of potential voters. According to the plaintiff, the practice of registration at electoral areas is now law per the Public Elections Regulations, 2016 (CI 91). He added that historical records show that this approach…

It was a traumatic experience not only for those who paid to go watch the 20th edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards on Saturday, May 18, 2019. For many of us who followed proceedings from our homes [and wherever possible], seeing TV3’s transmission truncated midway into the music awards show got us asking, “What’s going on there?” When Stonebwoy’s name was mentioned that he had won the Reggae Dancehall Artiste of the Year award, I saw his fellow musician Shatta Wale [on TV] saying something to a guy who sat next to him. Then, within a split of a…