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Marriage is never going to be the same again for the two couples who sailed through Connect FM’s Valentine reality show, dubbed Love Connection. They enjoyed the ultimate prize of spending two romantic nights at Maaha Beach Resort near Atuabo in the Western Region. Love Connection is a Valentine’s Day radio reality show carved to suit married couples in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis and its environs. The event, which started three years ago, brings together married couples to contest on varying issues about themselves, organizers and sponsors. It seeks to rekindle love and romance and also give them the opportunity to…

Bubbly radio and television personality Giovani Caleb has joined Ghana’s media conglomerate, Media General Group, and is set to take over the airwaves of the Group’s radio station 3FM from Monday, March 4, 2019. The award-winning media personality, real name Caleb Elolo Adjomah, joins MG Group with many years of experience in the media business. He comes on board with rich experience in radio presentation, Disk Jockeying amongst other creative traits to provide an exciting experience to listeners of 3FM. Prior to joining the Media General family, Giovani – as he is known in showbiz circles – worked with EIB…

Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM), an export development financing bank, will construct 100 greenhouses across the country in 2019 under its “Youth In Greenhouse Enterprise Project (YUGEP)”. The initiative is to promote investment in greenhouse vegetable production, reduce huge and persistent importation of vegetables, as well as create employment within the economy. The intervention is also an import-substitution strategy to increase the production and yield of vegetable output in the country. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Exim Bank, Mr Lawrence Agyinsam, disclosed this in Accra when he addressed staff at a durbar of the bank at Export Trade House,…

The Minority in Parliament is blaming the NDC shooting in the Ashanti Region on a lack of law enforcement across the country. Addressing the media in Parliament, Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu called on the security agencies to be swift in arresting and prosecuting perpetrators. He expressed worry over the crippling insecurity and emergence of violence in the country, stressing that it poses serious threats to Ghana’s democracy. “Many of you will recall when the President appeared in Parliament in one of the State of the Nation Addresses; I reminded him that he was the Commander in charge of the Ghana…

Bubbly radio and television personality Giovani Caleb has joined Ghana’s media conglomerate, Media General Group, and is set to take over the airwaves of the Group’s radio station 3FM from Monday, March 4, 2019. The award-winning media personality, real name Caleb Elolo Adjomah, joins MG Group with many years of experience in the media business. He comes on board with rich experience in radio presentation, Disk Jockeying amongst other creative traits to provide an exciting experience to listeners of 3FM. Prior to joining the Media General family, Giovani – as he is known in showbiz circles – worked with EIB…

Iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died in Paris following a short illness. The German designer, who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry’s most prolific figures and worked up until his death. His signature ponytail and dark glasses made him an instantly recognisable figure around the world. Industry heavyweights, including Italian designer Donatella Versace, issued heartfelt tributes. “Today the world lost a giant among men,” said the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour. Lagerfeld’s website says his year of birth was 1938 – though most placed his age at five years older. Rumours…

Iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has died in Paris following a short illness. The German designer, who was the creative director for Chanel and Fendi, was one of the industry’s most prolific figures and worked up until his death. His signature ponytail and dark glasses made him an instantly recognisable figure around the world. Industry heavyweights, including Italian designer Donatella Versace, issued heartfelt tributes. “Today the world lost a giant among men,” said the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour. Lagerfeld’s website says his year of birth was 1938 – though most placed his age at five years older. Rumours…

Two hundred and eighty-four LLB graduates have failed Ghana’s professional law course examination that would have given them the licence to practise in the country as fully fledged lawyers. Only 64 of the graduates who sat for the June and September 2018 examination have passed to undertake additional 6-month pupillage before they are called to the Ghana Bar. Additional 177 graduates have also been referred in the exams, results released by the independent examinations committee of the General Legal Council Tuesday showed. The over 500 graduates took the exams after going through two years of profession legal education at the…

Stanbic Bank, a leading financial services firm, has signed a partnership agreement with media giants Media General for the 2019 Jazz Festival in Accra. Speaking on the partnership, General Manager for Commercial at Media General Daniel Amartey Armah said: “This is a match made in heaven for two big companies in the country and goes to demonstrate our influence in our respective areas of operation”. He promised patrons that TV3 would continue to offer the best programme that suits their lifestyles. On his part, the Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Stanbic Bank, Mawuko Afadzinu, noted that TV3 is…

Prosecution witness Dr. Alfred Arthur, a soil scientist at the Cocoa Research Institute Ghana (CRIG), appeared uncomfortable as defence counsel in the ongoing Dr. Opuni and Seidu Agongo trial revisited a subject that got the COCOBOD to sanction him. Dr. Alfred Arthur, a key witness of the state, was suspended over forgery and was no more going to work at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) at Tafo for circumventing the required procedure in testing fertilizer, and misleading his superiors to recommend the certification of the product. His suspension follows a probe by COCOBOD in 2016 into the fertilizer…