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  Zimbabwe’s cabinet has promised to repeal a controversial law long used to suppress the media. The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act has been the leading weapon in stifling media freedom. During former President Robert Mugabe’s rule it was used to arrest journalists and shut down newspapers. It places restrictions on media ownership and who can be employed as a journalist. Parliament is expected to introduce three new laws to replace it. The change is part of the package of political reforms that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has promised to implement to improve relations with the West.…

The Evangelical Presbyterian College of Education, Amedzofe, in the Volta Region is calling on government to come to its aid in meeting its infrastructural needs. It is the expectation of the College that the government will hear its call and come in handy to support the construction of its girls’ hostel, which has been under construction for quite some time now. At the College’s matriculation ceremony, Principal Dr. Dickson Tsey appealed to the government for its intervention through the GetFund. “It is our hope that the government will come to our aid through the GETFund to complete the four-storey Girls…

President Akufo-Addo has challenged members of the Presidential Fiscal Responsibility Advisory Council to assist his administration with their rich experience in economic and financial management. This he said will enable Ghana maintain “fiscal rectitude” in the management of the country’s economy. Addressing members of the Presidential Fiscal Responsibility Advisory Council at the Jubilee House after administering the Official Oath and the Oath of Secrecy to them, President Akufo-Addo said the Council, which is the second of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa after that in the Republic of Mauritius, has been established because of the poor circumstances surrounding the management of…

Minister of Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Botwe, has condemned the burning of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) office in Salaga by some youth group. Some youth of the town on the evening of Tuesday January 12, 2019 set the party office ablaze to protest the announcement of Damongo as the regional capital for the newly created Savannah Region. They also pulled down party billboards within the town [Video] Salaga youth set ablaze NPP offices over regional capital, MCE residence next The youth according to reports, expected the president to name Salaga as the regional capital. Seven persons were subsequently…

The Asunafo North Municipal capital, Goaso, has been declared the regional capital of the newly created Ahafo R, carved out of the then Bono Ahafo Region. Ever since the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) got the endorsement of the people within the Ahafo area  in the 2018 referendum to create the new region together with five others, there has been strong contention among the major towns in the area for the regional capital status. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, February 13 named Goaso as the regional capital at a presentation ceremony at the Jubilee House to give effect…

Sprawled across some 21,832 hectares in the North Tongu district of the Volta region is a flourishing agro-business company that is using methods many complain they lack. Mechanisation and technology. These two words are the biggest drawback to farming in Ghana where many have settled for small-scale subsistence farming. Goshen Porsche Ranch is located at Torgorme on the Kpong left bank in the North Tongu district. With a steadily growing Ghanaian population, mechanisation is important in meeting the threat of food insecurity. And that is how this modern agro-tech commercial farm has been collecting accolades. Goshen Porsche Ranch in 2017, bagged the…

  The Government of Ghana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Republic of Germany to establish a German-Ghanaian Business Council. The signing was done at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra on the sideline of the third German Business Summit. Minister of Trade and Industry Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, who signed on behalf of the Government of Ghana, indicated that the partnership will further make room for German investors to do business in Ghana to boost the economy. He further noted that the Council will open up the country for German businesses to engage with local businesses for partnerships…

Two police officers, Constable Amartey Godfred and Constable Boateng Lotis, have reportedly sustained gunshot wounds from an unidentified person suspected to be a member of two feuding chieftaincy gates at Atulbabisi in Bolgatanga of the Upper East Region. Both police and military men were said to have moved into the area Monday evening when they gathered information that the two chieftaincy gates of Atulbabisi were pelting stones at each other. But on reaching the scene to make inquiries about the disturbances, the two officers were shot in the process. A police statement sighted by 3news.com indicates that the wounded police…

A 26-year-old man in the Central Region said to have committed a taboo by allegedly raping a banana seller in a cemetery has been fined three sheep and six bottles of schnapps by the traditional authorities of Agona Fawomanye. The fine, the authorities say, are to appease the gods and avert the likely curse on the community and the suspect’s family. Kwabena Bismark is said to have lured the 23-year lady [name withheld] to the town’s cemetery on Saturday February 9 under the pretence of buying banana from her, but allegedly raped her on a tomb. Though the matter was…

Dr Alfred Arthur, a Scientist at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) claims he is unaware that an investigative committee of CRIG, a division of COCOBOD, report  found out that Oye Hellen Koranteng, a dispatch clerk dispatched a copy of a contentious missing letter to Agricult Ghana Limited. Answering question under cross-examination led by Mr Benson Nutsukpui, lawyer for Mr Seidu Agongo,  the witness was asked, whether he knew the committee set up by Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) to investigate the missing letter also found out that a budget and an invoice for the sum of GH¢21,…