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Theresa May will return to Brussels later to press EU leaders for legally binding changes to the Brexit deal. The PM will insist the UK will not be “trapped” in the backstop – the plan to avoid the return of Irish border checks should no UK-EU trade deal be in place. She will say the deal must change if it is to win the support of MPs who urged her to seek “alternative arrangements” when rejecting the deal last month. However, the EU has repeatedly ruled out changing the withdrawal agreement. And Mrs May’s visit is being overshadowed by the…

The committee that investigated the missing documents in the trial of former COCOBOD Chief Executive Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni and businessman Seidu Agongo concluded its work without finding the most ‘critical’ document. Following a revelation that some important documents in the ongoing trial were missing or tampered with in the custody of Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), a division of COCOBOD, the committee was tasked by CRIG to investigate the matter. The last time the case was called in court on January 21, Deputy Director of Legal Affairs at COCOBOD, Mr Johannes Velba told the court they had not…

Ghana’s Bright Simons, president of mPedigree, is one of the five fellows from across the Aspen Global Leadership Network who will be joining the Braddock Scholars Program this year. Other fellows include Matthew Alexander, founder and board member of one world health; Cody Friesen, founder and CEO of Zero Mass Water, Jessica Sager, CEO of All Our Kin Inc and  Derwin Sisnett, founder and partner of Maslow Development. These fellows have a big vision to make a transformational impact on society by bringing their venture to significant scale. Commenting on his appointment, Bright said, “As you know, the Aspen Institute,…

The Inter-Party Coalition for National Sovereignty says it has picked intelligence that some “elements” within the government are planning to deploy a state-sponsored terrorist group to cause mayhem in the Thursday peaceful protest march. According to the Coalition, the information it has received less than 24 hours to the Aagbe W) demonstration suggest the bandits who were unleashed to terrorise and brutalise some people during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election are going to be let lose once again on Thursday. “…Some elements within the Akufo-Addo government are planning to deploy the same state-sponsored thugs who brutalised innocent citizens at the…

A rainstorm has rocked hit the Amansie West District of the Ashanti region killing an 11 year-old class three pupil of the Domenase D/A primary school. Frederick Kofi Tweneboah died on the spot when a building he was sleeping in collapsed on him Saturday. Others sustained injuries in the disaster which affected over 500 houses and displaced a total of 1,915 people in communities including Manso-Nkwanta, Domenase, Manso-Atwere and Brofoyedu. Sixteen residents are receiving treatment at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital as well as Manso-Nkwanta and St Martin’s hospitals. Displaced residents are putting up with relatives and friends. Churches, mosques,…

A giant billboard thanking President Nana Akufo-Addo for his role in ending the over decade old chieftaincy dispute in Dagbon in the Northern Region has popped up in Accra. The billboard sited in front of Afrikiko near the Jubilee House, has the photo of the new Ya-Naa Abukari Mahama II and Nana Akufo-Addo with a smiling face, with the inscription “Dagbon Thanks You Mr. President”. Savelugu chief, Yoo Naa Abubakar is new Ya-Naa It is unclear who the sponsors of the billboard are but believed to be coming from the people of Dagbon in Accra. Similar billboards are said to…

Ghana’ s Black Satellites failed to shine on Wednesday when they went 2-0 down to Senegal in Group B of the ongoing Africa U-20 Cup of Nations. Two first half goals from Youssouph Badji at the Stade de Maradi in Niger were enough to give the Senegalese all three points. The win sends Senegal through to the semi-final stage of the tournament and gives the side one of the four tickets to the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be staged in Poland. Ghana next play Mali, who picked their first three points in a 1-0 win over Burkina Faso…

Government has set up a three-member commission of inquiry into the violence that characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election in Accra last Thursday and led to the injury of at least six persons.  Gunshots fired to disrupt voting at Ayawaso, six injured The commission chaired by former commissioner of CHRAJ, Justice Emile Short, has been given a month to submit its report to the president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Vice president Dr Mahamamudu Bawumia took the decision in consultation with President Nana Akufo-Addo who is currently on a three-nation visit to South Africa, United States and Ethiopia. It followed intense…

There has been a huge drop in the number of candidates who have registered to write this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for Private Candidates from that of last year. Statistics made available to the Junior Graphic by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) indicated that a total of 2,505 candidates had registered to write the 2019 examination as against the 11,815 candidates who wrote the exam last year, showing a difference of 9,310. Asked what might have accounted for the huge drop in the number of candidates, the Head of Public Affairs of WAEC, Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, said…

The world is in the middle of what is likely to be the warmest 10 years since records began in 1850, says the Met Office. It’s forecasting that temperatures for each of the next five years are likely to be at or above 1C compared to pre-industrial levels. There’s also a small chance that one of the next five years will see global temperatures temporarily go above 1.5C. That’s seen as a critical threshold for climate change. If the data matches the forecast, then the decade from 2014-2023 will be the warmest in more than 150 years of record keeping.…