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Ebony’s latest banger ‘Maame Hwe’ seems to have caught on with a lot of kids, particularly those who showed up for the Greater Accra Region audition of TV3’s reality show Talented Kidz. The two-day audition, which started Friday, saw almost all the auditioning bands performing ‘Maame Hwe’. One after the other, the bands served judges with the song with a few doing their own renditions as they sang and danced to the tune. Although some did very well with the song, judges were unhappy with some of the bands who seemed not to have prepared enough for their performance. The…

The Minority Members on the five-member ad hoc committee looking into the ‘cash-for-seat’ saga have issued a counter report faulting the Trade and Industry Ministry for unethically profiting from the presence of the president in an event. The 33-page report said the Ministry of Trade and Industry contravened existing law on public financial management, particularly the Financial Administration Regulations, by allowing the use of an existing account for the receipt of monies that it claimed were private funds. The report was authored by James Klutse Avedzi and Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, the two Minority Members on the committee set up…

DCOP Ken Yeboah, Ashanti Regional Police Commander[/caption] The Ashanti Regional Police Command has caused the arrest of three police officers for allegedly aiding armed robbers to escape from lawful custody. They are Chief Inspector Kennedy Kwame Nyanteh, stationed at Twedie Police Station, Inspector William Armah stationed at Regional Visibility Unit and Detective Sergeant Kyei Mensah stationed at Ashanti Central District CID. A statement by the police on Friday said the officers were arrested on Wednesday 31st of January 2018 in connection with the whereabouts of two convicted prisoners, Emmanuel Kwame Nyanteh and Fredrick Asante, who were convicted for the offence…

Fourteen persons died on the spot Thursday night at Anyinam in the Eastern Region when a passenger vehicle collided head on with a truck in an accident said to have been caused by a reckless overtaking. Five of the deceaseds are children below the age of five, the Police confirmed to 3news.com Friday. The accident occurred at about 11:00pm when the driver of a Sprinter bus with the registration GN 3699-14, which was loaded with passengers and 25 pieces of lumber, tried to overtake some vehicles ahead of him. In the process, the mini bus that was travelling from Nkawkaw…

A brewing crisis, arising out of some decisions of the governing council of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), is likely to cripple academic activities of the Institute. Highly placed sources say the Prof. Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh-led council is on a collision course with some management members of the Institute, including the Rector, Dr. Wilberforce Dzisah, who has since been ordered to proceed on leave. The acting Vice Rector, Dr. Ebo Afful, has been asked to move back to his department while the Registrar, Perry P.K Ofosu, is also to proceed on leave with immediate effect. “We knew long ago that…

Rector of the Ghana Institute of Journalism, Dr Wilberforce Dzisah, who resumed work on Thursday from his annual leave, has been ordered to proceed on leave with immediate effect, 3news.com can authoritatively report. Acting Deputy Rector, Dr. Ebow Afful, has been directed to go back his department, while the Registrar of the Institute, Perry K.K OFosu has also been ordered to go on leave. Head of Communication Department at the Institute, Dr. Modestus Fosu, has been directed to act in Dr. Dzisah’s stead, 3news.com can confirm. Though the two have outstanding leave days, sources say the recent decision directing the…

Barely a day after returning from a two-week medical leave in the United Kingdom, the Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is back behind his desk. He touched down at the Kotoka International Airport on Thursday evening to a rousing welcome by a government delegation led by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In the company of the wife, the Vice President was flown to the United Kingdom on the advice of his doctors after he was taken ill. In a Facebook post on Friday, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia expressed appreciation to Ghanaians for their unflinching support whilst on sick leave. [caption…

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has allayed fears of electricity cuts in the country following the shutdown of the Jubilee FPSO Thursday for routine maintenance. The three-week shutdown of the FPSO is the first of three planned shutdowns in 2018 to allow engineers carry out general maintenance arising out of recent challenges faced by the vessel. According to the Authority, enough contingency plans have been put in pace to avert supply deficit that would have occurred at the western power enclave during the period. “We will operate up to two turbines on the Light Crude Oil in combined cycle mode…

A number of media houses and product owners, who are alleged to have flouted the country’s law on public health through the advertisement of drugs they claim to cure or prevent some manageable diseases, are to be prosecuted. The Public Health Act 851(5) prohibits advertisement of drugs for the treatment, prevention and cure for HIV/AIDs, diabetes, typhoid, infertility, kidney stones and kidney failure, mental disorder, cancer, sexual transmitted diseases among. But the Food and Drugs Authority says it has secured recordings of such advertisement by some product owners in the media and has forwarded same to the Police which have…

[caption id="attachment_74249" align="aligncenter" width="606"] Revamping Death Penalty[/caption] A man who was convicted of killing his two daughters while his wife listened on the phone was executed Thursday night in Texas, the state’s Department of Criminal Justice said. John David Battaglia, 62, died of lethal injection, CNN affiliate KDAF reported. In 2001, Battaglia and his daughters — ages 6 and 9 — were in his Dallas apartment when he shot them, officials said. The girls’ mother was on the phone with the 9-year-old when she heard the gunshots, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark. “She heard the girl screaming no…