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The Accra Metropolitan Assembly in collaboration with the Advertising Association of Ghana has pulled down billboards that have been illegally mounted in parts of the capital city, Accra. The AMA in a joint operation with the AAG began the exercise in the early hours of Sunday January 28 on some principal streets of Accra. This comes after several warnings by both institutions last year for advertisers to seek the necessary documentations before mounting billboards. By Kwabena Adu Gyamfi|3news.com|Ghana

Vice Chairman of the Eastern Regional NPP, Nana Fredua Agyeman Ofori-Atta has admitted that the New Patriotic Party capitalized on the emotions of Ghanaians for its campaign when the Mahama-led government accepted the ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees. According to the Vice Chairman who was speaking on TV3’s New Day on Saturday, the NDC dealt poorly with the issue in terms of information flow to the public leaving the public panicking. He said because the issue was a sensitive one, the NPP decided to use it to its advantage. “The politics is real. At the time how was the matter handled, it…

A private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu says it is about time recommendations made by the Constitutional Review Commission are implemented. The legal practitioner was speaking on TV3’s New Day on calls for the amendment of Article 60 (11 and 12) of the Constitution of Ghana where the Speaker of Parliament is sworn in to act as the president in the absence of the president and the vice. “We can revisit the work of the Constitutional Review Commission and mount pressure to see about implementing proposals that were made so that in the specific circumstances of the entrenched position, we should…

US casino mogul Steve Wynn has resigned as finance chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) amid sexual harassment allegations. A Wall Street Journal report on Friday alleged that the 76-year-old billionaire harassed massage therapists and forced one staff member to have sex with him. Mr Wynn has denied wrongdoing, calling the stories “preposterous”. RNC chair Ronna McDaniel told US media she had accepted his resignation. Mr Wynn has blamed his ex-wife, whom he is fighting in court, for the “slander”. “The instigation of these accusations is the continued work of my ex-wife Elaine Wynn, with whom I am involved…

The Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ), has held its Fourth Flamingo Awards for business and financial journalists and crowned Felix Dela Klutse of the Business Day newspaper as the Business Journalist for 2017. Mr Kluste also won the Best in Business of Health and the Best in Finance Reporting to become the Overall Best for the second time. He was the Overall Best Business Journalist in 2014, the maiden edition of IFEJ Flamingo Award. He took home a citation, a plaque, an ipad and would have the opportunity to attend the World Bank Spring meetings in Washington DC,…

The Ministry of Education has directed private university colleges to do “self-auditing” to ensure that the right students are admitted before it cracks the whip on those that are guilty. Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Prof. Kwesi Yankah, who gave the directive, said an ongoing audit report on randomly selected private university colleges in the country revealed a disturbing and an embarrassing state. He said even though the academic auditing was still ongoing, the report had indicated that 20 per cent of students admitted by the private university colleges did not provide information as to whether they…

The police have arrested the man suspected to have pulled the trigger that killed the Chief Inspector Emmanuel Ashilevi, during a dawn raid at the Kwabenya police station. The suspected killer, 28-year-old Kofi Seshie, and his accomplices were arrested by the Accra Regional Police Command at Kasoa in the Central Region in the morning on Saturday, January 27. The accomplices are 23 year old George Sarba, George Asante, 33, Theophilous Banda, 25, and Elvis Owusu 31. This brings to  11, the number of persons arrested after the attack on the police station that aided seven suspects to break jail. Three…

It has emerged that a former Deputy Interior Minister serving under former President Mahama, wrote letters to warn the government against the resettlement of the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees. James Agalga is said to have written at least three letters to strongly oppose the resettlement of Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby in Ghana. Veteran journalist, Kweku Baako made the above disclosure on Joy FM’s news analysis programme Newsfile on Saturday. According to documents he said were available to him, the negotiations to host the two persons considered “low risk” by the US government in Ghana started…

Air Force One is primed to receive an upgrade that will include new refrigerators expected to cost American taxpayers nearly $24 million. The US Air Force awarded Boeing a $23.6 million contract in December to replace two of the five “cold chiller units” aboard the aircraft used by President Donald Trump. “The current rear lower lobe cold chiller units being replaced are the original commercial equipment delivered with the aircraft in 1990. The units were based on the technology at the time and designed for short-term food storage,” Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek told CNN. “Although serviced on a regular basis, reliability…

Videos and photos of Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia have emerged, taking it cool with the wife, Samira on the streets of London.   This may douse the seemingly apprehension and uneasiness among a cross section of Ghanaians after the second gentleman was said to have taken ill last week.   Just a week after being taken to the United Kingdom on the advice of his doctors for a medical leave, the second family have been spotted with the Vice President looking quite well. Read also: My husband will return to work soon – Samira Bawumia Watch photos below …