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Kejetia Petty Traders Association at the Racecourse market have threatened to go back to the roadside if the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly fails to implement a relocation plan that was agreed on. They also accused the assembly of causing financial loss to the state claiming its decongestion exercise was a failure. The aggrieved traders say the Kumasi mayor, Osei Assibey Antwi has failed to enforce an agreement to relocate the transport operators together with the traders to the Racecourse. Chairman of the Petty Traders Association, Mr Akwasi Prempeh told the media on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 that the KMA, traders and…

Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James further cemented his status as an all-time great late in the first quarter of Tuesday’s game against the San Antonio Spurs at AT&T Center. With under three seconds remaining in the period, James pulled up from a few steps inside the three-point arc and drained a jumper to eclipse 30,000 career points. The three-time champion became the seventh player to join the 30,000-point club and the youngest ever to reach that milestone. Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant did so at 34 years, 104 days. James bettered that mark by a year and 80 days. Teammate and longtime friend Dwyane Wade was the first person to…

The year 2017 was an interesting year for most companies with regards to corporate communication. New trends emerged as communication professionals worked around the clock to prudently manage their firm’s reputation and ensure that their stakeholders connect emotionally to their brands. However, for other brands, 2017 wasn’t all joyous because of some occurrences – errors, manmade disasters, et cetera – threatened their brand equity. An example is when fire engulfed Coconut Grove Regency Hotel in Accra last year or when rainstorm ripped apart the roof of Elmina Sharks Football Club’s stadium. Both brands are owned by Group Nduom (GN) and…

Coming from an African background roots myself, topics regarding gynaecological issues are rarely discussed. Therefore many women and young girls suffer in silence or lack the opportunity to seek adequate medical assistance. This is what drove #speciallady to create awareness on these unspoken topics in order to reach out to women and young girls suffering from endometriosis, uterine fibroids, duplex uterus, infertility and other gynaecological issues. Fertility seems to be a taboo topic among the African society; a lot of our women go through emotional, mental and physical abuses for being infertile. We tend to ignore the issues on infertility,…

Snap Inc. as announced that Snapchat users will soon be able to share their posts on other social media. What is undoubtedly a move to keep user interest and prevent more users from jumping ship to Instagram, Snapchat will give users the ability to share their story posts to Twitter and Facebook if users have their accounts linked. The posts should then be viewable directly on these platforms. Alternatively, users will also be able to send a link over email or text to someone who is no on either of these platforms, and they will be able to open the…

David Accam believes the two years spent in the USA’s Major League Soccer will be an added advantage getting ready for a career at the Philadelphia Union. The Ghana international moved from Chicago Fire to the Union on Monday for a fee of 1.2 million and was introduced to the fans and media shortly after. In his first interview since signing for Philadelphia, Accam maintained his experience in the last two years in North America will help him acclimatize quickly to his new surroundings, stating his hope of chalking similar feats at Union. “I think I have experienced both in…

WhatsApp now lets you organise your notifications by importance, and block the ones you don’t want to see. It lets you decide which types of alert you receive from the app are urgent – such as those for group chat messages – and which types you don’t actually want or need to see – such as those that pop up when you’re trying to send a large media file. The messenger app has just been updated to support Notification Channels, a relatively new Android feature that rolled out with Oreo last year. WhatsApp offers 10 Notification Channel categories, which you can control…

Patrons of commercial vehicle “tro-tro,” would pay their transportation fare via digital means after the passage of Payment System and Service Bill by Parliament. Dr Maxwell Opoku Afari, Deputy Governor of Bank of Ghana who disclosed this explained that, “If you are going to board a tro-tro all you need to do is just ask for the mobile money number of the driver, then you transfer the payment. “This innovation will curtail the occasional scuffle between passengers and conductors over few Cedis change”. Speaking on a topic: Innovative Financial Service for Business and SME’s Development, at a symposium held at…

  A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the Save the Children compound Photo: REUTERS Attackers have detonated explosives before storming the offices of the Save the Children charity in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. At least two people have been killed and 12 injured, officials say. It is believed about 50 staff were in the building at the time. At least three gunmen are involved in the attack, reports say, with fighting continuing on the upper floor. No group has yet said it was behind the attack. What’s the latest? The attack started at…

The confluence of the struggle between the University of Ghana and the sudden departure of Vice-President Dr Alhaji Bawumia to seek care abroad has focused the nation’s reluctant attention on our healthcare system. The struggle between Legon and the Government, acting through the Ministry of Health would be comic if healthcare was not such a life and death issue. The government sent national security operatives to seize a hospital from University dons?  What were they expecting? University authorities armed with “te aboofre” guns resisting the takeover? Was the 617-bed facility not built by the government? Who owns the University of…