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Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) Professor Joshua Alabi is asking Former President John Dramani Mahama to pave way for other members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest for the presidential aspirant slot. According to Alabi, who was speaking in a yet-to-be-aired interview on TV3’s New Day, although he is not aware of the former president’s intention to contest, he’d rather Mahama stepped aside and allowed others to represent the party. “I am not aware that former President Mahama has told anybody that he will stand, but I will buy into the idea…

The Union for International Cancer Control, a body spearheading the fight against cancer, has selected Kumasi to be part of the ‘City Cancer Challenge [cican]2025’’ project. This recognition makes Kumasi the first African city and fourth in the world to become part of the project, which aims at increasing access to quality cancer treatment. At a ceremony to officially launch the project in Kumasi in the Ashanti region, the mayor of Kumasi, Osei Assibey Antwi, said the selection was based purely on merit. City Cancer Challenge is a multi-sectorial initiative supporting cities to take centre stage in the design, planning…

The Former Member of Parliament for the Ablekuma North Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Justice Joe Appiah, has called for the resignation of the Inspector General of Police, David Asante Appeatu. According to the former MP, the IGP is at liberty to resign if he feels he is unable to perform duties required of him. “Appeatu is not the only person in the country qualified to be in that office,” he said. “If he cannot do his work, he should resign.” The former MP, who was speaking on Yen Sempa on Onua FM on Tuesday, accused the IGP of…

Former Deputy Health Minister, Joseph Rojo Mettle Nunoo, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey and Prof. Aaron Nii Lante Lawson, a former Provost of the College of Health Sciences, have been accused of registering the newly built 650-bed University of Ghana Medical Centre in their names. According to a Deputy Minister of Health, Kingsley Aboagye-Gyedu, checks from the Registrar General’s Department indicate that the Centre has been registered in the names of nine individuals under the name University of Ghana Medical Centre Company Limited. Other directors of the Medical Centre were named as: Ebenezer Owusu,…

Group CEO of  leading media conglomerate in Ghana, Media General, Pearl Esua-Mensah has been named the new Chairperson for the board of directors of the Ashesi University. Pearl Esua-Mensah takes over from Charles Cofie who served as Chairman of the board from 2015 to 2017. The new Chairperson joined the University Board in 2014, and prior to being named Chairperson, served as head of the Board’s Finance Committee. She has over 20 years of management experience in Banking and Finance, and also has experience in consulting for businesses across multiple sectors globally. The Media General Group, which Pearl currently chairs…

The CEO of Speech Production, Enoch Agyapong is urging persons in the creative arts industry to write proposals and access the Zylofon Arts Fund, but said when they have the money they should just spend it. Zylofon Media Company Limited last Friday announced a $1 million Zylofon Arts Fund to enable those in the creative arts industry to get loans for projects they badly needed funds to execute. Many have applauded Zylofon Media for taking such a bold step to set up the $1 million fund, hoping the fund will revive the deteriorating industry in Ghana. But Speech Production boss…

‘Grind day’ crooner Kwesi Arthur who has been largely accepted by majority of Ghanaians has said he never expected the song to make such a bug hit across the country. The young rapper who was speaking to Nana Kwadwo Addo on 3FM’s Showbiz927 disclosed how he never dreamt “Grind Day” was going to be a hit song in Ghana. According to him, the “Ground Up” team didn’t put much effort into the song before it was released. The hype for “Grind Day” song he said was very low and as a result, they were not certain about the…

Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Georgina Opoku–Amankwaah says she is yet to be cleared by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) on the EC missing fund. Speaking with Bright Kwesi Asempa on Onua Fm morning show on Tuesday, Madam Georgina Opoku–Amankwaah said she has been in Kumasi over the weekend and the news about her clearance by EOCO came through the media, adding that “as we speak, I’m on my way from a function I attended in Kumasi and nobody has informed me of anything like that”. Three top officials of the Ghana’s electoral body, Madam Georgina Opoku-Amankwaah,…

Former president John Jerry Rawlings has expressed his condolence to the family of renowned statesman K.B Asante who died Monday morning. The former president who took to twitter to wish the former statesman a peaceful rest described him as a genuine Nkrumaist. “Ghana has lost a true statesman. K. B. Asante was a gentleman, historian, public-spirited person, a patriot and a genuine Nkrumaist. My sincere condolences to his family.  Rest in peace Mr K. B. Asante.” Ghanaians woke up to news about the death of the former statesman on Monday November 22, 2017. K.B. Asante was the Secretary to Ghana’s First…

World Cup visitors arriving at Moscow railway stations will not have to look far for the perfect spot to take a selfie, as platforms and ticket halls will soon have special labels marking out the ideal camera angle. Green stickers of a camera image adorned with a smiley and the words “photography allowed” will be rolled out across nine mainline railway stations, in time for this summer’s football World Cup in the Russian capital, Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reports. There will be an average of 20 stickers per station, and at nine centimetres (four inches) in diameter they will be easily…