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Finalists for Avance Media’s 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians ranking 2017, honouring distinguished young Ghanaians, have been announced. The 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians ranking recognises distinctive service across 10 different categories: Business, Entertainment, Law and Governance, Leadership and Civil Society, Lifestyle, Media, Personal Development and Academia, Science and Technology, Sports and Social Enterprise and Philantrophy. Winners will be announced on 8th January, 2018. The Avance Media’s Most Influential Young Ghanaian rankings is one of the respected system that honours youth excellence in Ghana. The 2017 Ghana ranking is the third in the series. Previous editions have ranked investigative journalist, Anas…

A former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central, Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, has asked government to begin mobilising for funds for the Electoral Commission to begin putting in place the necessary modalities to allow Ghanaians abroad to vote in the 2020 general elections. Eleven years after the passage of the Representation of the People Amendment Act, also known ROPAA [Act 699], the EC has failed to ensure its implementation, causing some five Ghanaians to seek a court order Monday that compelled the EC to begin implementation. The court has given the Commission 12 months to put in place modalities to register…

Parliament on Monday suspended the approval of the 2018 budget estimates for the services of the Office of the Senior Minister, after an application by the Minority Leader that the office had to be backed by legislation. During the consideration of a report to approve the estimate, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, who is also the MP for Tamale South, argued that the position of the Senior Minister should have been backed with an Executive Instrument. He was of the view that the absence of the Instrument made the Office of the Senior Minister not valid and therefore would not…

Some ladies suspected to be prostitutes, were Saturday night chased out of their rooms by some angry residents of Kpaguri, a suburb of Wa in the Upper West Region, in a daring attempt to stop illicit sex trade in their neighbourhood. The five alleged prostitutes, who attempted to escape mob justice, were captured by the residents and beaten to a pulp. Their rooms were then ransacked and their personal belongings set ablaze in front of their home, eyewitnesses said. Four of the five alleged prostitutes were on admission at the Upper West Regional Hospital receiving medical attention as at Monday…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s open advocacy against the concentration of power in himself, at the just- ended New Patriotic Party (NPP) extraordinary national delegates’ conference, has drawn applause from the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive. Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La, the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive pointed out that Akufo-Addo’s open campaign against making the President leader of the NPP showed how modest he was and that would become exemplary for subsequent leaders. “Power is sweet and enjoyable and if His Excellency was interested in annexing all powers, he would have backed the proposal to make every sitting NPP President, starting with…

Athletics anti-doping officials have launched an investigation into what IAAF president Lord Coe called “serious allegations” about world champion sprinter Justin Gatlin’s coach and an agent. The Daily Telegraph said an agent linked to Gatlin, Robert Wagner, offered to “illicitly supply performance-enhancing drugs” to undercover reporters. And it said Gatlin’s coach, former Olympic gold medallist Dennis Mitchell, told reporters that athletes are able to get away with doping because the drugs they use cannot be detected by tests. Both deny the allegations. The paper said the journalists had posed as representatives of a film company wanting to make a sports…

A Kenyan court has awarded a schoolgirl four million Kenyan shillings ($40,000; £30,000) after she was strip-searched by police looking for drugs in 2015. Half-naked pictures of the young woman, allegedly taken by police during the incident, were then circulated on social media. The court said the rights of the 18-year-old secondary school student had been violated. The lawsuit was filed jointly by the victim and child rights group Cradle. They said that the semi-nude photos humiliated her and sought compensation of $70,000. Local media say that the young woman was one of 45 students arrested by police reportedly for…

Some past winners of the Miss Ghana pageant have accused CEO of Exclusive Events Inna Patty of exploiting beauty queens for personal gains. In an interview with GhanaCelebrities.com, the past queens said Inna ‘used’ them to raise money to run her outfit without providing her part of the bargain, of presenting them with prizes won. The 2010 winner of Miss Ghana, Stephanie Karikari, said monies she raised for her project was not used for the intended purpose. “We are supposed to raise money for our projects, but she does not use the money for the project. The project is just…

A total number of 31 ‘illegal miners’ who were dredging the Offin River, near Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region have been arrested by a taskforce constituted by the Small Scale Miners Association. The suspects, including Chinese nationals, have been sent to the Central Regional Police Command in Cape Coast. The action by the taskforce is to complement the effort of the Operation Vanguard set up by government to clamp down on galamsey. The commander of the taskforce, Brisie Andoh said their effort is aimed at ensuring that water bodies and lands are not destroyed by self-seeking individuals who do not…

Prophet Nicholas Osei, popularly known as Prophet Kumchacha, founder and leader of the Heaven’s Gate Ministries, has threatened to cause the manager of Castro to go mad. Castro’s manager’s crime was that he defended the controversial “One Corner song” by Patapaa in a way that incensed the man of God. DJ Amess had reacted to claims by Kumchacha that he bought CDs of Patapaa’s One Corner, did some spiritual work on them, prayed over them, anointed them with oil before burying them. DJ Amess who is a regular panel on the Anigye Mmre, an entertainment talk show on Accra-based Onua 95.1FM,…