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It was a night of thunderous approval at the Accra International Conference Centre when Zeinab from the Northern region was declared winner of the 2017 Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB 2017) reality show on TV3. Teary Zeinab couldn’t believe the reality when it dawned on her, even though she stepped into the GMB house praying for this very day. And it happened in style, perhaps, beyond the expectation of 23-year-old Zeinab Abdul Mumin. It has been a tough experience  in this 13-week journey for the beauty queens, but entertaining, educative performances interspersed with pure creativity for their audiences. The expedition began…

Click on the link below to see all the exclusive photos of the #GMB2017 grand finale currently ongoing at the Accra International Conference Centre. The four finalists are currently battling each other for the covetous crown plus all the mouthwatering  goodies that come with the ultimate prize. https://virdgedigital.com/zip_it/photo-gallery/

Zimbabwe’s embattled leader Robert Mugabe has vowed to stay in power for several weeks, despite intensifying pressure on him to stand down. In a live TV address, Mr Mugabe said he would preside over the ruling party’s congress in December. The Zanu-PF earlier sacked him as party leader, and gave him less than 24 hours to resign as president or be impeached. His grip on power has weakened since the military intervened last week in a row over who should succeed him. A crisis was triggered after Mr Mugabe sacked his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, two weeks ago, angering the army…

Ghana premier league side, Medeama Sporting Club, are likely to lose in-form right back, Amos Korankye, to Tanzanian club Simba FC. Though the player has said he does not intend extend his contract with the Tarkwa-based team, he revealed managers of the Club are willing to extend his contract, which is left with eight months to end. Reports say Korankye had been monitored by the Tanzanian side for the past two seasons and have been satisfied with the performances of the player, and likely sign a deal with him for next season. He said officials of Medeama have proposed some…

Caution: The content of this article could be nauseating to the reader! Fighting the stench In Sunyani, I met a toilet attendant who doubles as the cleaner in one of the toilets I visited. For the sake of anonymity, I will call him Papa Asare. Bare handedly, he held a short broom in the right hand tightly like a relay baton. I gawked at him as he picked the half-worn-out baskets that had toilet papers in them one after the other and poured the contents into a bigger basket. The 52 year old man stamps his right leg on the…

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) says it is “utterly shocked” by the sudden death of ace broadcaster, Kwadwo Asare Baffour Acheampong, popularly known as KABA. KABA, who hosts  Asempa FM’s political talk show, Ekosii Sen, died Saturday morning at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after a short illness. “Indeed, the death of KABA is a big blow to the Multimedia Group, the GJA and Ghana as a whole,” the GJA said in a statement on Sunday. “It is in such sense of irredeemable loss that the GJA expresses its deepest condolences to the bereaved family, especially his wife, Valentina Ofori Afriyie…

Zimbabwe’s ruling party has sacked Robert Mugabe as its leader, as pressure intensifies for him to step down as president. Zanu-PF appointed ex-Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was fired by Mr Mugabe two weeks ago, in his place. The party has given Mr Mugabe, 93, until 10:00 GMT on Monday to resign as president, or face impeachment. The military intervened last week, in an apparent attempt to block him from installing his wife as his successor. The first lady, Grace Mugabe, and several other senior officials have been expelled from the party altogether. Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans attended street protests…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says to ensure that products of the country’s schools become useful and valuable citizens of our nation, the virtues of hard work and discipline must be instilled in Ghana’s school-going children. To guarantee this, the President noted that, “it is essential that key players in the education sector, school authorities, teaching staff, and students, are all determined, disciplined and hardworking.” Delivering his address at the 80th Anniversary of the Abuakwa State College, on the theme “Providing Quality Education through Discipline and Hard Work for Academic Excellence”, president Akufo-Addo stated that “it is clear that…

For Baaba, tonight will be a moment to give Central Region a hat-trick in the decade history of Ghana’s Most Beautiful Pageant. But for Serwaa (Eastern), Nana (Western Region) and Zeinab (Eastern Region), it will be the time to break the record of Central Region. The four beautiful, eloquent and brainy young ladies will tonight mount the stage of the Accra International Conference Centre, to battle each other in a bid to win the mouthwatering prize at stake for the 2017 Ghana’s Most Beautiful. For 13 weeks, they gave off their best in telling the stories of their respective regions…

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said the-soon-to-be established Development Authorities under the government’s Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme will be funded through the one-million dollar per constituency funds to drive rural development. He said the Development Authorities, which included Northern Development Authority, Middle Belt Development Authority and Coastal Development Authority, would receive funds equivalent to the number of constituencies that fell under them to implement their programmes. He said the Northern Development Authority would receive the equivalent of 57 million dollars each year for its programmes. Dr Bawumia said this when addressing the 18th congregation of the University for…