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A woman has said she was 16 when former US President George HW Bush groped her buttocks as she posed for a photo with him and her mother. Rosyln Corrigan is the sixth woman to accuse Mr Bush of inappropriately touching her in similar circumstances. She told Time Magazine she met Mr Bush at a 2003 meeting of CIA officers in Texas, where her father worked. “My initial reaction was absolute horror,” she said about the incident. “I was really, really confused.” “I was a child,” Ms Corrigan added. A Bush spokesman has previously acknowledged he has touched several women…

Ministers of state and their deputies will from 2018 start using saloon vehicles [Camrys and Corollas] instead of Toyota Landcruiser V8s as part of a cost-cutting measure to be introduced by the Akufo-Addo administration, Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has said. In a Facebook post, he said: “I hear so much talk about V8 this month and I am a little confused. What I do know is that the Minister of Finance has stubbornly refused to buy the usual Toyota Land Cruiser V8 or what-have-you for ministers since the change in Government,” Mr Otchere-Darko posted on Facebook on Monday. “Even the…

An initiative by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly to keep the city clean and green has received a boost with a donation of GHC66,950 to the Assembly. The donation by the National Investment Bank followed a request made by the KMA to the bank to support the initiative dubbed “Keep the City Clean and Green”. Head of Corporate Affairs of the bank, Mr Charles Wordey, who presented the cheque, said the donation is in line with the core objective of the bank in protecting the environment and the community they operate. “That is what motivated us to be here to support…

They attend school everyday hoping for a conducive environment for studies, but that is a mirage for the pupils of kulkpong Primary School in the Upper West Region. For these pupils, sitting on a desk to have their lessons is a luxury they cannot afford, hence they uncomfortably sit, lie or squat on the floor for hours to listen to their teachers and do classwork daily. Watch the full report of the dilemma of the pupils reported by TV3’s Bright Nana Amfoh on Mission; a development-oriented news programme on TV3 sponsored by Star Ghana with support from DANIDA, UK Aid…

The Teachers and Education Workers’ Union (TEWU) says it would be compelled to boycott the 2018 World Teachers Day celebration in Ghana if the Ghana Education Service (GES) continue to sideline them in the teachers’ award scheme. According to TEWU, which comprise of non-teaching staff within the GES, since the celebrations began in 1995, none of its members has been placed in the top three categories of the awards It claimed that its members are generally given low positions or sometimes are not recognized at all in the award scheme. The group emphasised that the teaching and learning in schools…

A warrant has been issued by an Accra Magistrate Court for the arrest of a 30-year-old man who allegedly murdered his girlfriend at Mamprobi in Accra. The man, whose name has only been given as Derrick, was said to have murdered Lydia Damoah at her residence at Maprobi Akoshie Junction on September 18, 2017. “He was last seen in a black trousers and sea blue long sleeve shirt, departing from the room of the deceased on the day of the incident. All efforts to locate him has proved futile,” a statement issued by the Police Monday said.The Police say Derrick…

Ahead of the presentation of the 2018 budget statement to Parliament Wednesday, the Minority on Monday held a meeting to review the performance of the economy on the basis of the 2017 budget and proceeded to indicate its expectations and predictions for the 2018 budget. Click here for the full statement by the minority By 3news.com|Ghana

As he waits for his country’s Supreme Court to hear and determine new petitions challenging the recent fresh presidential election in Kenya, Media General’s Joseph Warungu has been rather fascinated by the informality of some of the legal services offered in Ghana.  Accompanied by 3news.com photographer Ayerkie Narnor, Warungu recently went in search of legal help from an alleyway that is just a stone-throw away from Ghana’s Supreme Court. On a visit to Ghana’s capital, Accra, I was in urgent need of a lawyer’s services and was directed to the High Court premises. I looked everywhere but could not find any…

Though Ghanaian artistes Kuami Eugene and Kidi, as well as their Nigerian counterpart Mr Eazy, have been making waves with their hit songs,  Takoradi-based artiste, Singlet, says they will need collaboration with him to ‘gain stronger root’ in the music industry. Speaking on Connect FM’s entertainment show Oil City Mix, Singlet said Kuame Eugene, Kidi and Mr. Eazy are young musicians and willing to do a music collaboration with them to promote their respective brands. He told host of the show, DJ Oxygen, that as young as the artistes may be, collaborating with them on a song will not be…

Two suspects are in the grips of the Northern Regional Police Command for the murder of the Head Pastor of the End Times Believers Fellowship in Tamale, Pastor Ebenezer Ocran. Kwame Dogyi, 28, and Obio Akwasi, 21, are both third year Electrical Engineering students at the Tamale Technical University in the Northern Region. The two, according to the Northern Regional Police Commander DCOP Mr Patrick Sarpong, have confessed to committing the crime. On November 10, 2017, at about 3pm,  the Northern Police Command had information that a Toyota Highlander vehicle had been sent to the Tamale Industrial Area for re-spraying…