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Students of University of Cape Coast (UCC) will on Saturday embark on a peaceful march to bring to the fore, what they termed consistent attacks on them by residents in communities around the campus. According to the Students’ Representative Council of UCC, the students are not safe as they on daily basis experience attacks and armed robbery. “The normal thievery has graduated to robbery and attack. Almost every day [the SRC] receives reports of attack on students,” a statement signed and issued by the SRC President, Tony Henry Arthur said. It claimed a final year optometry student of the University…

An Accra circuit court has issued a bench warrant for the immediate arrest of 27-year-old Francis Boakye impersonated an army officer to defraud people. Boakye reportedly duped his victims to the tune of GHC28, 000 under the pretence of recruiting them into the Ghana Army. The Police say Boakye hails from the Ashanti Region and stands at five feet, 9 inches tall. He is slightly built, dark in complexion and has a tribal mark on the right cheek. The Police is urging anyone with information on his whereabouts to the Cantonment district Police or the nearest police station. By 3news.com

Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has warned against the level of ‘casualness’ among some judges in the country, and ordered all judges to henceforth wear wigs during court sittings. Judges and lawyers who appear in courtrooms but are not properly dressed in the accepted dress code are termed ‘naked’, figuratively to denote bare. “The Chief Justice has directed that with effect from 1st November 2017, all judges are to wear wigs during court sittings,” a memo to all judges from the Judicial Secretary, Justice Alexe Poku-Acheampong, stated. Colonial relic argument Some critics have in recent times questioned the wearing of wigs…

Ghana’s president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned last Tuesday’s terrorist attack in New York that left eight people dead and 12 injured. “I was deeply shocked by the terror attacks in the lower Manhattan area of New York City… We stand in solidarity with the city of New York in condemning the activities of terrorists,” he tweeted Thursday afternoon. A 29-year-old man Sayfullo Saipov from Uzbek allegedly used a truck  to plow down pedestrians and cyclists on a New York bike path on October 31, killing eight people, the US media reported. According to the BBC, the victims were…

About 30 journalists from 25 West and Central African countries have undergone capacity training on a new HIV Catch-Up Plan for the region where 4.7 million people living with HIV are not receiving treatment.   Dubbed “Informing the Messengers”, the regional workshop organized by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), saw the selected journalists enlightened on the new emergency plan that seeks to  accelerate the HIV response in Central and West Africa. According to UNAIDS while global response to HIV is accelerating, millions of people in Western and Central Africa are being left behind, hence the need  for…

No one wants to be treated unfairly, Why won’t we believe there is a parochial interest , why won’t we believe a strong cartel is hiding behind this wanting to jump on our allowances, When are we going to put an end to all this unjust  practices and antiquated means of policy formulation  And implementation, are we in the stone age or age of enlightenment. We were dumbfounded by a news item published by ww.3news.com whiles going about our national duties concerning a mandatory NSS life insurance policy launched by the Deputy NSS director Henry Nana Boakye stating that everything…

There are strong indications that Ghanaian IT infrastructure company, Sibton Communications has new owners. A Middle East-based newspaper, The Gulf Today reports that new owners are likely to be Dubai-based PASS Holdco Limited, attributing it source to the Board of the new Investors. “The board of PASS Holdco Limited announced the acquisition of Sibton Communications (Sibton), a company registered in Ghana and active in IT infrastructure development and the implementation of mobile and electronic payment clearing and settlement systems”, the newspaper reported in its 2nd November, 2017 edition under the heading “UAE-based PASS Holdco acquires Sibton Communications”. Sibton Communications has…

As the global community turns attention and focus towards a green growth pathway, the African Forest Forum (AFF) is exploring avenues to improve forest management in a manner that better addresses poverty eradication and environmental protection in Africa. The AFF, a pan-African non-governmental organization, is implementing a project titled: “Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management in Africa” to generate and share knowledge and information through partnerships in ways that will provide inputs into policy options and capacity building efforts. One of the key project objectives is to enhance capacity of institutions and individuals – including farmers and farmer organizations, and other private…

US singer Beyonce is to take a lead role in the remake of Disney’s The Lion King. She will voice the role of lioness Nala, next to lead character Simba, played by Donald Glover. Beyonce used Facebook to confirm her long-rumoured involvement in the project. Her other co-stars include Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar and Seth Rogan as Pumba the warthog. James Earl Jones will play Mufasa, as he did in the 1994 original. British comedian John Oliver has also been cast as Zazu, the hornbill voiced by Rowan Atkinson in the first film. The film is being conceived along the…

On Sunday evening, October 30, 2017, as of 7:36pm, I was roaming with a friend, Maxwell-Obiri Yeboah, and a room agent somewhere in the Greater Accra region in search of a room to rent. When I called this agent, I told him what exactly I was looking for. I needed a single room self-contained at a neat, flood-free environment. Cunning as he was, he took us to a place exactly opposite my expectations. “This is the landlord and this is the room,” he said. All along, I thought he was only fetching something from the house he took us to……