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A three-time African Player of the Year, Abedi Ayew Pele, is one of five Ghanaians named on various CAF Standing Committees to help with the running of football on the continent. Abedi will serve on various youth competitions including the U-17, U-20 and the U-23. Abedi will serve on the committee with a former Ghana Football Association Vice President, Fred Crentsil. Current GFA Vice President George Afriyie is on the Africa Cup of Nations Organising  Committee while Liberty Professionals’ owner Felix Ansong has been named on the Development Committee for Futsal and Beach Soccer. Dr Prince Pamboe, who has worked…

The office of the Northern Regional Coordinator for the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Felicia Tetteh, has been opened after it was locked up for over a week. The office was locked up on October 16, 2017 by irate youth calling themselves Burma Camp youth group,  an emerging pro-NPP youth group in Tamale. The youth before locking up the office,  held a press conference where they called on President Akufo-Addo to “immediately investigate” the conducts of Mrs Felicia Tetteh whom they alleged has selected some non-party members to the position of Municipal and District Coordinators of the programme without recourse to…

A quack doctor working at the Covenant Clinic at Madina in the Greater Accra region has been arrested for the second time by the police for practising as medical doctor without license. His medical facility was closed down by the council after his arrest in May 2016. Though he is facing prosecution, Adams has not been showing up in court as was required, and decided to reopen and operate from his clinic at the blindside of the council and the police. To make case for not going to court regularly, the quack doctor “submitted an excuse duty that he was…

The ringleader of an NPP youth group in Karaga, Alhassan Fuseini has threatened to kill the embattled DCE for Karaga District in the Northern region, Alhassan Yabdow if they set eyes on him. The rampaging youth aligned to the governing party chased out the District Chief Executive and the Youth Employment Agency Coordinator from their offices on Wednesday morning. Alhassan Fuseini has confirmed to Onua News that the keys to the DCE’s offices are in his possession. He vowed to kill the DCE like it was done to the Nkwanta South DCE, Peter Kwadwo Keyenso in the Volta region. The…

The Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has urged MPs to stop abusing privileges they have in acquiring visa in order to maintain their dignity at the various embassies. He was supporting a statement made on the floor of Parliament by the Ranking Member of Foreign Affairs Committee Okudzeto Ablakwa. Okudzeto Ablakwa had vigorously demanded respect and fair treatment from foreign embassies in Ghana. He also criticised the de-humanizing treatment that are sometimes meted out to Ghanaian visa applicants. The MP observed that it is “sad” that most of these embassies have made no provisions…

Former President of Private Universities Students’ Association of Ghana (PUSAG), Benjamin Panlogo-Logodam is calling for a national stakeholder dialogue to fashion out an educational policy that will be binding on successive government. He argued such a policy would ensure smooth running of the educational sector in the country, and bring an end to the current system of regular shift in policy whenever there is a change in government. He said such a national dialogue must bring together all major educational stakeholders and civil society groups, and must be devoid of partisan politics in order to bring out with a blueprint…

Move by government to establish a Trust Fund to cater for the wife and children of the late Major Maxwell Adam Mhama has been criticized and described as “insensitive” by the Chief Executive Officer of Consumer Protection Agency, Kofi Kapito. Parliament on Tuesday witnessed the first reading of the Major Mahama Trust Fund Bill, 2017 in honour of the soldier who was gruesomely lynched by mob at Denkyira Obuasi in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region in May. The Bill was presented to Parliament by Minister of Defence, Mr Dominic Nitiwul. But Kofi Kapito said the Bill…

Scores of students, traders and shop owners in and around a sinking commercial building near the Asafo Market in Kumasi have been evacuated Wednesday morning. Eyewitnesses say the building owned by one Daniel Fiifi and constructed five years ago started sinking Tuesday night and immediately prompted officials of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO). When 3News got to the scene Wednesday morning, the three-storey building had tilted to the back towards one side. Parts of the wall had also developed serious cracks, our correspondent Benjamin Aidoo reported. Officials of NADMO and the Police who were also at the scene moved…

Half of British women and a fifth of men have been sexually harassed at work or a place of study, a BBC survey says. Of the women who said they had been harassed, 63% said they didn’t report it to anyone, and 79% of the male victims kept it to themselves. The ComRes poll for BBC Radio 5 live spoke to more than 2,000 people. The survey was commissioned after sexual assault claims against Harvey Weinstein resulted in widespread sharing of sexual harassment stories. Women and men who have been sexually harassed have been revealing their experiences on social media…

Half of British women and a fifth of men have been sexually harassed at work or a place of study, a BBC survey says. Of the women who said they had been harassed, 63% said they didn’t report it to anyone, and 79% of the male victims kept it to themselves. The ComRes poll for BBC Radio 5 live spoke to more than 2,000 people. The survey was commissioned after sexual assault claims against Harvey Weinstein resulted in widespread sharing of sexual harassment stories. Women and men who have been sexually harassed have been revealing their experiences on social media…