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Two ‘racing cars’ have crashed into a commercial mini bus, leaving 11 people injured on the Koforidua-Suhum road in the Eastern Region. The accident occurred at Ayisaa Junction at about 3:15pm Saturday. Eyewitnesses told 3News a 4X4 Audi vehicle and an unregistered vehicle which were ‘racing’ at top speed crashed into the commercial vehicle which was carrying 12 passengers. Registration of the Audi has been given as GG 9931-15. It took distress calls from residents and some police officers who chanced on the accident to call the National Ambulance Service to arrive at the scene to pick up the injured.…

Ghanaian actress, Lydia Forson, has lend credence to the slew of supposed sexual harassment incidence in the movie industry, revealing a movie producer once requested to see her breast when she auditioned for a role. Commenting on the allegations of sexual harassment against top Hollywood film producer, Harvey Weinstein, the Ghanaian actress said such unfortunate occurrences are common in the film industry in Africa. “Earlier in my career, just once, small-time producer… asked to see my breast for a role that I was auditioning for and I said no! And I walked out,” she recalled on BBC Focus on Africa…

Breast cancer is on the rise in the Eastern Region as six to nine cases are suspected in rural communities weekly a senior surgeon at the Koforidua Central Hospital has revealed. Dr. Forster Amponsah indicated that of 7,000 women screened between 2014 and 2017, a total of 120 tested positive of breast cancer, and are receiving treatment. He gave the figures at the third annual breast cancer survivors’ day organised by the Judith Ellen Awuah-Darko (JEAD) Foundation to mark this year’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Ms.Judith Ellen Awuah Darko, is a victim of breast cancer who has dedicated herself to…

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is set to issue ‘on-the- spot fines’ to persons who violate the city’s sanitation by-laws; a move aimed at disciplining people engaged in indiscriminate littering. Residents would have a one-month grace period during which some 150 sanitation crusaders will educate people within the metropolis on sanitation related issues, especially indiscriminate littering. “For the first one month, we are not going to apply sanctions; spot fines. After the one month, anyone who falls foul of the law will be fined, mayor of the KMA, Osei Assibey said on Thursday. At a training workshop for the sanitation…

Member of Parliament for Manhyia North, Collins Owusu Amankwa, says he is considering hauling his colleague, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, before the privileges committee of parliament for publicising a report that claims about 100 Ghanaians have joined the terror group ISIS. Mr Okudzeto who is the minority spokesperson on Foreign Affairs is said to have organised a press conference to publicise a Libyan government report that claimed 50 to 100 Ghanaian migrants have joined ISIS. The report, which ranked Ghana in the second highest category, suggested those Ghanaians are in the frontline fighting for ISIS in Libya. Members of the Minority,…

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma must face charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled. It agreed with a lower court ruling last year that prosecutors could bring back 783 counts of corruption relating to a 1999 arms deal. The charges had been set aside eight years ago, enabling Mr Zuma to become president. The president has always maintained his innocence. In a statement, Mr Zuma’s office said the ruling was “disappointing”, but anticipated. The president now expected South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to consider representations from his legal team before making…

Elders and family members of the late Na Salifu Dawuni say the performance of the final funeral rites of the late Chief is not favour being done them by the Northern Regional Security Council. According to them, whatever that was done was their rights, and must be allowed to perform any subsequent rights. The funeral rites which are the three and seven days Islamic prayers also known as ‘adua’, Quran recitation, and the enskinment of a regent amidst drumming and dancing, according to the family are age-long traditions that accompany funeral rites of royals, which they will not compromise on…

The National Petroleum Authority has shut down 21 Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)  stations across the country for failing to meet various safety standards following inspections on Thursday, October 12. The closure of the LPG stations follows the gas explosion at Atomic Junction near Madina in Accra last week Saturday, which killed seven people and injured 132 others. The clampdown on the stations is in tandem with a directive  by President Akufo-Addo after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday. He among others gave a directive for the “deployment of a task force, within 30 days, to assess the risk that our current…

SpreadLove Home & Abroad as part of its mandate to include Person’s with Disability(PWDs) in achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals has equipped 5 PWDs children to progress in education. They will as well be set up in a project dubbed ‘No One Shall Be Left Out’. The project, which was supported by the Danish International Development Agency was on the theme, ‘Mainstreaming Disability Issues: Engaging Decision Makers and Relevant Stakeholders’, recorded participation from the education ministry, traditional authorities,  fire service, social welfare amongst others at the Cape Coast School for the Deaf & Blind in the Central Region. Three…

The breast is an essential part of a woman’s body. Its use and importance is not limited to only the bearer, the woman, but also to the society at large. A publication by National Centre for Biotechnological Information (NCBI) describes the breast as, “the most important external identification of femininity…” You could thus imagine the importance women attach to a part of their body that is of such great importance to them. Apart from the breast’s physical function to humanity, it also symbolises completeness and patience. Its completeness is seen in the nutritious food it provides its young ones. No…