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The Confederation of African Football (Caf) will decide the new hosts of the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) on Saturday. Morocco, Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia all bid to replace Kenya who had their right to host withdrawn by Caf due lack of preparations. The international tournament for locally-based players only is due to kick off in January. The choice will be made at an emergency Caf executive committee meeting. Caf had originally said a decision may have come as early as the weekend of 07-08 October. During a meeting of the Africa Cup of Nations organizing committee on Wednesday meanwhile,…

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paul Ryan has praised the decision by a U.S court to allow a prayer to be said before opening each legislative day. The U.S. District Court, in Baker v. Conroy, rejected a challenge to Congress’ ability to open with a prayer and ruling in favor of the House chaplain, Father Pat Conroy. In a statement issued on Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan appeared elated that an atheist challenge was dismissed by the court. “Since the first session of the Continental Congress, our nation’s legislature has opened with a prayer to God. Today,…

Spain’s government has given Catalonia’s separatist leader five days to say whether or not he has declared independence, government sources say. If Carles Puigdemont confirms he has, the sources say, he will be given a further three days to withdraw the declaration. Failing that, they add, Madrid will invoke Article 155 of the constitution. This allows central government to suspend a region’s autonomy and impose direct rule. Earlier on Wednesday, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his government had asked the regional government to clarify whether or not it had declared independence. Catalan leaders signed a declaration of independence on Tuesday…

Staff of Bolgatanga Nurses Training College embarked on sit down strike whilst students of the college staged demonstration over bad conditions in the school. Among issues raised by them are lack of accommodation for students, lack of proper sanitation, breach of procurement law, and misappropriation of college funds. Bolgatanga nurses training college for the past 65 years have not seen any facelift as the growing population put pressure on the old facilities. The students and staff embarked on their actions as a way of expressing their displeasure over the bad conditions confronting the school. They took TV3 news crew round the…

Mr. Anthony Kwaku Amoah, the Deputy Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Ghana Education Service (GES), has urged parents to strengthen their support for child education in the country. Speaking during the donation of a carton of 50 boxes of chalk to the Metsrikasa D/A Basic School in Akatsi North District, where pupils, teachers and the executives of the school’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) were present, Mr. Anthony Amoah said the time had come for parents to intensify their support for quality education service delivery to pupils. “…let us respect the view that it is only when the school does well that…

International Day of the Girl Child (Day of the Girl) is celebrated annually on October 11 to highlight issues concerning the gender inequality faced by young girls. This year’s theme is “The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030.” According to the United Nations statistics on adolescents, there are nearly 600 million girls aged 10 to 19 in the world today. Each of these girls has limitless individual potential to contributing to national development; however, most of these girls are not able to sharpen or make their voices heard in the development because they all of a sudden disappeared.…

Refugees at the Ampain Camp in the Western region are lamenting that the poor condition of shelters is causing them several illnesses and contraction of diseases. Many also say they lack funds to renew their NHIS cards, preventing them from accessing healthcare. TV3 news team visited Emmanuel Debla’s shelter; he is an Ivorian refugee who currently works with the Ampain Camp security team. His one bedroom shelter numbered AA761, in which he has been living for over 7 years, also accommodates his wife and four children. Debla’s shelter is in a poor state, the team was met with a wave…

Former Member of Parliament for Dade Kotopon, Nii Amasah Namoale said the President does not need cabinet to implement “simple” regulation in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) books.   His comments follows decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to meet his cabinet on Thursday over the deadly gas explosion last week Saturday but before the President will meet his cabinet. “We don’t need more policies or programmes to deal with these issues, what we need is the President directing his appointees at the supervising agencies and ministries to act, and not to be holding cabinet meetings, for what?” Namoale…

Introduction Ghana reached a major milestone on October 4, 2017 after using US$200 million of its oil and gas resources from a Sinking Fund account as well as proceeds from previous Bond issues to “buyback” or redeem the last instalment of the 10-year Sovereign Bond issued in 2007. The decision to progressively retire the US$750 million bond before maturity—with a package of “buyback” and refinancing strategies—was taken in 2013, as part of the Home Grown policy. This Bond was also the first to be issued on a foreign capital market by a Sub-Saharan African nation, besides South Africa. Cabinet and…

In what is perhaps the fiercest and the most exhaustive attack against Donald Trump in hip-hop, Eminem “came to stomp” Tuesday night, calling the President everything from “Donald the b—-” to a “racist grandpa” in an explosive 4.5-minute freestyle rap. The Detroit rapper challenged his fans at the ET Hip Hop Awards to “decide who you like more” — Eminem or Trump. He has slammed the President previously in the nine-minute 2016 freestyle “Campaign Speech” and in Big Sean’s “No Favors.” “And any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his, I’m drawing in the sand a line, you’re either…