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Leading digital money transfer service, WorldRemit and the Miss Ghana UK Foundation have announced the winner of the #MyFutureGH contest. They will invest the GH¢20,000 prize fund in Miss Edna Azumah Aninga’s proposal to use art to curb societal problems. Edna, from Bolgatanga in northern Ghana, was announced as the winner at the Silver Jubilee Miss Ghana UK awards night in London on Saturday night. Edna’s entry was selected from more than 120 entries, where women across Ghana (between the ages of 16 and 26) explained how they would use the money to fulfil their ambitions and inspire others in…

For two weeks running, eight elegant ladies escaped eviction in this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful reality show. Could it be a birthday gift from TV3, Ghana’s leading free-to-air television station as it turns 20 on October 1, 2017? After enthralling performances from the brilliant ladies, viewers were left on tenterhooks, uncomfortably dreading who and who would be axed from Ghana’s most watched reality show – GMB Season 11. It was an engaging night of  folktales dished out by the eight distinguished ladies, to expectant audiences in TV3’s Studio B and thousands across the globe at the end of Week 7. With costumes…

Miss Hiba, known in showbiz as Queen Hiba, the 1st Runner-up and the Northern Region’s representative of  TV3 Ghana Most Beautiful (GMB) 2016 launched her smock project, Smile with Hiba Foundation, at the forecourt of the Northern Regional Library in Tamale. The launch was graced by the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed; Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts who is also the Member of Parliament for Gushegu, Ziblim Baare; former DCE of Central Gonja District Assembly, Mumuni Shiraz Ibn Yacin; 1st Vice Chairperson of the Tamale branch of the Gonjaland Youth Association, Madam Mrs Felicia Akraja, and members of…

The Upper East Region started receiving free to air TV3 signal in 2012 after waiting anxiously over a decade when the station became fully operational in 1997. The TV3 signal covers almost the entire region  reaching areas like Bawku central, Garu-Tempane, Kassena Nankana east, Kassena Nankana west,  Bongo district and parts of neighboring Burkina Faso and Togo. The signal even transcends to parts of the Northern region like Walewale, Nankpanduri, Gambaga, Yagba-Kobore and Nalerigu. TV3’s regional correspondent, Tanko Mohammed Rabiu reports of how people in the Upper East Region can now be proud of a unique, educative, entertaining and an informative…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will from Monday, 2nd October, 2017, to Sunday, 8th October, 2017, embark on a 7-day tour of the three Northern Regions, as part of his tour of the country. President Akufo-Addo will begin his tour with a 2-day visit to the Upper West Region, where, he will on Monday, inspect and commission the Wa Water Supply Project. He will later, in the day, meet with the Upper West Regional House of Chiefs, in Wa. The President will round off his tour of the Upper West Region with visits to Lawra, Nandom, Sissala and Tumu,…

Management, some board members and workers of Ghana’s television giant, TV3 Network Limited, thronged the International Central Gospel Church (Christ Temple) in Accra Sunday, to thank God for sustaining the station for 20 years. The service, which kick-starts a month-long anniversary by the free-to-air television station, was also to afford TV3 the opportunity to seek God’s favour as it begins a new phase of operation that would see it become a force on the African continent and beyond. The 20th anniversary is on the theme “Reshaping News and Creating Stars in Ghana”. General Overseer of the ICGC, Pastor Mensa Otabil,…

Ghanaian reggae/dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy, on Saturday escaped an attack on his life at Ashaiman, but his wife has been injured. The BET 2015 best international act (Africa) had a knife slit through a tent in which he was dressing up for his ‘Ashaiman To The World Concert 2017’ (ATTWC17). The unidentified person(s) missed the musician but the knife cut the backside of his recently wedded wife, Dr. Louisa Asong Satekla, who is  reportedly pregnant. The artiste posted a picture of the cut tent on his Facebook page Sunday morning with a caption, “knife cuts through my tent, missed me as…

The National Peace Council has urged ECOWAS to intervene in the ongoing Togo crisis to prevent it from degenerating. Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, the Chairman of the National Peace Council, said there is the need for ECOWAS to set up a high powered committee, which would bring the two factions together for dialogue on the way forward. This year, Togo has been witnessing a series of protests by the opposition, with a call for the country to return to the use of the 1992 constitution which imposes limits on presidential terms. In view of the ongoing political crisis in Togo,…

The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) is to convene an emergency council meeting Monday over sanctions meted out to 131 radio stations by the National Communications Authority (NCA). A statement issued by GIBA’s president, Andrew Danso-Aninkora said the association would hold the meeting in Accra “to discuss a common ground and the way forward with the matter”. About 34 radio stations had their operational authorization revoked for failing to renew their expired authorization for several years and operated illegally. Others were also sanctioned by the NCA for various infractions in their operational authorization permits. The Executive Council of GIBA, the…

The former American football star and actor OJ Simpson has been released on parole after nine years in a Nevada jail. He had been serving time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and 10 other charges over a 2007 confrontation at a Las Vegas hotel. Simpson was approved for early parole release at a board hearing in July. In 1995 he was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goodman. In a Facebook post, Nevada Department of Corrections released an image and video of Simpson signing documents and leaving Lovelock Correctional Center early on…