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A shocking story of a Ghanaian reverend minister, who is heir to a traditional stool in the Brong Ahafo Region, is likely to cause a sensation on social media and trigger a debate between Christianity and tradition. Rev. Kwabena Adom Fosu who is to ascend to the Mansini Stool in the Bechem traditional area, has fled his home to escape the performance of a mandatory “customary rites” to seal and legitimise his enthronement. The reverend, according to the family members, “claims that they [the customary rites] do not conform to his Christian beliefs and practices,” for which reason he has refused…

A shocking story of a Ghanaian reverend minister, who is heir to a traditional stool in the Brong Ahafo Region, is likely to cause a sensation on social media and trigger a debate between Christianity and tradition. Rev. Kwabena Adom Fosu who is to ascend to the Mansini Stool in the Bechem traditional area, has fled his home to escape the performance of a mandatory “customary rites” to seal and legitimise his enthronement. The reverend, according to the family members, “claims that they [the customary rites] do not conform to his Christian beliefs and practices,” for which reason he has refused…

Mr. Anthony Kwaku Amoah, a Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has told teachers not to see lesson planning as a form of punishment. Speaking, as a resource person, at a training workshop for some teachers on lesson planning, lesson implementation and classroom management at Julidem Academy in Budumburam recently, Mr. Anthony Amoah said it was improper for a teacher to attempt to deliver an instruction to learners without an advanced preparation and use of lesson notes. “As teachers, we know that teaching is a profession and a service, and so the need for us to…

The Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has been “unprofessional” in discharging her duties and must be interdicted, former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central demands. The deputy CID boss was heard on a recorded telephone conversation with a witness that suggested a police cover up in a corruption allegations against two deputy chiefs of staff by the witness (A-Plus). Though ACP Addo-Danquah admitted the voice on the leaked tape was hers, she said the tape was doctored. Check: [Audio] A-Plus vindicated over allegations against deputy chiefs of staff? But Mr. Tetteh Chaie on…

Ghanaian actors have now become jobless, president of the Ghana Actors Guild, Samuel Fiscian has revealed. “Basically, the ordinary actor is jobless now… Majority of our people are jobless,” he told 3News on Tuesday. This was when some executives of the Guild paid a courtesy call on the new Chief Executive of Media General Group (owners of TV3, 3FM, 3News, Onua FM, Connect FM, Akoma FM and APL Productions), Mrs. Pearl Esua-Mensah, to congratulate her on her appointment. Though Mr. Fiscian fell short of statistics, he claimed the joblessness of the actors in the country has been because film productions…

The General Manager of Darko Farms & Company Limited, Mr Augustine Kuudaar, has urged government to set up a poultry council for the poultry industry in the country. According to him, the council will ensure good standards and  certification within the poultry industry to meet the international market. Though he said the industry is profitable, it is been weaken by several factors such as high cost of feed and high interest on loans. Mr Kuudaar speaking in an interview with Akoma FM after the opening ceremony of a week-long training workshop organized by Darko Farms for 200 poultry farmers within…

Six out of 10 children and teenagers in the world are failing to reach basic levels of proficiency in learning, warns a hard-hitting report from the United Nations. The UN describes the findings as “staggering” and representing a “learning crisis”. Much of the focus of international aid in education has been on the lack of access to schools, particularly in poorer countries in sub-Saharan Africa or in conflict zones. But this new research from the Unesco Institute for Statistics warns of the lack of quality within schools – saying more than 600 million school-age children do not have basic skills…

US Health Secretary Tom Price has resigned over the use of expensive private planes for official business.He previously apologised after making 26 private flights since May at a cost of $400,000 (£300,000) to taxpayers. Government officials, except those dealing with national security matters, are required to take commercial flights for work related travel. Three other members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet are under scrutiny for using private planes while working. A White House statement said President Trump had accepted Mr Price’s resignation, adding that Don J Wright had been designated as acting health secretary. Mr Wright is currently deputy assistant…

The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, says government would soon roll out a policy to ensure that television stations broadcast at least 70% local content at prime time. She noted that the need to push local content has become necessary to provide more opportunities for local content providers especially film producers across the country. This comes at a time when there is a growing discontent among local producers and viewers about the influx of foreign content on the airwaves. Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful  announced this when the Group Chief Executive Officer of Media General, Pearl Esua-Mensah, led a delegation from the media…

Flying from Paris to Accra takes six hours and 20 minutes, direct. But why fly when you can drive? One Ghanaian opted to take the road less traveled this summer, clocking 4,900 miles in just nine days. Why? For family and for country. Twenty-nine-year-old mechanical engineer Nicholas Afedi Donkoh drove all the way from his house in France to his hometown in Ghana to prove a point: that everyone deserves an adventure. “I just wanted the world to know that it’s not only white people who can go on such trips, but we blacks, too, can do that as well,”…