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Former minister of State, Dr Richard Anane, has stated he doesn’t need any government or ministerial appointment before he could help President Nana Akufo-Addo and his New Patriotic Party administration to succeed. He admitted although he has a big role to play in ensuring that the current NPP government succeeds in its governance of the country, “I don’t need to be in a position to be able to do it”. Speaking on a wide range of issues including the road sector and the National Health insurance Scheme on 3FM’s Sunrise morning show, Dr. Anane who served in the John Kufuor…

Government’s quest to improve enrollment and especially boost attendance through the Free SHS policy could suffer, if female students are not supported with free sanitary pads, a youth and family focused NGO has argued. Studies, according to J Initiative, have shown that 95% of girls in Ghana do not attend school during menstruation mainly because of the lack of sanitary facilities in schools. In a statement, Executive Director of J Initiative, Awo Aidam Amenyah said not all girls benefiting from the free senior high school program can afford sanitary pads to properly manage their menstruation. She was emphatic that the availability…

A total of 1,000 bags of maize have been harvested from the National Service Scheme farms at Dawhenya in the Greater Accra Region, with an anticipation to harvest 15,000 bags across all its farms in the country. This was revealed by the acting Executive Director of the Scheme, Mustapha Ussif, announced this when he visited the Dawhwenya farms on Tuesday. It was to support and supervise personnel in harvesting the 250-acre maize farm. Harvesting ongoing on the 600-acre land at Ejura in the Ashanti Region,150-acre farm at Yeziesi, Tatala and 60-acre farm in Damango, all in the Northern Region, and…

Residents of Kasoa and its environs have been promised extraordinary banking experience as the Universal Merchant Bank (UMB) opens its third Center for Business in Kasoa. The first two centers were opened in Ashtown in Kumasi and the second in Madina, Accra respectively. The new location of the UMB Center for Businesses was chosen to accommodate the vibrant business sector in Kasoa and to leverage on the area’s diverse commercial activity. The establishment of the Center there is also seen as a strategic step to address the needs of SMEs in the area and also help in their nurturing. Chief…

Hundreds of Metro Mass Transit drivers across the country have grounded buses of the company to protest what they say are poor working conditions and remuneration. The drivers say efforts to get the management of the company to improve their working conditions have been fruitless as management is yet to respond to their letters on the issue. On Tuesday morning the drivers abandoned their buses to converge at the company’s headquarters at Awudome in Accra where they blocked the road infront of their yard to push the management to intervene by improving their working conditions. Some of the drivers who…

US President Donald Trump’s pick for Alabama’s Senate race has lost the state’s Republican primary to a firebrand Christian conservative. Incumbent Luther Strange, 64, said he had called rival Roy Moore to concede the race. “We wish him the best as he goes forward,” he told supporters. Mr Moore is a populist former chief justice in the state, who rode to the voting booth on a horse named Sassy, and brandished a gun at a rally. The news is likely to rattle Washington Republicans, including President Trump, who had confidently pitted Mr Strange against the party’s anti-establishment wing. Mr Trump…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Tuesday, assured the business community of the security of their investments in Ghana, and asked the private sector to harness the opportunities inherent in the business climate. He said with his Administration’s policies geared towards facilitating business and industrial growth, and positioning Ghana as the most business and people-friendly economy on the continent, a formidable public-private partnership was the most viable way of building a competitive economy. This transformed economy, he said, would drive sustained growth and prosperity for Ghanaians. Addressing a Caribbean Trade Mission, which called on him at the Flagstaff House, in Accra,…

A total of 37 volleyball players made up of men and women have started a non-residential camping and training at the Accra Sports ahead of the 2018 FIVB World Cup qualifiers. The players, 18 men and 19 women who were selected by the Ghana Volleyball Association, are dominated by personnel from the various security services in the country. While the women Cameroon from October 5-15, 2017 to play the qualifying games, their men counterpart are expected to play theirs in Egypt between October 20 and 30, 2017. Two African countries will qualify to join 22 other teams to compete in…

Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie have got engaged, it has been confirmed. After a huge amount of speculation, an official announcement has been published in the Times newspaper. The couple met on the fantasy show in 2012, where they played on-screen lovers Jon Snow and Ygritte. Leslie left the cast two years later while Harington has become one of the show’s biggest stars – appearing in all seven series of the popular TV drama. They only made their public debut as a couple at last year’s Olivier Awards. Harington told L’Uomo Vogue last year it was…

Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users “easily express themselves”. Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters for a small group of users. The current character limit was “a major cause of frustration” for some users, the firm said in a blog post. The firm has been suffering from slowing growth and the shift could be one way for the firm to widen its appeal and attract new users. “Trying to cram your thoughts into a Tweet – we’ve all been there, and it’s a pain,” Twitter product…