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While Hurricane Irma keeps sweeping through the states of the USA, Hurricane Marriage is also speedily sweeping through Media General, especially TV3. For two consecutive weeks, staff of the media group have had their Saturdays booked as the weddings would not stop. On the 2nd of September 2017, Assignment Editor and one of TV3’s senior journalists, Thomas Adotei Pappoe, tied the knot with his heart throb Jessica Aklerh Dosoo, a former staff of TV3. The two law students trended on social media with their beautiful and well-organised white-themed wedding, held at the Arakan Mess at Burma Camp. Exactly a week…

Dr Nana Ato Arthur, the Head of the Office of the Local Government Service (LGS), has spelt out his plans and strategies to make Ghana’s decentralization process more vibrant and efficient to propel the development of the country. He said strengthening the developing planning units of the Regional Coordinating Councils and the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) is crucial for the collection of reliable data to ensure effective planning and budgeting. Dr Ato Arthur made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra. He said so much is expected from staff of MMDAs and promised…

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has attributed the success of the implementation of the Free SHS programme to the determination of President Akufo-Addo. The Minister who noted that “SHS students had a unique journey”, added that he believes “the Free SHS policy will be regarded as one of the greatest legacies of the Akufo-Addo presidency”. The Free SHS Policy was officially launched by President Akufo-Addo at the West Africa Senior High School (WASS) at Adenta in the Abokobi/Madina Constituency in the Greater Accra region amidst hiccups the roll out of the programme has encountered. Meanwhile, President Akufo-Addo…

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is delighted to have proven his critics wrong as he launches one of the nation’s ambitious and audacious programmes – the Free SHS Policy. The policy sought to provide absolutely free secondary education to every Ghanaian child going to senior high school. Starting with about 400,000 first year students who participated in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination and qualified for placement in the over 600 public senior high schools, an estimated amount of 486 million cedis has been budgeted by the government for the policy. The government’s flagship programme was launched on Tuesday at…

I was astounded to read a feature article by Dishonourable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa entitled ‘Martin Amidu’s “Hate Agenda” -….’ on the Modern Ghana website on 5th September 2017 in which he opens with his conduct of restraining himself from commenting on my deliberate attacks on the former President and the NDC because of his respect for elders in the NDC and the party in general. Okudzeto Ablakwa is the person whom while claiming to be entitled to the title Honourable Deputy Minister at age 28 years without having done any public service in his life has made himself notorious for insulting…

Only three banks out of the 34 banks currently operating in the country are in a position to meet the new GH¢400 million minimum capital requirement set by the Central Bank of Ghana (BoG) without recourse to additional capital, credit consultant, Emmanuel Akrong has said. The list has only GCB Bank, which recently absorbed indigenous banks Capital and UT banks, as the only local bank. The rest include Zenith Bank and Barclays Bank, which Mr. Akrong said “are the only banks that might not require additional capital to meet the minimum capital requirements for 2018.” The central bank on Friday…

At least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources say. Militants detonated a roadside bomb near the town of el-Arish, reportedly destroying three armoured vehicles and a fourth with signal-jamming equipment. They then opened fire with machine guns at survivors of the blast. The interior ministry confirmed there had been an attack and that several policemen had been killed or injured. Hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed by militants affiliated to IS since 2013, when the Egyptian military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.…

Independent evaluations commissioned by Newmont examining the methodology and conclusions of WACAM-sponsored reports on the Ahafo mine were publicly released on Thursday. The WACAM-sponsored reports, released in February, alleged that the Ahafo mine adversely impacted water sources and marginalized women in nearby communities. “The independent evaluations found that the methodology used in the WACAM-sponsored reports were inconsistent with accepted methodology and cannot  be relied upon as the basis for the reports’ conclusions,” Newmont said in a statement. The review of the environmental and health impact report was conducted by a team of experts from Newfields Company, an international consulting firm…

Passengers who patronize the pontoon at Dambai in the Krachi East District of the Volta Region were stranded on Monday due to the rising water level. Passengers, who are mostly traders with fish, yam, meat, eggs, and other food stuffs fear their commodities would rot if they are not able to convey them to the market. One of the stranded passengers, Kofi Anane told Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Monday that their commodities are going bad. He said some are going to Ho, Hohoe and other places but as at Monday afternoon, they have not heard anything from the authorities.…

Communication Member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Chief Biney, has predicted that “lies and arrogance” will soon send the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to opposition. Chief Biney argued that that the NPP are deploying lies in explaining the free Senior High School policy to Ghanaians, adding that “when they are exposed they turn around to criticize their critics arrogantly”. According to Chief Biney, the NPP Government, while in opposition promised to provide Free Education to every Ghanaian child, but have now reneged on the promise due to the realities of governance, noting that “the NPP Government should…