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TV3’s young promising news anchor, Natalie Fort, who has within a short period endeared the hearts of television viewers in the country, has been honoured with Excellent Personality Merit Award for August 2017. Ms Fort has within a year-and-a-half risen from presenting TV3’s News in Brief to become one of two faces of the station’s primetime news, News360 at 7:00pm daily on weekdays. She came tops among hundreds of radio and television presenters sampled by Premiere Brands Ghana, an independent organisation that seeks to inspire wealth creation in Africa through the growth of successful Brands. Premier Brands collates results through…

Parents as well as prospective SHS students in the Central Region are completely devastated and confused over the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) as many are unable to complete the placement process. The Ghana Education Services (GES ) released a statement asking 2017 BECE candidates who did not get placement into the various government senior high schools to reapply to schools with vacancies. Onua FM’s Central Regional correspondent Kwame Kakarba has been monitoring event in the region and reports that parents and their wards are stranded in some internet cafes in the region. When Onua News visited some of the…

Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark will be visiting Ghana in November. She will be joined by several Danish ministers and a delegation of Danish businesses. At the invitation of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Denmark’s Head of State, Queen Margrethe II will be visiting Ghana from November 23–24. The state visit will emphasize and consolidate the long-standing and well-established relations between Ghana and Denmark while at the same time marking the gradual transition from aid to trade, a release by the Denmark Embassy in Accra said on Monday. Government representatives and a delegation of Danish companies and business organisations…

Ghana has six new varieties of lowland rice released by breeders at the Crops Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). These new varieties perform well in both swampy and irrigated ecologies with a yield potential of 8–9.5 metric tonnes per hectare, which has about 2–18% yield advantage over the current varieties. All six varieties are tolerant to the rice yellow mottle virus disease and iron toxicity as well as other environmental stresses, including unfavourable climatic conditions. The research activities test for drought tolerance, salinity tolerance and many of the things that climate change brings…

The Crops Research Institute (CRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is liaising with the government to identify some agricultural commodities that can be adopted under the One-District-One-Factory policy initiative. The policy implementation creates an environment for each local government area to harness its endowed resources to establish industries that provide jobs and create wealth. Director of the CRI-CSIR, Dr. Stella Ennin, who said this, has pointed to the potentials in cassava as an immediate crop that can be exploited under the initiative. “One of the crops that tops is cassava starch production, and we have varieties…

Babies who sleep in separate rooms from their parents have earlier bedtimes, take less time to nod off and get more shut eye, new research reveals. They are also less likely to require feeding at night, a study found. Parents of such babies find bedtime less difficult and report sleeping better themselves, the research adds. Lead author Dr Jodi Mindell from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said: ‘One main reason is that they are more likely to self-soothe to sleep.’ This contradicts guidelines by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which recommends babies sleep in the same room as their…

Babies who sleep in separate rooms from their parents have earlier bedtimes, take less time to nod off and get more shut eye, new research reveals. They are also less likely to require feeding at night, a study found. Parents of such babies find bedtime less difficult and report sleeping better themselves, the research adds. Lead author Dr Jodi Mindell from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said: ‘One main reason is that they are more likely to self-soothe to sleep.’ This contradicts guidelines by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which recommends babies sleep in the same room as their…

The Media General Group has appointed a quintessential professional, Pearl Esua-Mensah, as its Group Chief Executive Officer. Her appointment takes effect from October 1, 2017.  Madam Esua-Mensah will however lead the media conglomerate as its Acting Chief Executive Officer from September 4 till the end of the month. The astute business leader and dynamic professional, who is the first female to head the media group, is taking over from Mr. John Chiahemen, whose contract with the company expires at the end of September. Mr. Chiahemen is therefore expected to take his annual leave effective September 4, 2017, a memo from the Group Board to…

Government has declared as void and invalid, the purported mining leases granted to Exton Cubic Group Limited to mine bauxite deposits at a forest reserve in Nyinahin in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti Region. Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, who announced the decision of government in Accra Monday, said the three mining leases were invalid because the country’s mining laws were not duly followed in securing the said licences. According Mr Amewu, a series of documents were supposed to have been submitted by Exton Cubic but said none of those were fulfilled hence the leases…

South African based research firm, RMB Research, has lauded the government’s decision to agree an extension of the IMF bailout programme with Ghana, noting that it brings comfort and continuous fiscal discipline to the market. “The IMF’s prolonged stay gives comfort to the market of continued fiscal market discipline. Given the West African giant’s track record with expenditure overruns, life after the IMF programme would have introduced a higher sovereign risk premium,” the research firm noted. The IMF approved an extension of its Extended Credit Facility (ECF) package for Ghana, initially worth $918 million, which will see the programme continue…