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The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has created another portfolio in its top hierarchy, following from decisions taken at the end of the Extraordinary General Assembly held in Rabat, Morocco. The position of the 3rd Vice President of the continent’s football governing body will be occupied by Fouzi Lekjaa, the President of the Moroccan Football Federation. Fouzi Lekjaa heads the Confederation’s Finance Committee, a position he will retain. CAF President Ahmad Ahmad is already assisted by two other executive committee members: Ghana’s Kwesi Nyantakyi, who is the 1st Vice President, and Congo’s Constant Omari, who is the 2nd Vice President.…

An Indian musician played the guitar on the operating table to help doctors treat involuntary muscle spasms in his fingers. Abhishek Prasad was asked to play every time doctors “burnt” a circuit in his brain to treat what is commonly known as “musician’s dystonia”. The condition causes painful spasms, twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. Mr Prasad told the BBC that he was able to play with ease after the surgery. “By the sixth burn, my fingers opened up. I was normal on the operating table itself,” Mr Prasad said after doctors removed the stitches on his head on…

An Indian musician played the guitar on the operating table to help doctors treat involuntary muscle spasms in his fingers. Abhishek Prasad was asked to play every time doctors “burnt” a circuit in his brain to treat what is commonly known as “musician’s dystonia”. The condition causes painful spasms, twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. Mr Prasad told the BBC that he was able to play with ease after the surgery. “By the sixth burn, my fingers opened up. I was normal on the operating table itself,” Mr Prasad said after doctors removed the stitches on his head on…

An Indian musician played the guitar on the operating table to help doctors treat involuntary muscle spasms in his fingers. Abhishek Prasad was asked to play every time doctors “burnt” a circuit in his brain to treat what is commonly known as “musician’s dystonia”. The condition causes painful spasms, twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures. Mr Prasad told the BBC that he was able to play with ease after the surgery. “By the sixth burn, my fingers opened up. I was normal on the operating table itself,” Mr Prasad said after doctors removed the stitches on his head on…

The Chair of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, is expected to appear before Parliament’s Committee of the Whole next week to answer questions on revenue accrued from the collection of accreditation fees from journalists prior to the 2016 elections. Journalists were made to pay GH¢10 each for accreditation and tags to cover the December 7 elections, which was eventually won by New Patriotic Party’s Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Not even a tussle in court, initiated by a group of journalists, will get the Commission to budge on its stance. Almost eight months after the polls, Parliament wants to know how…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has eulogized his late predecessor Professor John Evans Atta Mills, referring to him as a “man of great moral courage and strength”. “He remains a source of inspiration to me and our nation,” Mr Mahama tweeted on Friday. July 21, 2017 would have marked the 73rd birthday of the third president of the Fourth Republic. He unfortunately passed on three days after his 68th birthday. Definitely commemorating the birthday of Prof Atta Mills, whom he served as Vice President, Mr Mahama shared an accompanying picture to his tweet. President JEA Mills. A man of great…

So, thinking about life and the choices we make, the things we get to choose from, why we pick one and leave the other, the pain we go through to choose when we have to choose between two things we totally love. Reminds me of the late Papa Yankson’s “S3 ekoto womame na wo yir d3 wo gun so mu a, eb3yi hwana?” literally meaning, if you see your mom and wife drowning in a river, who would you save? This is the case of a lady who is an only child and has to choose between her sick mom…

The Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) in the Northern Region has launched a Core Of Excellence Initiative to enable SARI increase its production of breeder and foundation seeds to support government’s Planting for Food and Jobs Programme. The $5.5 million paid to SARI in 2015 which is a USAID-sponsored programme through its Feed the Future Initiative was hitherto aimed at improving the infrastructure of the research institute. But upon review, it has been channeled into developing seed production, business development, and communication units to better place SARI to diver on its mandate.…

Legendary Ghanaian high-life musician Paapa Yankson has passed away. Born Benjamin Paapa Kofi Yankson on June 22, 1944 at Winneba, the Tena Me Nky3n composer passed on after an illness, which has kept him in a wheel-chair for the past months. Paapa Yankson has plenty works to his canon spanning close to four decades. Songs of his like Okukuseku, Show Your Love, Wo Yere Anaa Wo Maame and Wiase Mu Nsem became hits when they were released. He also played an instrumental role in the setting up of music bands such as Western Diamonds, The Gold Nuggets and Carousel Seven.…

Customer service has become one of the major factors that differentiates businesses that work and the ones that fail. It is therefore important for businesses to align with current trends in the market place to be able to survive. The Ghana Customer Experience Summit comes at a time when businesses are on the lookout for new ways to sustain their bottom line as well as make profits. The Summit is expected to give practicalities in the service sector targeted at keeping customers loyal to the business and improving profitability through good customer service and using technology to enhance service delivery.…