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There was a good Ghanaian representation in the Champions League third qualifying round first leg as clubs battle to get into the main draw. Former U-20 star Joseph Attamah, ex-Medeama center back Kasim Nuhu and striker Patrick Twumasi all played for their various clubs with varying degrees of success. Twumasi would be the happiest on the night after his goal helped home side Astana FC to a 3-1 win over Legia Warsaw, handing them a priceless two goal advantage ahead of the return leg in Poland. Twumasi raced unto a through pass in injury time as Warsaw pressed for an…

The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, will Thursday night grace the 5th John Evans Atta Mills Commemorative Lecture to be held at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (Gimpa). This year’s Lecture is under the theme ‘The Greening of Africa’s Development, Youth Employment and Agriculture. The Implications for Governance and Public Policy’. The event to be specifically held at the Graduate Block Auditorium-Greenhill Campus at 4:30 pm will have as Guest Speaker Lord Paul Boateng, a Member of the UK House of Lords. The annual lecture is organized by The GIMPA Law School in collaboration with the Government of…

Some 20 people from Multan, Pakistan, have been arrested for ordering the rape of a teenage girl, in revenge for a rape her brother allegedly committed. Police said the families of the two girls are related. Members of both had joined forces to decide what should be done. “A jirga [village council] had ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl as punishment, as her brother had raped a 12-year-old,” police official Allah Baksh told AFP. He said the village council was approached earlier this month by a man who said his 12-year-old sister had been raped by their cousin. The…

An insurance marketer believes Members of Parliament wasted the time, energy and resources of the state on Wednesday with the grilling of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Charlotte Osei. Mr. Edgar Wiredu said “what they did was unnecessary. They should have used that time to revoke the Article 298 of the constitutions because there is a constitutional crisis in the country”. Article 298 of the 1992 Constitution talks about the ability of legislators to use an Act of Parliament to deal with constitutional matters subject to Chapter 25 of the constitution. “Instead of inviting the EC boss to come and…

Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Late reporting to the health facilities and resorting to the prayer camps for treatment were to blame for the deaths, the Regional Focal Perso, Mr. Dennis Bandoh, has revealed. He was speaking at a pre-implementation meeting of an HIV Advocacy Project in Kumasi. The project is a partnership between Hope for Future Generations (HFFG) and Ghana HIV and AIDS Network (GHANET) – both NGOs, with funding from the United States (US) Ambassador’s Small Grants Project. Mr. Bandoh expressed deep concern about the significant percentage of people living with…

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Eighty companies have so far qualified to receive support to boost their businesses under government’s 50 million-dollar National Industrialisation Revitalisation Programme. They have been selected from more than 350 viable business facing distress who submitted applications for the programme to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI). Mr Robert Ahomka-Lindsay, Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry (MOTI), said government believed that the best way to create jobs for citizens of the country was to embark on an extensive industrial transformation drive. It, however, recognised the various challenges that the private sector  had faced over the past years, which had adversely…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has started providing technical support to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) and companies producing for exports in Ghana. The support to the private sector by the Trade Capacity Building Programme for Ghana, a project implemented by UNIDO with funds from SECO will offer technical assistance to private enterprises in the cocoa, fish, fruit and wood value chains to implement relevant quality management systems to facilitate trade – both locally and internationally. The offer to support SMEs with technical assistance was advertised in the dailies and interested companies have signed on. The Project…

Heard of perinatal depression before? Well, it’s a very common disorder amongst women yet very little is known about it. Perinatal depression, like any other depression, is a mental health disorder that occurs in women during or around childbirth. Every pregnant woman stands the risk of perinatal depression; some have suffered it in silence and others have suppressed it for fear of being misjudged. Why is that so? Very few women have knowledge about perinatal depression, the rest are either ill-informed or not informed at all. In this documentary, TV3’s Wendy Laryea takes us on an enlightening exploration of Perinatal…

Chief Executive of the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), Nana Osei Bonsu, says foreign companies investing in Ghana and seeking tax exemptions must partner local private sector companies. He explained that would ensure local companies develop capacity over time, grow and work to affect the national economy in a transformational way. “If coming to do solo business, fine, but if you come as a foreign investor looking for tax incentives, tax holidays when someone else pays, they must pay the collateral benefit to the society and it must be along the line of partnerships,” he said. Nana Bonsu was speaking…