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The Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireko Brobby, who is also the Member of Parliament for Hemang Lower Denkyira Constituency in the Central Region has appealed to assembly members in the country to stay away from active politics to help bring development to their respective electoral areas. According to him, the Local Government Act, Act 462 of 1993, established assemblies with the mandate to exercise legislative, deliberative and administrative authority. He lamented, however, how the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies have turned to partisan politics. Speaking to Onua FM’s Central Region correspondent Kwame Kakarba in an interview,…

Acting General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, John Boadu, has urged government appointees and the members of the party to collaborate effectively to ensure mutual benefits. To achieve this, he said, there ought to be regular interface between government appointees and the party at the various levels. He underscored the need for government appointees to open their doors for members of the party, especially party footsoldiers and offer them the needed support. He was speaking at the Brong Ahafo regional annual delegates conference of the party on Saturday, July 22, at the auditorium of Sunyani Technical University. The conference…

In 2016, the issue about debt stock and debt to GDP ratio were important part of public financial and economic management discourse in Ghana. Discussions about the economy is still focused on these metrics because of the current position that it is possible to borrow to improve both the debt stock and the debt to GDP ratio of the country. Though economic data is useful to politicians and they may quote such data from time to time either in assessing government performance (i.e. opposition political parties) or in defending economic performance (i.e. government), it must be verified from mandated independent…

West Ham United have broken their accounts again to sign Austrian forward Marko Arnautovic this summer. The Hammers broke the sealing last summer shipping Black Stars midfielder Andre Dede Ayew from Welsh side Swansea City for a then club record fee of £20 million. On Saturday, the East Londoners snapped Arnautovic from Stoke City. The deal is worth £20m, which could rise to £25m, according to sources. Arnautovic, 28, has played in the English Premier League since 2013, when he joined Stoke City from Werder Bremen. He played 35 times last season, scoring seven goals. “Everyone knows that West Ham…

A Science student of the Navrongo Senior High School, Akannae Ayine Ebenezer, with index number 0090501130 has scored distinction in the 2017 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) with all As in the eight subjects. The results were released last Wednesday by the West African Examinations Council, Waec. Master Akannae’s parents are in Kumasi as labourers, 3news.com gathers. His mother washes bowls and clothes for people for survival while his father works on a farm in the Ashanti Region capital. He was adopted by a member of the Bolgatanga Presbyterian Church in the Upper East Region. He currently lives…

The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the People’s National Convention (PNC) has voted to suspend General Secretary Atik Mohammed for “misconduct”. A vote of no confidence in three members of the Committee is said to have taken place at the party’s headquarters on Saturday. This was at a meeting ostensibly called to discuss the recent position of Ambassador-At-Large for party leader Dr Edward Nasigre Mahama. But the vote saw National Chairman Bernard Mornah and Dr Mahama sailing through, only to have Mr Mohammed  as the only executive to get ousted. He received 6 ‘Yes’ votes and 16 ‘No’ votes to…

Ghanaian boxer Isaac ‘The Royal Storm’ Dogbe extended his unbeaten run to 17 on Saturday, when he secured a technical knock-out (TKO) over Argentine opponent Javier Nicolas Chacon. Chacon failed to heed to the bell for the start of the 7th round, following a wrist injury he picked in the 6th round. The Ghanaian super bantamweight boxer dominated all the six rounds by far before the bout was stopped. The win extends Dogbe’s KOs to 5. Chacon, 36, loses for the fourth time with the latest result, having fought 30 times – drawn once and won 25 times. The WBO…

Aduana Stars went top of the Ghana Premier League after clinching a point in Tarkwa in a goalless game against Medeama SC. The game was a Match Day 24 fixture. The point earned sees the one-time champions leapfrog West African Football Academy (Wafa) at the summit of the log. The Ogya Boys go 44 points on the table, one point more than Wafa, who have two outstanding games – one of which is a Match Day 24 game against Asante Kotoko. The other against Ashanti Gold SC has been cleared to be played on Sunday, July 30. Saturday’s result at…

Renowned hiplife artiste Mzbel has revealed she is mostly mesmerized by the voice of Ghana’s president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Speaking on 3FM’s Showbiz 927 hosted by Nana Kwadwo Addo, the controversial and outspoken female artiste said even though President Akufo-Addo was not his favourite candidate for the 2016 elections, she falls in love with his voice anytime he speaks. “When he speaks he sounds nice. It’s like you do not understand what he is saying but he is saying something anyways. It sounds nice in your ears.” Mzbel was a Number One critic of then Presidential Candidate Nana Akufo-Addo…

Christian Methodist Senior High School (CHRIMESCO ) is one of the two Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.  The school which was established in 1965 and has a student population of about two thousand (2000 ) is threatened by a number of factors which the government must urgently pay attention to. The is the school that has trained great people like the ace journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, the great and popular  musician,  Nat Brew (Amandzeba), just to mention a few. The School was formally located at Adabraka near Kwame Nkrumah Circle in a…