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Beneficiaries of the National Youth Employment Agency (YEA) across the country have threatened to withdraw their services on Friday, June 16 should the government fail to pay them their allowances. Government through YEA announced the suspension of payment of allowances to over 60,000 beneficiaries to enable it audit the scheme’s payroll following the detection of fraudulent activities. The new management of the scheme claimed thousands of people who do not work for the scheme had their names on their payroll. But the beneficiaries in a statement issued Wednesday said the suspension of their salaries was affecting them. “This has affected…

A leading rights group has condemned the imprisonment of a man in Tunisia for smoking a cigarette in public during the dawn-to-dusk Muslim fast. A court in north-western Bizerte town sentenced the man to one month in jail for “public indecency”. The ruling was an “absurd violation” of personal freedoms, Amnesty International said. Dozens protested on Sunday in the capital, Tunis, for the right to eat and drink in public during Ramadan. About a fortnight ago, four men were sentenced to one month in prison after eating in public. There are no laws in mainly Muslim Tunisia requiring individuals to…

A leading rights group has condemned the imprisonment of a man in Tunisia for smoking a cigarette in public during the dawn-to-dusk Muslim fast. A court in north-western Bizerte town sentenced the man to one month in jail for “public indecency”. The ruling was an “absurd violation” of personal freedoms, Amnesty International said. Dozens protested on Sunday in the capital, Tunis, for the right to eat and drink in public during Ramadan. About a fortnight ago, four men were sentenced to one month in prison after eating in public. There are no laws in mainly Muslim Tunisia requiring individuals to…

Juventus midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah has expressed his desire to make himself available for selection for the senior national team, the Black Stars. GFA Vice-President George Afriyie had earlier said he would use the off-season to impress upon the player the need to return, and follow that up with a trip to Italy later. Asamoah has not played for Ghana since the 2014 World Cup defeat to Portugal and  has battled injuries since then. He has returned for Juventus, where he has been used sparingly this season and playing a massive role in the team getting to the UEFA Champions League…

Ghana’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s Auditor General, to as a matter of urgency, surcharge all persons found to have misappropriated public funds. The court also ordered that where applicable, criminal action should be instituted against such persons who have been accused of misappropriation of state funds by the Attorney General. The decision was reached Wednesday by a seven-member justices of apex court chaired by nominated Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo. It follows an action initiated by pressure group, OccupyGhana, which sought an order to compel  the Auditor General not to only report on financial misappropriations by public officials but…

The four Russians and Ukranians arrested in the Ashanti Region for engaging in small scale mining without appropriate licences, have each been granted GHC200,000 by the Circuit Court in Accra. In addition to the bail amount, each of them is to provide one surety who must be a Ghanaian national in full employment or trade, TV3’s Selorm Amenya reports. They are also to deposit their passport with the court registrar and present themselves to the CID every two weeks. The case has been adjourned to July 11, 2017 Counsel for the four, Emmanuel K Darko, put in the bail application…

A number of officers of the Ghana Education Service (GES) who have attained the compulsory retirement age are still at their respective duty posts, the Service has revealed. A statement issued by the GES dated June 5 and sighted by 3News, said it was concerned about “the rate at which officers who are supposed to go on compulsory retirement are still at post”. Per Article 199 (1) of Ghana’s constitution, “A public officer shall except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, retire from the public service on attaining the age of sixty years”. But the GES claims some of its…

The National Media Commission has suggested it will not sanction some three television stations which have been broadcasting pornographic contents. The Commission on Monday received complaint from two broadcasters against the three television stations – TV XYZ, Ice TV and Thunder TV – for showing pornographic films on their channel. Mr Tommy-Annan Forson and James Kwasi Oberko argued the showing of those materials is against the broadcasting standards for television stations irrespective of what time of the day they are shown. Commenting on the issue and the sanctions likely to be faced by the stations, Executive secretary of the Commission,…

Former Deputy Minister of Trade, Murtala Mohammed, has welcomed the call by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to parliament to exercise effective control over the Executive arm of government and the country’s public finances. While describing the call as a good one, he said it is important for Parliament to see to its implementation “It doesn’t take the President to tell Parliament to perform its mandate but it is a welcome news”, Murtala said Contributing to a newspaper discussion segment of TV3’s magazine show, New Day, on Wednesday, the former Member of Parliament for Nantong, said in order for parliamentarians…

Ghanaian actress Yvonne Nelson has lambasted Ghanaian businesses, branding them as stingy having failed to support her Glaucoma Foundation after making promises. The Yvonne Nelson Glaucoma Foundation (YNGF) was launched in 2010 in association with the Glaucoma Association of Ghana to educate the public on the causes, treatment and prevention of the disease, among other objectives. Yvonne used her celebrity status to sensitize the public on dangers of glaucoma and to let people know that the disease is treatable. The Foundation was designed to also create an effective monitoring system to help control existing cases and record new cases. Speaking…