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The President of the Student Representative Council of the University of Cape Coast, Tony Henry Arthur is urging students to remain calm whilst issues surrounding the purported rustication of 22 students are resolved. Twenty-two students of the University of Cape Coast were rusticated a fortnight ago after investigations cited them for their involvement in a clashes between students of the University, University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in March this year. The clash which occurred during the hall week celebration of the Atlantic Hall left three students seriously injured. Though the students secured injunction to prevent…

MI5 is to hold an inquiry into the way it dealt with warnings from the public that the Manchester suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was a potential threat. The security service, which was alerted to Abedi’s extremist views three times prior to last Monday’s attack, will examine how it dealt with the warnings. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said it was right for MI5 to review its processes. Early on Monday a man, 23, was arrested in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, on suspicion of terrorism offences. Greater Manchester Police said they had also executed search warrants at addresses in the Whalley Range area…

Despite the abundance of sanitary pads, some adolescent girls in some communities in the Northern Region continue to use rags during their menstrual cycle, whiles others have no or little knowledge on menstrual hygiene. Checks by TV3 has revealed there are no sanitary pads in shops at most rural communities in the region, and in areas where there is availability, affordability has become a challenge to parents and their girl child. Most adolescent girls, including 13-year-old Tibornyaan Yabdow from Nanjuni in the Yendi District have no option than to resort to the use of rags as sanitary pads whenever they are…

  Having an affair is not even on your radar. Never gonna happen. You love your spouse and you’d never be unfaithful to her or him. However, you may be unaware of other ways you are being unfaithful. If these actions continue, you may find yourself on the slippery slope that leads to that never-intended affair and a sorrow you never wanted in your life. Unfaithfulness usually creeps in through the back door, disguising itself as harmless fun or innocent behavior. If you want your marriage to endure and be filled with happiness you may need to check this list…

Former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central in the Greater Accra Region, Theophilous Tetteh Chaie, has called on the government to put in place adequate compensation package for farmers whose crops have been attacked by fall of army worms. Mr. Tetteh Chaie alleged the Ministry of Food and Agriculture “gave the farmers wrong chemicals to fight the worms when it was first detected in the year 2016 and all that the government is telling them is that they should cut [the affected crops] them”. READ: Armyworms invade farms in Ghana; threaten food security More than 18,000 hectares of maize farms…

Ghana’s first lady, Rebecca Akuffo Addo, has observed the country’s achievement of the goal three of the Sustainable Development Goals is dependent on adequate resources to end the needless child and maternal mortality. The goal three underscores the need to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. It talks about the strides that have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality. She was speaking at a special fund raising ceremony held at the Manhyia gardens in Kumasi to solicit funds for the construction of a…

The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has expressed disappointment over the poor execution of some projects funded with petroleum revenue in the Ashanti Region. Vice Chairman, Kwame Jantuah, has questioned, in particular, the quality of work on an ongoing 3-unit classroom block at Akpenkro, as well as construction of the Bremang UGC road, which has developed potholes just two years after tarring. This came to light during a 4-day verification tour of ABFA sponsored projects in the Ashanti Region by members of PIAC and Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists (IFEJ). PIAC is a statutory institution with the mandate…

Ghana coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin, has refused to admit that his side’s play has fallen ahead of the 2017 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations final with Mali on Sunday. The Black Starlets are set to face their West African counterparts at the Stade de l’Amitié Sino Gabonaise in Libreville, to climax the two-week tournament. After scoring nine goals in their first two matches, Ghana have drawn blank in the last two games, prompting concerns that the Black Starlets’ performance may have fallen too early. “We all know about economics and law of diminishing return; and after playing at high tempo…

French President Emmanuel Macron has said his clenched handshake with Donald Trump was “not innocent” and was a “moment of truth”. The awkward encounter saw each grip the other’s hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white . Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to “show he would not make small concessions, not even symbolic ones, but also not overdo things”. The leaders met in Brussels on Thursday ahead of a Nato summit. As their vigorous handshake continued over several seconds, Mr Macron and Mr Trump also looked each other fixedly in the eyes until the US president…

The Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana has joined the anti-galamsey campaign with a call for effective collaboration between the state and non-state actors to deal with the menace. At the 8th synod of the church, the moderator of the church, Rev R.K Nimo, said the fight against illegal mining could only be won if it was considered as a top national security priority. To this end, he said a multi-faceted approach should be adopted to tackle the menace at the root. The event was attended by District Pastors, Catechists, Presbytery Executive Council members, Church Group Leaders, their benefactors and well-wishers.…