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Former HIV/AIDS Ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah got the whole country talking about her again when she wrote a bizarre sort of tribute to her husband, who had died after a battle with an illness nobody seems able to identify. The manner of her revelation about her husband’s death, plus another follow up post, are just the latest display from Mensah which puts her mental health status under question. There’s no doubt Mensah has gone through a lot, and she herself has admitted to suffering a series of mental issues in the past including depression that turned suicidal. Her story is a…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked owners of the newly launched Kumasi City Mall not to make the place the sale point of imported goods, but also Ghanaian goods. “It would be truly commendable if, by the end of the first year of its operation, at least 20% of the goods that are sold here should be of Ghanaian origin, and the percentages increase as Ghanaian industrial production rapidly expands,” he said Speaking at the launch of the mall, he bemoaned the fact that Ghana continues to be a retailer of cheap imported goods, whilst the capacity of local…

President Akufo-Addo has described mocked pictures, videos and comments flying on social media, following the opening of the Kumasi City Mall, as an act of fear. He says the social media troll was necessitated by the fear that some people will no longer have the bragging right of owning the biggest facility in their communities. “They fear they no longer have the bragging right,” the President remarked as he joined the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and other dignitaries to officially open the mall, described as the largest shopping center in the northern sector. The ninety-five million dollar mall is…

A chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Daniel Bugri Naabu, has backed down on the murder allegation leveled against the Northern Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari, claiming it was “a slip of tongue”. The Northern Regional NPP chair stated in an apology letter dated May 10 that he had no facts whatsoever to back his claim that the Regional Minister had a hand in the murder of Adams Mahama in 2015. “I do not have any facts beyond the know (sic) police investigations on the matter and I am truly sorry to the minister, his family and all those I have hurt…

Claims by government that the two former detainees of Guantanamo Bay were to spend only two years in Ghana, have strongly been disputed. The two, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, were in detention for 14 years, after being linked with terrorist group Al-Qaeda and later transferred to Ghana under a bilateral agreement with the United State of America. A Foreign Affairs Ministry’s statement in January 2016 announced, “At the request of the US Government we have also agreed to accept two detainees of Yemeni origin who were detained in Guantanamo but who have been cleared…

The Supreme Court has directed counsel involved in the case seeking the abrogation of the agreement between the government of Ghana and America for hosting two former Guantanamo Bay detainees in the country to make further submissions before a decision is taken. The court had scheduled to give judgment today, May 10 but realised certain issues need to be addressed before a decision is taken, TV3’s Godfred Tanam reports. The Supreme Court said it has not been able to reach a decision in respect of some of the reliefs the plaintiffs are seeking: plaintiffs say the whole agreement was unconstitutional and…

President Akufo Addo has expressed his condolence to the families and victims of Tuesday’s gas explosion which left almost 200 people with various degrees of burns and injuries. The unfortunate incident occurred when a tanker near the Olam Oil deport caught fire and exploded injuring the station attendants and several other persons who were within 10 a meter radius of the station. In a tweet on Wednesday morning, President Akufo-Addo said “Very sad and sorry to hear about the gas explosion in Takoradi y’day. I extend my deepest condolences to the injured and families affected.” Very sad and sorry to…

Heated tension between the NPP’s Northern Regional Chairman, Bugri Naabu, and Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Djaba is a negative publicity to the New Patriotic Party, that’s according to a political analyst and lecturer at the University of Cape Coast. Bugri Naabu and Otiko Djaba clashed in the Northern region on Friday, May 5, 2017, over a misunderstanding between the two. Speaking to 3News, Jonathan Asante Okyere said the Gender Minister should have understood that, per her ministerial role, she is no longer a party activist and that she should have acted with self-restraint. “This is, for starters,…

A school girl who was among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 refused to be part of a release deal because she is now married to a militant fighter, Nigeria’s government said Tuesday. The disclosure underlines the complex psychological effects of a lengthy captivity, and gives an indication of the work required to rehabilitate and reintegrate those released. Boko Haram has used kidnapping as a weapon of war, seizing thousands of women and young girls as part of its eight-year quest to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria. Men and boys have also been forcibly…

Government has released funds for the payment of school feeding grants for second cycle institutions in the country which are under the scheme. The total amount of GH¢ 106, 697, 628. 80 is in respect of the third term feeding grant of 137, 300 students for the 2015/2016 academic year and 140, 264 students for the 2016/2017 academic year. In a statement released by the Ministry of Finance, it stated that the funds had been released to the Registrar of Scholarships for payment of feeding grants for second cycle schools. The ministry further indicated that it is processing the remaining…