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The streets of Kumasi were overwhelmed on Saturday by patrons of the 2017 May 9 Remembered walk, annually organised by Mr Herbert Mensah, former chairman of Kumasi Asante Kotoko with support from friends since 2001. Thousands of people in the Ashanti Regional capital and beyond took to the streets of Kumasi for the walk in remembrance of victims of the Accra Sports Stadium soccer disaster 16 years ago that resulted in the death of 126 football fans. The fans are believed to have died from stampede that ensued after policemen on duty on the day fired several tear gas to…

Patrons of TV3’s reality show Talented Kidz Season 8 were wowed with breathtaking performances at the National Theatre on Sunday, May 7 by 8 out of 16 contestants who made it to the grand finale. The kids selected across the country converged at the premises of TV3 Network Limited weeks ago to exhibit their innate abilities. 9-year-old Erica Tandoh known on stage as DJ Switch beat off stiff competition from seven others in finals to emerge the eventual winner. She was presented with a cheque for GHc10,000, a  GHc6,000 educational fund and products from sponsors of the competition.  Naquel and Christian Morgan who also…

Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group have released at least 80 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in north-eastern Nigeria three years ago, officials say. The release reportedly came after talks with the government, though few details are confirmed. The abduction of the so-called “Chibok girls” triggered a global outcry and sparked a huge social media campaign. Before the latest release, about 195 of the girls were still missing. Sources told the BBC that the young women were now in the custody of the Nigerian army. They were brought by road convoy from a remote area to…

There is seeming tension in the governing New Patriotic Party in the Upper East region, after the Regional Minister allegedly caused the arrest of former Upper East regional chairman of the party, late Adams Mahama’s brother. Nuhu Mahama Akalbila was arrested by the police in the early hours of Saturday, TV3’s Upper East regional correspondent Rabiu Tanko reports. Though the reason behind his arrest is sketchy, he suspects the minister, Rockson Ayine Bukari, is only interested in abusing his office. Rabiu overhead the suspect, who was in the CID office at the Bolgatanga District Police Headquarters, claiming the Regional Minister…

Residents of Salaga North constituency in the Northern Region are in dire need of police protection following recent armed robbery attacks there. The lack of police presence in the area is posing threat to the lives of over thirty thousand people. As Ghana strives to meet the UN policing standard of one police officer to five hundred people, the situation for the sixty-five communities in the Salaga North Constituency is critical. The constituency is within the East Gonja District, about one hundred and ten kilometres drive from Tamale. Here, crop production and animal rearing are the main source of livelihood for…

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed that close co-operation between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire will be facilitated by a new initiative dubbed “An Agreement For a Strategic Partnership”, that will be signed by the two countries. This agreement, according to President Akufo-Addo, will bind Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire “in even closer intimacy and go beyond the bounds of the concept of the Permanent Joint Commission, which is the conventional tool for co-operation.” The President, in welcoming the initiative, stated that this Agreement would “embrace all aspects of our national lives, and, if undertaken with sincerity…

Lamenting about Ghanaians’ ‘unsatisfactory’ attitude towards work would not cause the needed attitudinal change, if the president and his appointees do not set example. That is the position of Dr. Ahmed Jinapor, Head of Department, Early Childhood Education at the University of Education Winneba. Going to work late and attending functions late by government officials will definitely portray the status quo as normal without requiring any urgent change, he observed. In his May Day address, President Akufo-Addo analysed, “We have no respect for the hours set aside for work; we pray, we eat, we visit during working hours. We spend hours chatting…

The Ghana Armed Forces has clarified that no Ghanaian soldier was affected in this week’s bomb attacks on peacekeepers in a UN compound in Timbuktu, Mali. Social media platforms were splashed with chilling pictures of injured soldiers in critical condition being attended to by paramedics after the attacks on Wednesday. Many presumed that Ghanaian troops maintaining peace in Mali could be part of the victims since the incident took place at camp that houses over 100 Ghanaian soldiers. But Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Armed Forces, Col. Eric Aggrey-Quashie said “no Ghanaian was affected in that attack” He…

Bulldog has finally disclosed the basis that made the alleged ‘feud’ between him and the self-proclaimed Dancehall King, Shatta Wale to part ways from their business in the entertainment industry. Bulldog and Shatta Wale were known in the industry to be attaining higher heights from the Ghanaian music industry to the world. The news broke out the two were no longer working together and it was unclear in the public domain what actually went wrong between the two buddies. According to Shata Wale’s former manager, the Dancehall musician reported him to the German police to detain him for about a…

Christian Atsu was 12 years old when, following the sudden death of his father, he declared: ‘I’m either going to be a doctor or a footballer’. Even today, 13 years on and sitting inside Newcastle United’s training ground in the wake of promotion to the Premier League, you can sense Atsu’s regret at his father’s passing in poverty-stricken Ghana. What it did do is serve as motivation for a boy who could have been lost to the streets of Ada Foah, the hometown where he played football in his bare feet until being spotted by scouts from Feyenoord’s west African…