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Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Mustapha Ussif, has pledged to ensure that the scheme’s Agriculture Project is supported to enable it to contribute to the Planting for Food and Jobs Policy. Mr Ussif said this when he paid a working visit to the Nungua and Papao farms of the Scheme to inspect the delivery of 15,000 day-old chicks and Guinea fowls to the farms. He was accompanied by Dr Gifty Oware-Aboagye, the Deputy Director in Charge of Finance and Administration, NSS, Madam Anas Zanoo, the Greater Accra Regional Director, and some staff of the secretariat. Mr Ussif…

Two people have been confirmed dead and seven others injured in a renewed violent chieftaincy confrontation in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. Several houses and properties have also been burnt in the incident which started Saturday evening at a funeral grounds at Atulbabisi community in the Bolga municipality. It is not clear exactly what triggered the clash between the two royal gates which are caught up in a protracted chieftaincy dispute over who is the rightful chief to succeed the late Paramount chief of Bolgatanga Traditional area, Naaba Martin Abilba II. Two chiefs are currently laying claim to the…

Deputy Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Paul Essien, has appealed to the chiefs and people of the Nkonya-Alavanyo Traditional areas in the Volta Region to smoke the peace pipe. Mr Essien made the appeal to Nana Otubea II, the Paramount Queenmother of Nkonya Traditional Area, and Mamaga Ametor II, the Paramount Queenmother of Alavanyo Traditional Area, at the graduation ceremony of the Otumfuo Centre for Traditional Leadership (OCTL) of the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) Accra. He said peace and stability were critical for the socioeconomic development of the nation and, therefore, there was the need for the chiefs…

Residents of Tsetsekasum community in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region have fled the community to seek refuge in neighbouring communities following attack on them. A protracted land dispute has led to the burning of houses including the palace of the Chief of Tsetsekasum by some members the feuding faction in the area on May 7. Tsetsekasum is a farming community with Citrus being the main cash crop cultivated in the area. With a population of more than 500, the once bustling community has now turned a ghost town as the usual bustling, especially in the morning,…

Ghanaians do not particularly love numbers. We tend to be quite lax, especially with figures that have to do with age. Someone’s date of birth or age is not considered important and very rarely features in any story about that person. I know that in many parts of the world, once you are born and you acquire a date of birth, it stays with you. It is unchangeable and you die with it. In Ghana, it is common to see notices in newspapers announcing a change in someone’s date of birth. This often happens when a working person’s date of…

A government of Ghana-registered school bus for the Evangelical Presbyterian College is captured being used to carry firewood, ostensibly for the school’s kitchen, to prepare meals for students. Questions are being raised on social media by some people about why the school should use a passenger bus to carry such goods whereas there could be pick-up vehicles but others have defended the school authorities for the act on the basis they might be handicapped. But could this be a case of necessity compels the butcher to kill the cat? Share and let’s debate the issue By 3news.com|Ghana

Mukesh V. Thakwani, the founder of Delhi Public School (DPS) International Ghana, Tema has been rewarded by the high-status international Socrates Committee of the Europe Business Assembly. He gained the “Best Educator’ for the year 2016 in a ceremony held at Oxford University in the United Kingdom (UK) for his hard work and accomplishments. The award is for his contribution towards education. Winning this international fame beside other regional and national recognitions, demonstrates the high standard and quality of education being offered by DPS International, Ghana. The counsel of the International Socrates Committee representing leaders within the business, education and…

A mentally deranged homeless woman who was impregnated by a stranger on the street of Accra, has received a rare miracle; she has regained her mental sanity with the delivery of twins. Prior to being impregnated and during pregnancy, Ama who now lives under the Mallam interchange bridge with her month-old twins, could not remember her family or anything about her past. Ghana’s Social Welfare is to adopt the twins while it takes Ama to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital for psychiatry evaluation to enable a decision to be taken on her and the twins. Watch the story of Ama by TV3’s Odilia Agyeman…

The Catholic Relief Services in collaboration with the International Fertilizer Development Center has supplied 1,080 farmers in the Northern region with certified seeds for the 2017 farming season under the Agriculture Technology Transfer programme. The farmers who were selected from six districts namely the Mion, Saboba, Tolon, Chereponi, West Mamprusi and West Gonja were supplied with starter pack of their preferred seeds. Traditional farming method continues to be the most practiced and preferred way of farming in most communities in the Northern region. The practice which allows farmers to recycle grains seems to be the most adopted method owing to the high cost…