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It’s all change at the top of the Ghana Premier League after match day 10 across seven league centers. West Africa Football Academy are the new league leaders after they chalked a 3-0 win over AshagtiGold in Sogakope to continue their fantastic run of form. Obeng Apem, Daniel Lomotey and Gideon Waja scored the goals to take WAFA two points clear of Aduana Stars who have a game in hand. Aduana themselves needed a late Bright Adjei equalizer away at Liberty Professionals to earn a point and hold onto second place after captain Samuel Sarfo had given Liberty the lead.…

Government is to revamp the Sunyani Airport which has been out of use for the past two years, Aviation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has announced. The Sunyani Airport which used to serve domestic flights has been out of use partly due to structural defects that have affected both the tarmac and the runway. At a day’s working to the Airport, the minister expressed concerns about encroachment on the Airport lands, a situation she observed would make it difficult for immediate extension to be done. Madam Dapaah used the occasion to meet with two chiefs, Nana Kwame Korang and Nana Kwesi…

Gambians will today vote for members of their one-chamber parliament. They are the first polls since Yahya Jammeh left power after more than 22 years as president. Mr Jammeh sparked a political and constitutional crisis by refusing to leave office following his defeat in the December 2016 presidential election. He finally headed for exile on 21 January after neighbouring countries threatened to remove him by force. His successor Adama Barrow, who is a political novice, has pledged to carry out political, security and media reforms. As part of his proposed reforms, he is setting up a truth and reconciliation commission…

A nun in Chile is suing the religious order she belonged to after its members pressured her to leave her convent over her pregnancy. The nun became pregnant after she was raped by a man carrying out repairs at the convent. She alleges that, when her fellow sisters found out about her pregnancy, they pressured her to leave the convent and the Church. Her lawyer says the sisters blamed her for having been raped. She is suing the Archbishopric of Santiago and the Order of St Clare. The Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago, Rt Rev Jorge Concha, said that the nun…

A nun in Chile is suing the religious order she belonged to after its members pressured her to leave her convent over her pregnancy. The nun became pregnant after she was raped by a man carrying out repairs at the convent. She alleges that, when her fellow sisters found out about her pregnancy, they pressured her to leave the convent and the Church. Her lawyer says the sisters blamed her for having been raped. She is suing the Archbishopric of Santiago and the Order of St Clare. The Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago, Rt Rev Jorge Concha, said that the nun…

The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Aduagyire, Annor Dompreh has urged the presidency to wean itself off the Scholarship Secretariat and allow an independently constituted body to run the agency. This, he said, will ensure that political influences are reduced to the barest minimum. It will also enable professionals with expertise in scholarship administration to manage and strengthen the secretariat to deliver on its mission. Making a statement on the floor of Parliament on reforming and decentralizing the operations of the scholarship secretariat, the MP indicated that the operations of the secretariat do not appear to be regulated by any statute.…

The Tamale Teaching Hospital has for three consecutive years, recorded an upsurge in maternal mortality; something authorities have blamed on overcrowded wards and late transfer of critical cases to the facility among others. Since its upgrade to a teaching hospital almost a decade ago, authorities have been putting measures in place to stem maternal mortality but a total of 27 cases were recorded in 2014, 39 in 2015 and 66 in 2016, figures from the facility showed. Authorities say overcrowding of wards, unstable power and water supply as well as delays in transferring critical labour cases by some peripheral institutions…

Small scale mining companies would not be able to renew their licence until the menace of illegal mining (galamsey) is addressed, Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Peter Amewu has declared. He has also issued a moratorium on the application and issuance of new licence to persons seeking to go into small scale mining. Announcing this on TV3’s Midday Live on Wednesday, Mr. Amewu said the suspensions would be on hold “until I begin to see some sanity in the system”. The issue of galamsey has gained national attention eliciting spontaneous and concerted efforts from all quarters to clamp down on…

Right at the center of many a discussion today is the decision of the Ghana Police Service to accept a GHc50,000.00 donation from the Chairman of the Ghana Association of Chinese Societies, Mr Tang Hong towards the construction of the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS) Headquarters at the Nima Police Station in Accra. Mr. Tang Hong, is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CAITEC Group, and claims that he decided to donate when COP/Mrs. Osei-Poku approached him for assistance for the construction of the facility. According to the former Director-General of PIPS, COP Joana Osei-Poku (Rtd), the donation is…

She loves to show a lot of skin and many have suggested it is her way of getting attention to herself and her music but Dancehall musician, Ebony says they are far from the truth. This is because she has been wearing skimpy or revealing clothes way before she entered into music. Thus everything you see is a true representation of who she is because she does not fake her identity. Yes, she is a bad girl and she is proud to be one “The bad girl brand people see out there is a true representation of me. This is…