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The eldest granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president and an anti-apartheid icon, has been urged to reconsider her decision no longer to vote for the governing African National Congress. Ndileka Mandela, 52, has been told she should instead help revive the party. She had earlier stated she no longer believed the ANC represented the values of her illustrious relative. Ms Mandela said the party was neglecting to care for the poor. “I will not be voting for something that does not resonate with me anymore, and does not resonate for what granddad and his comrades fought for,”…

Twenty people are confirmed dead and about 30 others injured at the Kintampo Waterfall in the Brong Ahafo Region where a tree has fallen off the top of the waterfall to the ground. Several others are feared trapped and personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service and the Police have arrived at the scene to rescue the victims.The deceased are believed to be mostly students from the Wenchi Methodist Secondary School who were on an excursion to the famous waterfall at the time of the incident. The Kintampo Police, which confirmed the late Sunday afternoon accident to TV3 correspondent Larry…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has left Accra for Geneva in Switzerland where he is to attend the 5th Africa CEO Forum. The Forum will bring together CEOs of the largest African and international companies, political decision makers from more than 40 African countries and investors on the continent. The president left Sunday and while there, he will hold meetings with Mr. Michael Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS; the Swiss Minister for Economic Affairs, Johann Schneider-Ammann; and with the Ghanaian community in Geneva. He is expected back home on Thursday, March 23, 2017. By 3news.com|Ghana

An early Sunday morning accident at Okyereko junction on the Kasoa-Winneba highway has left a woman dead and two persons unconscious with several others injured. The accident, which happened at about 6:00am and caused by a VW Golf salon car with registration number GT 1020 C, involved two Mercedes Benz Sprinter buses. An overtaking by the Golf car, driven by one Seth Mensah from Winneba to Accra, was said to have caused the two Sprinter buses to collide head-on killing the woman, who was occupying the front seat of one of the buses instantly. Driver of one of the buses…

Ghanaian footballer Mohammed Anas made a hilarious blunder in what is being called ‘the greatest man of the match speech of all time.’ Anas earned the award after putting in a stellar performance for his Free State Stars team in their 2-2 draw with Ajax Cape Town on Friday evening. After bagging the man of the match award with a standout two-goal display, Anas began his obligatory post-match interview with a revealing slip of the tongue. “Firstly I appreciate my fans,” he began. “(And) my wife and my girlfriend.” Anas stumbled for a second before realising his blunder, quickly clarifying…

One of Ghana’s failed presidential aspirants, Madam Akua Donkor, has condemned women who either abandon their newly born babies or throw them away in polyethylene bags, and called for such women to be killed when caught. Madam Akua DOnkor who is the founder and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party told the Ghana News Agency in Accra Friday that it is a criminal offence for any woman to engage in such act. She said an experience she had, where a baby boy was put in a polyethylene bag and abandoned at a place in Akwatia in the Eastern Region, has…

Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry has died aged 90, police in the US state of Missouri report. The singer was found unresponsive at lunchtime on Saturday, St Charles County police said. Berry’s seven-decade career boasted a string of hits, including classics Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B. Goode. He received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 1984 and was among the first inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In a statement on Facebook, the St Charles County Police Department said they were called to reports of an unresponsive man at 12:40 local time (17:40 GMT).…

Government is to roll out a programme under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) for agricultural investment in the Savannah Ecological Zone. The 7,160 million Euros programme is to contribute to the development of a sustainable, resilient and modernised agriculture in the ecological zone. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said this in a speech read on his behalf by Mr Kofi Dzamesi, the Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, at the annual “Paari Gbielle” Festival of the chiefs and people of the Tumu Traditional Area in the Sissala East District. He said government was also committed to fulfilling its campaign…

Some youth of the New Patriotic Party in Bawku Central in the Upper East Region say they are unhappy that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo did not appoint any of his ministers from the constituency. At a news conference on Saturday, the group numbering about 200, said despite the constituency’s loyalty to the Busia-Dombo tradition, none of the active and competent members of the party in the constituency was appointed a minister or deputy minister. Bawku Central is one of the strongholds of the NPP in the Upper East and the party receives big endorsement every election year. The constituency has been…

Rice farmers in the Volta Region who complained of losses in the past are now heaving a sigh of relief as their situation has been turned around with recent bumper harvest. The farmers are attributing the success story to financial, technical and continuous capacity building courses from some agricultural oriented nongovernmental organisations in the region. Despite the bumper harvest, the farmers are now faced with lack of ready market for their produce, and have thus appealed to government to enter into contract farming with them to ensure further increase in production in the region. Rice farmers, particularly the peasant farmers…