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The Regent of Dagbon, Kampakuya Na Abdulai Yakubu Andani, has sent a delegation of chiefs from the Northern Regional Traditional Council to the Tamale Teaching Hospital to render an unqualified apology to management. The august visit by the delegation led by the Guntingli Naa Kamaldeen Shahadu was to also assure the staff of the Hospital of their preparedness to defend and protect them against any further untoward action by any youth group in the region. Other members of the delegation were Secretar to the Gukpegu, Chief Mohammed Rashad Abdulai, Secretary to the Chief of Commence, Dakpama Mohammed Abdul Rashid, Registrar…

Mrs Thywill Eyra Kpe, Central Regional Director of the Department of Gender, has expressed worry and described as threatening the trend that suggest that teachers were among the top groups of people who impregnated teenage girls. “This is a bit threatening because we expect that the teachers will be custodians of these children and play the role of the parents during the day. “But if we find these same teachers who are supposed to teach the children to have good morals impregnating them, then its big challenge,” she stated. Mrs Kpe expressed this sentiment in an interview with the Ghana…

Managing Director of Capital and More Microfinance Company Limited, Akosua Oppong-Tawiah, has been adjudged the best Microfinance Personality of the Year 2016 for her outstanding contribution and expertise to the financial sub-sector. She has over the years helped in designing specially crafted products and services to meet specific needs of the unbanked in Ghana, particularly women and traders, something that continue to make significant contributions to the end user and society. Mrs Oppong-Tawiah received a plague and a citation for the award, which was given her at this year’s National Women in Finance Awards; Ghana’s prestigious and first-ever award that…

Snippets of information gathered by 3news.com have revealed plans by the government to dismiss most of the staff employed at Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) under the previous government from 2013. Sources suggest that the agency has already carried out a directive by the Agric Minister to the human resource department of COCOBOD to compile and supply him with list of persons employed from 2013. About 300 staff working at the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Quality Control Company (QCC), Seed Production Division (SPD), Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) and Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) will all be affected by…

Nana Yaw Opare[/caption] News anchor and co-host of ‘Yen Nsem Pa’ morning show on Onua FM, Nana Yaw Opare has joined host of identifiable groups and individuals calling on President Akufo-Addo to make good, promises he made during the 2016 elections. Yaw Opare underscored: “Nana Addo’s government cannot, will not and must not disappoint Ghanaians. He has six potential presidents in his government, so if he does not live any legacy I will be disappointed and people in my village New Jejeti shall also be disappointed.” Trade and Industry Minister John Alan Kwodwo Kyerematen, Minister for Railways and former Second…

A security analyst and chairman of the Civic Forum Initiative (CFI), has bemoaned the security lapses involving president Akufo-Addo’s security detail. A video that went viral of a cameraman facing president Akufo-Addo directly to take his shots, during the president’s maiden state of the nation address, has generated huge discussions in the media. Many have questioned why there seems to be continuous breach of security protocol around the president of the republic, particularly at public functions. Speaking with 3FM News, Major General Nii Carl Coleman (Retd) charged the security operatives to do more, in providing adequate security for the first…

Ghanaian actor James Gardiner may have just joined the list of elite Sheikhs by the looks of this photo. The talented actor was captured wearing a typical Keffiyeh which is wrapped around his head via an agal. The actor who doubles as a presenter on a tourism TV Series dubbed U tour on Metro TV may well be leading the way for potential investors from the UAE to invest in Ghana. Just in case anyone hasn’t heard, Sheikh Gardiner is in town and has definitely come to stay. The Keffiyeh is worn by men of all ages and it is…

Agricultural growth needs to move from donor-dependency to profitable trade-driven agriculture. That’s coming from the President Ghana Agricultural Chamber of Commerce. Some analysts have attributed the decrease in agricultural investment, as well as a decline in the performance of the agricultural sector to low public investments. Majority of Africa’s population live in the rural areas and agriculture is the main source of such dwellers’ livelihood.  Meanwhile, access to agricultural credit is a challenge in developing countries. The agric sector investments usually come from donor agencies rather than government committing its own resources to the sector. But President Ghana Agricultural Chamber…

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Barnard Allotey Jacobs has debunked reports that he has been suspended from the party over his comment on the alleged bribery scandal in Parliament. “It is not true. It is a fake news as Donald Trump put it”, the Chairman told Onua FM’s Yen Nsempa host, Bright Asempa on Friday. “If it is true that I have been suspended, there would have been a circular from the National Head Office signed by the General Secretary or National Organizer”. Rumour of his suspension flooded a section of both traditional and social…

Residents of Mamelodi, a community in Pretoria, South Africa have been locked up in their homes since last night due to protest against foreign nationals in that country. Shops, houses and businesses belonging to foreign nationals including Somalis, Pakistanis and Nigerians have been burnt and others looted. Some foreigners have sustained various degrees of injuries and are currently receiving treatment at various health facilities. A Ghanaian living in Pretoria in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Nsempa on Friday from South Africa recounted that Attridgeville, a suburb in Pretoria-West, started the protest by looting shops of foreign nationals. The protesters have barricaded…