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Former Information Minister, Nana Akomea although concedes that agitation over the number of the president’s ministers is legitimate, the clamoring would soon be overshadowed by the output of the ministers. “There can be no doubt that president Akufo-Addo’s government is the largest in the Fourth Republic,” he acknowledged in a facebook post. Nonetheless, Nana Akomea pointed out, “For now, these numbers are an issue, and the concerns being raised about them are legitimate, a expected, and in order, just as the NPP in opposition raised them. If he indeed begins to deliver concretely on his transformational agenda, then the numbers will…

Mr Herbert Mensah, President of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), has joined the Board of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) after his election as one of the five representatives for Olympic sports. Rugby Union was only readmitted as Olympics Sport after a 93-year absence. Shortly after the 1924 games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped rugby union as an Olympic sport. Since then there have been numerous attempts to bring the sport back to the Olympic programme. In October 2009 the IOC voted at its session in Copenhagen to include the sevens version of the sport in the 2016…

The European Parliament has imposed severe sanctions on a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP), for unsavory comments he made against women. Janusz Korwin-Mikke, who made the comments during a debate in the parliament, was sanctioned by President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani. The sanctions are unprecedented. The far-right Polish MEP during a March 1 debate on the gender pay gap, said “Of course women must earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller, and they are less intelligent that’s all.” But the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, said he “will…

Guinness Ghana Limited has pledged its support for government’s “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme, stating that it would boost the use of local raw materials by manufacturing companies, and at the same time help to create jobs for thousands of Ghanaians. According to Mr. Francis Agbonlahor, Managing Director of Guinness Ghana, the company made a key decision some 5 years ago to use local raw materials for the production of its beverages. Within a 4 year period, the company had increased its use of local raw materials from 12% to the current level of 48%. It is in…

Quality makeup can come with an eye-watering price tag, so it’s no wonder women want to get their money’s worth by using up every last drop. But according to beauty insiders, eking your favourite cosmetics products out could lead to a range of health problems, from breakouts to bacterial infections – even if you’re cleaning your makeup brushes and sponges regularly. Indeed, you should be throwing out mascara every four to six months, while makeup sponges should be changed every four weeks according to Joanne Dodds at Hairtrade.com. So are you following or falling foul of these beauty rules? Read…

Teenage girls in basic and junior high schools at Gnani, a community in the Yendi District of the Northern Region, are rejecting sexual abstinence for family planning methods to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The crave for sex among the teenagers, some of who are as young as 14 years and betrothed to older men, has forced seven girls of the Gnani Basic School to adopt family planning methods at the community’s Health Centre since January this year. Officials of the facility say the girls mostly visit the health centre on the blindside of their parents and those they are betrothed to,…

Large sacks containing bundles of “crispy” banknotes worth a total of $155,000 (£130,000) have been seized at a Nigerian airport, officials say. The cash, in the local naira currency, was found near Kaduna airport’s check-in and was still in sealed packs. An investigation is under way to trace the source of the cash, a spokesman for Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says. Tackling corruption was a key election pledge for President Muhammadu Buhari. “Operatives [of the EFCC] intercepted a sum of 49m naira in five large black 150kg… sacks following a tip off,” the EFCC said on its…

Pressure has begun mounting on the newly constituted board of the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) on what it should prioritise within its mandate. The 11-member board inaugurated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo this week with a task on the members to find practical solutions to Ghana’s energy crisis. It is also to advise the government on the way forward on the implementation of the Compact two of the millennium challenge account which is geared towards improving the country’s power sector. Even before the board begins its work, the Senior Staff Association of the Electricity Company of Ghana is urging…

Two financial analysts have predicted the Ghanaian cedi, which has been depreciating against major trading currencies, will stabilise by the end of the first quarter of the year. The cedi has in the last few days seen a marginal appreciation against the US dollar and currently sells at GHC4.30 dollars to a dollar. Fiscal slippages occasioned by over spending during the 2016 elections, imports during the last Christmas festivities and repatriation of profit by multinationals have been blamed for the cedis’ fall in value. Economist courage Kinsley Martey says the seeming stability will continue to the end of the year…

Investigation by the Ghana Education Service in the Upper West Region has revealed that senior high school girls in the region are being lured into relationships with men, including married men. According the Regional Education Directorate, its survey has showed an alarming rate at which the school girls are being lured with mobile phones by the men, and has warned against the practice. The regional director, Madam Patricia Ayeko, who made the revelation to TV3 said the men buy mobile phones for the girls who later in the night sneak out of their school dormitories to meet with these men.…