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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed former Ghana ambassador to Australia under the Mahama regime, Mrs Mercy Yvonne Debrah-Karikari, as Secretary to the Cabinet, effective February 14, 2017. She becomes the first woman in Ghana’s history to hold this position. Her appointment, which was announced Thursday, is pursuant to Article 76(3) of the Constitution, the President of the Republic. Ambassador Debrah-Karikari is a career diplomat, and was until her appointment, Ghana’s High Commissioner to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and other countries in the Pacific region. She was appointed High Commissioner by former…

Glenn Hoddle, Harry Redknapp, and Zico are some of the names being linked with the Black Stars coaching job which gets grander by the day. Officially, Ghana is not looking for a new coach. Unofficially, the Ghana Football Association is looking and many coaches around the world are leaking their interests through intermediaries to ensure that when the process becomes official, they will be there and about in the mix. As the GFA considers its next step, the communication and PR machinery of many coaches are in full gear. Former French international Willy Sagnol claimed he was in advanced talks…

While Avram Grant has packed his bags and left Ghana as coach for the Black Stars, two of the backroom staff he employed during that period are still locked in a battle to get paid as Ghana racks up more bills on them. The Ghana Football Association and the Ministry of Youth and Sports are still grappling with the fallout from that departure Gerrard Nus, a Spaniard who worked as video analyst for Grant and Jamie Lawrence who was his physical trainer during the 2015 and 2017 Nations Cups are having a hard time getting paid. They have remained at…

Former President John Dramani Mahama will later today – Thursday to be decorated with the African Political Leader of the Year Award in Johannesburg, South Africa for his contributions towards deepening and enriching Ghana’s democracy and his towering status as one of Africa’s best. The African Leadership Magazine, organizers of the awards said “Africa has found in you and leaders like you, the perfect Apostles of Good Governance and Democracy, who would help in spreading the gospel to the rest of the continent.” Mr. Mahama is also expected to be presented with the Georgia Congressional Commendation from the Georgia Legislative…

As I was going about my usual daily activities of wandering around looking for someone’s issue to poke my nose into, I heard of some stories from Opanyin Kwaku Dompe’s radio while I was passing behind his window this morning. Well, as expected, I eavesdropped on the discussion that ensued between Opanyin and his Son, who has just returned from the city, after they had listened to the issue of missing cars. The issue concerned a purported revelation by the government that the erstwhile administration has stolen, appropriated, converted, taken, amassed, thieved…..in fact, used and refused to return more than…

The office of the C.E.O of the Tamale Teaching Hospital Dr Prosper Akanbong has been opened after almost forty-eight-hour closure by some members of the New Patriotic Party vigilante group Kandahar in Tamale. His office was opened exactly at 11:29am Thursday, February 23, 2017 led by two female officers from the Criminal Investigative Division of the Northern Regional Police Command together with the Head of Security at the Tamale Teaching Hospital Alhaji Baba Zakaria. Dr Proper Akanbong who was also present when the door was opened, left shortly after making his first entry to his office in about forty eight…

The neonatal unit of the 37 military hospital has been closed down for the next 5 days for a routine fumigation exercise. The unit would be reopened to the public on Monday, February 27. The management of the hospital says the exercise would ensure the environment of operations is sanitized for better services. Earlier, there were reports that some five babies had lost their lives at the hospital’s neonatal unit due to an infection. But public relations officer of the hospital, Major Gariba Pabi has dismissed that information. He explained the fumigation exercise is routine for all sensitive departments of…

Former Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Enoch Teye Mensah says he supports the initiative of government to make Senior High School education free for all Ghanaians.  Speaking on 3FM’s morning show, Sunrise, the veteran politician said that, “I will go for Free SHS. We have oil etc. We must find the money, we can find… When Nkrumah didn’t have oil, he gave us Free SHS. So, for that one, I support it 100 percent”. He told the host of Sunrise, Winston Amoah that Ghana owes its greatness among the global community to the Free Education policy initiated by the country’s…

The Deputy Minority Leader, James Klutse Avedzi has indicated his support for a review by the NPP government of all power agreements signed by the erstwhile NDC administration. The Member of Parliament for Ketu North was among a stakeholder panel to review President Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address on 3FM’s Morning show –Sunrise. Speaking to Sunrise host Winston Amoah, Mr. Avedzi said, “I support [it], the President should review it. I believe strongly that he is doing it in the interest of Ghana. So if he thinks that there is any of those agreements that needs to be renegotiated…

Popular TV personality and comedian Kwame Dzokoto has spoken about his desire to put his entertainment career on hold, to pursue a law course and become a legal practitioner in the near future. The comedian veered into politics in 2016 contesting the Tarkwa Nsuaem parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC but was ridiculed by his opponent who told him in the face that serious minds and not comedians were needed in parliament. He lost his seat by over 18, 000 margin. He reveals his decision in the video below Nana Afrane Asante/3news.com/Ghana]]>