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Labour economist at the University of Ghana, Dr. Baah Boateng has called on government to take a firm decision and strictly enforce compliance of the minimum wage. The country’s minimum wage currently stands at GHc8.80 which translates into a minimum monthly salary of GHc264, but many companies are paying their employees below the nationally agreed pay. A research conducted by the Trades Union Congress covering the period 2015 and 2016 has revealed that about 66 percent of workers in the informal sector are paid below the minimum wage. 20 percent of the underpaid workers are auto-mechanics and traders in textiles. The findings sampled…

Ten Deputy Regional Ministers nominated by President Nana Akufo-Addo would start appearing before Parliament’s Appointments Committee from March 14. Ranking member of the committee and Minority Leader, Haruna Iddirisu announced it during a media encounter with the parliamentary press corps on Tuesday. The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye, presented the list of Deputy Regional Ministers on Wednesday, March 1. According to the Minority Leader, even though the Chairman of the appointments committee, Joe Osei Owusu is out of the country, they hope to begin the vetting after further consultations with the Majority Leader. More to follow ___________________________________________________ Read Prez…

The Member of Parliament for Subin Constituency, Eugene   Boakye Antwi has called for an immediate investigations into the recent disturbances involving some police personnel and students of the Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI). About 14 people were injured when students of the KTI who were returning from the Kumasi Sports Stadium where they participated in an inter-collages athletic competition clashed with some police officers on January 14, 2017. The students who were celebrating their fourth place in the competition were said to have blocked roads leading to their school, causing serious vehicular traffic. A team of police officers were dispatched to…

Mental and epileptic patients in the Northern Region requiring medical care have shunned health facilities due to the absence of psychotropic medicines. Epilepsy, per statistics from the Ghana Health Service, accounts for about 65 per cent of health cases reported at the various health facilities in the region. According to the Northern Regional Mental Health Authority health facilities in the region have not received any consignment of psychotropic drugs and anti epileptic medicines for the treatment of epileptic and mentally ill patients. Currently, the benevolent organisations have become the only source of psychotropic medicines in the region. The situation, the…

Wife of Ghanaian footballer Sulley Ali Muntari, Menaye Donkor has revealed that she wasn’t ready for a relationship when she met the former Black Stars player because she wanted to travel and see the world. According to Menaye who was a guest on the Delay Show, she wanted to be independent and also felt a long distance relationships wasn’t the best for her. The two have been married for a couple of years and have a son called Jamal. Watch the video below; By Nana Afrane Asante/3news.com/Ghana

Ghana has for the fourth year running, participated in the prestigious Harvard University National Model United Nations (HNMUN) Conference in Boston, USA.  The conference was organized by the Harvard University, The Resolution Project and The Resolution Social Venture Challenge. Ghana’s delegation, led by the Executive Director of Life-Link Friendship Schools Ghana, Mr. Ernest Gyimah-Danquah included 12 students drawn from 4 tertiary institutions; the University of Ghana, University of Mines and Technology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the Ghana Institute of Journalism. They were selected to represent Ghana after emerging winners in a local contest held in Accra…

Ghana Rugby successfully completed two Rugby First Aid courses for 16 coaches and development officers at the Ghana Rugby Secretariat in Osu, Accra on Sunday, 5th March 2017. The first aid courses form part of the Training & Education Plan of the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) and were the first in a series of courses planned for 2017. The course was presented by Mr Hermann Bolou, a qualified World Rugby Trainer. According to Mr. Herbert Mensah, President of Ghana Rugby, the training and education of coaches and development officers is an essential building block of the overall development plan…

The host of Onua FM morning show “Yen Nsem Pa”, Bright Kwesi Asempa is not happy about the apparel of President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Ghana’s 60th anniversary parade, and questioned if the President did not believe in the cloth he commissioned for the year-long celebrations. According to the morning show host, it was as if the President and his vice together with their spouses concerted not to wear the anniversary cloth, adding that no amount of justification will suffice. “The President was the one who inaugurated and sanctioned the anniversary cloth, so why on the day of the anniversary…

Two babies were safely delivered on Ghana’s 60th independence day at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital in the Central Region. Although four deliveries were expected on the day, only two women were delivered as at 4:30pm on Monday, March 6, 2017. A midwife on duty,  Selasie Hanyabui said  “We have two deliveries today…and thankfully, Rebecca was one of them who delivered twins this morning at about 9:20; a male and a female but through cesarean section. “She is currently with her baby at the recovery ward for further observation and care before she will  be finally discharged” the midwife said.…

You may think the key to a promotion is working late, schmoozing with the boss, or wearing the right thing. But a new study suggests something more personal could be the secret. According to new research, people who orgasm at least once a day are far more likely to enjoy their jobs, work hard, and move up the career ladder. They also have a healthier work-life balance. ‘We make jokes about people having a “spring in their step,” but it turns out this is actually a real thing and we should pay attention to it,’ said Keith Leavitt, an associate…