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File photo[/caption] Ghana Atomic Energy Commission has admitted owing the Electricity Company of Ghana over five hundred thousand Ghana cedis (GHc 500,000). According to the Commission, the amount was owed before it was rolled onto the prepaid metering system in 2015, which also added to woes of the Commission. Speaking in an interview with 3FM 92.7 on Monday, February 13, 2017, the Director General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Professor Benjamin Nyarko said the situation has put “so much pressure on the IDF [Internally Generated Fund] that we are unable to buy electricity for all the laboratories.” Consequently, it…

Management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital has banned doctors at the hospital from eating from its own canteen, which is currently running at a loss, and has outsourced the feeding of doctors to a food joint outside the hospital called Med Diner, 3FM News can confirm. This hospital’s canteen was built in 1980 to prepare food for medical and other staff of the hospital as well as patients on admission. However, the canteen has for years been running at a loss due to an inflated contract signed between the hospital and L. B. Foods that supplies food items to the…

The Secretary of the regent of Bimbilla, Alhassan Sualisu has blamed the security for the killings in Bimbilla. He said after informing the police of the enskinment of the warrior chiefs, the police provided security to facilitate it and said traditionally, the enskinment takes place in the evening but upon the advice of the police and the BNI, the event was scheduled in the afternoon which they complied with. Speaking to 3news.com from Bimbilla, he said all the seven eskined chiefs got back to their respective villages without any problem but the security in Bimbilla informed the regent that some…

A court in Pakistan has banned public celebrations of Valentine’s Day in the capital, Islamabad, on the grounds that it is not part of Muslim culture. The Islamabad High Court’s order prohibits all Valentine’s Day festivities in government offices and public spaces with immediate effect. It also directs the media not to promote or cover Valentine’s events. The orders were a response to a private petition which argued that Valentine’s Day was contrary to Islamic teaching. According to the Dawn newspaper, the petition argued that the festival promoted immorality, nudity and indecency under the cover of spreading love. Valentine’s Day…

A court in Pakistan has banned public celebrations of Valentine’s Day in the capital, Islamabad, on the grounds that it is not part of Muslim culture. The Islamabad High Court’s order prohibits all Valentine’s Day festivities in government offices and public spaces with immediate effect. It also directs the media not to promote or cover Valentine’s events. The orders were a response to a private petition which argued that Valentine’s Day was contrary to Islamic teaching. According to the Dawn newspaper, the petition argued that the festival promoted immorality, nudity and indecency under the cover of spreading love. Valentine’s Day…

The country’s leading television station, TV3 Network in partnership with mobile network operator, Tigo, will hold its annual blood donation drive aimed at increasing the stock of blood at the National blood bank that can be accessed by patients. The event, which will be held at the premises of TV3 on Saturday, 18th February 2017 has over the years saved thousands of lives, who have had to depend on blood at critical times of their ailments. In recent years, there have been reports of the National Blood Bank becoming empty due to insufficient stocks especially during special occasions where lots…

Chairman of the Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (CSPOG) has charged the new head of Ghana Gas Company [caption id="attachment_42572" align="alignright" width="300"] Dr. Anthony Ben Asante[/caption] Limited to create jobs for inhabitants in the surrounding areas it operates. Dr. Steve Manteaw believes that development has eluded parts of the Nzema land, an area the Mahama-led administration couldn’t do much on. Dr. Manteaw’s call on Onua News on Monday is in reference to a group calling itself Nzema Youth Association from the Western Region that is opposing the appointment of the new Chief Executive Officer for Ghana Gas, Dr. Anthony…

Otiko Afisa Djaba[/caption] The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba has called on former President John Mahama to rather apologize to the people of the three northern regions for his failure to implement the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) successfully. The minister says the people in the north wanted the government to improve their standard of living with SADA but he failed and that calls for an apology to the people of Ghana, especially those in the north. The Gender Minister has rebuffed calls on her to apologise to former president John Mahama for describing how…

You finally found a guy who’s not just great, but amazing. He’s charming. He’s helpful. He’s a great listener. The moment he came into your life, things instantly improved. Even your mother liked him. Everyone did. For the first few months, everything was magical. The relationship was perfect. Sure, you hit a few minor bumps that seemed like they could be red flags, but you figured everyone has bad days and he would never intend to be such a jerk. Besides, he apologized. Except that lately, you’re the one doing all the apologizing. You don’t always know what you did…

You finally found a guy who’s not just great, but amazing. He’s charming. He’s helpful. He’s a great listener. The moment he came into your life, things instantly improved. Even your mother liked him. Everyone did. For the first few months, everything was magical. The relationship was perfect. Sure, you hit a few minor bumps that seemed like they could be red flags, but you figured everyone has bad days and he would never intend to be such a jerk. Besides, he apologized. Except that lately, you’re the one doing all the apologizing. You don’t always know what you did…