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She delightedly announced her pregnancy just hours before. And Beyonce, who is expecting twins, shared an intimate insight into her pregnancy atop life with her husband Jay Z and five-year-old daughter Blue Ivy in an onslaught of personal snaps shared to her website on Thursday. The 35-year-old songstress posted the images with the caption: ‘I have three hearts’ emblazoned across, in reference to her two babies, while giving a rare glimpse into her wedding day, holidays with her family and stunning behind the scenes shots of her life. In her stunning announcement on Wednesday, Beyonce posed in just a bra and knickers in an…

Forty-eight-year-old Yaw Boakye has been confined to one place for eight months in the open without succor.  He became paralysed after he slipped and fell one morning while brushing his teeth at Tema station in Accra, where he used to ply his trade. He has not had a proper bath for months. Family and friends have deserted him so he has no one to help him get shelter when it rains and gets scorched by the sun daily. Not only is Yaw Boakye unable to walk or stand, but his speech is also impaired due to the paralysis. In a conversation with…

The Ghana Meteorological Agency has admitted that it failed to alert the public ahead of Tuesday’s rainstorm which caused substantial damage to property with trees and giant billboards falling off, blocking roads and causing traffic in parts of Accra and the Eastern region. According to the Head of Forecast at the Meteorological Agency, Joe Tetteh Portuphy in an interview with TV3 said “in our system, we have bulk radio and TV stations, Ghana Police, NADMO, National Security, Ministries of Communication and Information. “So whoever is sending that data out must make sure that he includes all these outfits so if…

The National Service Scheme has described as false, assertions that the Akufo-Addo government has refused to approve for payment, the recent increment in the allowances of national service personnel. The John Mahama-led government on December 14, 2016 increased the allowance of service personnel by about 60 per cent. Thus Service personnel were effective January 2017, to be paid a monthly allowance of GHC559 from the previous GH350. However, service personnel at the end of January 2017 were paid the old GHC350, an action that triggered agitation by the personnel who are demanding that they are paid the new increment. But…

A nongovernmental organization, NORSAAC, says it would not be acceptable, if less than seven females are appointed as Metropolitan, Municipal, District Chief Executives in the Northern region. NORSAAC says it will hold the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government to its 2016 campaign promise to appoint thirty per cent women as MMDCEs. The Ghana Statistical Service in its population census since 1960 has always purged female within 15-54 years exceeding males within the same years at an average of 1.56%, however, history is yet to be made where there has been 20% women representation in decision making process. A maximum of…

New government appointees to the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies in the Central Region are to be sworn in on Friday. A statement from the Central Regional Coordinating Council signed by the Chief Director, Kwame Oppong, directed all the assemblies within the region to liaise with the various district magistrates to facilitate the swearing in of the appointees. It said following the revocation of all appointees of the previous administration, a list of new appointees nominated by the current government, was submitted to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development for consideration. Under the current Local Government Act,…

Former Ghana international and Black Stars scout Ibrahim Tanko says he has given Coach Avram Grant all he needs to enable the Black Stars beat Cameroon when the two nations face off in Thursday’s semi final clash. Tanko, since June 2013, was an assistant to German Volker Finke at the helm of the Indomitable Lions and also guided the team to the 2014 World Cup in Germany. The last time these two sides met was at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2008 hosted in Ghana but the Black Stars were 1-0 losers on the day. Speaking on Metro TV’s…

Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahmudu Bawumia has given the strongest indication yet that NPP government would pass the Rights to Information Act this year as part of efforts to effectively fight corruption. The Vice President further indicated that plans are in place to make corruption a felony instead of a misdemeanor which it currently is. Dr. Bawumia said “President Nana Akufo Addo has reiterated his commitment to fight corruption. Our government has already made it clear that we will be passing the Right to Information Act, we will make sure that a special prosecutor’s office is set up to prosecute…

Some of the cars taken away by the security operatives[/caption] The Majority Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso in the Ashanti Region, Kennedy Kankam has condemned the conduct of the security personnel who went to the residence of NDC National Organizer Kofi Adams in a bid to retrieve vehicles suspected to belong to the state. According to former Ashanti Regional organizer of the NPP, who described the actions of the security men who undertook the exercise as ‘Rambo Style’, there are other civil ways of approaching the situation without necessarily invading the house in his absence. He made these comments when…

There is high risk of corruption in the country’s basic education sector, which threatens to lower the standard of teaching and learning, research by Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), an anticorruption agency, has found. The risk factors identified include the payment of bribes by parents to gain favours for their children; illegal charging of fees by school authorities; selling of books meant for pupils; and teacher absenteeism. Others include cumbersome bureaucratic processes that breed poor supervision; and ignorance on the part of community members and local institutions (Parent Teachers Association and School Management Committees). Most of these risks were more widespread…