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A 64-year-old woman has successfully given birth to healthy twins – a boy and a girl – in Burgos, northern Spain. The Recoletas Hospital delivered the twins by Caesarean section, the usual method in such rare cases. The unnamed woman had undergone fertility treatment in the US, Spanish media report. The hospital has posted a video clip of the Caesarean delivery. In 2012 the woman gave birth to a girl, who was later taken into care by social services, amid welfare concerns. Social workers said the girl was being brought up isolated, poorly clothed and with bad personal hygiene, the…

Gambian forces did not resist the ECOWAS troops when they entered The Gambia[/caption] Minister of Defense, Dominic Nitiwul has revealed that it cost the country 450,000 US dollars to transport troops that supported the ECOWAS forces during the precarious situation in The Gambia. About 205 soldiers were sent to the Senegal to back a joint regional force that had planned a military intervention when The Gambian former leader, Yahya Jammeh refused to step down after losing election. Briefing Parliament on Ghana’s involvement in the joint ECOWAS operation to secure The Gambia in January, the minister explained that the country spent…

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has noted the desire of Government to use oil revenues to finance campaign promise of free Senior High School (SHS) education. ACEP has been campaigning for the use oil revenue to finance the pro-poor sectors of education and agriculture for four years. Therefore, we cannot, in principle, be against the use of oil revenue to finance education. However, we want to alert government that the petroleum revenues are governed by the Petroleum Revenue Management Act, Act 815, which was passed after deep consultation with citizens. In spite of many implementation challenges, the PRMA…

Matthew Opoku Prempeh[/caption] Teacher unions have protested against threat by the Education Minister; Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh that basic and second cycle school heads who record 90 percent failure in their schools final exams will be sacked. The unions accused the minister of failing to identify problems that confronts the educational sector before making that pronouncement. The Education Minister while addressing heads of senior high schools (SHS) in Kumasi as part of a two-day familiarization visit to the Ashanti Region emphasized that any school head who superintends over a failure of over 90% cannot be allowed to stay in office.…

A member of hiplife music group, 4×4, Raphael Edem Avornyo has narrated his near-fatal accident which has temporarily confined him into a wheel chair. Known in showbiz as Coded, Avornyo on Wednesday, February 8, had his Kia Sportage saloon car rammed into by a Toyota Camry at about 10pm, leaving the front part of the car badly damaged. He suffered some bruises on his left arm amidst complains of pains at the back of his head. Speaking exclusively to TV3 entertainment reporter, Owusu Worae, Coded narrated the horrific incident which has left him in a wheelchair but remained optimistic. “I…

The National Petroleum Authority has rejected claims by the Institute of Energy Security on a projected shortage of fuel in the next 12 days. The IES called on the NPA to swiftly implement measures to avert what it described as an imminent fuel shortage in the next twelve days. The development follows IES reports of low levels of fuel stocks by the Tema Oil Refinery and the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST). The Institute also explains that the shortfall has been occasioned by the temporary shutdown of TOR due to the explosion of a furnace. According to the energy…

Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has denied he confessed to the chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Joe Osei-Owusu, that the allegation of bribery against the Committee was a frame-up. Describing the claim by Mr Osei-Owusu as “malicious and cancerous fabrication”, Mr Ablakwa vowed to go all out to let the truth in the bribery allegation against the Committee members prevail. The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga alleged last month that the Minister of Energy Boakye Agyarko attempted to bribe some members of the Appointments Committee to approve his nomination after a…

This week, Ghanaians have been discussing an announcement by the government that free Senior High school education will begin in September of 2017. The debate has largely been whether it should be free for all or that government must employ “targeting”,  meaning only those who can’t genuinely pay for secondary education  must be sponsored. “By free SHS we mean that in addition to tuition which is already free, there will be no admission fee, no library fee, no science centre fee, no computer lab fee, no examination fee, and no utility fee; there will be free text books, free boarding…

Brong Ahafo Regional Minister-designate, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh and the Sunyani Traditional Council have settled their differences, which put the Council and the New Patriotic Party on a collision course prior to last year’s general elections. Mr Asomah-Cheremeh, who is the Regional Chairman of the NPP condemned the Paramount Chief of the Council, Nana Bosoma Asor Nkrawiri, when he declared support for former President John Mahama in the 2016 presidential elections Nana Nkrawiri projected an overwhelming victory of between 70 and 80 per cent for then President Mahama; something that Mr Asoma-Cheremeh found unbecoming of a chief and described it as unacceptable…

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has commended the Ghana Armed Forces as well as former President John Mahama and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for their role in bringing peace to  The Gambia. “We have found at last an African Solution to an African problem,” he proudly declared on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday. He was excited that the sub-regional body ECOWAS did not wait for help from elsewhere but found it expedient to act swiftly. And in that arrangement Ghana played a leading role, he observed, adding that the current president and his predecessor ought…