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In-laws do not have the right to dissolve ordinance marriages, Mr. Francis Bennett Adams, Registrar of Marriage at the Sekondi- Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has said. He thus advised in-laws to stop interfering in the marriages of their children, saying, “yours is to pray for the couples to see the marriage work rather than siding with one party in the case of complaints and problems and then fight for divorce”. Mr. Adams, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said only the courts had the power to dissolve marriages under ordinance, not family members. The Registrar of Marriage also…

The Minority in Parliament have accused President Nana Akufo-Addo of largely creating new ministerial positions to satisfy friends. A section of Ghanaians also questioned the need to create ministries such as Sanitation as well as Regional Reorganisation and Special Projects. “It is evidently clear that His Excellency President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is on a mission to find jobs for the boys,”former Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Inusah Fuseini told TV3 in parliament on Wednesday. He also mocked and called the Sanitation ministry as “a ministry for Zoomlion). But some members in the Majority think the new creations were…

Anas Aremeyaw Anas has been retained as the Most Influential Young Ghanaian for 2016 in a ranking poll organised by the reputed rating establishment Avance Media. Anas, the globally renowned investigative journalist, who is also the CEO of Tiger Eye PI has been endorsed as a great source of inspiration for the second year in a row for his impactful works in Leadership and personal pursuit to make the world a better place through investigative journalism. Public votes which drew participation from over 80 countries across the world also endorsed Ameyaw Debrah, West Han United’s Dede Ayew, Valley View University’s…

Outspoken Ghanaian professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, is warning of serious threats, including legal battles, to the implementation of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s plan to create additional regions. He argues the creation of new regions will be “very difficult, nearly impossible” due to the absence of explicit provisions in the 1992 constitution, which state who qualifies to particpate in a referendum for such exercise. President Akufo-Addo in the run up to the December 7, 2016 elections promised to create a new region, Western North, out of the current Western Region to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources. He promised…

Only persons accredited would be allowed into the room where ministers-designate would be vetted, Parliament’s Appointments Committee has served notice.  The committee is preparing to issue accreditation to few people that would be invited by persons nominated by President Akufo-Addo to serve in the various ministries, in order for them to observe the vetting process. The decision is seen as a cure to a worrying phenomenon in the past where the vetting room is filled with large followers of persons being vetted. Speaking on Yen Nsempa morning show on Onua FM hosted by Bright Akwasi Asempa, the Majority Leader Osei…

The 2017 edition of the African Cup of Nations kicks off on Saturday January 14 in Gabon with the best football nations meeting to battle it out for the ultimate prize. 3news.com takes a look at the various groups and how they would be fairing in the tournament. GABON The Panthers will be playing in their seventh Africa Cup of Nations tournament when they host the rest of Africa in 2017. After exiting in the group stages last time out, Gabon will be aiming to, at least, go a step further this time around. Backed by Spanish tactician Jose Antonio…

Democratic governance think tank, Centre for Democratic Development – Ghana, has put forth 10 measures, which it wants the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government to implement within his first year to ensure accountability and responsive governance. “The Center therefore expects the Akufo-Addo/NPP administration to implement, at the minimum, the following measures within its first year in office in order to make a credible dent in the challenge of accountable and responsive governance in Ghana’s 4th Republic,” it said. 1. Curb endemic corruption and promote integrity in public life by vigorously enforcing the provisions of the Public Office…

Lawyer for hiplife artiste, Eugene Ashie, aka Wisa Greid, has indicated that he will file a submission of no case for his client who is being accused for displaying his penis on stage. According to the attorney, Mr. Jerry Avernogbor, the prosecution for the past one year had not been able to present any substantial prosecution witness to collaborate their case against his client. Mr Avernogbor made his intention known when Ms Jessica Opare Saforo, Programmes Manager of Citi FM, an Accra based radio station who was the Master of Ceremony for the Concert testified before the court. Ms Saforo…

The residents holding placards to sum up their demands[/caption] After two years into Mahama’s administration, a friend of mine who knew I voted for Mahama asked; “haven’t you regretted your choice? The rate at which the country is suffering, if you have any conscience left, you should be regretting ever voting for a man who has done nothing but watched over the most corrupt administration in the history of our nation. See how the ordinary Ghanaian is suffering whiles he walks around unperturbed.” I grew up when John Jerry Rawlings was the president of Ghana. To my young mind I…

Six doctors from the Kenyan doctors’ union have been given a one-month suspended sentence for refusing to call off the ongoing strike which has paralysed operations in public hospital, the country’s Daily Nation newspaper reports. The Employment and Labour Relations Court ordered the union to end the strike and finalise negotiations with the government within the next two weeks. Several attempts to end the strike have failed as the doctors want the full implementation of a deal signed in 2013 to improve the doctors’ pay and working conditions. Judge Hellen Wasilwa said that if the officials did not heed to the…