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Former President John Agyekum Kufour has seemingly endorsed ex-president John Mahama’s decision to choose a particular bungalow where he wants to stay as part of his retirement package. According to Mr. Kufour, any president leaving office should be allowed to choose where he wants to live. Spokesperson for Mr. Kufour, Frank Agyekum in an interview with 3Fm said his boss believes that former presidents should have a say in where they would live after retirement. These comments come on the back of a heated public debate over former President Mahama’s request to the Akufo government to allow him to stay…

It is a clear case of survival of the fittest at the Tamale metropolitan landfill site in the Northern Region, where some residents spend hours daily scavenging what has become their gold – scrap metals. The level of poverty among the people and the zeal to make a living has pushed the unemployed and children in the metropolis to make the landfill site, located between the Gbalahi and Kulahi communities in the Sagnerigu District, their source of livelihood. By 6:00am daily, the scavengers, some as young as nine years, invade the landfill site and others within the metropolis, to await…

Basic schools across the nation re-opened on Tuesday after a relatively long vacation. Some schools had proceeded on vacation for the December 7 elections while others went on break during the period but returned to break proper for the Christmas festivities. On Monday, most pupils were seen tidying up their classrooms in time for re-open. Most of them were in classrooms on Tuesday for the start of the second term of the 2016/2017 academic year. Senior high schools were scheduled to reopen January 5. However, most of them have scheduled to reopen on January 15 just like most tertiary institutions.…

Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu[/caption] The majority in parliament have described moves by their minority counterparts, to get the inaugural speech delivered by President Akufo-Addo withdrawn from the house as trivial. Parts of the speech delivered by president Akufo-Addo on January 7, were later found to have been plagiarized from a speech delivered by former US presidents, Bill Clinton and George Walker Bush. This revelation has generated huge national and international interest. The minority NDC has called on the president to apologize and withdraw that speech from parliamentary records. This, the majority believes, is unnecessary to spend time on. The Majority Leader in…

Gambian Information Minister Sheriff Bojang has resigned to protest against President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to accept defeat in last month’s presidential election, reports say. Efforts to contest the results were “an attempt to subvert the express will” of the Gambian people, he said in a statement, Reuters news agency reports. State television reported that Mr Bojang had been sacked. The UN Security Council has called on President Jammeh to step down. He initially accepted that opposition leader Adama Barrow won the election, but then reversed his decision, citing electoral “abnormalities”. “The Gambia has decided and we must accept and respect…

The Puri clan of the Bimoba tribe in the Mamprugu Traditional Area of the Northern Region has reintroduced its annual home-coming and development durbar after a decade of suspension. The home-coming festival known as the Sanpauk was celebrated by the Chiefs and people of the Puri Clan to thank the gods of the land for protection and prosperity, and also to reunite the clan. The three-day celebration which used to be purely ritual sacrificial activities was threatened by the influx of modernity as members of the clan refused to finance the celebration claiming it was idol worshiping. But after consultation,…

File photo[/caption] The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Aduagyir, Annor Dompreh is calling for the arrest of persons believed to be members of the New Patriotic Party who are trying to use illegal means to take over government establishments. The NPP MP maintained that the president was elected by and for the people of Ghana, which means he is not the president for a selected few. Annor Dompreh speaking on Onua FM morning show, Yen Nsempa, urged the leadership of the New Patriotic Party to talk to the youth of the party to desist from the act. According to him,…

Do you think you’re paying more for electricity than you consume? Are you wondering why your electricity consumption is high yet you use few and energy-efficient electrical gadgets? Customers are sometimes at a loss as to what constitute the high energy consumption on the bills they receive and what appliances might be consuming all the power. Well, power vampires may be living with you and feeding on your electricity bills unknowingly. In electrical engineering, there is a phenomenon called Vampire power. Vampire power is a not-so-common term in electrical engineering and very alien to most electricity consumers. Appliances that utilises…

Google’s Waymo will launch the first public road tests of its self-driving minivans later this month. The trials will take place in California and Arizona, according to Waymo chief executive John Krafcik. Modified Chrysler Pacificas with Waymo-designed sensors were on display at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where Mr Krafcik spoke. One tech analyst said the industry would keenly watch Waymo’s performance in the coming months. Waymo plans to develop self-driving technology and provide it to established carmakers. The company was formally launched by Google in December. Mr Krafcik said the company had managed to reduce the…

An amputee at the St. Joseph Hospital in Koforidua has revealed how he has been motivated to move on in life by listening to Stonebwoy’s music. The young man is still recuperating as he continually enjoys Stonebwoy’s songs on his hospital bed. The multiple award winning dancehall act gave an undisclosed amount to the unnamed patient at the St. Joseph Hospital. This was part of his corporate social responsibility towards his beloved nation. A tweet retweeted by the dancehall act simply read, From the patient; He said and I quote “After my amputation, all I listen to, is your songs @stonebwoyb.…