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Heaps of uncollected solid waste within the central business district of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have triggered fears of a possible cholera outbreak in the area if immediate action is not taken. Though city authorities have expressed commitment to rid the Kumasi metropolis of filth, pockets of refuse remain uncollected for days in parts of the central business district, especially in the Kejetia market area. Traders around the Kumasi Zoological Gardens at Kejetia say timely collection of waste from waste containers in the area has been a challenge over the past two months despite paying for such services. They…

A 32-year old man said to be suffering from high-fever has allegedly beheaded his girlfriend under a mysterious circumstance at a village near Kasseh in the Ada District of the Greater Accra Region. Kisseh Adowah who is in the grips of the Kasseh Police, is believed to have decapitated the head of Korkor Sarah Mormorbi Wormenor, said to be in her 60s, in a bush just about 100 metres from the outskirts of Bedeku-kpornya. The head of the deceased is yet to be found, the Police told 3News, adding the body is being prepared for transportation to the Accra Police…

As the new administration starts work today, a governance expert has called on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider cutting down drastically the size of his government. Professor Albert Puni opined that the President can attain his goal of protecting the public purse if he is able to form a lean government. He made the call on Onua Fm morning show Yen Nsem Pa hosted by Bright Kwesi Asempa on Monday. “The president should endeavor to avoid things that transported the NDC administration to opposition, some of those is to ensure value for money, he should check the…

After being sworn into office on Saturday, President Nana Akufo-Addo officially starts work today. A guard of honour was therefore mounted on Monday to usher him into the presidency. Below are colourful pictures from the event. Source: 3news.com | Ghana]]>

It has emerged that Parliament at the last-minute amended the approved retirement package for President John Mahama to include the provision of a fully furnished residence for the former president who exited office on January 7. Per the initial emoluments of the president proposed by the Prof. Dora Francisca Edu-Buandoh’s committee and approved by parliament, President Mahama was to retire on a salary of GHC22,809 and a monthly 40 per cent of his salary as accommodation allowance. Prof. Edu-Buandoh’s report on Presidential Emoluments Committee which was approved by the sixth parliament prior to the Christmas holidays, did not include the…

Herve Renard reckons Ghana is close to winning an AFCON if they can change ‘something small’ and be ‘a bit lucky’. The Frenchman has been a resounding success in the Cup of Nations, winning titles with Zambia and Ivory Coast over three Nations Cups between 2012 and 2015. He is unbeaten in three over three Nations Cups in that period and takes Morocco to Gabon 2017 hoping to boost his reputation as one of the best foreign coaches ever to manage in Africa. He spoke to Michael Oti Adjei on the sidelines of Morocco’s pre-tournament camp in Al Ain about…

File photo[/caption] Former President John Dramani Mahama has left Accra to Abuja to attend an ECOWAS Meeting on the situation in The Gambia. The former Ghanaian President who recently handed over to newly elected President Nana Akufo-Addo has been asked to continue his mediation role in the effort to resolve The Gambian political crisis. In a meeting of ECOWAS held on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of President Akufo-Addo, the leaders requested the former president to continue to assist President Muhammadu Buhari as co-mediator in the Gambian issue. In a telephone conversation yesterday, President Akufo-Addo personally conveyed the ECOWAS…

Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone in 2007 “Steve had expressly told me it was totally top secret. He said he was going to fire anyone who tells the world. “I was sweating bullets.” Tony Fadell was pondering just how he was going to explain to Steve Jobs that he’d lost the prototype of what would become the most successful technology product of all time, the Apple iPhone which launched 10 years ago on Monday. He’d just got off a plane, felt his pockets, and… nothing. “I was walking through every scenario thinking about what could happen,” he told me.…

This was found on the tomb of an unknown man: ‘When I was young, I told myself that I would change this world but I realized at the time of my death that I had changed nobody because I should have changed myself first’. Food for thought. A few days after Ghanaians of various persuasions ‘danced over’, ‘jumped over’, ‘Pushed Over’, ‘Rolled Over’ and did all to get over from 2016 to 2017, the final act of sealing what democratically took place in Ghana on December 7, 2016 happened on Saturday, January 7 when there was a handing over and…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led tributes to former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has died at the age of 82. Ayatollah Khamenei hailed a “companion of struggle” despite their differences, saying this was a “difficult” loss. President Hassan Rouhani praised Mr Rafsanjani as a great man of the Islamic revolution. The government has announced three days of mourning, making Tuesday a public holiday for his funeral in Tehran. Mr Rafsanjani, who served as president from 1989 to 1997, was pivotal in the 1979 revolution. But later in life he became a counterpoint to hardline conservatives. “The different…