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Staff of Capital & More Microfinance crowned 2016 in a memorable style last Friday as they visited the Christ Faith Foster Home at Frafraha in Accra to put a smile on the faces of the inmates. In a touching gesture, staff members joined foster children at the orphanage for a day of fun-filled moments to express the true meaning of the Christmas season; hospitality and giving. Led by their Managing Director, Mrs Akosua Oduma Oppong-Tawiah, the staff interacted and played with the children after which they donated assorted food and non-food items to the orphanage. The items included bags of…

President of La Cote d’Ivoire Alassane Dramane Ouattara will be Special Guest of Honour at Saturday’s ceremony to confirm Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President of Ghana. The Ivorian leader, 74, will be one of several heads of state from the sub-region to attend the investiture, to be held at the Black Star Square. The ceremony will see Nana Akufo-Addo swear the presidential oath – to be administered by Chief Justice Georgina Wood – in the presence of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic. Addressing journalists on Tuesday, January 3, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, who is the Co-Chair of the…

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority [DVLA] in the Northern Region has revealed plans to roll out mobile inspection of cars, tricycles and motorbikes with the view to process them for registration.  The move is to ease the process of vehicle registration to enable the authority meet its 2017 revenue target of GHC2.15 million. Vehicle owners throng the premises of the DVLA in Tamale on daily basis for registration. But a lot of motorbikes and tricycles plying the roads of the metropolis are not licenced. The DVLA on the first working day of 2017 recorded a very slow pace in…

Two years after the building that houses the male inmates of New Life Nungua Children’s Home got burnt, efforts by the authorities to put up a new building for them has delayed due to lack of funds. As a result, the male inmates are using only two single room apartment which was rented by the authorities nearby leading to overcrowding. The Founder who is also the Chief of Otinor under the Nungua Traditional Area in Accra, Nii Afotey Botchwey, who made the revelations said about 20 male inmates out of the 72 inmates are sharing the two single rooms but…

The Ghana Immigration Service says the revision of the Service’s law to allow personnel to handle weapons in the discharge of its duty would make enforcement and patrol activities more effective. Until the passage of the Immigration Service Act 2016, personnel of the Service were not allowed to carry weapons in the discharge of their duties. Head of Public Affairs at Ghana Immigration Service, Francis Palmdeti, told 3News personnel in the past relied on the Customs division of the Ghana Revenue Authority to deal with hostile violators of the country’s immigration laws. “The inability for personnel from the Immigration Service…

Chinese illegal miners have teamed up with locals at Nyadeyeya, a farming community in the Amansie West District of Ashanti to illegally mine large tracts of farmlands. The Chinese have armed the locals who they employ, with guns and ammunitions to counter any attempt prevent their operations which is having a negative toll on farmlands and water bodies. Instigations by TV3 have revealed the indigenes have been fronting for these Chinese miners. The locals after securing the reconnaissance license, which only grants them the right to explore the site, lease out concessions to the Chinese to mine without the proper…

Mr. Blessing Kwabena Asirifi, Founder, Nhyira Mma Foundation, in the picture with the beneficiaries[/caption] As part of efforts to boost education in the country, Nhyira Mma Foundation, a non-governmental organization, has presented educational materials to over 200 underprivileged children in some Kindergartens, junior and senior high schools in Nkawkaw District of the Eastern Region. Pupils and students are from communities including Wawase, Odumase, Site and Wisiwisi. Beaming with appreciation, the beneficiaries took turns to receive exercise books, pens, erasers and other educational materials. The event was witnessed by the chiefs and elders of these communities. The presentation was the second…

The Chief of Agric Nzema, Nana Nkansah Boadu, has organized a New Year party for the aged in the Wiamoase community and its environs. Over 600 elderly women, drawn from Wiamoase, Bipoa, Agric Nzema area were treated to both traditional and gospel music, and provided with assorted food and drinks. In addition, they were each presented with rice, oil, cloth and cash. About 200 children were also served with cooked food, pastries and drinks. In an address, the chief of Agric Nzema, Nana Nkansah Boadu called on all to treat the aged with respect as they worked very hard in…

Equatorial Guinea’s flamboyant vice-president has gone trial in absentia in France on charges of corruption after he failed to stop the landmark case. Teodorin Obiang Nguema is accused of buying a mansion and sports cars in France with a fortune amassed from oil-rich Equatorial Guinea’s public funds. A lawyer for Mr Obiang, the president’s son, denies he is a “big-time bandit”. The trial is the first since France started investigating African leaders accused of illegally acquiring wealth. It comes after a nearly decade-long campaign by anti-corruption groups demanding that France act against leaders suspected of stashing their “ill-gotten gains” in…