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The Dunkwa District Police has arrested four men including two police officers for robbery at a galamsey site in Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region. The men were arrested on Monday, January 16 by mine workers and were nearly lynched but for the timely intervention of the District Police Command. The officers as well as one of the two civilians are said to be stationed at Cape Coast Kotokuraba Police Station. They are said to carry out their robbery activities at mining sites in Dunkwa-on-Offin. Efforts to reach the Dunkwa Police Commander for confirmation proved futile. Source: 3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is full of praise for his predecessor John Mahama for exhibiting maturity and keeping his cool over the Cantonments bungalow saga. Former President Mahama’s request to keep the prestigious house he had occupied for eight years as a vice president and president, as part of his retirement package, attracted avalanche of criticisms mainly from the government side. The house is located on the No. 3. Prestige Link,Cantonments in Accra. When the criticism grew strong, the former president wrote a letter to President Akufo-Addo and copied the Asantehene, stating his intention to withdraw his decision to…

Facebook is introducing new tools in Germany to help combat the spread of fabricated news stories. The world’s largest social network said it would enable German users to flag potentially false stories. The stories will then be passed to third-party fact-checkers and if found to be unreliable, will be marked in users’ news feeds as “disputed”. It is the first major expansion of the fake news features since Facebook announced tests in the US in December. “Last month we announced measures to tackle the challenge of fake news on Facebook,” the company said on Sunday in a German-language statement. “We…

With more and more marriages ending in divorce, plenty of couples are eager to figure out the secret to a happily ever after. Somebody has taken to Reddit to ask happily married users for the piece of advice they wish everybody knew when it came to having a successful relationship. In less than 24 hours, there have already been over 400 comments on the thread and people have been offering their honest – and hilarious – advice. With an estimated 42 per cent of marriages ending in divorce, what is the secret to making it work? Somebody has taken to…

With more and more marriages ending in divorce, plenty of couples are eager to figure out the secret to a happily ever after. Somebody has taken to Reddit to ask happily married users for the piece of advice they wish everybody knew when it came to having a successful relationship. In less than 24 hours, there have already been over 400 comments on the thread and people have been offering their honest – and hilarious – advice. With an estimated 42 per cent of marriages ending in divorce, what is the secret to making it work? Somebody has taken to…

With more and more marriages ending in divorce, plenty of couples are eager to figure out the secret to a happily ever after. Somebody has taken to Reddit to ask happily married users for the piece of advice they wish everybody knew when it came to having a successful relationship. In less than 24 hours, there have already been over 400 comments on the thread and people have been offering their honest – and hilarious – advice. With an estimated 42 per cent of marriages ending in divorce, what is the secret to making it work? Somebody has taken to…

At least three people have been killed in an early morning bomb attack at Nigeria’s University of Maiduguri, in the northeastern state of Borno. Witnesses said two explosions went off at the facility: one at the mosque where university lecturers had gathered for morning prayers and another near an entrance gate. The area police chief Damian Chukwu said a university professor was among those killed. Fifteen people were wounded and have been evacuated to hospitals, AP reported. An eyewitness told the BBC that it was a suicide bomb attack and three people apart from the suicide bomber lost their lives.…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given indication it is open to renegotiating some success benchmarks of its ongoing 3-year External Credit Facility (ECF) programme with the government of Ghana, following government’s inability to keep to the 5.2percent fiscal deficit target.   In an email response to questions posed by the B&FT, a spokesperson of the Fund in Washington said a team “will be ready to visit Accra in the coming weeks to discuss recent economic developments and hear from the authorities about their plans for engaging with the Fund going forward.” Ghana, the response said, appears unlikely to achieve…

The Black Stars held their first training session in Gabon on Sunday ahead of their Group D opener at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations. The team had touched down in Port-Gentil on Saturday, a day after earlier scheduled. There were media reports that the team had rejected its training pitch as well as hotel of residence but the Ghana Football Association strongly dismissed them, on its official Twitter page. #Ghana has not rejected #can2017 training pitch. Team arrived last night & yet to observe the pitch, contrary to a media report. #AFCON2017 pic.twitter.com/aXNuftCHi8 — Ghana FA (@ghanafaofficial) January 15,…

The Accra-Tema portion of the Tema Motorway has been sealed off as a result of an accident involving a gas tanker. Eyewitness reports say the gas tanker somersaulted on the Accra-Tema portion motorway around 6:30am Monday and this has created heavy vehicular traffic on the motorway. The Deputy Tema Regional Fire Officer, Timothy Osafo Affum, who confirmed this on Onua FM’s Yensempa, explained that they sealed off the Accra-Tema portion of the road to avoid any casualty. He said the tanker [number yet to be known] was carrying gas from Accra to Tema but somersaulted around the Klagon section of…