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The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Friday, January 13, 2017 to attend the 27th France-Africa Summit, taking place in Bamako, Mali —his 1st foreign trip as President. The Summit, which is aimed at enhancing the integration process, collective action and cooperation for the common good of participating countries and their peoples, will bring together Heads of State and Governments from some 30 countries. He was accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, Ag. Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin said in a statement. The first family are expected to return home…

A secretary to the South African National Defence Union has incurred the wrath of Ghanaians with his description of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s colourful inaugural kente cloth as “a shower curtain” on Twitter. The white South African, Pikkie Greeff, who exhibited an apparent lack of knowledge about the widely valued kente cloth, tweeted a picture of Nana Akufo-Addo in the presidential chair with a caption ridiculing the President and his office. “Someone wanna tell us why Ghana President wears a shower curtain and sits on a primary school stage play at prop?” he tweeted on Monday, causing attacks against himself.The tweet,…

Toothpaste is a popular hygiene product that we all use daily to brush our teeth. It aids in maintaining oral health by removing bacteria and food debris from our teeth. It also assists in suppressing halitosis (bad breath) and helps prevent tooth decay and gum disease. Well, the importance of toothpaste in oral health is a known fact. But besides maintaining your oral health, toothpaste offers a wide range of healing, cosmetic, skin and cleaning benefits. However, these benefits are from basic white toothpaste only, not the gel or teeth-whitening varieties. Here are 10 surprising uses of white toothpaste that don’t involve your…

Toothpaste is a popular hygiene product that we all use daily to brush our teeth. It aids in maintaining oral health by removing bacteria and food debris from our teeth. It also assists in suppressing halitosis (bad breath) and helps prevent tooth decay and gum disease. Well, the importance of toothpaste in oral health is a known fact. But besides maintaining your oral health, toothpaste offers a wide range of healing, cosmetic, skin and cleaning benefits. However, these benefits are from basic white toothpaste only, not the gel or teeth-whitening varieties. Here are 10 surprising uses of white toothpaste that don’t involve your…

Toothpaste is a popular hygiene product that we all use daily to brush our teeth. It aids in maintaining oral health by removing bacteria and food debris from our teeth. It also assists in suppressing halitosis (bad breath) and helps prevent tooth decay and gum disease. Well, the importance of toothpaste in oral health is a known fact. But besides maintaining your oral health, toothpaste offers a wide range of healing, cosmetic, skin and cleaning benefits. However, these benefits are from basic white toothpaste only, not the gel or teeth-whitening varieties. Here are 10 surprising uses of white toothpaste that don’t involve your…

The Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Stephen K. Opuni, has been sacked by President Nana Addo Dankwa-Akufo Addo. A dismissal letter dated January 12, 2013 from the presidency and signed by Nana Bediatuo Asante, Secretary to the President, directed Dr Opuni to leave office and hand over by close of day January 13, 2017 “In view of the urgency attached to this matter, please ensure that you hand over and cease to act as Chief Executive of Ghana COCOBOD not later than today 5pm on January 13, 2017,” the letter stated in part. Dr Opuni is consequently…

Attendants at the Moree tollbooth in central region are appealing to the police to beef up security there to protect them and revenue collected at the booth. The appeal has become necessary, in the wake of the incessant attacks on some tollbooths and state establishments following a change of government. TV3’s Spencer Boateng and Thomas Vincent Cann who have been following the development at the Moree tollbooth noted that several facilities in the central region have come under attack by persons alleged to be sympathizers of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). On Tuesday January 10, some group of persons…

Former President John Dramani Mahama is in Banjul, Gambia, together with the ECOWAS Mediator in the political situation in The Gambia, Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari, for talks with President Yahya Jammeh. President Mahama who is the Co-Mediator left Accra Friday morning, and is expected to be joined by Liberia’s Ellen Sirleaf Johnson and officials of the UN, AU and ECOWAS. The Gambia, following elections last year, is expected to inaugurate a new president on January 19, but President Jammeh who lost and earlier accepted the results of the elections has now rejected the results. The mediators are hoping to strike a…

A member of the governing New Patriotic Party and Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has stated that the government’s priority in the first six months will be to stabilise the macro-economic environment. “It is our desire to control inflation, our debt stock is growing; we can’t keep on borrowing, we have to restructure some of the debt so that it gives us some fiscal space to operate within,” told the B&FT. “So, early days, we will be looking at restructuring the debt, trying to stabilise the currency. At least, if it stays stable it helps…

The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC) has appealed to Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, the Education Minister-designate, to maintain the three-year tenure of Senior High School (SHS) education. Mr Bright Appiah, GNECC Chairman, speaking to the Ghana News Agency, on Thursday, in Accra, said the three-year duration was in line with the Anamoah-Mensah Committee’s report and every form of review to be undertaken must reflect that Committee’s recommendations. The Anamuah-Mensah Committee, which was set up to review the nation’s educational system, in 2003, recommended a new educational system consisting of two years of kindergarten, six years of primary, three years…