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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…

Top rated comedian, Bright Okpocha better known as Basketmouth, has revealed why his comedy shows abroad have been hugely successful. He made the revelation during an interview on BBC News program ‘Focus on Africa’ where he said that the universality of his jokes was the reason why his jokes are well received abroad. “I try as much as possible to make my materials universal. So that way, I don’t goof. When I come the UK to do my gigs or even in America, I try as much as possible to avoid saying anything about Nigeria. These guys don’t know anything…

It’s the new diet that focuses on eating five times a day, with the aim of helping you lose up to five pounds (two kilos) in two weeks. The 5:5:5 diet, designed by UK nutritionist Angela Dowden, is billed as the ‘easiest and healthiest’ way to a trimmer figure. The plan’s beauty is that it’s easy to commit to in the long run without weight you’ve lost creeping back on, according to Woman’s Day.  The 5:5:5 diet, designed by UK nutritionist Angela Dowden, is billed as the easiest and healthiest way to a trimmer figure. IS IT BEST TO EAT…

It’s the new diet that focuses on eating five times a day, with the aim of helping you lose up to five pounds (two kilos) in two weeks. The 5:5:5 diet, designed by UK nutritionist Angela Dowden, is billed as the ‘easiest and healthiest’ way to a trimmer figure. The plan’s beauty is that it’s easy to commit to in the long run without weight you’ve lost creeping back on, according to Woman’s Day.  The 5:5:5 diet, designed by UK nutritionist Angela Dowden, is billed as the easiest and healthiest way to a trimmer figure. IS IT BEST TO EAT…

At least 16 people have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery of Kim Kardashian West in Paris in October, French media report. Authorities said at the time that the American reality TV star was robbed at gunpoint by at least two men dressed as police officers. The men entered Kardashian West’s luxury apartment before tying her up and locking her in the bathroom. They escaped with an estimated €10m (£8.7m; $10.5m) in jewellery. The 36-year-old mother-of-two, who is married to the rapper Kanye West, said she feared she was going to be killed by the robbers. Kardashian West…