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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced to the general public that purchases for the 2020 Light Crop Season would cease at close of business Thursday, September 17. This was continued in a statement signed by the Chief Executive Officer of the COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo. The statements said: “In order to assist the Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) to obtain the final returns from up country stations, the Ghana Cocoa Board has decided that returns on the declared purchases will be accepted up to 4:00p.m on Thursday 24th September 2020.” Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Ghanaians must keep observing the protocols against the coronavirus pandemic in spite of the downward trend in the active cases, Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has urged. The number of active cases in Ghana has dropped to 524. Ghana has within the last seven months recorded a cumulative figure of 45,714 Covid-19 cases with 44,896 recoveries. Out of the number of active cases, five are in critical condition, three are on ventilators and 15 are in severe conditions. In a tweet on Thursday, September 17, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said: “The good news about our COVID-19 fight this far is we…

Under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with the Kwahu Traditional Authority and the Kwahu Professionals Network (KPN) is scheduled to commission the upgraded Odweanoma Paragliding Site on Monday, September 21, a statement by the GTA has said. According to the statement, the Paragliding Festival, which is one of the flagship events on the tourism calendar, is organised twice every year by the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to coincide with the Easter Festivities and also the Corporate Paragliding in September. The Paragliding Festival was instituted in 2005 by the…

Co-host of the 2020 edition of the Ghana’s Most Beautiful reality show on TV3 Anita Akua Akuffo has said she is emotional about the event coming to an end this Sunday, September 20, 2020. On Sunday, six finalists will be slugging it out for the most prestigious crown. It has been 12 weeks of stage performances which have seen 10 contestants evicted. Anita, who has been with the ladies from the audition stages till now, wished all the finalists well ahead of the grand-finale. “I’m quite sad it’s coming to an end but at the end of the day, we…

Former US President Barack Obama has announced the publication date of the first half of his memoirs. Mr Obama – the first black president and husband of Michelle Obama – said the book would “try to provide an honest account of my presidency”. A Promised Land is set for release on 17 November, just two weeks after the US presidential election. The Democratic leader won two elections and served as president between 2009 and 2017. Joe Biden – his vice-president for those two terms – is challenging Mr Obama’s successor, Republican leader Donald Trump, for the presidency on 3 November.…

Minority leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has described the double track system of the Free Senior High School (FSHS) policy as a “traffic light school system”. Speaking on TV3 New Day, Monday September 16, the former Minister for Employment and Labour Relations appeared to have a lot of issues with the Akufo-Addo-led government’s handling of the Free SHS. According to him, a system where students go to school in alternating batches of Gold and Green is no different from a traffic light. “When you come and get this traffic light of Red, Gold and Green…

The Chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has assured its officials and stakeholders across the country that security will be beefed up during the voter exhibition exercise, which starts on Friday, September 18. She said this at a press conference at the headquarters of the elections management body on Thursday, September 17. “Security will be provided at all the exhibition centers,” she said. Ms Jean Mensa further urged all Ghanaians to take part in the exercise which she said forms an important aspect of the electoral process ahead of this year’s elections. The newly compiled register, she…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has reiterated a pledge he first made in 2016 to upgrade the Amantin health centre into a polyclinic. Former President Mahama promised the chiefs and people to upgrade their health centre. Speaking to the Chiefs and Elders of Amantin in the Bono East Region on Thursday, the former President said: “In 2016 I came before you the Chiefs and people and made a promise to build you a polyclinic. It is a promise I remain committed to and will honour when I become President.” He also urged the people to participate…

Ghana’s Minister for Finance Ken Ofori Atta says post-Covid-19 economic recovery and attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are possible with digitisation, tectonic shift in global financial architecture, increase in private capital and innovations in labour and education. In addition, he reiterated African Finance Ministers’ call for debt standstill and debt relief to fragile countries saying, “We urgently need liquidity and debt sustainability solutions in order to truly recover from this pandemic.” Mr Ofori-Atta said these in a speech read on his behalf by Charles Adu Boahen, a Deputy Minister for Finance, at the opening of the Virtual 2020…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dismissed claims by Editor-In-Chief of the Crusading Guide Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako to the effect that former President John Dramani Mahama cut sod for the commencement of some projects when funding had not been secure for them. Mr Baako had said that Mr Mahama cut sod for the construction of Phase Two of the Kumasi International Airport in 2016 but “my checks indicate that that particular sod cutting was needless”. “It had no real foundation because it’s true Parliamentary approval for that particular loan facility had been effected but there were conditions precedent which…