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Head Coach of the Black Starlets Ben Fokuo has assured Ghanaians of a qualification to the Africa Youth Championship. The U-17 male team will have to put up a convincing performance at the 2020 WAFU Zone B Cup of Nations in Benin to book a ticket to the Africa Youth Championship. Despite the break in camping in March, 2020 due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Ben Fokuo is confident his side will put up a solid a performance at the WAFU tournament. When asked if his team can book a ticket to the 2021 Africa Youth Championship, confident…

2020 VGMA ‘Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year’ Ras Kuuku has called for the legalization of the cultivation of weed in Ghana. He said if legalised, the high youth unemployment rate in Ghana will reduce drastically. He told Giovani Caleb on Showbiz 360 on TV3 Friday, September 11 that the government also stands the chance of accruing billions of Cedis from the trade if legalized. In March, this year, Parliament passed into law the Narcotics Control Commission Bill 2019, legalising the growing of some cannabis for only health purposes. The law empowers the Minister for Interior in consultation with other institutions…

Founder and Leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga has described the promise by flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama to legalise commercial motor bicycle (Okada) in Ghana as a joke that must be ignored. He told Stephen Anti on the Elections Command Centre on TV3 Friday, September 11 that what the youth need in Ghana is sustainable jobs and not Okada. “The issue of NDC talking about legalising Okada, let us put this joke aside. How can legalizing Okada be a campaign promise in the 21st Century? “What is Okada? I have five…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, September 10 inspected ongoing work on the construction of the $16 million Weddi Africa Tomato Processing Factory located in Domfete, in Berekum, Bono East Region. The factory, a project operating under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative, is a wholly Ghanaian-owned company, which will have an installed capacity to process 40,000 metric tons of fresh tomato per annum. This translates into 720 crates of tomatoes per shift per day, with the factory also possessing a 500-metric ton cold room facility to hold fresh tomato fruits. The company has established a 2,400-acre farm land as a nucleus…

Communication officer of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) at the La Dadekotopon Constituency Isaac Odoi has said the construction of the market in the area is 90 per cent complete. He said the construction delayed a little bit due to budgetary constraint. However, the project is now in progress. “If you look at year-on-year inflation, if you calculate that to the 5.4 million, the future value is 7.6 million and that is inflation component, not to talk of the prices which relates to inflation and the exchange.” Speaking exclusively to 3news.com on Friday, September 11, he noted that when the…

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said Ghana has done well containing the spread of the coronavirus. He said the measures introduced by the government to combat the virus have yielded good results over the months. “If you look at Ghana, we are doing very well and I have to thank the President for that,” he said in an interview with URA Radio in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region on Friday, September 11, as part of his campaign tour of the region. He further indicated that Ghana has tested close to 500,000 people, a figure that is more than…

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and private legal practitioner, Godwin Edudzi Tamekloe, has said that all signals are pointing against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in this year’s elections. He said no attempt or effort to frustrate the NDC can save the governing party from defeat in this year’s polls. Speaking on TV3’s The Key Points with sit-in host Alfred Ocansey on Saturday, September 12, Mr Tamakloe noted that the current administration has started implementing some policy proposals made in the manifesto document of the NDC for the 2020 elections. For instance, in the area of the…

The Public Relations Officer of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), George Ayisi, has urged waste management company Zoomlion to make efforts to clear the choked gutters in the country. He revealed that Zoomlion contractors have gained notoriety for just sweeping and cleaning the surroundings, however refuse to clear the gutters. This situation, he said, is one of the causes of floods in the country. Speaking on TV3 Friday, September 11, Mr Ayisi said the government has signed a contract with Zoomlion to keep the surroundings clean and that include clearing the gutters. But “they only sweep the sides of…

Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen has revealed that the government of Ghana will not adopt the United States’ definition of what constitutes salvaged cars in banning the import of second-hand cars into Ghana. He said there are some cars that have been described as salvaged by insurance companies in the US and other parts of the world that could still be fit-for-purpose and can be used in Ghana. For instance, he explained,  in the US even if a tail light of a car scratches, the insurance companies in that part of the world will declare it as a salvaged car, meanwhile…

63-year-old Francesca Dzoboka is down with a stroke, unable to afford a decent meal and facing death threats from her husband who is blaming her for the family’s predicaments. What’s her crime? She invested a combined amount of Sixty Thousand Cedis (ȼ60,000) in defunct gold dealership firm, Menzgold, two years ago. Even before she could earn any dividend, the company was shut down. Life thereafter has been hell. Komla Adom has more in this report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5D7ZdDV9zk By 3news.com|Ghana