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The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayokor Botchwey, has said the implementation of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will put Africa on a good foot in the quest to achieving Agenda 2063.  The Minister, in her opening remarks at the handing over of the AfCFTA secretariat to the African Union Commission Monday, August 17,  underscored the importance of the AfCFTA to the development of Africa. “This day ushers us onto the right stage to rapidly move towards achieving the other related flagship projects of Agenda 2063,” she said. The Agenda 2063 is a set…

A former Medical Director at the Ridge Hospital, Dr Thomas Anaba, has said vasectomy is general safe therefore, men should not be scared to go through it as one of their family planning methods. He explained on 3FM’s Ideal Home Saturday, August 15 while discussing the topic ‘My Husband Fears Vasectomy’ that the side effects of vasectomy rarely happens. Vasectomy is a minor surgery to block sperm from reaching the semen that is ejaculated from the penis. Semen still exists, but it has no sperm in it. After a vasectomy, the testes still make sperm, but they are soaked up…

Indigenous firm SunPower Innovations is ready to partner government to produce and deliver solar energy to businesses and communities in Ghana. Since its inception, SunPower Innovations has installed more than seven megawatts of Solar PV capacity and have undertaken major installations at shop centers, banks and financial institutions, educational institutions and dozens of commercial projects in Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. According to the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer, Ernest Amissah, it is time for government and other development funding institutions to partner indigenous companies like SunPower Innovations to expand their operations, a situation that will lead to enormous…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the world is watching to see whether the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will achieve its objectives. The broad objective of the AfCFTA is to create a single continental market for goods and services, with free movement of business persons and investments, paving the way for accelerating the establishment of the Continental Customs Union President Akufo-Addo has, therefore, said Ghana will at all times support the secretariat to function properly. He said this while handing over the AfCFTA secretariat to the African Union Commission on Monday, August 17 in Accra. The President…

A technical university dropout, Frank Nyarko, has invented a sweeping bicycle to contribute to dealing with the sanitation problem in the country. He dropped out of school due to financial difficulties but decided not to allow that to kill his talent. It has been estimated that Ghana loses an amount of $290 million, representing 1.6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually, due to poor sanitation. This, has been blamed on the lack of proper planning and also inadequate resources. But Frank believed that his innovation will deal with the challenge facing the country. “I wanted to contribute to…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced on Monday, August 17 that eight more persons have died from the deadly Covid-19 disease in Ghana. This, according to the GHS, has taken the country’s death toll to 239. The current active cases has increased slightly from 1,839 to 1,847 with 121 new cases recorded, the Ghana Health Service announced on its website. The total case count of the highly infectious disease in Ghana now stands at 42,653 with a total of 40,567 people either recovered or discharged. By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana

Trade policy barriers and regulatory differences are estimated to account for at least 10 per cent of trade costs in all sectors, world trade body, the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has said in a note. The trade barriers, according to the WTO, include tariff and non-tariff measures, temporary trade barriers, regulatory differences and the costs of crossing borders, as well as other policies that impact trade, such as a lack of investment facilitation or of intellectual property protection. The report notes that while COVID-19 has motivated both trade-restricting and import-facilitating changes in tariffs and regulatory practices, these measures have so…

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been heckled by workers on a visit to a factory as anger mounts over his disputed re-election. Workers chanted “leave” and booed the long-time leader of the ex-Soviet state as he insisted he would not allow a new vote after allegations of ballot fraud. Strike action spread to state TV, with staff walking out on Monday. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has suggested she could act as an interim leader. Police violence towards opposition supporters, as well as the alleged poll-rigging in the 9 August vote, fuelled a big protest rally in the capital Minsk on…

Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki will play Diana, Princess of Wales, in the final two seasons of the hit Netflix series The Crown, it has been announced. The Night Manager star will take over from the fourth season’s Emma Corrin. Debicki joins Jonathan Pryce and Imelda Staunton for the final two seasons of the royal drama, which is expected to cover the 1990s and early 2000s. The fourth season is expected to be released this autumn. “Princess Diana’s spirit, her words and her actions live in the hearts of so many,” Debicki said in a statement posted by The Crown’s official…

President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Frank Ankobea,  has said although Ghana is doing well in curtailing the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), there is the need to expand testing. He said on the 3FM Sunrise on  Monday August 17, that there may be some people carrying the virus but are unaware. “It is only when they are tested that the virus would be found and treated accordingly”, he noted. He was reacting to a comment by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that the measures his government outlined to curtail the spread of the virus in the country…