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The High Court in Accra was Tuesday told that a first sample of lithovit liquid fertilizer COCOBOD sent to the Ghana Standard Authority for testing was “diluted” to produce a result suitable for its case in the ongoing trial of former Chief Executive of COCOBOD Stephen Opuni and CEO of Agricult Seidu Agongo. Counsel for Seidu Agongo, Nutifafa Nutsukpui, who was holding brief for lead counsel, Benson Nutsukpui, also told the court that the diluted sample was sent to the wrong department at the Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) for testing. The appropriate department for testing fertilizer at GSA is the…

A 35-year-old boutique operator has been stabbed to death by a man believed to be mentally deranged in Wa in the Upper West Region under inexplicable circumstance. Kiemtore Suleman who operated a boutique belonging to his younger brother, was said to have had a scuffle with the mentally deranged man identified only as Anyo Wednesday morning. Eyewitnesses told 3news.com that Suleman who had chewing stick in his mouth, arrived to open his shop at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday but a scuffle broke between him and the mentally deranged man. Anyo allegedly stabbed Suleman in the chest and took to his…

The Police in Wa in the Upper West Region have intercepted 14 sheep suspected to have been stolen from their owners in the area. A police patrol team intercepted the sheep Monday at about 10:00 p.m around the Wa Municiapl traffic light area while they were being transported in a tricycle by some two unidentified men who bolted upon seeing a night police patrol team. “It is believed that the sheep were stolen from an unknown destination,” a police statement said. It is therefore asking anyone in the area whose sheep are missing to contact the Wa Police station for…

Bernie Sanders has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary contest, on a terrible night for former vice-president Joe Biden. The left-wing senator took a tight victory over centrist former mayor Pete Buttigieg, who offered a different Democratic vision in the race to take on President Trump in November. Mr Sanders declared the night “the beginning of the end” of Mr Trump. Success in New Hampshire – like Iowa – offers momentum for the race ahead. Finishing behind Vermont senator Mr Sanders were two moderates – Mr Buttigieg and Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar, who emerged as a surprise contender by taking…

Available figures have revealed the Akufo-Addo government has delivered only 29.4 per cent of its campaign promises after three years in office. In what some critics described as a smart move to score political points, the government lump together the promises delivered and those being delivered to give itself 78 per cent score. The New Patriotic Party in its 2016 manifesto, promised to deliver some 388 promises in all sectors of the economy. A careful analysis of official figures released by the Vice President Dr Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia at the Town Hall Meeting and Result Fair in Kumasi Tuesday showed…

Chief executive of the defunct gold-dealership firm MenzGold, Nana Appiah Mensah, is set to initiate fresh action to force a United Arab Emirates-based firm to pay him some 39 million dollars owed him from a business transaction. A Dubai High Court in April last year ordered Royal Horison to pay the amount to the man popularly referred to as NAM1, a decision the Arabian company contested on appeal and lost in July 2019. Information gathered by 3news.com suggests the Emerati firm has since failed to pay Nana Appiah Mensah who is currently facing trial in Ghana for allegedly defrauding hundreds…

A 12-year-old boy has been crashed to death at a road construction site in Zebilla in the Upper East Region. A pick up vehicle belonging to the Brazillian construction firm, Queiroz Galvao, was said to be reversing when it crashed the boy who was crossing the Bolgatanga Bawku –Pulmakom road at the Customs barrier area on a bicycle. The back tyre of the vehicle registered GW 2102- 17, crashed the boy’s head, killing him instantly. Some residents of the Aramkoliga near the scene were outraged at the development but cool heads prevailed when the police arrived at the scene in…

The Executive Director of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Dr Prince Hamid Armah, has described as a national concern videos of some Senior High School students touting and advertising sex and other immoral adventures. In the videos which have gone viral on social media, some of the students are heard advertising a demand for dollars and the readiness to provide sex for same. In an opinion piece, Dr Armah said it is a “fatal defect if the education of children does not also lead them to make the right moral choices,” adding, “there is a direct link between…

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia says the combination of prudent macro-and micro- economic policies and programmes implemented by the Akufo-Addo administration over the last three years has strengthened Ghana’s economy and restored her to the path of economic development. Addressing the townhall and results fair of the government in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region Tuesday, he said the change in Ghana’s fortunes, he said, has been been acknowledged by the international bodies. Using a combination of graphs, tables and text, Vice President Bawumia provided evidence to buttress his claim that the Akufo-Addo administration had largely delivered on its manifesto promises, especially…

Father of the late Ebony Reigns, Nana Opoku Kwarteng, will on February 16 [Ebony’s birthday]  hold the first of an annual jollof party to celebrate the musician who was killed in a road accident two years ago. The late ‘Maame Hwe’ hitmaker and two others died in a fatal accident on February 8, 2018, while returning from Sunyani in the Bono Region where she had visited her mother. Speaking on Showbiz 927 on 3FM with MzGee, the grieving Starboy Kwarteng, said it has been difficult for him to get over the death of his daughter who was one of the…