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The week two of Ghana Rugby Club Championship women’s 7s league continued at the St. Thomas Aquinas School Pitch Saturday 18th January 2020. The participating teams this year are; Conquerous SC Ladies Dansoman Hurricanes Ladies Lions RFC Ladies Griffons RFC Ladies. The results of the first to fourth matches are categorized below. Match 1. Griffons Ladies 25 vs 00 Lions Rfc Ladies. Match 2. Dansoman Ladies 0 vs 19 Conquerous Ladies. Match 3. Dansoman Ladies 20 vs 00 Griffons ladies Match 4. Conquerous ladies 31 vs 0 Lions ladies. The ladies games is indeed rising in a very competitive level…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated Arimyao Somo Lucky as the Chief Executive officer for the West Mamprusi Municipal Assembly in the North East Region. A statement issued Tuesday by the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama directed the Regional Minister, Mr Solomon Boar, to request the Electoral Commission to conduct a confirmation poll for Mr Lucky. If confirmed, he will succeed Abu Mohammed who was sacked in November last year. Though reasons were not assigned, it was alleged his dismissal was as a result of inefficiency and poor relationship with leadership and supporters of…

A team of Ghanaian and Nigerian tour operators, media personnel and tourists took part in the 2020 edition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s epiphany celebrations in the country’s capital of Addis Ababa last Monday. The team led by tour operator and CEO of Staple tours and also President of Women in Tourism, Ghana Ambassador Nancy Sam, was made up of Nana Adwoa Adofowaa II, a queenmother from the Eastern Region and representative of Nana Ama Serwaah, President of the Queenmothers Foundation of Ghana. Others were Abeiku Santana, radio presenter and CEO of Kaya Tours, as well as Hajia Bilkisu…

The Ghana Women’s Premier League commenced last weekend across several zones and 3news.com looks back at the big wins and losses. It was an exciting weekend for women’s football as the 2019/2020 women’s premier league started. Former champions Ampem Darkoa announced their presence with a heavy win in the Northern Zone after thrashing Ash Town Ladies 5-0, who played without their star player Pricilla Adubea and Grace Asantewaa. In the Southern Zone, Janet Ayeyam featured for Police Ladies as they secured a 4-1 victory over Cape coast-based Lady Strikers. Police Ladies Head Coach Abu Kassim Tabasu spoke to tv3 after…

The youth of Manso Odaho in the Ashanti Region have expressed anger at the allocation of a mining licence to Heritage Imperial Company, a small scale mining firm, to prospect gold in the Apamprama forest reserve. They have vowed to resist any move to mine in the natural reserve. “We know the President, Nana Addo, frowns against the destruction of forest reserve. Why then has a mining firm be granted a permit to mine in this forest? We the youth in this community will not allow anyone to destroy the forest we have preserve for decades. We are battle ready…

Ghana is set to benefit from over 326 million pounds from the UK government for various projects in the country, as part of over 6.5 billion pounds package announced for African markets Monday. A total of 26 million pounds will be used to supply solar powered water filtration systems in Ghana, while 80.3 million will be spent on work on the Tema-Aflao Road Project. Additional 40 million pounds will be expended on the development of the Kumasi Airport, and 120.5 million pounds for the upgrade of Kumasi teaching hospital, while 60 million pounds will be used to provide 250 new…

A top Ghanaian police officer being held over alleged coup plot to destabilise Ghana has been granted bail. ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo who has been in custody for the past two months was on Tuesday, January 21 given a self-recognisance bail in the sum of 500,000 cedis by the Accra High Court. He is required under the bail condition, to report to the Inspector General of Police or his representative twice every week for 3 the next months and once a week afterwards. The Director of Transformational Programme Office at the Ghana Police Service had previously been denied bail on…

Angola’s prosecutor general has promised to use “all possible” means to bring Isabel dos Santos back to the country after leaked documents showed she was allowed to buy valuable state assets in a series of suspicious deals when her father was president. Ms Dos Santos says the allegations against her are entirely false and that there is a politically motivated witch-hunt by the Angolan government. Prosecutor Helder Pitra Gros told Angolan public radio: “We will use all possible means and activate international mechanisms to bring Isabel dos Santos back to the country… We have asked for international support from Portugal,…

Ghana has signed a deal that will see the country West African nation host Afro Nation concert, one of the world’s biggest urban music beach festival, back to back for five years. It follows the successful hosting of the concert in the capital, Accra, last December, which many described as the biggest musical concert ever staged in the country. The deal was signed between the Ghana Tourism Authority and Event Horizon Entertainment Ltd, operators of Afro Nation, on the sidelines of the UK-Africa Investment Summit which was attended by President Nana Akufo-Addo. “For me, beyond Akufo-Addo’s topical solid performance at the panel…