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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has jestingly asked chiefs from the Avenor traditional area in the Volta Region, to cap their offer to him to become a citizen of the area, with a woman as wife. The chiefs and queen mothers in the area on Monday appealed to Nana Akufo-Addo to adopt Avenor as his home and offered to give him a land for him to build a home in the area. “We the people of Avenor have no alternative than to respectively ask you to adopt Avenor as your home as you are now treated as an illustrious son…

Rapper and singer, Akon, has announced his own city in Senegal. “Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the future,” Akon said in a tweet Monday. Senegal tourism company, SAPCO, signed the agreement with Akon. “It’s all renewable, the Akon-tainment solar city,” Akon told Nick Cannon in a recent interview. The city will be located in the village of Mbodiène, West Africa. The city will run on Akon’s kryptocurrency, Akoin, and will be the first ever city to run completely on renewable energy. Additionally, Akon heads his own initiative, Lighting Africa…

Russia’s government has resigned, hours after President Vladimir Putin proposed sweeping constitutional changes that could prolong his stay in power. PM Dmitry Medvedev said the president’s proposals would significantly change Russia’s balance of power. Mr Putin asked Mr Medvedev to become deputy head of the National Security Council, which is chaired by Mr Putin. The president later nominated tax service chief Mikhail Mishustin to replace Mr Medvedev as prime minister. The unexpected announcement comes four years before Mr Putin’s fourth term of office is due to end. Under the existing constitution, he would not be entitled to another term. The…

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has apologised to senior high school teachers for treating them poorly on Monday at the start of a four-day training programme. More than 200 teachers from the Greater Accra, Oti and Volta Regions who were invited on a short notice to attend the training were left stranded on their arrival at the University of Ghana campus in Accra. The in-service training seeks to equip the teachers to adequately prepare their students ahead of the 2020 WASSCE. It will also give the teachers opportunity to interact with experienced educationists and examiners to boost teaching and learning.…

A local waste management company under the Jospong Group of Companies, Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited, has commenced generating 500 kilowatts of power from its liquid waste treatment plant in Accra. Chairman of the Group, Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong disclosed this at this year’s Jospong Leadership Conference at the Pentecost Convention Center at Gomoa-Fetteh in the Central Region. Sewerage Systems Ghana Limited which is into construction of liquid waste facilities and treatement of faecal waste in Ghana is a subsidiary of waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Limited. Dr Siaw Agyepong said similar liquid waste treatment plants are being constructed in Kumasi,…

German powerhouse in electricity and digitization Siemens has signed a $250 million infrastructure deal with the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) under the G20 Compact with Africa (CwA). The agreement will see Siemens work collaboratively with GRIDCo to upgrade and extend Ghana’s power transmission infrastructure, improve the country’s grid capacity and stability, as well as expand a stable power export to neighbouring countries in the West African Power Pool. President and Chief Executive Officer  of Siemens Joe Kaeser, who led a team to the Jubilee House to call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said he is excited the deal…

The Former Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, says the manner in which she relayed information to the public as CID boss is one of the things she wished she did better. Speaking on the sidelines of a forum organized by the National Lottery Authority (NLA) on Tuesday, January 14, the former CID boss, now heading to the Police Welfare Department, said the decision to ‘hoard’ certain information from the public made room for speculations that cost the Police Service. “What I would have done is our communication; communication…

Wesley Girls High School’s Assanwaa Akpene Yankson has been declared winner of the 2019 UBA National Essay Competition, making her the third student from the school to win the competition since its inception in 2014. She follows Paulina Bedwiwaah Mensah, who won in 2014 and currently pursuing medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and Hannah Akahoho Segbefia, who won the competition in 2016 and also studying Biochemistry at the same University. The 6th edition of the National Essay Competition recorded over a thousand applications from schools across the 16 regions of Ghana. The emotional but exciting…

“When a handshake goes beyond the elbow,” our elders say, “it ceases to be a friendly gesture.” And so, when Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh— after all his atrocities in his tenure as the leader of the West African state— made a U-turn in not accepting the results of the 2016 general elections, almost everybody bared teeth at him. Jammeh’s ‘handshake’ that he forced down our throats to believe was a friendly gesture had gone beyond our ‘elbows’. The world rallied behind his opponent, Adama Barrow, who had emerged winner in the polls. In Abuja at the 50th Ordinary Session…