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Winner of the 2019 Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) television reality show, Ekua, and the first runner-up, Enam, have arrived in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates as part of their prize package. The two, who are joined on the trip by the winners of the Camel Antiseptic ‘Buy and Fly’ promo, will spend five days in Dubai having fun and going on sightseeing among other activities that is set to make their experience an unforgettable one. The trip is sponsored by PZ Cussons, producers of Camel Antiseptic, which was one of the key sponsors for the GMB competition. Among the…

Not only does the arrival of the new year mark an end to the merriment of the Christmas period, but it also signals the coming of Divorce Day. Divorce Day, as it has come to be known by lawyers in recent years, is a day on which law firms reportedly see a spike in couples filing to split from one another. It falls on the first Monday following 1 January – which this year is on Monday 6 January – likely due to high numbers of separating couples hoping for a new start with the new year. In January 2019, relationship support organisation Relate reported a significant…

The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) says establishing an industrial bank will accelerate the goals of the government’s ‘One District One Factory’ initiative. AGI chair for Ashanti, Bono and Ahafo regions, Gyamfua Owusu Achaw, in an interview with 3news.com suggested such initiative to boost industrial growth needs strong financial backing for sustainability. “From the AGI point of view, we really, really want an industrial bank,” she stated, adding “When you go to China they have the construction bank, they have the industrial bank…they have all that, so we need an industrial bank which will be concentrating only on industries”. For…

A dormitory of the St Charles Minor Seminary Senior High School in Tamale went up in flames Monday afternoon destroying students’ personal belongings, a development that is likely to render the students homeless. The fire, which started at 12:29pm at the Cardinal Dery dormitory, completely burned eight of the nine rooms at a time that students were in class. It took the intervention of personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service to control the fire and prevent it from burning the last room in the dormitory. A similar fire outbreak at the school in March 2017 destroyed the school’s two-storey…

The Ashanti region recorded 1,043 fire outbreaks in 2019 as against the 1,066 recorded the previous year, figures from the Ghana National Fires Service have shown. But fire officers are concerned about the spate of domestic fire outbreaks in the first month of 2020. The region has already recorded 71 fire outbreaks in the first week of 2020 Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service, Desmond Ackah, told 3news.com that they have intensified public sensitization. The total cost of properties damaged by fire outbreaks recorded in 2018 is estimated at over 21.6 million cedis as against that…

Director of the National Folklore Board, Nana Adjoa Adobea Asante at the weekend tied the knot with her childhood sweetheart, Andrew Nii Adjei Khartey. The marriage ceremony between the two lawyers kicked-start on October 3 with traditional marriage and climaxed on the October 5 with the sacramental marriage. In attendance were a host of dignitaries including Shi Ting Wang, China’s Ambassador to Ghana; Mr. Edward Boateng, Ghana’s Ambassador to China; Joseph Osei-Wusu, 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament; Francis Asenso- Boakye, Deputy Chief of Staff and Dr. Ziblim Iddi, Deputy Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture; Others were Mr. Akwasi Agyeman,…

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has announced it will from February 1 cease payment of monthly benefits to pensioners who have not biometrically registered with the Trust. “Pension payment to affected pensioners will only be restored after biometric registration,” it said in a public notice issued in the Daily Graphic Friday. SSNIT said it will from February 1, 2020 delete the names of pensioners who have not gone through the SSNIT biometric registration, which started in 2014. According to the Trust, despite several reminders to pensioners and members on its scheme to go for a biometric registration,…

Daniel Asiedu, the alleged killer of a Member of Parliament (MP), J. B. Danquah-Adu, has been accused of attempting to kill a prison officer at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison. Asiedu allegedly made the attempt on January 5, 2020 when the prison officer seized his mobile phone. This emerged at the Accra High Court on Thursday when Asiedu complained to the court that he was being tortured in prison. According to the suspect, aka Sexy Don Don, he was “handcuffed, stripped naked and beaten” in prison. He also told the court that there were marks all over his body to…

Evidence suggests an Iranian missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran, possibly in error, Western leaders say. The leaders of Canada and the UK called for a full and thorough investigation into the crash, which killed all 176 people on board. Iran has ruled out a missile strike by its air defences. The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq. US media have speculated that the timing of the crash suggests the plane may have been mistaken for a US warplane as Iran prepared for…