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The Royal Family are said to be “hurt” at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s announcement they will step back as senior royals. Prince Harry and Meghan did not consult any senior royal before making the statement, the BBC understands. Buckingham Palace was “blindsided”, said BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond, as talks about their future had begun but were in very early stages. The Palace said there were “complicated issues” to work through. In their statement on Wednesday, Harry and Meghan said they made the decision “after many months of reflection and internal discussions”. They said they intend “to step…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions has targeted to vaccinate a total of 570,864 under five years children against polio.  Two children have died in Techiman, Hwidiem and a third person paralysed at Sampa as a result of polio. The massive vaccination campaign which starts from 8th to 11th January 2020 is to break transmission of the polio virus from an infected person to others and to also contain the poliovirus. Dr John Ekow Otoo, the Deputy Director in charge of Public Health for Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regions made this known to…

The Member of Parliament for Bantama, Daniel Okyem Aboagye, in a rather shocking move, is reported to have knelt down in front of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, otherwise known as Chairman Wontumi, to declare his constituency as one of those parliamentary primaries should not be held. At a meeting held with the constituency, polling station executives and the electoral area coordinators at the Culture Centre chaired by Mr. F. F. Antoh, the National 2nd Vice Chairman of the NPP which was aimed at showcasing the achievements of the government, something of a…

The Upper West Region Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih, has presented recommendations of a five-member committee constituted regarding the case of negligence leading to the death of a two-year-old boy. The recommendations, sampled from findings, were presented to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service for implementation. The boy, Shahid Ibrahim, died of a snake bite due to alleged negligence on the part of staff of the Upper West Regional Hospital on November 9, 2019 after he was referred from Boli CHPS compound. The incident compelled the regional minister to set up the five-member independent committee to investigate the…

United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has announced the appointment of Oliver Alawuba as the chief executive for UBA Africa, overseeing the bank’s 20 African country operations, exuding Nigeria. He succeeds Victor Osadolor, who retires from the Group Board, after 9 years of service working at UBA. UBA Africa serves over 19 million customers across the African continent, providing retail, commercial and institutional banking services, leading financial inclusion and implementing cutting edge products including the first ever banking chat bot in Africa, LEO. Mr. Alawuba has close to three decades of banking industry experience. He was once the CEO of…

About 100 aggrieved customers of the defunct gold-dealership firm MenzGold have been arrested by the police in Accra. Police say the demonstrating customers who forced their way into the plush Trassaco Estate Wednesday to demand for their locked-up investments from owner of the firm, Nana Appiah Mensah, were acting violently. They were said to have assaulted the private security personnel who were manning the main gate to the estate to gain entry to disturb public peace. A gunshot was reportedly fired from within the residence of Nana Appiah Mensah popularly known as NAM1, when the aggrieved customers attempted to break…

If your radio dial wasn’t on 3FM 92.7 on Tuesday, January 7 – Constitution Day – you obviously missed a lot. It was a total takeover! Three of Ghana’s finest actors and one of the country’s best DJs took over the only urban blend radio station! As a station that has the listener and entertainment at heart, 3FM gave Nii Ayi Tagoe, James Gardiner, Juliet Ibrahim and Kalybos arduous task of filling the shoes of the regular hosts of shows on the platform. Nii Ayi Tagoe took over Mariam Osei Agyemang’s show Urban Blend while James Gardiner, Juliet Ibrahim and…

The Ministry of Communications has doctored a gazetted document to sneak in a conditional clause restricting free-to-air television broadcasting in the country, the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has alleged. It said though the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) made Conditional Access System (CAS) non-mandatory for Free-To-Air TV receivers, the Ministry of Communication in cohort with some private persons have clandestinely doctored the document to make the CAS mandatory. Under the doctored clause, Ghanaian households will mandatorily have to acquire a special decoder with proprietary software by a private person before they could watch any Free-to-Air television programme in Ghana. “The…

Finland’s new Prime Minister has called for the introduction of a flexible working schedule in the country that would involve a four-day-week and six-hour working day.  Sanna Marin, 34, – who is the second youngest head of government in the world – said it would allow workers to spend more time with their families. The mother-of-one leads a centre-left coalition with four other parties which are all headed by women, three of which are under 35. She said: ‘I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture.…