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Medeama SC on Sunday booked a place in the next round of qualifiers for the Caf Confederation Cup at the expense Al Ittihad Tripoli of Libya. Ghana's FA Cup champions qualified 2-1 on aggregate. After losing 0-1 to the Libyans last week, the Mauve and Gold cancelled the deficit early in the game before adding another goal to end the second...
The Private Banking unit of Universal Merchant Bank (UMB), also known as the Prominence Club, has organized its first seminar in 2016 on the topic, “Re-Thinking Performance”. The symposium which was conducted in partnership with IBS Consulting Alliance, is part of UMB’s quarterly seminar series aimed at discussing relevant topics that will enhance the businesses and investments of members of...
The renovated Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital is now operational nearly two years of closure. Even though this is good news, consumables available to sustain the unit in functioning effectively can only last for six months. 3FM has also gathered that there are no trained biomedical engineers in Ghana who can assist in maintaining the machines...
The reigning queen of TV3’s reality pageant show, Ghana’s Most Beautiful, Esi has called on all stakeholders to get on board to help curb the menace of teenage pregnancy in the Central Region. According to the beauty queen, though the Region is endowed with many resources, the high incidence of teenage pregnancy is one that dents its image. The Central Region...
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has expressed profound shock and sadness at the demise of Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, former Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey died on Sunday in a London hospital, where he had gone for treatment. Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey was campaign manager of Former President Kufuor in the run-up to his successful bid for the presidency in...
President Barack Obama has arrived in Cuba for a historic visit to the island and talks with its communist leader. He is the first sitting US president to visit since the 1959 revolution, which heralded decades of hostility. Speaking at the reopened US embassy in Havana, he called the visit "historic". He also spent time in the old city. Mr Obama will...
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, joined the chiefs and people of Suma Ahenkro in the Jaman North Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region to celebrate the Akwantu Kese festival. Nana Akufo-Addo, who was the special guest of honour at the Adinkra durbar, the first of its kind which commemorates the Adinkra symbol,...
President John Dramani Mahama says the government will leave no stone unturned in protecting its people from any acts of terrorism that is beginning to gain grounds in the West African region. He said the recent attacks in three West African countries - Mali, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast- gives Ghana every cause to be pay attention to any possible...
A leading member of pressure group Occupy Ghana, Ace Ankomah is requesting a breakdown of repayment made by the AGAMS Group to government. He indicated that other members of Occupy Ghana and himself are not satisfied by the mere pronouncement of the Attorney General, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong that AGAMS Group has paid all outstanding debt owed the government of Ghana...
An international conflict management expert, Dr Kingsley Adjei, has questioned the readiness of Ghana's security forces to respond to any potential terrorism threat to the country, describing the government's alert as "belated". The government on Wednesday issued an alert of a possible terrorist threat in the country in the wake of the upsurge of terrorist attacks in the sub-region. It...
South Africa risks turning into a "mafia state", a senior governing party official has warned, as pressure grows on President Jacob Zuma over his links with a wealthy family. Gwede Mantashe made the comment after deputy Finance Minister Mcebesi Jonas alleged that the Gupta family had offered him the minister's post. The family has denied the allegation. The main opposition party is...
This year's Harvest Praise has been billed to come off on Good Friday, March 25 at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC). Powered by Harvest International Ministries, Harvest Praise 2016 promises to be yet another total praise experience at the feet of Christ, organisers say. The 18th edition is expected to line up "true worshipers" at the venue. "Coming all the way...
Award-winning mobile money solution, Tigo Cash, recorded a remarkable increase in the volume of transactions last year, thanks to continuous investment in product enhancement and empowerment of agents to educate customers. With more than 12,000 agents nationwide, Tigo Cash recorded over 35 million transactions in 2015, a quintuple-digit growth over its 2014 figure of 7,962,078. “Lower barriers of entry coupled with...
Tons of cashew nuts are getting rotten in the Brong Ahafo Region as cashew buyers are unable to export nuts to foreign markets due to an export ban placed on the commodity by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI).   The ban was enforced as part of measures to improve local processing of cashew which is expected to create jobs...
A law lecturer, Yaw Oppong, says although the Speaker of Parliament has assumed the country's presidency, he cannot perform certain critical functions without consulting President John Dramani Mahama. He observed that the 1992 Constitution is silent on the decisions that could be taken by the Speaker of Parliament when he is sworn-in as the President in the absence of an...

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