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  President  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo  is receiving briefings from  COVID-19  Technical Taskforce on limited school re-openings and would make a firm decision on school reopening in January 2021 after a Cabinet meeting on December 30, 2020. Addressing a news conference in Accra on  COVID-19  Updates on Tuesday, Information Minister,  Kojo Oppong Nkrumah , said the  COVID-19  Taskforce would work throughout the Christmas period to brief the President and analyse the impact of the  COVID-19  pandemic on students, during the limited school re-openings in July, August, September, and October, this year. Government in July allowed final year students in the tertiary education institutions to complete their semester courses and wrote their exit examinations. The final year senior high school students also returned to complete their term courses and wrote the West African Examination Certificate (WAEC), while the final year Junior ...

  Controversial legal practitioner, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has advised young ladies to not hesitate in reporting a man who promises them gifts in exchange of sex and refusing to fulfil it.  According to Maurice Ampaw, the only way men can be free from the demands of the Ghanaian woman, especially during this festive season is for them to abstain from any and all form of sexual relations with women. “Men should boycott sex this Christmas. They should boycott sex from now till Thursday because if you make the mistake and demand for sex from even your wife, she will demand a gift(s) in return. Meanwhile, the ladies are the ones who enjoy sex the most and still demand stuff from us”, he explained. Speaking in an interview with Sefah-Danquah on Happy 98.9 FM, Lawyer Ampaw furthered that most Ghanaian women do not know how to give gifts but always want to be at the receiving end. “Most women only expect Christmas gifts from men and never give them anything in return which is bad. When...

  As Audrey Hepburn said; "Elegance is the only beauty that never fades away.  Being a beauty queen is not about only wearing a pretty crown and being in the spot light..Being a beauty queen entails a lot.... This means taking up responsibilities and being the biging of Hope and voice to the voiceless...Let us all support the agenda. # Team Abena# #Abena for Miss Western Region 2020# # Vote Abena to the  short code *713*714*5# and my contestant code is MW3. # We are going for gold# #🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥# Come support me on the 12th of September ( next week Saturday) at the takoradi mall and I will never disappoint you.❤️❤️❤️ I, Abena, needs your maximum votes to win the crown. Thank you.

  Founder and leader of Anointed Palace Chapel, popularly known as Rev Obofour has once again proven that he’s very rich and can be compared to the Roman’s Croesus. As part of their 10th marriage anniversary, clergyman has surprised the wife with a 2020 G-Wagon which costs around $156,450 equivalent to GH¢904,865.97. The two love birds have been flirting on their Instagram pages which makes their marriage admirable and also evokes envy by haters. Obofowaa is currently the happiest woman alive. Love is sweet but money makes love overly sweet. SOURCE: GhanaWeb.com 

  Multiple award winning dancehall artiste Shatta Wale, has cautioned Ghanaians against criticising rich people. According to Shatta Wale in a video posted on his Instagram live page, Ghanaians should stop attributing rich people’s money to rituals because not all rich people got their monies through dubious means. “Ghana is full of hate. We always attribute people’s success to money rituals.You dont know me but you’re always talking about my character. people always have something to say about everything,” he stated in the video. Shatta Wale further advised his colleagues in the industry to stop hating on each other and work hard to promote Ghanaian Entertainment industry. Source: Ghbase.com

  “What do they (NDC) want the independent auditor to do that the existing laws cannot do?” renowned journalist  Kweku Baako Jnr . has asked. The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is requesting an independent audit into the newly compiled voters’ register. This follows claims by the Electoral Commission (EC) that there are minors and foreigners among the 16.9 million persons registered to vote on December 7. Director of Elections of the NDC, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah at a Press conference in Accra cited multiple registrations as grounds for the independent audit. “...we’re reliably informed that the EC’s own Biometric system is defective and therefore de-duplicating registrants by itself,” he stated. Meanwhile, the Ashanti regional branch of the National Democratic Congress has accused the Electoral Commission of deliberately inflating figures in the ongoing registration exercise to enable the NPP rig the 2020 general elections. Kweku Baako speaking on Joy FM's Newsfile...

  Burna Boy  heaped praise on Ghana in an interview he had with 'The Breakfast Club', an American syndicated radio show based in New York City. During the interview, Charlamagne tha God, one of the three hosts of the show, disclosed to  Burna Boy  that he has acquired a property in Ghana which is by the beach. He, however, indicated that the property is located in East Legon when  Burna Boy  asked if it was at Labadi. Burna Boy  told Charlamagne tha God that getting a property in Ghana is the best decision he [Charlamagne] has ever made. “Bro that’s the best decision you have ever made,”  Burna Boy  told Charlamagne tha God. Trust me, trust me, Ghana is a beautiful place.” “You’re in a beautiful place man… Cos for me personally that’s my go to place for refuge,” he added. Source: GhanaWeb.com 

  Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has said the reopening of schools in Ghana will be dependent largely on how the coronavirus behaves in the country. Asked when schools will reopen while speaking in an interview with Berla Mundi on the COVID-19 360 on TV3 Thursday, August 13, Dr Opoku Prempeh said, “we will go back to school if the virus allows us.” He explained that the decision will be based on the available science and data on the Covid-19 situation in the country. “So depending on the science and data, we will reopen schools. We reopened schools for final years as they maintain social distancing,” he said. He observed when schools reopened for final students to write their examinations, the government suffered flak from people. However these same people, he said, are now calling for all schools to reopen. “Had it not been that the government was sound of what it was doing they would have given up. All these people saying we should open schools, those people wil...

    Togbe Afede XIV, President of the National House of Chiefs has bemoaned the effect of the border closure on indigenes of the Volta Region who he says could be trapped between the borderlines. Ghana’s borders were closed to human traffic because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Ahead of the voter registration exercise, military and immigration officers were also deployed to man the borders to support the fight against COVID-19. But some observers have noted that the government did not take into account the Ghanaians who crossed between some of Ghana’s borders on a daily basis for school and economic activities, among others. In a statement, Togbe Afede recounted his tour of some parts of the region which informed some of his fears. “I am still haunted by the plight of those citizens of Leklebi-Kame who are trapped on the about 300-meter stretch of land between the Ghana Immigration Service barrier and the actual Ghana-Togo border.” He said they had not been able to regist...

  Ghana’s active COVID-19 cases currently stand at 2,029. 168 COVID-19 new cases recorded in the country have pushed the total case count to 41,572. Eight more deaths have also been recorded increasing the toll to 223. This was captured on the Ghana Health Service’s Website on August 12, 2020. Four regions out of the 16 do not have any active cases. They are; Upper West, Upper East, Savannah and North East regions. The Greater Accra Region continues to lead the active cases chart with 766 current cases. Ashanti Region also has 538 active cases followed by Central Region and Eastern Region with 242 and 228 active cases respectively. The region with the least number of active  cases is the Bono Region with three cases. Source: citinewsroom.com

  Astute Lawyer and a leading member of the   National Democratic Congress   (NDC) Tsatsu Tsikata has said that he wishes he had the creative skills to do music like his son M.anifest does. According to him, although he enjoys music, he does not have any musical skills like the dexterity his son proves with his kind of music. “That’s my son and he has taken to music and I’m very proud of him because I wish I had those kinds of creative skills. I’m very proud of what he does. I enjoy music but I don’t have any musical skills at all. His songs are very good and I think the lyrics are tremendous.” To him, he didn’t have problems when his son decided to venture into music after studying Economics in one of the best universities in the world because music is a very creative kind of career that one can engage in. He believes that people have their different kind of talent so he would never have tried to talk his son out of what he loves to do or impose on him a career like law....

Sarkodie  has tweeted a 3-generational photo of his father, himself, and his new son. In a Father's Day post, the Tema-born rapper finally confirmed he has a new baby boy. Earlier this year, the rapper denied rumours of his wife giving birth to a baby boy in the United States. This was after fans flooded his timeline with congratulatory messages having sighted publications in that regard. "Not true...," he responded. Joining her husband to debunk the false publication, Tracy Sarkcess added, “SMH… a slow news day I guess." However, a few days ago, the Ghanaian rapper arrived in the country with his daughter and wife who was carrying another baby. This generated some level of interest in fans who were eager to know who the other child was. But  Sarkodie  continued to remain silent and adamant about the speculations until his Father’s Day tweet today to officially introduce his new son, Michael Nana Yaw Owusu Addo Jr aka “MJ”. SOURCE: GhanaWeb.com 

The government of Ghana is working together with the Jubilee field partners to ensure constant supply of LPG to avoid gas shortages following the launch of the Cylinder Re-circulation Model, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, a Deputy Energy Minister, has said. This, he said will also ensure that the country experiences relative stability in the price of LPG. He explained that the Cylinder Re-circulation Model is primarily aimed at reducing LPG-related accidents and will also create more jobs contrary to claims by players in the sector that they will lose their jobs. Speaking at the launch of the policy Dr Amin Adam, said : “While we encourage you to adopt the cylinder re-circulation model of LPG, we are also working hard to ensure security of supply of LPG so that we do not have shortages of LPG at anytime or anywhere in the country. “Accordingly, we are working with the Jubilee Field partners, the producers of oil from the Jubilee Field, to increase gas production and export from the Jubilee...

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has given the Chief Executive Officer of Produce Buying Company (PBC), Mr Kofi Owusu Boateng ten days within which to respond to a complaint of misappropriation lodged against him by Kumasi-based journalist Nana Kwadwo Jantuah. “You are required to submit your written response within 10 working days upon receipt of this complaint,” CHRAJ stated in its letter to the CEO. The journalist, represented by his lawyer, Mr Sarfo Gyamfi, believes the company, which was recently delisted by the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) over its failure to publish its financial results, should be investigated for possible corruption and mismanagement, hence his petition to CHRAJ. In his petition, Mr Jantuah cited suspicious activities by the directors of the firm to back his claim and noted that he has documents which indicated the withdrawal of some GHS 1.5 million from PBC’s account in 2018, ostensibly for the purchase of nuts, which have not...

The US government is threatening sanctions against Ghana over the termination of the controversial Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). Government in a letter dated October 18, 2019 to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced the termination of the agreement which came into effect on March 1, 2019, and saw PDS take over Ghana’s major power distribution company, ECG. The decision, government explained, was prompted by some breaches of the agreement by PDS. According to the Ghana government, PDS failed to fulfil the necessary “condition precedent” in the agreement, which borders on demand guarantee. But Ghana’s decision appears not to be sitting well with the US government which has given the Ghana government October 30 to reverse the decision or face the consequences of the decision, which will be to lose 190 million dollars under the MCC Compact II. US government demands In a letter addressed to Ghana’s Financ...

The body of Zimbabwe's ex-president Robert Mugabe was flown out of Singapore Wednesday following his death last week, his nephew said, heading home for burial in a country bitterly divided by the hero-turned-despot's legacy.  Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who swept to power after Zimbabwe's independence from Britain and went on to rule for 37 years until he was ousted in 2017, died on Friday, aged 95.  His health deteriorated after he was toppled by the military and former loyalists in November 2017, ending an increasingly iron-fisted rule that sent the economy into ruin.  He died after receiving treatment at a Singapore hospital for several months, and a delegation including Vice President Kembo Mohadi travelled to the affluent city-state on a chartered flight to bring him home.  Early Wednesday a hearse transporting Mugabe's body left a Singapore funeral parlour bound for an airport and accompanied by a police escort, driving past a group of waiting journalists. ...

Singer MzVee and record label Lynx Entertainment have ended their eight-year relationship. After MzVee went off the grid and took a sabbatical from active music, there were rumours that her relationship with members at the label has gone sour. Others claimed the singer had gotten pregnant, went on a break to focus on herself and giving birth. However, in a press release signed by the ‘Daavi’ hitmaker, she only went on the “much-deserved break” to re-energise, get in touch with herself and redesign her artistic expression. “These eight years with Lynx Entertainment have been absolutely delightful and a blessing and I am glad we still hold our relationship,” she had written. She added that Lynx Entertainment will always be a strong pillar in her career hence although both parties have decided to part ways, they will amicably continue support for each other. Lynx Entertainment also in a press release said they were proud to have watched MzVee grow into the woman she is now and wishes h...

Following recent reports about Sarkodie and Okyeame Kwame's absence on Obrafuor's “Pae Mu Ka” documentary, the legendary rapper has hinted that he is not disappointed or worried about any artiste who has failed to make an appearance on his documentary. Speaking in an interview, Obrafour said he cannot force artistes who have intentionally decided not to support him. He also explained, the documentary has been scheduled for 2-3 months, a period which he believes is favorable enough anyone who want to a be part of it. "I am not disappointed. I am a type of person that isn't discourage easily, I was born alone, but one thing that we all have to understand about life is that, the reasons why God created us is out of love so we should love one another", he said . He added that "all I want to say is that in-case you don’t see anyone in the video don’t feel or think like we didn’t call that person we called everyone but maybe they had a time constraint but in lif...

Musician Bisa Kdei has said it will be difficult for any musician to break the record he has set in the hiplife/highlife space.  Bisa, who is considered by many people as contemporary highlife king due to his multiple award-winning feat made the point while granting an interview to a Canadian reporter over the weekend.  The young highlife musician who has a series of hit songs to his credit and repertoire said, “even after my death, no highlife artiste would be able to undo my lifetime record of taking highlife music and its culture abroad.” Immensely worshipped in Ivory Coast and other francophone countries Bisa Kdei is the first youngest Ghanaian highlife artiste to break the difficult international market with Ghanaian cultural highlife genre of music.  Bisa Kdei has hits songs such as ‘Mansa’, ‘Brother Brother’, ‘Baba’, ‘Odo Carpenter’, ‘Apai’ amongst others to his credit.  Even though Kdei has acknowledged the presence of some young highlife artiste in Ghan...