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The widow of one of the troops killed later became embroiled in a row with US President Donald Trump photo: AFP[/caption] The Islamic State (IS) group has published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October. It is not clear why the release of the video – on an IS outlet on messaging app Telegram – was delayed until now. The video consists mainly of raw footage, including images apparently filmed using a helmet camera belonging to one of the soldiers. The video seems to suggest that the attack was…

The flag of Ghana was lifted high when the country’s 18-member delegation to this year’s Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) Summit in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America excelled after emerging winners in the Social Venture Challenge contest last month. The 64th Session of the HNMUN attracted 3000 student delegates from over 50 countries, stimulated the workings of the United Nations using educational and diplomatic engagements. The 4-day event saw thousands of tertiary students from all continents converged at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to pitch to judges in a highly competitive manner on smart approaches towards…

Nana Obiri Boahen had claimed he only got GHC5,000 from the GHC50 billion gifted the party by the presidency[/caption] Deputy National Secretary of the governing NPP, Nana Obiri Boahen is asking President Akufo-Addo and the NPP to forgive him for ‘lying’ about some 50 billion cedis he claimed the presidency gave for the organisation of the party’s annual delegates conference in Cape Coast last year. He had lamented in a leaked private conversation with a supposed National Democratic Congress (NDC) member that he was given a paltry GHC5,000 from that amount. The presidency has yet to speak on the issue…

The Northern Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has destroyed 14 tipper trucks and one excavator belonging to some sand winners in the Northern Region. The owners had defied a one week ultimatum given by the REGSEC after a report was made by the Ghana Water Company, compelling a team of military personnel to set the vehicles ablaze when they arrived at Dalung,  a suburb of Kumbungu about 10pm on Saturday. The activities of the sand winners at the bank of the Dalung river have over the years affected the Ghana Water Company, increasing its cost of production. The one week ultimatum…

President Akufo-Addo exchanging pleasantries with Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams[/caption] The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was on Friday, 2nd March, 2018, presented with the Exemplary Leadership Award, in recognition of his “courageous and transformative leadership”, “commitment to education” and for his implementation of “people centred policies.” “May Ghana, under your leadership, be a wonder and an inspiration to the world. May the expectation, as we know it will, of every African man and woman be raised because of your pioneering achievements. May every African child believe that he or she can, because you lifted them up, and paved the way,”…

Robbers broke into the ICGC Calvary Temple auditorium Sunday dawn in an attempt to steal three 42 inches plasma screens used for projections during service. The robbers, however, bolted upon hearing the sirens from a police team on patrol around Sakumono and its environs. The incident is said to have happened around 2:00 am with only the church’s security man on duty. The robbers were believed to have entered the auditorium from the back of the church. Sources say one of the television sets was dropped and got broken as the robbers were in a haste to escape. It is…

At least six persons were confirmed dead in a motor accident on the Accra-Winneba highway at Gomoa Dominase in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region. The victims who were returning from a funeral met their untimely death when two vehicles smashed into each other. An eyewitness told 3news.com the gory accident happened on Saturday evening around 6:10 pm. “It was a head-on collision and people died on the spot,” he recounted. According to the eyewitness, a Hyundai Grace with registration number GX-2894-17 dangerously overtook a trailer and ran into an oncoming Sprinter bus, GS 870-12,  killing five people on the spot.…

Joe Mettle is the reigning VGMA Artiste of the Year[/caption] The battle lines have been drawn for the biggest awards to honour the creative works of Ghana’s gifted artistes – the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards 2018! The hourly announcements of the various categories exclusively on Media General platforms kept high the suspense of music enthusiasts until it all culminated in the VGMA Nominee announcement party at the Movenpick Ambassador hotel Saturday night on March 3. By the end of the announcements, the two time VGMA Artiste of the Year, Sarkodie topped the list of nominees with nominations in 8 categories…

[caption id="attachment_77101" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Antonio Russo, his father Raffaele and cousin Vincenzo disappeared on 31 January[/caption] Mexican authorities have launched criminal proceedings against four police officers over the disappearance of three Italian men. The missing men – all from Naples – were last seen on 31 January in Tecalitlán, in the western state of Jalisco. The state’s governor said the officers had confessed to handing the Italians over to a local criminal gang. The police had allegedly arrested them at a petrol station beforehand. The son of one of the disappeared earlier told Italian radio that the men had been…

The public has been urged to resort more to electronic forms of payment in order to reduce their exposure to armed robbery and related risks. Mr Archie Hesse, the Chief Executive of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement System (GhIPSS), said this following reports of two separate armed robbery attacks in two successive days and other instances, in which huge sums of cash were seized. Mr Hesse, who expressed his sadness about the incidence, extended his sympathies to the victims of the robberies, but added that it is time such robbery acts are made less attractive by reducing cash transactions. He…