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After being sworn into office on Saturday, President Nana Akufo-Addo officially starts work today. A guard of honour was therefore mounted on Monday to usher him into the presidency. Below are colourful pictures from the event. Source: 3news.com | Ghana]]>

File photo[/caption] Former President John Dramani Mahama has left Accra to Abuja to attend an ECOWAS Meeting on the situation in The Gambia. The former Ghanaian President who recently handed over to newly elected President Nana Akufo-Addo has been asked to continue his mediation role in the effort to resolve The Gambian political crisis. In a meeting of ECOWAS held on the sidelines of the inaugural ceremony of President Akufo-Addo, the leaders requested the former president to continue to assist President Muhammadu Buhari as co-mediator in the Gambian issue. In a telephone conversation yesterday, President Akufo-Addo personally conveyed the ECOWAS…

This was found on the tomb of an unknown man: ‘When I was young, I told myself that I would change this world but I realized at the time of my death that I had changed nobody because I should have changed myself first’. Food for thought. A few days after Ghanaians of various persuasions ‘danced over’, ‘jumped over’, ‘Pushed Over’, ‘Rolled Over’ and did all to get over from 2016 to 2017, the final act of sealing what democratically took place in Ghana on December 7, 2016 happened on Saturday, January 7 when there was a handing over and…

Contractors owed by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) started receiving payment today January 6. 2017 started with some contractors working on GETFund projects picketing at the Ministry of Finance to demand monies owed them. It is to the tune of over GHc 300 million spanning a period of six months. This also incited the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors in the Volta Region to threaten to block access roads and facilities they have constructed today if they are not paid monies owed them. But speaking to 3FM business, Deputy Director of GETFund, Stephen Baffoe, says the Fund has…

Mr Bagbin has been in the House since 1992[/caption] The outgoing Majority Leader of Ghana’s Sixth Parliament under the Forth Republic, Alban S.K. Bagbin wants the next Parliament, as an institution, to intensify its efforts at educating the public on what members do in the house in order to court the support of the public. Speaking on the floor of the House at the end of dissolution of the Sixth Parliament of the Forth Republic , the Majority Leader was hopeful the move will  bring Parliament closer to the people . He cited for instance the Annual Public Fora, the…

Police officers at the Tamale Airport junction in the Northern Region appear to have defied instruction to suspend checking of vehicular documents on the roads by the Ghana Police Service. The Ghana Police Service in October instructed that all vehicular checks at the various Police check points across the country be suspended with immediate effect. The directive, sent via the security agency’s wireless service, received backlash after it found it way into the public domain as a section of the public claimed it was to score a political point. The police communication directorate revealed that the directive was not politically motivated but rather…

Patronage of New Patriotic Party (NPP) paraphernalia is booming across the country ahead of the inauguration of the president-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday. Traders are cashing in as the day approaches in various stores and traffic intersections across the country. Onua FM’s team of reporters across the country reports of a happy mood of traders who sell various NPP paraphernalia. Afia Afriyie reports from Accra that traders in traffic intersections such as Kaneshie First Light, Abeka Junction, N1 Highway, among other places have made a lot of sales due to the event. She explained that most drivers, private and…

US Vice-President Joe Biden has told President-elect Donald Trump to “grow up” and criticised his attacks on the intelligence community. On Friday, Mr Trump will be briefed on allegations Russia meddled in the US presidential election – claims he has cast doubt on. Mr Biden said it was “absolutely mindless” for the president-elect not to have faith in intelligence agencies. Russia denies hacking alleged to have helped Mr Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. Late on Thursday, Mr Trump questioned how intelligence agencies were confident about the alleged Russian hacking “if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers” belonging…

Consumers of petroleum products should brace themselves to pay more at the pumps as the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) suggests increment in fuel prices. According to COPEC, the increase would be between 9 and 12 percent, a situation the chamber describes as worrying. COPEC is therefore calling on government and other stakeholders to revise the regulation policy that allowed for some leverage in fuel pricing in the country. Executive secretary of COPEC Duncan Amoah says the current increases in fuel prices, defeats the purpose of the deregulation process, and needs to be revised “When you look at what is…

The newly appointed Director of Communications for the incoming President, Eugene Arhin has pledged to always put the media first in his line of duty. Speaking on Onua FM’s Morning show Yen Nsem Pa on Thursday, a day after his appointment was announced, the 33-year-old and father of one Eugene Arhin noted to succeed as the Director of Communications at the Presidency, will largely depend on his cordial relationship with the main stream media. Until his appointment, Eugene Arhin was press secretary to the president-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for two years after he left the Danquah Institute as a…