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Mr Samuel Kwakye, the Eastern Regional Director of the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is an offence to send any person below 18 years of age to buy tobacco and tobacco products. Again, laws against smoking in public places would be strictly enforced to help protect the society from the high damage that tobacco causes to the body. This was contained in a speech read on behalf of Mr Kwakye at the observation of the World No Tobacco Day Koforidua and the Ghana advocacy agenda on Non Communicable Diseases here in Kumasi. The programme was organized by the…

Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is likely to face workers agitation, if it fails to review existing policies on pensions and its computations. Contributors to the Trust gave the caution at the Volta Regional Coordinating Council’s Heads of Departments meeting in Ho, where SSNIT gave an overview of pensions. The contributors, mainly heads of decentralised Departments and Agencies said for instance, the use of basic salary to compute pensions, when allowances and other benefits, which shore up pay were excluded from the calculations disadvantaged workers and therefore called for a review. They demanded a review of the base…

[caption id="attachment_124711" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard[/caption] Mr Herbert Mensah, President of Ghana Rugby, has endorsed the call by APO (Africa Press Organisation) founder Mr Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard that African sports federations must professionalised their communication if they want to attract sponsors. Mr Pompigne-Mognard made the call in an interview with Leslie Koroma of African Sports Monthly that was published in the June issue of the magazine. APO Group is a media relation and press release distribution company that started its operation back in 2007 and has today grown to become the foremost and most prominent press distribution company for Africa. The…

Prof. Mike Oquaye[/caption] Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, the Speaker of Parliament has written to the High Court in Accra, where Mr Mahama Ayariga, MP for Bawku Central is in trial over financial impropriety, to respect the lawmaker’s privileges granted under the 1992 Constitution of Ghana. According to the letter, the Speaker drew the court’s attention to provisions in 1992 Constitution of Ghana, and urged it to respect the privileges accorded a Member of Parliament in the constitution. Mr Ayariga is being hauled by the Martin Amidu led Office of Special Prosecutor to the court over alleged tax evasion and procurement…

[caption id="attachment_126378" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Wendie Renard[/caption] Hosts France opened the 2019 Women’s World Cup with a brilliant victory over South Korea in front of an overjoyed, sold-out crowd in Paris. Corinne Diacre’s side, among the favourites to win the eighth edition of this competition, produced a breathless performance to take a deserved 3-0 lead at half-time thanks to forward Eugenie Le Sommer’s early opener and two headers from towering defender Wendie Renard. Midfielder Amandine Henry curled in an excellent fourth goal late on, much to the delight of the 45,261 fans inside the Parc des Princes. England and Scotland will…

File photo[/caption] An eighteen year old unemployed man, Musa Danumah, also known as Soldier Boy, has been jailed for five years for stealing church musical instruments by the Ashaiman circuit court. Mr. Gabriel Mate- Teye, presiding judge, told the court that the accused person was already serving a 12 year jail term for similar offences. The judge added that Musa Danumah was involved in a series of robbery attacks within the jurisdiction of the court and would serve all the jail time concurrently. Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Yahara Salifu of the Ashaiman divisional police command, told the court that, the accused…

Photo: EPA/ANDY RAIN[/caption] Tory leadership candidate Michael Gove has said he “deeply regrets” taking cocaine more than 20 years ago. He told the Daily Mail that he had taken the drug at several “social events” while working as a journalist. The environment secretary said he believed the “mistake” should not be held against him in his bid to become prime minister. Members of the party are due to vote for a new party leader after Theresa May stepped down from the role. Mr Gove, who served as justice secretary from 2015-16, is one of 11 Tory MPs who have said…

Ten 20-footer containers being escorted by the national security from one terminal to another within the Tema port enclave have gone missing. The confiscated containers full of canned tomatoes were being moved from the Tema Container Terminal (TCT) to Atlas in a distance of about 9.9 kilometers. The containers classified as overstayed cargos were being transferred to Atlas for “examination and necessary action”. Interestingly, two customs officers from the preventive department who were following the containers had filed a report on May 30, 2019 indicating that the containers had been delivered. It was later discovered that the ten containers did…

Mohd Sanaullah was a decorated army veteran photo: SANAULLAH FAMILY[/caption] The case of a decorated Indian army veteran who was hauled off to a detention camp after being declared a “foreigner” under a controversial measure is due to be taken up by a higher court on Friday. BBC Hindi’s Vineet Khare reports on how this has outraged India. It was the evening of 27 May and Mohd Sanaullah, 52, had just reached his home in Guwahati in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, when he got a call from the local police superintendent’s office. The man on the other end…

Authorities at the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region says it has launched a full scale investigation into how 63-year-old patient, James Egan, sustained several bruises and scratches on his hands and other parts of the body. The victim was admitted on May 1, 2019 for stress management and was discharged on Monday, June 3, 2019 rather brutalized. Mr. Egan’s family had called on the authorities of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital to investigate and bring the perpetrators to book. Meanwhile, the Director of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Kojo Marfo Obeng, in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Sempa…