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Carl Wilson[/caption] Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Committee under the late former President Mills administration, Sonny Carl Wilson, is pleading with Ghanaians, especially the youth, to forgive him for misleading them. According him, he lured people to vote for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) but has regretted doing that, claiming the NPP-led government has failed the nation. Mr. Wilson said in the run-up to the 2016 elections, he openly opposed his own National Democratic Congress (NDC) party, and called on the youth to vote for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) due to some policies they promised to implement. Speaking…

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday fixed October 8 to deliver its ruling on a submission of no case filed on behalf of Lawrence Abrokwah, the former husband of Valentina Nana Agyeiwa aka Afia Schwarzenegger, a television host and a comedian. The court has however ordered Defence Counsel, Mr Anthony Naamo to file the submission of no case by October 2. This was after the court presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku closed the case of the prosecution. The court at its last sitting informed the Prosecution that it would close the case if they failed to produce their…

Communications Minister, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful[/caption] Ghana’s attempt to transition from analogue to digital is set to meet another major snag. This is because the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has rolled up its sleeves to resist the government’s move to commit the country’s only Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) infrastructure into the hands of Chinese pay TV, StarTimes. The deadline for the migration from analogue to digital has already suffered three postponements. Although the global deadline is 2020, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) urged governments to migrate from analogue broadcasting to digital by June 2015, which Ghana could not meet and…

The US is imposing new tariffs on $200bn (£150bn) worth of Chinese goods as it escalates its trade war with Beijing. These will apply to almost 6,000 items, marking the biggest round of US tariffs so far. Handbags, rice and textiles will be included, but some items expected to be targeted such as smart watches and high chairs have been excluded. The Chinese commerce ministry said it had no choice but to retaliate. The ministry said that it hoped the US would correct its behaviour, but did not specify what actions it would take. The US taxes will take effect…

South Africa’s police minister Bheki Cele has said a surge in murders has turned his country into a place that “borders on a war zone.” “Our bottom line is that this situation must reverse,” he said. Crime statistics released by the government show there were more than 20,000 murders in 2017, a 7% increase over the previous year. The minister highlighted that this was 57 murders every day. But was he right to compare South Africa to a war zone? The murder rate, which takes into account a country’s population, is a good way to show the scale of the…

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says it is immediately withdrawing Hydrocortisone Injection from health facilities and pharmaceutical suppliers for safety reasons. The Hydrocortisone Sodium Succinate Injection B.P 100mg is manufactured by Ambica Pharma Sales, India, with batch number 5AE01007. The Authority has asked all health care professionals and consumers not to distribute, supply, use or purchase the product. “FDA laboratory analysis of the product found that there was a lack of uniformity of content and related concerns, which makes it unfit and unsafe for purpose,” a statement issued by FDA said. All health facilities and pharmaceutical companies have been…

Canadian company Vigilant Global, has donated 15 computers to Mfantsipim School. At a short ceremony at the school’s premises on Friday, a representative of the company, Mohammed Baakoe, who is a member of Mfantsipim Class of 1989 and originally hails from Cape Coast, said the donation was an initiative by the company to support educational institutions in Africa. According to Baakoe, the company is keen on supporting Mfantsipim and other needy institutions with refurbished computers on a regular basis. He said the training of the youth using relevant IT tools and equipment was key to their progress and development hence…

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs has urged government to maintain constitutional lines on the creation of new regions to avoid a flood of demands for new boundaries. He said increased demands for new regions was a situation the 1992 Constitution sought to prevent by rigidifying provisions on boundary alterations. Togbe Afede who was addressing a durbar to climax the 2018 Asogli TeZa of the Asogli State in Ho, said “if one of the issues to be decided in such a referendum is the boundary of a new region, then it is…

Zoomlion Spraying Gangs fumigating some students trunks and chop boxes[/caption] The vector control unit of Zoomlion Ghana limited has started massive vector control activities in all public senior high schools in the Eastern, Ashanti and the Northern Regions. The exercise which is under the auspices of Ministry of Education (MOE) seeks to rid-off bedbugs, mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, ants, reptiles, rodents among others which normally distracts the effective learning environments of students. Some senior high schools visited in the Eastern, Ashanti and Northern regions witnessed Spraying Gangs of Zoomlion’s vector control team busily fumigating school dormitories, classrooms, laboratories, offices, staff bungalows,…

[caption id="attachment_97874" align="aligncenter" width="624"] Vice-President Teodorin Nguema is known for his lavish tastes Pic: AFP[/caption] Brazilian officials have confiscated more than $16m (£12.2m) worth of cash and luxury watches from a delegation accompanying the son of Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, local media reported. Teodorin Obiang, the flamboyant vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and a son of the long-time president, flew in with his entourage in a private plane on Friday, the reports said. The money and watches were reportedly found in the luggage of the delegation at the the Viracopos International Airport in Sao Paulo. Police found about $1.5m…