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Parts of Nkawkaw town roads have been blocked for construction a day to President Akufo-Addo’s visit. The Construction of 2km Domeabra/Agyarkwa road which started few months ago has been abandoned for sometime now. Speaking on Agoo FM, the MCE for Kwahu West Municipality Yaw Owusu Addo denied that the sudden development on the roads has anything to do with the President’s visit. According to him, the contractor who left the site did not have enough machines to operate but has now resumed work. The poor state of Nkawkaw roads has become a major matter of concern in the area with youth in the area often posting pictures of the terrible roads on social media. The state of Akuajoo/Trado road, White house road, Hotel Junction to HansB Road, Asuboni Road, among others are in poor state affecting the day to day activities of drivers, passengers and residents. Sources say the President will only use the Domeabra/Trado road, reason for the sudden construction. The President is expected t..

Former President John Mahama has accused government of training vigilantes to distabilise the 2020 polls. According to him, the National Democratic Congress ( NDC) has evidence that some individuals have been trained at Asutuare for the purpose of the polls. “I remember at the time of Ayawaso West Wuogon, there was a letter that came out asking party executives to bring able-bodied people to be trained as security. “Since then, we have evidence that those people have been to Asutuare and trained in batches over and over again in all kinds of combat techniques and other things,” Mahama told executives of the Ghana Journalists Association who had gone to pay a courtesy call on him. He also condemned the government white paper on the Ayawaso violence report. “To believe that Government can say an MP deserves to be slapped because he provoked a security officer is unconscionable. I don’t know by what moral code this judgement is being made but it creates a very bad precedent for us. I..

Ghanaian model and entrepreneur, Salma Chaana Abdul-Razak, who was the first Upper West delegate to make it to the 2010 Ghana Most Beautiful pageant is fuming over what she describes as the youth of today choosing fame and money over dignity. Chaana said some youth these days lack ‘home-sense’ due to weak parental style adopted by the current generation of parents. In an interview with the Daily Heritage Newspaper’s Erica Artbur she said, “growing up, I never saw young people talking back at their elders or arguing with their parents but lately this has become the new normal. Some youth these days care less about dignity; they aim at fame and riches and will do anything possible to get it without bothering about the source.” Speaking on the plight of women who need help from men in relevant positions, the health practitioner and actress said that that in her line of work her only challenge is her blessing of being beautiful. “Being pretty is a blessing and has opened loads of great..

Rwandan gospel singer Albert Nabonibo has told the BBC Great Lakes service that he was sacked from his accountancy job in the capital, Kigali, two weeks after revealing on the BBC that he was gay. Homosexuality is not an offence in Rwandan law but the largely Christian society has a very negative view of it. Mr Nabonibo’s decision to go public about being gay in late August raised eyebrows considering he is a gospel musician. But shortly after, on 19 September, his employer forced him to resign, he said. “I was good at my job, but when fellow employees saw the story they started hating me, then my bosses pushed me to resign,” Mr Nabonibo says. The artist said that resigning was a better option compared to outright sacking, which could have tarnished his employment record. The BBC’s attempt to get a comment from his former employer was unsuccessful. Mr Nabonibo said his life has changed since coming out. Some family members and friends no longer talk to him and he no longer goes ..

Government has scrapped the system of bonding trainee nurses and midwives in the country on the back of its inability to employ the thousands of graduates currently pushing for jobs in the public health sector. “Bonding is stopped now,” Deputy Health minister Tina Mensah announced Thursday, but did not give details on when the decision was taken by government Government in 2005 introduced the bonding of trainee nurses and midwives to curb the brain drain in the health sector, which it said, was impacting negatively on health delivery in the country. Under the system, nurses trained in public health training institutions had to serve in Ghana for five years before they could leave the shores of the country to practice elsewhere. A decade after, government began a review of the bonding system with the view to cancelling it in order to allow nurses and midwives who graduate to seek employment in the private sector and outside the country without having to serve in Ghana. Speaking on ..