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Martin Amidu President Akufo-Addo today [Thursday], after an emergency cabinet meeting at the Flagstaff House, named a former Attorney General in the National Democratic Congress [NDC] administration, Martin Alamisi Benz-Kaiser Amidu as the Independent Special Prosecutor (ISP). President Nana Akufo-Addo, announcing Mr. Amidu for the newly created office of the Independent Special Prosecutor, noted he will present the name to Parliament for approval. The President also commended him for his continual combat against corruption as an anti-corruption crusader. "I can vouch for his spiritedness", the President acclaimed the former Attorney General and Citizen Vigilante. The appointment of Mr. Amidu, to many Ghanaians, strikes fear in current and former government appointees who may have the penchant for corruption.                             ...

Dr .Yaw Osei Adutwum The West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) scheduled to be taken in February will be delayed by a month, a Deputy Education Minister in charge of Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has disclosed. With effect from next year, candidates, he added, will be expected to sit for their examination in June. According to him, the move is to give candidates more time to prepare for the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) organised examination which is also taken by students in five Anglophone West African countries. Dr Adutwum made the disclosure to a loud applause from students at the Labone Senior High School in Accra yesterday when he embarked on a tour of some schools in the capital to welcome teachers and students back to school as they reopen for the second term of the 2017/2018 academic year. Some of the schools Dr Adutwum visited included Morning Star School, St. Thomas Aquinas and Nungua Senior High Schools and the Tesh...

Abena Nyamekye   Last Year, 2017, saw the resignation of some key female presenters from EIB including the likes Naa Ashorkor and AJ Sarpong, who moved to Multimedia and Citi FM respectively, and this year; the trend continues with the resignation of another key female presenter from the netowork. Information reaching entertainmentgh.com indicates that news anchor for GhOne TV, Abena Owusu Nyamekye, has left the station! She tendered her resignation letter to her employers on Monday, January 8, 2018, citing personal reasons for her decision to quit. As usual, Executives of the network are said to have tried to convince her to stay, but she stuck to her resolution to move on. As per the rules of the Network, employees are to tender their resignation 1 months before its effect, so, Abena will no longer be on air by February 8, 2018! Abena started her media stint in Accra with Starr 103.5 (then Power FM) after moving from Kumasi, where she worked with Kapital Radio and KFM...