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Segun AdewoleThe Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has directed the National Broadcasting Commission to implement the B...

One of the oft-quoted adages in the lexicon of sport is, "Its hard to defeat an opponent three times in one season."

705 The Minister designate for Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, has said it is time telecommunication companies that operate mobile money paid taxes on the profits they generate from their services. She said reports she had from the common platform, which monitors mobile money transactions, showed that in January this year alone, monthly transactions that passed through mobile money platforms amounted to GH¢81.3 billion. That, she said, generated GH¢124.5 million in...

Crews working on the wreck removal of the Golden Ray have resumed cutting operations after a slight delay to conduct maintenance to the cutting apparatus. Cutting operations resumed early Wednesday morning to separate Section Seven, which will be the third section of the wreck to be cut off and removed. Cutting of the section began in late January, but the operation was put on hold after a joining link connecting the cutting chain to the pulley system failed, causing the chain to fall into the ...

There’s a noticeable hitch in Nathan Barnica’s delivery as he competes for Ephratas bowling team. While the sophomore’s 205 average wouldn’t lead anyone to think much of that hitch, the story behind it, and bowling’s role in his recovery, is nothing short of inspirational. “He wasn’t able to even walk, and now he’s back and he’s rolling the ball incredibly,” Ephrata bowling coach Nick Vanderwende said recently. “It’s without a doubt th...

There’s a noticeable hitch in Nathan Barnica’s delivery as he competes for Ephratas bowling team.

COLCHESTER councillors have voted to press ahead with the creation of a 9,000-home new town on the border with Tendring. During an extraordinary meeting of full council on Monday evening a majority of councillors voted to formally adopt section one of the authority’s local plan. Section one, created between Colchester, Tendring and Braintree councils, includes plans for the new town, or garden community, to be built just off the A133 near Elmstead. Two further garden communities, at W...

(iStock) The woman is said to have been in a car on her way from work when she was kidnapped. A police search led them to a lodge in Phalaborwa where she was found the next day. The men face charges of armed robbery, kidnapping, and rape. Two men have been denied bail in Limpopo after they were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a woman who was on her way back home from work on Thursday.  The two who have been charged are aged 32 and 39. They appeared in the Giyan...

© Getty Images In Article Two, Section Two, Clause One, the United States Constitution gives the president “the Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” In Federalist #74, Alexander Hamilton provided the rationale for such a broad grant of authority to the president. Without some recourse to “exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt,” Hamilton added, “justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.” Thi...

By Grace Alegba The ravaging effect of Coronavirus (COVID-19) was, perhaps, the biggest challenge faced by stakeholders in the road sub sector of the construction industry in 2020. As the virus gained ground, several contractors soon abandoned work and shut their operations, consequently, many hitherto gainfully employed Nigerians were thrown into the labour market. Even when the government later introduced partial lockdown measures, the number of workers on site was scaled down by many contrac...