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Before becoming a politician, Nana Addo was a trained lawyer. He is very known around the corridors of law in Ghana. In 1979, he co-founded the law firm Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co., which has become one of the prominent law firms in Ghana , and the home of some of the most outstanding lawyers at the Ghanaian bar today. Due to his involvement in politics, you are used to seeing Nana like this.   And this.   Well, here is the NPP flagbearer (right) with the then Attorney General Joe Reindorf  (left) in the court case of Tuffuor vs Attorney General in 1980!

  Ugandan singer, Sheebah Karungi who is widely considered as one of the hottest celebs in Uganda, had one of her most embarrassing moments on Friday July 8th. While she was performing at Club Guvnor in Ugandan, the place became so hot that her makeup started to run as shown in the photo.  

An expert in traditional affairs, Dr. Nana Obiri Yeboah, says, it is high time the local government system, in the country, is changed because it marginalizes traditional authorities. Speaking on the back of the recent impasse between the chiefs of the Manhyia Palace and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly boss, Kojo Bonsu, Nana Obiri Yeboah said, issues like this, can be avoided if political actors at the local level, learn to respect traditional authorities. He further added that, the Local Government Institute, should organize a training session for District Chief Executives (DCEs), and Metropolitan Chief Executives (MCEs), on decentralization and chieftaincy. He said, the seemingly unending discrepancies between government appointees, at the local level, and traditional authorities, can be effectively dealt with, when traditional authorities are accorded the needed recognition. Speaking on the XYZ Breakfast Show, he said: “My problem is the ...

Gas supply from the Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) to the Aboadze power enclave near Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region was reduced considerably over the weekend, leading to the loss of 230 megawatts (MW) of power. The reduction in gas supply was occasioned by challenges confronting the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah, which compelled the Jubilee partners to reduce gas supply to Ghana Gas from 87 million standard cubic feet (scf-d)  a day to 47 million scf-d. The situation, according to a source at Tullow Oil, the lead operator in the Jubilee fields, was largely attributed to bad weather conditions, since the defective turret was no longer in control of the anchoring system of the vessel. Confirming the reduction in gas supply yesterday, the Communications Manager of Ghana Gas, Mr Alfred Ogbamey, told the radioxyzonline: “We’re receiving 46.7 million scf of wet gas from our upstream suppliers and supp...