Author: Krobea

Ghana’s coronavirus cases are now 39,075. This is the latest update released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Wednesday, August 5. It came after 574 new cases were confirmed. These follow over 700 cases posted on the Service’s website earlier in the day. From the latest case count, eight persons have died from the virus, increasing the death toll from 191 to 199. The recoveries-cum-discharges are now 35,563. This leaves the active cases for the country at 3,313. The tally for the nation’s capital region, Greater Accra, has increased to over 20,000. The 20,080 cases with 1,888 active ones…

Professor of Political Science H B Martinson has revealed that there was no political party called United Party (UP) before 1957, the year Ghana gained independence. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise show on 3FM Tuesday, August 4, which marked the Founders’ Day celebration, that the claim by some political scientists and researchers that the UP was formed before 1957 is erroneous and should be disregarded. He also clarified that the UP was not formed in the Ashanti Region as being claimed  but rather it was formed in the Greater Accra Region. The United Party was the main opposition…

The Bole Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship Andrew Prince Cudjoe, has remanded spiritualist Hajia Serena Mohammed into police custody. Hajia Serena Mohammed was at the forefront of the lynching of a 90-year-old woman, Akua Denteh, at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region. The incident occurred on Thursday, July 23. The spiritualist is to reappear in court on Thursday, August 20. She was arrested in Yeji on Tuesday after police mounted a manhunt for her. Her arrest brought to 7 the number of accused persons who have been grabbed by the police. All except the…

After a successful launch and four weeks of zonal auditions in Connect FM’s Community Street Rap Battle Season III – Virtual Edition, 22 rappers have qualified. The 22 qualified out of 68 rappers from the four zonal auditions in Effiakuma, Kwesimintsim, Sekondi and Takoradi. Debby Sway, the only female rapper for the auditions, made it to the next round from the Sekondi Zone. Two eviction shows would be held on consecutive Saturdays starting August 15. The number would be pruned down to eight rappers for the grand finale on September 13/20, 2020. There would be two review shows. The first…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings appears not happy with Professor Kwamena Ahwoi for references the latter made to Kojo Tsikata and Paul Victor Obeng in his recent book. In the book titled ‘Working With Rawlings’, Prof Ahwoi had inferred that the former president referred to him, former National Security Advisor Tsikata, the late former Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) PV Obeng, his brother, Ato, former Finance Minister Kwame Peprah and former Information Minister Kofi Totobi-Quakyi as the “greedy bastards” he constantly talked about in the Mills administration. “I was informed by one of the persons I talked…

Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for more than a hundred people who are missing after a huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital Beirut on Tuesday. The blast killed at least 100 people and injured more than 4,000 others. The whole city was shaken by the explosion and a mushroom cloud could be seen spreading over the port area. President Michel Aoun said the blast was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse. Ammonium nitrate is used as a fertiliser in agriculture and as an explosive. He scheduled an urgent cabinet meeting…

The National Chairman of the ruling political party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of fuelling tension in some polling stations in the Banda Constituency of Bono Region. The National Chairman said the NDC failed to adhere to the agreement signed by these two main political parties on the registration in some polling centres; hence the tension in Banda. A video that went viral showed some military men preventing people from registering at some registration centres in the ongoing exercise. Reacting to the development on Onua TV’s Maakye hosted by Bright…

Government has listed over 300 customers of the defunct DKM Diamond Microfinance Limited to paid their locked-up funds. This comes a little over a week after former President John Dramani Mahama promised to settle aggrieved customers of defunct financial firms within a year if he is re-elected. “I weep for the many who have lost their jobs, the many who have lost their businesses, the many who have lost their livelihood among others,” he expressed sympathies at the unveiling of his running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, on Monday, July 27. “I pledge on behalf of the NDC that we…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described as “needless exaggeration” claims by the NDC and its flagbearer John Dramani Mahama that government is embarking on an ethnocentric agenda to disenfranchise some Ghanaians as elections draw close. Addressing a press conference in Accra, National Chairman of the party Freddie Blay noted the strategy by the former president can best be described as “inferior communist tactics”. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has recently accused government and the president of supervising an exercise to prevent ‘Voltarians’ and other non-Akans from participating in the ongoing registration exercise. But Mr. Blay says the claims are…

Family of 90-year-old Akua Denteh, who was lynched at Kafaba on Thursday, July 23 on accusation of witchcraft, have commended the police administration for the urgency with which they are putting in the case. This follows the arrest of the spiritualist, Hajia Serena Mohammed, Latifa Bumaye and other suspects in connection with the death of Akua Denteh. Spokesperson to the family Salami Mahama is happy with the speed with which police is treating the issue. “As a family, we can’t only thank the [Ghana] Police Service for the urgency with which they have treated the issue which has led to…