Author: Krobea

Director of Elections for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hailed the teeming supporters and the party’s executives in various constituencies for standing up against “oppression” in the ongoing voter registration exercise. Elvis Afriyie Ankrah said the action against military “intimidation” to stop legitimate Ghanaians to register is in a right direction that must be encouraged. The military are reported in some constituencies such as Banda in the Bono Region and Ketu South in the Volta Region purportedly to stop some people who are alleged to be non-Ghanaians from registering. The issue has generated heated arguments as to whether…

Latifa Bumaye, one of the key suspects in the alleged lynching of Akua Denteh, 90, at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region has has been remanded into prison custody by the Bole Magistrate Court. She has provisionally been charged with murder. Latifa Bumaye, 25, is suspected to be one of the accomplices of a spiritualist captured in a video that went viral flogging the late Akua Denteh. She was accompanied to court by Chief Prosecutor Abdulai B. Awini and three other police officers from the Savannah Regional Police Command. The presiding magistrate, His Worship Prince Cudjoe,…

Ghana’s Covid-19 active cases keep fluctuating as the country’s total confirmed cases continue to rise. The latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on its website on Monday, August 3 sees the active cases reduce from 3,467 to 3,308. Deaths, however, increased by nine, from 182 from the previous update to 191. The total cumulative number of cases is 37,812. Out of this, 34,313 have either fully recovered or are recovering, therefore discharged. Twenty-two are in severe conditions while six are in critical conditions with four said to be on ventilators. The country has, so far, conducted almost 399,446…

Activists in Tanzania say new rules that restrict online content are infringing on people’s freedom of expression. Under the new legislation, organising, planning or even supporting any form of demonstration online is now illegal. The new rules have also banned sharing of information about an infectious disease outbreak without government permission. The Tanzanian authorities have removed rules governing hate speech on the basis of sexuality and gender. Correspondents say the new rules also make it possible for people to be prosecuted for what they write on a shared instant messaging platform, such as a WhatsApp group. Human rights groups say…

The Governance Research Bureau has observed that the NDC has the potential of winning the 2020 elections based on its analysis of EC certified results of the parties since 1992. According to the analysis, the NDC requires a minimum of 113,165 votes above their average of 5,327,378 to win the elections in the first round while the NPP has a much bigger task of crossing the 50 per cent plus one with minimum votes of 372,135 above their average of 5,068,408, the Bureau stated. Discussing the 2020 elections from the perspectives of Statistics and Political Science on TV3 Election Watch…

Newmont Ghana has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) to support government’s effort against the Covid-19 pandemic. Under a GH¢3.1 million agreement, Newmont would procure a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing machines, ancillary equipment, reagents and other consumables for KCCR to enable it scale up its testing. KCCR would intend help Newmont set up two laboratories for Covid-19 and other infectious disease at Ahafo and Akyem host communities. KCCR is one of the major testing centres overwhelmed by increasing number of samples brought in daily. Newmont’s Vice President in charge…

The Member of Parliament for Krachi West Constituency, Helen Adjoa Ntoso, says the incumbent government has abandoned her constituency, particularly the island communities, not having put up a single project there since 2017. She said the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government really invested in those communities but the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has not even thought of, let alone go there to embark on projects. “When we were in government, we were concerned about them. At least, I can mention three or four schools there but since this government came into power, they’ve not built even a single…

As part of efforts to ensure that the coronavirus is brought under control, especially at places of mass gathering, METKA, the business unit of MYTILINEOS, a Greek Sustainable Engineering Solutions company, has constructed a market for the Aboadze community in the Shama District of the Western Region. The gesture, in line with the company’s corporate social responsibility, will help decongest the main Aboadze market while also providing a decent place for traders selling at unauthorized places in the community. The market is a 200m2  shed with a sanitary facility, a water storage tank and parking area for trucks. It will…

Ghana’s coronavirus cases jumped from 35,501 on Thursday, July 30 to 37,014 on Sunday, August 2. Despite a case jump of 1,513, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) only reported of 787. It is unclear what may have accounted for the failure of the previous case count to appear on the Service’s website. But from the latest update, the recoveries-cum-discharges are 33,356, from 32,096, with the deaths still at 182. This leaves the country with 3,467 cases under care and management at health facilities scattered across the country. Some are, however, receiving care at home, 3news.com understands. Among these active cases,…

Some 15 Ghanaian footballers who recently returned from Ethiopia and were quarantined at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram have been released. This came after the Ghana Health Service gave them all clear. The players came back from Addis Ababa two weeks ago after an initial desperate call to the government of Ghana and the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Leader of the team Lee Addy, who played for the Black Stars at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, expressed their gratitude to the government of Ghana for facilitating their return. “On behalf of the players, I would…