Author: Krobea

The Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Environment, Science and Technology has described as “stinky” the assertion by the government that it is 85 per cent through to making Accra the cleanest city in Africa. Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi said a walk through almost every part of the capital city reveals it is engulfed with filth. He therefore wondered the basis on which the Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, rate the sanitation issues in the city. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on assuming office in the year 2017, declared his government’s intention of making Ghana’s capital the cleanest on…

Private legal practitioner and a child right advocate, Bright Kweku Appiah, says the dismissal of students involved in the vandalism in senior high schools is enough punishment for them. This follows the revised punishment by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to the students. According to Mr Appiah, who is also Executive Director of Child Rights International, dismissal is a very serious offense and it takes a certain level of engagement to dismiss a student, accoriding to the GES rules. So going to that extent proves that it’s enough punishment, he told Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s Sunrise on Tuesday. He also…

Bronx Boxing Club trainer and owner, Carl Lokko, who also doubles as Deputy Technical Director of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA), has espoused in detail how Richard Commey and his manager conspired to have him removed as his trainer. Lokko on CITI TV sports show dubbed the TRACKER on Monday, August 10, recounted how he started nurturing Richard Commey when he had chosen to become a footballer at age 13. He narrated how Commey switched from pursuing a career in football and started kick-boxing which then took him to United Arab Emirates (UAE) where he stayed for a while and…

Accra Hearts of Oak goalkeeper Richard Attah has extended his contract with the Ghana Premier League side until 2023. Attah, who joined Hearts of Oak on a free transfer from Elmina Sharks prior to the commencement of the 2019/20 season, will remain with the Phobians for the next three years. A statement from the club read, “Hearts of Oak is happy to announce that goalkeeper Richard Attah has extended his contract to 2023”. His outstanding performance earned him a call-up into the Black Stars under CK Akonnor in March but has yet to see any action in the national team…

Sexuality issues are almost an abominable topic to talk about in a typical African home. It becomes an unspoken rule that sex should not be mentioned in any conversation at home. Parents succeed in painting a demonic picture about sex and sexual identity right from childhood and this makes it difficult for children to open up on their struggles. Church doesn’t help either as it is quick to condemn sex as sin. In most African homes, sex education is absent in children’s upbringing. This makes them vulnerable to ill influence, hearsays and rumours. Kobina Ansah’s musical stage play, THE BOY…

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has named Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate – the first black woman and Asian American in the role. Once a rival for the top job, the California senator of Indian-Jamaican heritage had long been considered the front-runner for the position. The former California attorney general has been urging police reform amid anti-racism protests. Mr Biden will face President Donald Trump in the election on 3 November. Ms Harris will debate Mr Trump’s running mate, Vice-President Mike Pence, on 7 October in Salt Lake City, Utah. Only two other women have been nominated as…

Ghana player Samuel Tetteh has joined New York Red Bulls on loan from Red Bull Salzburg, pending receipt of his P-1 visa and ITC. He will be on loan for the 2020/21 season with an option to buy. Tetteh signed for Salzburg in 2016 and has made more than 100 appearances in the Austrian league, having been loaned to other clubs including Austrian sides FC Liefering and LASK. Head coach of New York Red Bulls Chris Armas said he can’t wait to work with the 24-year-old. “Samuel is a very interesting attacking player,” he said. “He’s intelligent, he can create…

Since the days of Bayern lynchpin Samuel Osei Kuffuor and John “Rock of Gilbratar” Mensah, Ghana have struggled to produce for the Black Stars a consistently astute centre back who could both organize the defence and protect the goal, with the likes of John Boye, Isaac Vorsah, Rashid Sumaila and Jonathan Mensah all trying and struggling to some extent to lead the Black Stars from the back. In Mohammed Salisu, however, Ghana might have just found the next solid guardian of the Black Stars. Mohammed Salisu Abdul Karim was born in Accra on the 17th of April 1999. He started…

Former President and Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to grant clemency to a pastor and his two followers jailed for four years for flouting the ban on public gatherings. Mr. Mahama says the four-year prison sentence handed down to the pastor, Apostle Sampson Agakpe, and two others is draconian and an act of selective justice. “We must all abide by the law, that is true, but we should not engage in selective justice, where you apply the law heavily on church workers who flout the law. Yet,…

The executives of Mamprugu UK and Ireland have presented 20 tables and 80 chairs to the West Mamprusi Municipality for onward delivery to some schools in the area. The Secretary to the association, Rahaman Musah, who was in the company of Lawyer Issahaku Ibrahim, Madam Sumaya Libgi and Madam Wasila Musah, all members of the association, presented the furniture to the Municipal Chief Executive, Arimeyaw Somo Lucky, at a short ceremony held at the premises of the Ghana Education Service (GES) for onward distribution to the Geo and Zangum schools respectively. The MCE stated that the Municipal Assembly has a…