Author: Krobea

Last week, many people I came into contact with told me the coronavirus isn’t real. My mechanic, a guest at the office and a few more professed how they could never get the coronavirus. I even had meetings where some people just refused to wear a mask, or took it off once they entered. I engaged a bit further. Some people think COVID-19 is as a result of some biological warfare, or is a biological weapon not intended for Africa. Real people think that. Then I had one man postulate that it might be the plan of the world pharmaceutical…

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has been engaged by the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, at a meeting on Monday, August 10 following President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s plea over the punitive measures taken against some 14 final year students. The sanctions meted out to these 14 were reviewed at the meeting. The students have now been permitted to write their West African Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in their respective schools. Nonetheless, they remain dismissed from the schools. “They are to leave the various school compounds immediately,” a statement issued by the Director General of GES, Professor…

The Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Council is demanding the immediate closure of Bright Senior High School in Kukurantumi in the Abuakwa North District of the Eastern Region. This follows attack on officials of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and a journalist by the students writing this year’s West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). The candidates have since been moved by WAEC to complete their exams at Ofori Panin SHS, also based in Kukurantumi, while investigations into the assault continue. But in a statement issued on Monday, August 10, the Council said its demand is premised on the conduct of…

Serie ‘A’ giants, Juventus, announced their former player, Andrea Pirlo as the head coach yesterday. However, this is not the first time a retired player will be going back to his former club to manage it. When players drop the jerseys and pick the tactics book to coach teams they once played for, fans cheer on hoping they deliver magic like they have always been doing. Whilst some coaches are an instant hit at their clubs, others bite the dust very early in the day. Not all were heroes during their playing days but once they turned coaches, they found…

Highlife musician Lucky Mensah is of the opinion that if Ghanaians want calamity to befall them again like in the John Mahama regime, then they should vote the National Democratic Congress (NDC) into power in the 2020 elections. The musician said the sufferings under the Mills-Mahama administration should not be repeated because that would spell doom for the nation. Lucky Mensah made the call on Sunday, August 9 in an interview on Ghana Dadwene hosted by Nana Yaw Opare. Recounting what the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has done for the past three-and-half years, Lucky Mensah explained that the Free SHS,…

National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Henry Nana Boakye, has said former President John Dramana Mahama will collapse the Free Senior High School programme if given the opportunity to lead the country again. To that end, he said, a recent claim by Mr Mahama that he will strengthen the programme if elected to become the president should not be countenanced. In a statement issued on Sunday, August 9, Nana B said: “It would be recalled that on Saturday, 8th August, 2020, Mr. Mahama paid a courtesy call on the Overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na Abukari II, during which…

Highlife musician Lucky Mensah has expressed disappointment in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for electing former President john Mahama to lead the party in the 2020 elections. He explained that the NDC has so many quality and competent members who can rule Ghana better than John Mahama so why must they vote for someone who can only rule for just four years when given power. Speaking on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene hosted by Nana Yaw Opare, Lucky Mensah said on Sunday: “I was surprised NDC elected [John Dramani] Mahama again because he destroyed most of the things in Ghana.…

Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture development Elizabeth Afoley Quaye has noted that no government in the Fourth Republic has shown enough commitment to the fisheries sector than the Akufo-Addo administration. She said this while distributing outboard motors to fishing communities in the Greater Accra Region over the weekend. She said the fisheries sector plays an important role in the Ghanaian economy, hence the decision by the government to support the fisher folk with the outboard motors. Ms Afoley Quaye, who is also the Member of Parliament for Krowor Constituency, assured the fishermen that the present government will continue to address their…

Some applicants, who turned out to register as the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) was carrying out the mop-up exercise on Sunday, clashed with officials of the elections management body at some registration centres at Asokore Mampong in the Asawase Constituency of the Ashanti Region. This was after the participants were unable to provide basic information about themselves to enable the EC officials register them for their card. 3news.com’s Ashanti Region correspondent Evans William Nkoom reported on Sunday, August 9 that the situation resulted in heated exchanges between EC officials and the participants. However, the police stepped in to calm the…

Former President John Dramani Mahama, who is also the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has announced a $10 billion accelerated infrastructural plan, dubbed the Big Push, which he says will drive jobs and entrepreneurial agenda when elected in December 2020. “We are looking at what I call the BIG PUSH, injecting some $10 billion to dualise our roads, complete the remainder of the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools, finish all the hospital projects that have been left abandoned, and construct bridges to open up the country,” says Mr. Mahama. Speaking in an interview on TV XYZ on…