Author: Krobea

Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency Sarah Adwoa Safo says her constituency will determine if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be given four more years or not. The Constituency has the highest number of voters in Ghana with 172,907 registered for the December 7 elections. At a rally at the Atomic Park in Accra on Wednesday, November 25, Adwoa Safo promised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential Candidate a total of 120,000 votes to secure victory for him come December 7. “Today, our president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is hear because he has hope in us,” she told the…

The presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has entreated political party leaders to have some level of trust in the electoral process for the sake of peace in the country. Brigitte Dzogbenuku, however, called for a review of the 1992 Constitution to prevent the appointment of the Chair of the Electoral Commission by a political party in power. “There are issues coming up about the non-transparency in the Electoral Commission and the fact the EC is in bed with some political party,” she noted. “It’s a fundamental thing we have to deal with but we all need to…

The Duchess of Sussex has revealed she had a miscarriage in July, writing in an article of feeling “an almost unbearable grief”. “I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second,” Meghan said in a piece for the New York Times. She went on to describe how she watched “my husband’s heart break as he tried to hold the shattered pieces of mine”. Meghan wrote that “loss and pain have plagued every one of us in 2020”. The 39-year-old shared her experience to urge people to “commit to asking others, ‘are you OK?'” over the…

The late Kofi Annan, son of our Ghanaian soil, perhaps did not think through it well, when he said, ‘elections are at the heart of democracy, when conducted with integrity, they allow citizens to have a voice in how and by whom they are governed’, because the alternative may be the reality in his continent of birth. With less than two weeks to Ghana’s general elections, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa can not reject accusations that the commission is in bed with the incumbent government by mere jokes. Uncertainly, Mrs. Jean Mensa strongly believed, if she…

Ghana Premier League side Legon Cities Football Club have appointed Bashiru Hayford as their new head coach following the sacking of Goran Barjaktarevic. The Royals confirmed the dismissal of Goran Barjaktarevic earlier today after a poor start to the season. Bashiru Hayford, who has vast experience in the Ghanaian Premier League, will be heading the technical department of Legon Cities until the end of the ongoing Ghana Premier League season. Legon Cities despite bringing in marquee signings to their set up are without a win this season and lost heavily by 3-0 to Great Olympics in Week Two at the…

Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Thiago Alcantara are in the running for the men’s prize in the Best Fifa Football Awards. Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne is also in contention as part of the 11-player men’s shortlist. England and Manchester City defender Lucy Bronze is one of the 11 players nominated for the women’s award. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and Leeds United counterpart Marcelo Bielsa are on the men’s manager shortlist. Chelsea manager Emma Hayes is in the running for the women’s manager award, along with the Netherlands manager Sarina Wiegman, who will take over…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says despite assurances given by the National Security Minister and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on safety and security before, during and after the December 7 elections, they do not trust them. The largest opposition party says its mistrust is as a result of history of the current “failed, corrupt and dishonest” Akufo-Addo-led government. “We have taken note of assurances given by the Minister for National Security, Mr Albert Kan Dapaah, and the IGP, Mr James Oppong Boanuh, that adequate security will be provided on election day,” NDC’s Director of Elections Elvis Afriyie Ankrah…

Ghana Premier League giants Asante Kotoko have departed the country en route to Mauritania for the first leg of Caf Champions League preliminary round against FC Nouadhibou on Sunday. The Kumasi-based side travelled without captain Felix Annan, who picked a knee injury last Sunday during their Ghana Premier League match against Berekum Chelsea. Defender Habib Mohammed is also suspended for the match, as a result did not make the trip on Wednesday morning. Augustine Okrah and Mudasiru Salifu will all also be out of the first leg encounter. Newly signed Brazilian midfielder Fabio Gama dos Santos and Naby Keita didn’t…

The Prestea/Huni-Valley Municipal Director of Education, Mary Vida Kwofie, has welcomed a 50-seater computer lab facility dubbed Yamoransa Model Lab 8 at Bogoso in the Western Region. She says the facility will be a huge propeller in their quest to ensure that the acquisition of ICT knowledge and skills by school children and teachers are achieved. Ms Kwofie was speaking at the commissioning of the computer lab. The facility is to provide free ICT literacy sessions as well as serve as a conference room for teacher training and workshops. It has a MakerSpace specially designed and installed by TECHAiDE, a…

The trial of the men accused of murdering Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018 has resumed in Turkey. Twenty Saudi officials, who are not in Turkey, are being tried in absentia. A prominent critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Mr Khashoggi was killed by a team of Saudi agents inside the kingdom’s consulate. Turkey says he was suffocated and then dismembered. The defendants include two former aides to the prince, who denies involvement. A close friend of Mr Khashoggi, Egyptian political dissident Ayman Noor, told the court the journalist felt threatened by people close to Crown…