Author: Krobea

The Receiver for all microfinance companies and savings and loans firms whose licenses were revoked by the Bank of Ghana has announced that it will engage former employees from Monday, July 13 “to agree on modalities for the payment of outstanding salaries and exit packages”. This was contained in a statement signed by a Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Ghana) Limited, Eric Nana Nipah, who was appointed Receiver last year by the Central Bank in accordance with Section 123 of Act 930. The engagement has been occasioned by the vagaries of Covid-19 as it is becoming difficult, according to the statement, for…

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has recorded cases of coronavirus after a mass testing of its staff. A total of 450 staff including the Chief Executive Officer were tested. Out of this, 39 had their samples return positive. “All thirty-nine (39) staff were asked to go into self-quarantine and those who were in close proximity to them were also asked to do same and were provided with the necessary logistics to do so,” the Authority said in a statement. On a brighter side, 38 out of the 39 have recovered “and will soon be reporting to work whiles the…

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa’s anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, public broadcaster SABC has reported. She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59. The death has been confirmed by a family source, SABC reports. She was the South African ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death. The cause of her death was not immediately revealed. “The 59-year-old daughter of former president Nelson Mandela and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, passed away at a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of this morning,” said SABC. She was Nelson Mandela’s sixth child and his…

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised to increase the percentage of accumulated votes in the 2016 elections by two to three per cent in this year’s polls. The party said they had a little over 68 per cent during the 2016 elections but they are poised to increase it to 70-to-71 per cent in the December 7 elections. The Regional Secretary, Jeffery Konadu, affectionately known as “General”, gave the promise in an exclusive interview with Onua TV’s Afia Tagor during her tour to some areas in Afram Plains North and South Districts of the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he is reading all the memoranda and papers he could not read, now that he is in “self-isolation”. He observed that this has kept him busier than usual. President Akufo-Addo shared his experience on Sunday when he joined some members of his Campaign Communications Advisory Team via Zoom. They virtually discussed several issues, among which is the allegations that he is scheming to disenfranchise some voters, particularly those in the Volta Region. He dismissed this and underscored that the December 7 elections will be crucial as it is going to be “the first time…

National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Henry Nana Boakye has discounted reports that he toured some senior high schools without permission to supposedly campaign for his party. He says this is a figment of the imagination of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and they are just churning out “vile and fruitless” propaganda. Pictures made rounds on social media on Sunday showing the Old Boy of Prempeh College talking to some final-year senior high school students. This generated uproar on social media on the back of the directive by the President to schools not to allow visitation from…

Technology giant IBM Corporation has appointed Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh Regional Head for North, East and West Africa where she will be responsible for IBM operations in over 40 countries in Africa including Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Ghana and Tunisia.  Before her appointment, Ms. Kyerematen-Jimoh was Chief of Staff to the Senior Vice President in charge of Global Markets and Sales in IBM’s corporate headquarters in New York. Ms. Kyerematen-Jimoh who was previously Country Manager for Ghana, joined IBM in 2011 as Marketing Manager for the West Africa Market Segment and rose through the ranks to become the Strategy Leader for…

Ghana’s coronavirus fatalities have risen from 135 to 139, according to the latest case count released by the Ghana Health Service. The total cumulative cases have also seen an increase from 24,248 to 24,518. The recoveries-cum-discharges have seen a significant increase, reducing the number of active cases under care and management across health facilities in the country. So far, 20,187 patients have either recovered or been discharged to continue the recovery regimen at home. This leaves 4,192 persons as carriers of the virus. Twenty-five are in severe conditions and eight are in critical conditions with four on ventilators. A huge…

Ghanaians have reacted to pictures of the National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, seen talking to some final-year students. The school is said to be the Anglican Senior High School, Kumasi, popularly known as KASS. It is unclear what the former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Scheme is talking to the students about but many believed he was campaigning. He was in the company of some officials. This has stirred controversy on social media with many questioning why Nana Bee, as he is popularly called, was allowed into the school when parents…

Market women and some women groups in Walewale in the North East Region have welcomed the decision and praised former President John Mahama for the choice of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as his running mate for the December 7 elections. The North East Regional Women’s Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sumaya Ligbi, who led the groups in Walewale, poured out support for Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang and also showed appreciation to the former president John Dramani Mahama for giving women the opportunity to serve in such a prestigious position in the NDC for the first time. “I am…