Author: Krobea

Beginning Thursday, October 1, 2020, a new cocoa producer price of GH¢10,560 per metric ton, equivalent to GH¢660 per bag will be paid for the coming 2020/21 crop year. This represents a hike of more than 28% over the price obtained in the outgoing crop year of 2019/2020. These were announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, September 24, on Day 1 of his 3-day tour of the Western North Region. He was launching the Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme in Sefwi Wiawso. The current 2019/20 producer price of GH¢8,240 per metric ton, translating to GH¢514 per bag, was an…

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama says his running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has also been caught in the web of anomalies that have characterized the ongoing voter exhibition exercise. “In the Central Region, glaring cases of duplication of card numbers were also recorded in 14 centers in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Constituency. “And one of such cases involved my running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang,” Mr Mahama told journalists in Accra on Thursday, September 24. He explained that Prof Opoku-Agyemang was asked to get to the district office with her card to have it replaced. “Being…

The 2020-2021 season of the Ghana’s top-flight is scheduled to start on November 13, 2020. This follows the decision of government of Ghana to give green light for the resumption of contact sports on October 30, 2020. Football has been halted for over six months in Ghana since the outbreak Covid-19, which led to the cancellation of the 2019-2020 football season. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed that the 2020-2021 season of the Ghana Premier League will commence on November 13. The Division One League will start on December 3, 2020. Commencement of the Women’s Premier League will follow…

One of the lecturers who redefined the teaching of Science in University of Ghana goes on retirement this year. J. P. Adjimani was until his retirement a Senior Lecturer at the Biochemistry Department of University of Ghana. He will be remembered as one of the few who broke the barrier between lecturers and students. A friend of all students, he lent a helping hand to most students, especially the weak ones. He can be credited as one of the lecturers whose office was open to all students at all times. Fondly called by his students as “Dr. Adji”, the academic…

The three siblings who died in a fatal road accident at Nyanteh near the Eastern University at Somanya have been laid to rest. The three, aged four to nine, are Marvin Oyanor, 4, Shannel Awudza, 4, and Kadmiel Kota, 9. Hundreds of mourners thronged the cemetery to pay their last respects to them and mourn with the family. The three were with their mother in a taxi cab returning from Accra before they met their untimely death in the fatal accident. Their mother, who suffered severe fracture, is currently at the St Joseph Hospital, Effiduase receiving treatment. Several lives have…

The government in partnership with waste management giants Zoomlion Ghana Limited has commenced disinfection of thousands of basic, junior and senior high schools across the country against coronavirus. The exercise being undertaken under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, began from the Greater Accra, Central, Eastern and Western regions on Wednesday, September 23. It forms part of measures taken by the government to protect students and staff of the various schools who are to return to school from Monday, October 5 for resumption of academic work, which was halted in March this year on…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has extended the ongoing voter exhibition exercise by two more days. The exercise, which began on Friday, September 18, was scheduled to end on Friday, September 25. “As part of efforts to serve the interest of its stakeholders and promote greater participation and inclusion, the Electoral Commission has extended the Voters Exhibition Exercise from Friday 25th September to Sunday 27th September, 2020,” the EC said in a statement issued on Thursday, September 24. “The Commission is of the view that this extension will allow even more stakeholders to check and verify their voter registration details.…

A former Deputy National Organizer of the largest opposition party, National Democratic Congress (NDC), has alluded that the members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) cannot differentiate between suspension and abrogation. Mahdi Gibril has therefore explained that members of the NPP do not understand English Language hence their assertions that the NDC flagbearer has abrogated instead of suspended his campaign tour of the Bono Region. The former president, John Dramani Mahama, who is also the NDC flagbearer, put on hold his tour of the Bono Region on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, and returned to Accra to ascertain why some…

US President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses November’s election. “Well, we’ll have to see what happens,” the president told a news conference at the White House. “You know that.” Mr Trump also said he believed the election result could end up in the US Supreme Court, as he again cast doubt on postal voting. More states are encouraging mail-in voting, citing the need to keep Americans safe from coronavirus. Every losing presidential candidate in modern times has conceded. If Mr Trump were to refuse to accept the result of the…

Independent Parliamentary aspirant for the Bekwai Constituency Lawyer Akwasi Amofa Agyemang wants the area to be flagged as a flashpoint going into the December 7 polls. His call comes on the back of recent stand-off among the Bekwai youth over who should become their representative in Parliament. Wielding clubs and machetes, opposing factions from the camp of incumbent Member of Parliament Joe Osei Owusu and the independent aspirant clashed in Bekwai on Tuesday. Lawyer Akwasi Amofa, who was disqualified from contesting the New Patriotic Party (NPP) primary, has since been campaigning as an independent candidate. He describes the recent clash…