Author: Krobea

The Communications Director of the Ghana Football Association, Henry Asante Twum, has said the two female national teams who have been given all clear to train, will strictly observe all protocols. The assurance comes on the back of a decision by the President of Ghana, Nana Akuffo Addo to allow the Black Princesses and Black Maidens to start training ahead of their respective World Cup qualifiers. All sporting activities were put on hold in March this year after the outbreak of COVID-19. “The first thing to consider is camping location and social distancing. We cannot lump all the teams together…

Tension is building up in Adiewoso, a farming community in the Ahanta West Municipal Assembly of the Western Region, as hundreds of illegal small scale miners have refused to move out of a concession belonging to the Ghana Rubber Estates Limited GREL. The irate illegal miners, numbering over 200, insist their operation is under government’s Community Mining project, a claim GREL vehemently refutes. Thus, a team of officers from Operation Vanguard on Monday morning stormed the mining site to stop the activities of the young men. The miners were busily prospecting for gold on a large tract of land on…

This year’s summer window promises to be one of the biggest in a while, with clubs slashing down on prices for their players due to the coronavirus pandemic. European Giants such as Chelsea and Bayern Munich have already made massive statements in the transfer window with the signings of Timo Werner and Leroy Sane respectively, and with the likes of Manchester United and Barcelona also on the hunt for certain players, this transfer window will be an exhilarating ride. So strap in and let’s get started. 1. Real Madrid C.F Los Blancos will be looking to defend their crown next…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed revulsion at the gruesome murder of 90-year-old Denteh Akua at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region. He is hopeful the quick response of the police will lead to the rapid administration of justice in the matter. He said such an act should not happen again. “I will make an appropriate contribution to the Akua Denteh Foundation to express my own revulsion at the awful, tragic act that has occurred in this region.” President Akufo-Addo made these remarks when he commissioned a water project at Yapei in the Savannah Region.…

Chief of the Kafaba community Seidu Yahaya has honoured an invitation to the Salaga District Police Command as part of investigations into the lynching of a 90-year-old woman. The chief was at the police station together with some youth of the community. It is still unclear what transpired between the chief and the police but he is expected to proceed to Damongo, where he will report to the Savannah Regional Police Command. No arrest since the murder of Akua Denteh has been made yet. The homicide experts despatched by the Inspector General of Police to Kafaba are also yet to…

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology of the University of Ghana Dr. Kodzovi Akpabli-Honu has called on government to push formal education to all corners of the country to develop minds scientifically. He says education is one of the sentiments of the solution to some barbaric traditional beliefs. He made this known in the wake of the lynching of 90-year-old Akua Denteh in Kafaba, a suburb of Salaga, in the Savannah Region. She was lynched for allegedly being a witch though reports say she was suffering from dementia. “There are several traditional belief systems which are outmoded and archaic…

MAIDEN STATEMENT BY PROF. NAANA JANE OPOKU-AGYEMANG, NDC RUNNING MATE TO H.E. JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA FOR ELECTION 2020 ON THE OCCASSION OF HER OUTDOORING AT UPSA ON 27TH JULY, 2020 My Boss, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, Leader of the NDC and soon to be reinstated as President of the Republic, Thank you for your kind words. Thank you Chairman Ofosu Ampofo ; Comrade Asiedu Nketiah, the one and only General Mosquito — Thank you. My Brothers and Sisters, The past three weeks have been interesting and sobering for me. It has been a humbling experience. Ebenezer, this is how far…

Just a day after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo expressed satisfaction with the active cases of Covid-19 in Ghana, informing his decision to trigger Phase Two of the easing of restrictions, the number has risen. From 3,307, the active coronavirus cases have risen to 3,655, according to the latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Despite the deaths standing at 168, the active cases rose as a result of a relatively slower rate of recovery. The recoveries-cum-discharges are currently at 29,801. The latest update by the Service puts the total cumulative cases at 33,624. These were recorded after 655…

The 2006 Old Boys Association of Pope John Senior High School and Junior Seminary (POJOSS) paid a courtesy call on the Ashaiman branch of a pizza company, Daddy’s Pizza, over the weekend. This was a bid to support the start-up, which is owned by a member of the group. It has been a culture of the year group to support small businesses of their members. The interim president of the year group, POJOBA Philemon Adaamba, summarized: “This is not the first we are going to support and it won’t be the last.” The old boys were full of praise for…

The 2020 Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has underscored the need to set an agenda specially related to youth and gender in the current political and economic climate. She said she espouses four crucial factors in this. Addressing members of the NDC at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) at her unveiling on Monday, the immediate past Minister of Education said Ghanaians must be mindful of the fact that 60 per cent of the population will be Under-30 in a few years. Therefore, she recommends, it is crucial to reform systems…