Author: Krobea

Dozens of barrels of diesel, a boat, chamfan generator and other mining equipment worth thousands of Ghana Cedis have been burnt on the River Offin enclave in the Upper Denkyira East District of the Central Region. The equipment were seized from illegal miners on the River Offin by the Small Scale Miners Association of Ghana (SSMAG) in collaboration with Operation Vanguard and Galamstop. The seizure was part of daily routine visits to illegal mining sites in the catchment areas. The gesture was to serve as a deterrent to others. The items were destroyed with an excavator before it was set…

France Football has announced that 2020 Ballon d’Or has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. This will be the first time since 1956 that no player will receive the award. The editor-in-chief of the France Football magazine, Pascal Ferré, justified the decision in a statement . “On the sporting level, only two months (January and February), out of the eleven generally required to form an opinion and decide between the best, it is far too little to gauge and judge.” Instead of the usual four winners (male and female Ballon d’Or, Kopa and Yachine Trophies), France Football will nominate…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be in the Eastern Region capital of Koforidua on Wednesday, July 22 for a sod-cutting ceremony. The ceremony is to kick-start work on the construction of the new Eastern Regional Hospital. The ceremony will be under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, which will also be responsible for the project. This is part of government’s recent undertaking to build six new regional hospitals to help in the fight of infectious diseases. In addition to the regional hospitals, 88 new district hospitals will be built while some existing hospitals will be upgraded. In this…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has wished all candidates of the 2020 West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) well as they begin their exams on Monday. This year’s exams have been preceded by controversy over whether it was prudent for government to allow the students to get back to school in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. “This is certainly not the best of times to sit for an exit examination, but bear in mind that you have made yourself, your parents and the entire nation proud for your outstanding courage to write at this time,” the Presidential Candidate…

Speaking of millions of millionaires, I am not tone-deaf to the billions of people currently suffering from the harsh economic effects of this pandemic. I am merely recognising the fact that I can almost confidently say that you reading this article right now is into some form of “business”, or at least you have seriously thought of it. Looking at the current times, who hasn’t? This pandemic has transformed everyone into businesspeople. Selling at a slightly higher price than you buy is the simplest form of “business” that a lot of people are looking to do to make up for…

Ghana-American juvenile boxer, Joseph Awinongya  Jnr, profoundly the future of boxing took his kindness and compassion to another level when he made commitment to financially support Paulina Anokye to undergo surgery to remove a spinal tumor which has affected her mobility and eventually thrown her into paralysis. The 13-old Awinongya Jnr. is currently rated number one and two in the 90lbs and 95lbs divisions in America has won almost all competition he has participated. He has shown superb exhibition of boxing artistry, rare display of boxing IQ, academic excellence and has become the toast of many in Ghana and Chicago…

AK Songstress has called on the Ghanaian media to focus attention a little bit on female musicians who are doing well. She wants these female artistes to be given equal attention given male musicians. In an exclusive interview with Onua FM’s entertainment host Christian Agyei Frimpong, AK Songstress said she can mention a number of female artistes who have good managers, good branding but are not getting the attention from the media. This she says makes her feel the media is still living in the past when the music industry was said to be a male-dominated industry. “In the past,…

Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has tested positive for Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. He is a member of a presidential task force on Covid-19 that is coordinating the country’s response to the pandemic. Mr Onyeama announced in a tweet on Sunday that he would be isolating at a health facility. He took the test following a throat irritation – one of the symptoms of the disease. ‘’Did my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday at the first sign of a throat irritation and unfortunately this time it came back positive. That is life! Win some lose some. Heading…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has cleared the air regarding claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that its agents were prevented from monitoring the registration exercise in some two senior high schools in the Ashanti Region. The NDC had accused the EC of preventing its agents from observing the exercise at Tepa Senior High School and Prempeh College in the Region. “The Commission emphatically states that it did not prevent any party agent from observing the registration exercise at the above-mentioned schools as is being alleged,” the EC said in a statement on Sunday, July 19. It said…

The 2020 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) begins today, Monday, July 20. It begins with the Project Work for Visual Arts candidates. Science students will also follow next with their practicals before the theory examinations begin on Monday, August 3. This year’s WASSCE has been the most talked about as a result of the era it is being written. The country, and, indeed, the world as a whole is battling a deadly viral disease, coronavirus. In the wake of this viral disease came the shutdown of schools across the world. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo decreed the closure…