Author: Krobea

Host of the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Alfred Ocansey has dismissed reports making rounds that the Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Professor Stephen Adei, was granted an interview on his show on Friday regarding the nomination of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the running mate to John Dramani Mahama for this year’s elections. Mr Ocansey stated on the show on Monday, July 13 that no such interview was conducted, hence the said report should be disregarded and be treated with the contempt that it deserves. The said report indicated that Prof Adei had described the former…

Some aggrieved ex-staff of defunct microfinance and savings and loans companies have besieged the offices of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in Accra to mount pressure on the Receiver of the companies to pay their outstanding salaries and exit packages. The Receiver announced on Sunday that an agreement has been reached with the Bank of Ghana to engage the affected staff to pay them outstanding salaries and exit packages. In a statement issued on Sunday, July 12, Receiver Eric Nana Nipah of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Ghana) Limited assured the affected staff that engagement will begin on Monday. But the former…

Manchester City have successfully overturned their two-year ban from European club competitions. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) announced the club were cleared of “disguising equity funds as sponsorship contributions”. Uefa issued the ban in February after ruling City had committed “serious breaches” of Financial Fair Play regulations between 2012 and 2016. City’s fine has been cut from 30m euros (£26.9m) to 10m euros. In delivering the ruling on Monday, Cas said City did “fail to cooperate with Uefa authorities” but overturned the decision by Uefa’s club financial control body (CFCB) to ban them. City said the decision was…

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…