Author: Krobea

The Minority in Parliament has condemned the “shocking” demolition of property belonging to the Nigerian High Commission in Accra. The incident happened in the late hours of Friday, June 20 by unidentified men, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. Security has since been beefed up around the facility with investigations launched into the incident “to unravel the facts of the matter and bring the perpetrators to book”. But in a statement issued on Sunday, June 21 by the Ranking Member of Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minority said the caucus is embarrassed…

Ghana’s Covid-19 death toll has risen from 70 to 85, according to the Ghana Health Service (GHS). In its latest release on Saturday, June 20, the Service has also confirmed that 5,526 patients have recovered from the virus. This has seen a significant reduction in Ghana’s active cases under management. The active cases are now 3,558. The latest update gives figures of Ghana’s case count up till Thursday, June 18. The total case count is 13,717 after a total of 267,286 tests conducted across the country. This puts the country’s positivity rate at 5.13 per cent. Regional case count The…

Barring any last minute change, former GFA Presidential Candidate Nana Yaw Amponsah is expected to be named the new Chief Executive Officer of Asante Kotoko SC. Sources in Kumasi tell 3news.com that the board of the Ghana Premier League club will meet with Amponsah next week to set the tone for an eventual announcement. Should he be named, the Kotoko job will hand him a major selling tool to build his credibility and image in local football. News on the appointment of the new CEO comes a few days after George Amoako was asked to exit the post as part…

Deputy Works and Housing Minister Barbara Asher Ayisi and Deputy Communications Minister George Nenyi Andah have both retained their positions as parliamentary candidates for the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The former Deputy Minister of Education polled 199 votes in her party’s primaries in the Cape Coast North Constituency on Saturday to emerge winner. She beat closest contender Lawrence Ampah by 49 votes. Joseph Thomas Baidoo (63) and Philip Longdon (26) were the other contenders. Mrs Asher Ayisi was declared winner by the Metropolitan Director of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Richard Asenso. Mr Andah, on the other hand, polled 438…

Silky-voiced songstress and now relationship show host on Onua FM/TV Mzbel has described her relationship with head pastor of Prophetic Hill Chapel Prophet Nigel Gaisie as “very horrible”. Though she shied away from giving details of the relationship, Mzbel admitted that they started the friendship talking about other stuff and not pastoral or religious stuff. “After a while the friendship became some way, very horrible,” she told Giovani Caleb on Showbiz360 on TV3 on Friday night. The relationship of the two – school mates with Mzbel as the senior – have been re-emerged following Assin Central Member of Parliament Kennedy…

The Ghana Educational Service (GES) has released guidelines ahead of the re-opening of high schools for final year students as well as 2nd year Gold Track students The fundamental principle for these guidelines is to ensure that students, teaching and non-teaching staff are safe at school and help stop the spread of coronavirus. Senior high school (SHS) final year students and 2nd year Gold track students are expected to resume school on Monday, June 22 while final year students at the junior high school (JHS) will report to school on Monday, June 29. Final year students of all tertiary institutions…

The World Health Organization has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic is entering a “new and dangerous” phase. Thursday saw the most cases in a single day reported to the WHO. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the day had seen 150,000 new cases with half of those coming from the Americas and large numbers also from the Middle East and South Asia. He said the virus was still spreading fast and the pandemic accelerating. He acknowledged people might be fed up with self-isolating and countries were eager to open their economies but he said that now was a time for extreme…

Some 145 delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Asante Akim North Constituency in the Ashanti Region have filed an interlocutory injunction against Saturday’s primaries. According to the delegates, their names have been “unlawfully” and “fraudulently” missing from the album. The contest on Saturday was going to be between incumbent Andy Kwame Appiah Kubi and former Member of Parliament Kwadwo Baah Agyemang. Mr Baah Agyemang, who is the Board Chairman of the National Sports Authority (NSA), is staging a comeback and is challenging the man who ousted him in the primaries in 2015. The contest in the constituency…

A 95-year-old Ghanaian World War Two veteran is to be honoured by Queen Elizabeth for his fundraising efforts. Private Joseph Hammond walked two miles (3.2km) a day for a week in May, raising $35,000 (£28,000) for frontline health workers and veterans in Africa. “I was overwhelmed and filled with joy,” he said on hearing he was to get a Commonwealth Point of Light award. He said he had been inspired by fellow veteran Capt Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m in the UK to fight Covid-19. Capt Moore completed 100 laps of his garden in the run-up to his…

Four more persons have died of Covid-19 in Ghana, taking the total number of deaths to 70. All four cases – three males and one female – were recorded in the Ashanti Region. They are between the ages of 64 and 80. The oldest did not have any underlying health condition. These were put out by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in its latest update on Friday, June 19. The total case count, according to the Service, as of Wednesday, June 17 is 13,203. Exactly 4,548 persons have recovered since then. The country is currently managing 8,585 cases with 22…