Author: Krobea

The 90-year-old woman, who was accused of witchcraft and lynched at Kafaba in East Gonja by a soothsayer and her accomplices on Thursday, July 23, has been laid to rest in Salaga. The body was released to the family for burial after an autopsy was conducted on her at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. The late Denteh Akua was lynched at the instance of the soothsayer and her accomplices who were invited into Kafaba to identify witches. In a video intercepted by TV3, the deceased was seen being lashed and tortured by two women while others looked on. Police in Salaga…

Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama will outdoor his running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, at a ceremony to be held in Accra on Monday. “The formal outdooring of Professor Opoku-Agyemang will allow her to make her maiden policy statement since her announcement as running mate,” a release issued by the John Mahama campaign team said. Prof. Opoku-Agyemang was on Monday, July 6 named the partner of former president Mahama for the December 7 presidential elections. She served in his tenure as the Minister of Education. Before then, she had risen to prominence as the first…

North East Region Minister Solomon Boar Namli has lauded the Covid-19 disinfection and fumigation of markets and public places in his region, describing it as a big step in the fight against the deadly virus in the country. The exercise being done by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in collaboration with the waste management giant Zoomlion Ghana Limited saw thousands of markets across the country disinfected against coronavirus in March. The second phase of the exercise is currently ongoing in all the 16 regions where major markets, public toilets, palaces, lorry parks and other public places are…

A rubber farmer, who has been identified as Antobam and believed to be in his late 40s, has been shot and killed by armed robbers after he allegedly challenged them during a gold robbery getaway at James Town, a suburb of Dompim, in the Tarkwa Nsueam Municipality of the Western Region. Information available to 3news.com indicates that at about 8:19 pm on Friday, eight young men approached a gold dealer by name Afia Kitiwaa at James Town on the pretext of wanting to buy gold. Unbeknownst to her, the young men were armed robbers in disguise. Immediately they got to…

The Central Regional Police Command has handed the docket on the case involving lawmaker Mavis Hawa Koomson to the national headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. The Minister of Special Development Initiatives was invited to the Central Regional Command in Cape Coast on Friday following a shooting incident in her constituency, Awutu Senya East Constituency, last Monday. She honoured the invitation in the company of her lawyers, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Command, DSP Irene Oppong stated. The statement of the MP was taken after which the gun used in the disruption…

Special Prosecutor Martin Alamisi Amidu appears unhappy with the politicisation of his investigations into the Airbus bribery scandal. In a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mr Amidu argued that the case must be depoliticised as a matter of utmost importance to him. In a press release on Friday, July 24, the Office of the Special Prosecutor said its chief wrote the letter to the Ministry seeking urgent evacuation of Samuel Adam Foster, also known as Samuel Adam Mahama, to Ghana “in order to assuage not only his own image but also that of his brother…

A former miner, Ohene Adu Aboagye, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of LEAPAB, is on his way to setting up an oil plantation and processing factory in Obuasi under the District One Factory (1D1F) Initiative. The initiative as promised by the government is targeted at transforming the economy of the country through industrialisation. This is geared towards creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youth in the country. Residents of Obuasi have not been left out in this industrialization drive that seeks to utilize the raw materials of the various districts in the country. Mr. Ohene Adu Aboagye said…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has received donations worth GH¢100,000 from payers who constitute the senior national men’s soccer team, Black Stars, as a way of their help in the fight against Covid-19. The Chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee, George Amoakoh, handed over the items to the President of the Association, Kurt Okraku, on Friday, July 24 at the GFA Headquarters in Accra. “We make this presentation on behalf of our Black Stars players. In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the team decided to make contributions towards this presentation we are making this afternoon,” Mr. Amoakoh…

Ghana has recorded eight new deaths in the latest case count of the coronavirus disease in the country. The count, released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on its official website on Friday, July 24, sees the total number of deaths rise from 153 to 161. These deaths come barely a week after the last fatalities were recorded. The records, according to the Service, are those reported on Tuesday, July 21. A total of 691 new cases were also recorded from samples obtained between Wednesday, June 17 and Monday, July 20. This sees the country’s cumulative total now at 31,057.…

China has ordered the closure of the US consulate in the south-western city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat escalation between the two countries. China said the move was in response to the US closing its consulate in Houston, and accused staff in Chengdu of meddling in its internal affairs. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US decision was taken because China was “stealing” intellectual property. Tensions have been rising between the US and China over several key issues. President Donald Trump’s administration has clashed repeatedly with Beijing over trade and the coronavirus pandemic, as well as China’s imposition of…