Author: Krobea

North Korea has said it will cut off all inter-Korean communication lines with the South, including a hotline between the two nations’ leaders. The North said this was the first in a series of actions, describing South Korea as “the enemy”. Daily calls, which have been made to a liaison office located in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, will cease from Tuesday. The two states had set up the office to reduce tensions after talks in 2018. North and South Korea are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the Korean War ended in…

“I wished for death.”— A victim of rape. Imagine struggling with a man or woman over YOUR body. Imagine being overpowered. Imagine your pants being torn by this hungry being. Imagine the content of your pants being feasted on by this greedy being. Imagine yourself wailing while they are laughing. Now… imagine having to pick yourself up and walk back home all alone after this ordeal with blood-soiled clothes. You can’t imagine but… you have just been raped! A report by the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service revealed that approximately six (6) women…

It is call time at the Fit Square Gym here in Ghana’s capital, Accra. Amateur and professional boxers pace up and down the space’s confines, getting ready for the evening’s schedule. In their midst, is the 23-year-old Dalvin Azumah Nelson Jnr., son of Ghanaian boxing great, Azumah Nelson. Dalvin proudly displays the many traits that made his father, Azumah Nelson, a global boxing phenomenon and a legend of many yards. Azumah Nelson’s legacy transcends the shores of Ghana. Years after hanging his gloves, he continues to dominate conversations around boxing in the country and beyond. But that is what champions…

Former Member of Parliament for La-Dadekotopon Constituency Nii Amasa Namoale has called on the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to tolerate divergent religion in the country. The former MP said the suspension of some delegates who invoked curses on some party executives amounts to autocracy and the violation of their constitutional rights. The ruling party on Monday instructed constituency executives to suspend, with immediate effect, all delegates who invoked curses on leadership over the disqualification of some parliamentary aspirants. These delegates of the party resorted to invoking deities to register their dissatisfaction with the national executives for not allowing some…

Rains in the early hours of Tuesday, June 9 has wreaked havoc in some parts of the nation’s capital with many counting their losses. From the trade hub at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, our reporter Adwoa Addobea Owusu indicated how most of the traders there were trying to salvage what was left after the downpour Tuesday morning. The head of the traders at the Pedestrian Shopping Mall said the Odaw River was overflowing its banks even before the rains came down on Tuesday. He said the River needs immediate desilting. From Kwashieman, our reporter Grace Hammoah Asare told us of how…

Emeritus Professor Ivan Addae Mensah, who is also a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, has noted that schools in rural areas in the country will have a daunting task protecting their students from coronavirus. This he said is due to the lack of enough financial and other resources to ensure that the materials needed to use in protecting the children are provided. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show on 3 92.7FM Tuesday, June 9, Emeritus Prof Addae Mensah said: “Certainly methods of teaching are likely to change, class sizes will…

Ranking Member on the Communications Committee of Parliament Sam Nartey George has descended heavily on the Minister of Communications to do the needful and stop pursuing telecommunications giants MTN. He said as it stands now the board of the National Communications Authority (NCA) has no female member, which flies in the face of the law that set up the Authority. Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Tuesday, June 9, Sam George, who is also the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency, said inasmuch as Ursula Owusu-Ekuful is enforcing the laws that set up NCA, “she must avert her mind to…

Emeritus Professor Ivan Addae Mensah, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, has proposed to school authorities to reduce the sizes of their classes when schools reopen, as part of the efforts to limit the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, May 31 announced the reopening of schools for final year students at all levels of education from Monday, June 15. He said after an engagement with the various teacher unions, government has decided to allow final-year students to go back to school to prepare for their final examinations. In his 10th…

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has declared the country “coronavirus-free” thanks to prayers by citizens. “The corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,” Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government’s strategy on Covid-19. The government has stopped publishing data on the number of coronavirus cases in the country. On 29 April, the last day official data was released, there were 509 cases, with 21 deaths in Tanzania. However, Mr Magufuli said last week that only four patients were receiving treatment in the largest city, Dar…

In an era where the term ‘world class’ is often abused and misused, Timo Werner is a striker who fits the bill to a tee. The 24-year-old comes to SW6 with the reputation of being one of the deadliest strikers in world football right now and a pedigree unrivaled by most. Timo Werner guarantees goals. Making his debut for VFB Stuttgart in 2013, the then 17-year-old became the youngest player to ever play for the German club and later the youngest player to score for them with his header against Frankfurt later that year. This was the season after he…