Author: Krobea

The coronavirus pandemic is still capturing our near full attention with many reports suggesting headway in the fight against the pandemic and its related crisis. Around the world, millions of lives have been severely affected with no hope in sight when life will return to normal.  Businesses around the globe are folding up or either laying off their staff as part of a downsizing measure aimed at minimizing their operations in a bid to ensure business continuity. And this accounts for thousands of families that have lost and continue to lose their livelihoods on a daily basis. For businesses to…

The cancelation of the Ghana Premier League follows through a worrying trend that has defined the competition for some years now. Legal tussles, corruption expose, and now the coronavirus have played their part in the abrupt cancelation of the campaigns. The current season was looking promising. Records lay in wait to be smashed, the fans had picked up their hobbies of watching football again, while the organizers enjoyed very good publicity for bringing back the love. And so for them and the many others who stood to benefit from a finished season, the news of cancelation news will be a…

The Co-Chairman of the Abossey Okai Spare Parts Dealers Association has chastized the Greater Accra Region Minister, Ishmael Ashitey, for doing nothing to help in the fight against the coronavirus as far as the spare parts enclave is concerned. Mr. Samuel Siaw Ampadu said much attention is needed at the spare parts enclave due to quantum of people who troop in and out of that place daily but the regional minister has not even visited them, let alone come to their aid. The Chairman made these allegations in an interview with Onua TV on how the spare parts hub is…

Vice President Dr. Alhaji Mahammudu Bawumia on Friday registered in Walelwale in the North East Region as part of the ongoing registration exercise by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). The Vice President got his named captured at the Kperiga Presby D/A Primary School Registration Center in Walewale, where he hails from. After fulfilling his civic responsibility, Dr Bawumia expressed satisfaction particularly with the abiding by of all covid-19 protocols by the citizens. “I have registered in Kpariga by hometown, and I’m happy that people are respecting social distancing.” The Commission started the registration exercise on Tuesday, June 30 as part…

The death is reported of consultant surgeon, Dr Rchard Kisser. Until his untimely death, Dr Kisser was practising at The Trust Hospital in Accra. He had been taken ill for Covid-19 and was receiving treatment at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC). But he passed on Thursday, July 2. The Hospital confirmed the sad incident on Friday. Since the outbreak of coronavirus in Ghana, it has claimed 117 lives, among whom are health workers. The first major casualty in the health fraternity was Dr Jacob Plange-Rhule, who was the Rector of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. He…

MobileMoney Limited has extended the fee waiver on MoMo on-net transfers up to GH¢100.00 daily till September 30, 2020. The extension of the MTN and Bank of Ghana COVID-19 initiative gives opportunity to MoMo customers to continue sending money transfer value up to GH¢100.00 daily to MoMo wallets for free. A statement issued in Accra and signed by Mr Samuel Koranteng, Corporate Services Executive, MTN said, however, transactions on interoperability would attract normal charges. It said apart from the free transactions, the revised limits on daily transactions and wallet balances would remain the same as approved by Bank of Ghana…

Players of Ghana Premier League club Elmina Sharks have expressed disappointment at the Ghana Football Association’s decision to cancel the league. The GFA on Wednesday announced that the season has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a decision the Elmina Sharks players are not happy with. The Cape Coast-based club occupied the 5th position before the League was initially suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Deputy Captain of Elmina Sharks Samuel Arthur was optimistic that his team would have made it into the Top Four had the season continued. “We are really disappointed that we started the…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered face coverings to be worn in public as coronavirus cases rocket in the state. The directive applies to counties with 20 or more Covid-19 cases, which covers most of Texas’ 254 counties. Texas hit a record of more than 8,000 virus cases in a day on Wednesday, up from about 2,400 two weeks ago. Americans are about to mark the Fourth of July weekend, with some beaches coast to coast shut and fireworks displays cancelled. There have now been 2.7 million recorded infections nationwide and more than 128,000 deaths since the pandemic began. What…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings says the venom of Covid-19 has not lessened and those who underestimate it are doing so at their own peril. “Fellow citizens, it does not appear that we can afford the comfort of thinking the Covid-19 virus has gone weak or lessened its grip,” he said in a statement issued on Thursday, July 2. “It is there and very much around waiting to infect and claim the lives of those of us who will underestimate its danger.” The former president cited how several weeks ago the death of the wife of a senior medical doctor…

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu has described as unfortunate the inspection visit by Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema West Constituency to some voter registration centres when he knew he had tested positive for coronavirus. JB, as NPP’s scribe is affectionately called, said that was “wrong” and Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, who is also a Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, should do the needful by self-isolating immediately. Mr Ahenkorah had earlier tested positive for coronavirus but had broken isolation. At the start of the voter registration exercise on Tuesday, June 30, for instance, the Tema…