Author: Krobea

Facing a tough re-election battle, US President Donald Trump has replaced his campaign manager. Mr Trump said Bill Stepien, a field director for his 2016 campaign, would take the place of Brad Parscale. Mr Parscale – who was reportedly blamed by Mr Trump’s inner circle for a poorly attended rally in Oklahoma last month – will stay on as senior adviser. Opinion polls show the president is trailing his Democratic challenger Joe Biden ahead of November’s election. Mr Trump’s statement on Facebook on Wednesday evening said: “Brad Parscale, who has been with me for a very long time and has…

The Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr Akwasi Osei, has asked the government and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to provide counselling for students following the spread of the coronavirus in some senior high schools. He said told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM on Thursday that Covid-19 has brought mental stress to a lot of people, a situation that requires the assistance of metal health practitioners to help deal calm nerves of the students and Ghanaians, in general. Dr Osei was contributing to a discussion on the rising cases of Covid-19 among SHS…

Mohammed Kudus has completed his medicals ahead of a summer move to Ajax in the Netherlands. Terms were agreed between all parties involved in a reported €9 million deal. The midfielder is one of the most talked-about Ghana internationals in the summer transfer window with a reported transfer from FC Nordsjaelland to Ajax. The 19-year-old will sign a five-year deal at the Dutch club if results of his medicals return successful. He has scored 14 goals in 56 appearances for the Danish club since joining the club in 2018. By Thierry Nyann|3news.com|Ghana

The Banda Traditional Council has cited the New Patriotic Party (NPP), its parliamentary candidate as well as the constituency chairman for Banda in the recent disturbances that led to the death of a teacher trainee graduate. Addressing journalists in Banda Ahenkro in the Bono Region on Wednesday, the Council said the disturbances were led by Joe Danquah, the Parliamentary Candidate of the NPP. It also cited Constituency Chairman Charles Agyei for mounting a roadblock at Banda Kabrono, where the deceased, Wulo Chambe Silas, was stabbed to death. The traditional authorities have, therefore, charged the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the…

After recording a reduced number of cases in the last update, Ghana’s Covid-19 case count has jumped up marginally again. The latest update, as given by the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), sees 695 new cases recorded. At the Ministry of Information’s bi-weekly press briefing on Thursday, July 16, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye also indicated that a total of 2,065 health workers have been infected since the outbreak of the disease in the country. Out of this number, 1,870 have so far recovered or have been discharged. A few are under care and management. But on a whole,…

Persons with disability in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region have channeled their share of the District Assembly Common Fund into farming. The move, according to leadership of PWDs, will improve the livelihood of beneficiaries and also make them self-reliant. Their share, the Disability Fund, is 3 percent of the District Assembly Common Fund. It is to be used to support Persons with Disability (PWDs) in various assemblies. Before one can access this fund, he or she will have to apply to the assembly through the Association of Persons With Disabilities. A five-member committee sits to vet the…

Renown legal practitioner Maurice Ampaw has revealed on Onua FM’s entertainment talk show Anigye mmre that hiplife musician Castro’s mum is suffering and looks miserable. It will be recalled that on July 6, 2014, the hiplife musician, born Theophilus Tagoe, and friend Janet Bandu mysteriously disappeared while on holiday with former Black Stars Skipper Asamoah Gyan at Ada. Effort by a joint rescue team made up of the Marine Division of the Ghana Police Service, local fisher folks and other security forces embarked up to find them failed. The two have not been seen till now. According to lawyer Maurice…

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has adjourned the verdict on the case between Wilfred Osei Kwaku Palmer and the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Osei Palmer was disqualified from the GFA presidential elections by the then governing body of Ghana football, the Normalisation Committee, shortly before the polls. This was due to his refusal to pay Joseph Paintsil 10 per cent commission on his transfer to the GFA as well as his statements about the GFA on unclassified payments. He was later asked to submit an apology letter to the Committee. The Tema Youth owner subsequently filed a protest…

The flagbearer and leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has cited the government for bungling up the national response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Mahama says increasing cases of community spread of the virus is attributable to the government’s response, which put other considerations ahead of science. The former president was speaking at a meeting with the leadership of Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) in Accra on Wednesday. The meeting was to enable Mr Mahama be abreast of the concerns of nurses and midwives so that the NDC’s manifesto for this year’s elections can…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has rejected claims that it is using old biometric voter registration (BVR) kits in the ongoing voter registration exercise across the country. According to the allegations made by some individuals including politicians, about 40 per cent of the kits being used for the ongoing exercise are from the ones procured by the Charlotte Osei-led administration. “The EC however wishes to state on authority that the assertions by these individuals that 40 percent of the BVR kits being used are old kits is an outright lie,” the Commission said in a statement released on Thursday, July…