Author: Krobea

Thirty-five out of the 231 Ghanaians who were recently brought home from Kuwait have tested positive for coronavirus. A mandatory quarantine and its concomitant tests saw all the returnees tested for the deadly viral disease. They are to be in quarantine for 14 days. According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), the initial test of the returnees had 35, translating into 15.15 per cent of them, emerging positive. All of them are in quarantine at the Ghana Football Association’s Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram. The result has added up to the country’s total case count from 7,768 to…

A day after a 70-year-old hypertensive lost her life to Covid-19 in Ghana, another death has been recorded. This involves a 93-year-old man, who is also hypertensive. But he suffered prostate cancer as well and was admitted to a hospital in Accra. This came to light after the Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced the latest update on the country’s coronavirus case count. “[The patient came] with a complaint of difficulty in breathing and cough. “Covid-19 was suspected and patient isolated at the emergency room. Covid-19 samples were taken on 26th May, 2020 and results then confirmed as positive.” This brings…

Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Yaw Buaben Asamoa has urged supporters of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to “cut off” their leadership for leading them astray as regards the issue of the new voter register. The opposition party has strongly argued that the move by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to compile a new register for the December 7 polls is needless. It said even in the compilation of a new register, the existing voter’s ID card should be one of the mandatory documents to be allowed for registration, a departure from EC’s NIA cards and…

Curfews have been ordered in cities across the US to try to stem unrest sparked by the death of a black man in police custody. But they have been defied in many areas, with shops looted, cars burned and buildings attacked. Riot police have used tear gas and rubber bullets. President Donald Trump urged “healing” over the death of George Floyd but said he could not allow mobs to dominate. A white ex-policeman is charged with murdering Mr Floyd, 46, in Minneapolis. Derek Chauvin, 44, is due to appear in court on Monday. In video footage, Mr Chauvin can be…

Several traders were stranded at the Beposo Market Friday morning following the ban of market days at Beposo and Abuesi. The Shama District Assembly on Thursday announced its decision to suspend the weekly market days effective Friday, May 29 until Tuesday, June 3. Fridays and Tuesdays are special market days at Beposo and Abuesi but the decision to place a ban on these days was necessitated by the non-compliance to the adherence of the safety and health protocols especially with the compulsory wearing of nose masks and social distancing by the traders. A team of security personnel was stationed at…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) have offered “unequivocal support” to Convener of the Inter-Party Resistance Against A New Voter Register (IPRAN) Bernard Mornah for comments he made at a recent press conference in Accra, for which the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has invited him. Mr Mornah, who is also the National Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), is said to have threatened to resist the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) in its bid to compile a new voter register for the December 7 elections. He told journalists on Tuesday, May 26 that IPRAN will make…

A joint team of police personnel and officials of the National Disaster Mangement Organisation (NADMO) are on a rescue mission for victims who drowned on the Volta Lake after their boat capsized. The victims were returning to Agalarkope from Dzemeni in the Volta Region. Police preliminary report says two persons – a former assemblyman and a passenger – on board the boat reported the incident to them at about 12.30am Friday. They came in with the lifeless body of 60-year-old. The deceased and his son were among 25 others who were on the boat until a strong wind capsized it.…

Ghana is clean today as compared to two years ago and this is as a result of proper and strategic sanitation measures put in place by government, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Korley Klottey in the Greater Accra Region has claimed. Speaking on Yensempa on Onua FM on Thursday, Nii Adjei Tawiah maintained that Metropolitan, Municipal and Districts Assemblies (MMDAs) have worked incredibly to attain this height. He told host Nana Yaw Opare that even though there are a lot more work to be done, he is assertive government has won the fight against filth in the country especially…

The goal machine talks about his anger at losing the captaincy of the Black Stars before a major final and his problems with coaches at the peak of his career Sometimes the enigma of Anthony Yeboah lies in the fact that someway, somehow he is deemed to have been poor at international level, that technically as a footballer he was not good enough and that those who throw up his name at the least opportunity during conversations on individual greatness are dabbling in nostalgic nonsense. A lot of that is his own doing. Superb on the football field, Yeboah was…

The 66 Artillery Regiment (Volta Barracks) Saturday arrested 13 persons suspected to be linked to separatists Homeland Study Group Foundation. The 13 persons, eleven males and two females, were picked at a meeting at Kpando-Aziavi in the Volta Region. Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Baba Pantoah, Commanding Officer of the 66 Artillery Regiment, told the Ghana News Agency that the operation, which had support from officials of the Bureau of National Investigations was between 0850 hours and 1300 hours. He said security personnel seized a document from the group detailing areas they allegedly planned to attack soon. The Commanding Officer said the…