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The Country Director of the World Bank, Pierre Frank Laporte, has said the global finance firm will undertake an assessment of the Covid-19 situation in December to ascertain whether or not the pandemic is declining before a decision is taken to extend the debt suspension for countries. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning how on 3FM 92.7 Thursday, May 28 that the debt suspension will be extended if the Covid-19 situation is getting worse by the deadline period of December, 2020. In March this year, African finance ministers called for a $100 billion stimulus package aside a request…

President of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana Kwabena Yeboah says a major shift is needed in the way Kumasi Asante Kotoko is run if the team is to reclaim its old glory. Speaking on #GPLXpress on Wednesday, May 27, Kwabena Yeboah said the team’s handling especially in the area of leadership is problematic. He added that until the corporate governance structure is looked at again, it will be difficult for the club to make any significant gains on the African continent. “Until there is that paradigm shift, where Kotoko would have strategic investors and the management and ownership structure…

Political Science lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Jonathan Asante Okyere has questioned the resolutions taken by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter registration in late June regardless of opposition from some political parties and in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking to Nana Yaw Opare on the Yensempa morning show on Onua FM, Mr Asante Okyere described the decision by the EC to use National Identification Authority (NIA) card and passport as the required documents for the registration as “voodoo logic”. “In all my life being social and political, I have never seen…

Hiplife artiste Yaw Berk says he will not collaborate with his former label mates – Mr Drew and Krymi – because they lack the skills to write their own songs. The rapper in an interview on 3FM’s Campus Rocks revealed that if it will take him 50 years to “blow” then so be it. And he will do that than to feature someone who does not know how to write songs. “I won’t feature anyone who doesn’t know how to write songs,” he said. “If it will take me 50 years before I blow, I will be cool than to…

About 400 people have escaped from a coronavirus quarantine centre in Malawi’s second largest city, Blantyre, after complaining about its poor state. Local media has reported that the escapees were quarantined on arrival from South Africa and were yet to be tested for coronavirus. They had complained that the stadium, which was turned into a quarantine centre, lacked water, toilets and food. A ministry of health spokesman has confirmed the escape of returnees and said that the authorities have mounted a manhunt. Photos of the deserted and littered stadium were shared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zodiakonline/status/1265569081727635456?s=20 The incident comes a day after…

The immediate past Chairman of the Ghana Leagues Clubs Association (GHALCA), Alhaji Ali Raji, has cautioned the new GFA President to tread cautiously on a decision to make the domestic league autonomous. The football administrator believes that the influence of the president of the nation’s sport governing body will be drastically reduced if it loses control on the league. He posited that Ghana football basically hinges on the league and any attempt to make the league autonomous will greatly reduce the influence and control of the President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Speaking to Kumasi-based Akoma 87.9 FM, Alhaji…

Former Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection and a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nana Oye Lithur, has observed that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has reduced the confidence that electorates have in the elections management body. Nana Oye Lithur told Alfred Ocansey on the 3FM 92.7 morning show, Sunrise, Thursday, May 28 that the EC chair has adopted a dictatorial posture since her appointment by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a situation that is eroding public confidence. Due to this development, she said, the work of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC)…

The Country Director of the World Bank, Pierre Frank Laporte, has said money for Ghana’s tourism sector is now being finalised by the Bretton Wood institution. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show 3FM 92.7 Thursday, May 28 that the World Bank will be meeting with officials of the Ministry of Finance next week to finalise the agreement. There were reports in a section of the Ghana media that the World Bank had given Ghana $14 million to revamp its tourism sector, following the impact of coronavirus on the sector. However, Mr Laporte said no figure had been…

A number of coaches have waded into the ongoing debate on what to do with next year’s Africa Cup of Nations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In separate exclusive interviews with Juliet Bawuah, the coaches said given prevailing conditions, the most practical thing to do is to move it forward. Former Zambia, Ivory Coast and Morocco coach Herve Renard said “the most important thing now is to finish the qualifiers and it will be very tough”. He added: “It will be very tough but not only in Africa, everywhere around the world it will be very tough because we are…

The Bono East Region has become the 15th region in Ghana to record a case of the deadly coronavirus disease, an official of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said. Details are yet to be gathered, the Head of Public Health at GHS, Dr Badu Sarkodie, indicated. “The [details] will be brought up based on information that we further pick from the region and then the affected district.” Dr Sarkodie said the case was confirmed in the early hours of Thursday, May 28. By this development, the Ahafo Region remains the only region without a case of the virus. The…