Author: Krobea

Ghanaian forward Prince Tagoe believes his former club Hearts of Oak must go back to the drawing board on how to properly recruit talents. The former Phobian striker said players with talent are not given the push they need to succeed; instead, opportunity is given to players whose managers are financially sound. He made this known in an interview with TV3’s Juliet Bawuah. “They should consider dealing with real talents instead of thinking that if a player’s manager is financially okay, they should help push him,” he said. “The scouting team needs to really up their game because a good…

A large part of Ghana’s capital city, Accra, and other surrounding areas experienced earth tremors late Wednesday. The slight movements of the earth occurred between 10:40pm and 10:50pm. The magnitude of the tremors has not been officially measured but most residents who felt the incident said it happened three times in a spate of 10 minutes. Aside the central business area of the nation’s capital, other areas such as Adenta, North Legon, Avenor, Kwabenya, Gbawe, Adabraka, among others also experienced the tremors. Others in Kasoa, Swedru and Cape Coast in the Central Region also felt it. Significantly, earthquakes were recorded…

Popular Ghanaian actor Henry Harding, also known as Papa Nii Papafio, has noted that successive governments have failed to grow the creative arts industry. He told Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s morning show, Sunrise, Wednesday, June 24 that the sector has been bedeviled with several challenges including the lack of financial support from the state and also the lack of state-of-the art facilities to enable them carry out their work. He indicated that just as attention is given to other sectors of the economy such as agriculture and education, the creative industry should also be prioritized because the sector in his…

Member of Parliament for Kwadaso Constituency Dr Samiu Kwadwo Nuamah has lost his bid to represent the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 7 parliamentary elections. Dr Nuamah lost to Dr Kingsley Nyarko after polling 158 votes as against the latter’s 172. A third candidate, Vincent Frimpong Manu, polled 48 in the primary, which was rescheduled from Saturday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 24. The reschedule was as a result of complaints by some delegates about the omission of their names from the album. But NPP’s General Secretary John Boadu on Tuesday, June 23 wrote to the Ashanti Region…

Some members of the clergy have expressed worry at the wanton abandonment of the health protocols in preventing the spread of Covid-19 during the weekend’s parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The pastors claim members of the party were allowed to be together several hours, in most cases, to vote while churches have been restricted to an hour of service. The founder and General Overseer of Perez Chapel, Bishop Charles Agyinasare, expressed wonder how Ghanaians can go and vote in the primaries but “when it comes to church it is like at the gate of the church we…

The Takoradi Technical University (TTU) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Sekondi-Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (STCCI) to develop and promote joint research and help build the capacities of the students for the job market. The initiative would also assist members of the STCCI with the requisite strategies to develop their respective businesses. The Vice Chancellor of TTU, Rev Prof John Frank Eshun, indicated that the advancement in technology required that the academia and industry collaborated and supported each other. He explained that the MoU would enable the two institutions offer consultancy services to each other…

All African countries now have laboratories that can process coronavirus tests, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had earlier advised countries to consider their ability to test and trace before easing any lockdown measures. During a virtual conference to discuss the development of a Covid-19 vaccine, Dr Tedros also warned that the pandemic was accelerating. “The most recent one million cases of Covid-19 were reported in just one week,” he said. Source: BBC

Headmaster of Odorgonno Senior High School Samuel Mensah has dismissed reports that some six returning students have contracted coronavirus and are in isolation. He told our reporter Grace Hammoah Asare on Wednesday that four of the returning students indeed recorded high temperatures and were placed in isolation for further checks. The checks conducted by nurses from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) showed that they “are okay”. However, two of the students, he said, continued to record high temperatures and remained in isolation until Tuesday, when they were declared fit by the nurses. He admitted, however, that tests were not conducted…

The Supreme Court has thrown out an application filed by four civil society organisations (CSOs) to be friends in the suit filed by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) against the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) and the Attorney General. The CSOs – IMANI Africa, Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation and Conservative Policy Research Center – had served notice to volunteer relevant information to the Court in what is often referred to as amicus brief in law. But the EC on Tuesday, June 23 prayed the Court to dismiss the application by the…

The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, is on self-isolation at the University of Ghana Medical Center (UGMC) in Accra after being suspected of contracting coronavirus. This follows a voluntary test he undertook of Covid-19 at the same centre on Monday evening after he returned from his constituency. The Minister reportedly showed symptoms of Covid-19 and, as a medical doctor, decided to embark on the testing and self-isolation at the same hospital. Confirming the development on Onua TV’s Covid-19 NKOMO programme hosted by Bright Kwasi Asempa and Adwoa Konadu-Yiadom on Wednesday, the Deputy Public Relations Officer for the Ministry…