Author: Krobea

A Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Mohammad Habibu Tijani, has revealed that the findings of the investigations into the circumstances that led to the flattening of the Nigerian High Commission building in Accra will be released later today, Tuesday, June 23. The building was demolished late Friday, June 19 in the cover of darkness, a move that has been widely condemned by the government of Ghana. Mr Tijani told Alfred Ocansey, host of the Sunrise morning show on 3FM: “By the close of today (Tuesday) the committee investigating the demolition of the Nigerian High Commission building would…

Young Ghanaian rapper and internet sensation, AY Poyoo, has said that Patapaa Amisty has been a great inspiration to his career. The duo is set to release their first featured single titled “My Lady” in one of the most anticipated collaborations in Ghanaian music. According to AY Poyoo known in real life as Emmanuel Yeboah, Patapaa came into the limelight with his own brand and uniqueness, something which inspired him to create his own uniqueness. “Patapaa is unique in his own way and doing a great job in the music circles and I applaud him for that. “I gathered from…

Nigeria’s leading opposition party People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has blamed the demolition of a building said to belong to the country’s High Commission in Accra on the “sheer incompetence” of President Muhammadu Buhari. PDP said in a statement issued by National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan that President Buhari could have stopped the situation if he had engaged his Ghanaian counterpart at the highest level of diplomatic relations. The building was demolished late Friday, June 19 in the cover of darkness, a move that has been widely condemned by the government of Ghana. But the PDP said it holds the demolition…

What was supposed to be the colourful opening of a branch of Electroland in Ashaiman turned nasty when some unidentified persons stormed the venue to disrupt the event. The persons barged into the venue just when Afrobeats artiste Kelvyn Boy had just started performing. The fracas caused an abrupt end to the performance, forcing the young talented artiste to flee for his life. https://twitter.com/i/status/1275072999306129409 The relationship between Stonebwoy and Kelvyn Boy, who was once under the former’s Burniton Music Group label, has been very frosty for some months now. In September last year, Stonebwoy, after weeks of speculations, revealed that…

US President Donald Trump has extended a pause on some green cards and suspended visas for other foreign workers until the end of 2020. High-skilled tech workers, non-agricultural seasonal helpers, au pairs and top executives will be affected. The White House said the move will create jobs for Americans hurting economically due to the pandemic. But critics say the White House is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to tighten up immigration laws. Who’s affected? In a briefing for reporters, the administration said the freeze, in place through the end of the year, would impact about 525,000 people. That includes an estimated…

The Ministry of Education (MoE) is urging parents, guardians and students who were stranded in their various schools to be calm because everything is under control. The Ministry said due to the rush by the students to these school, some students got stranded but that does not mean measures were not put in place for the partial reopening. Final year Senior High School (SHS) students and Gold-Track Form 2 students have returned to their various schools to complete their academics. While the final year students are to prepare and write their West African Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE), the Gold-Track…

The newly crowned world’s fastest supercomputer is being deployed in the fight against the coronavirus. Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer claimed the top spot on Monday, carrying out 2.8 times more calculations per second than an IBM machine in the US. The US machine, called Summit, came top of the bi-annual Top500 list the previous four times. Fugaku’s victory broke a long run of US-China dominance, returning Japan to the top for the first time in 11 years. Top500 ranks the world’s most powerful non-distributed computer systems. Fugaku has already been put to work on fighting the coronavirus, simulating how droplets would…

Over 100 final year students of the Sekondi College in the Western Region were on Monday evening left stranded for close to three hours at the school’s main gate. The students, most of whom had come from outside the Region, were seen with their personal effects lined up at the school’s entrance. When 3news.com got to the school at 8:00pm, some of the students had gathered in groups with frustration on their faces and complaining. According to the students, the security men at the main gate told them they have been instructed by the Headmistress not to allow any student…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has commended its members and sympathizers for once again rising to the occasion and demonstrating maturity and candour in the just ended parliamentary primaries of the party over the weekend. The party said the milestone it chalked on Saturday vindicated its “unbeatable” democratic credentials and further entrenched its position as the bastion of internal party democracy in Africa and beyond. In a statement issued by the party and signed by its General Secretary, John Boadu, on Sunday, June 21, in the aftermath of the primaries, the party, while congratulating the newly elected Parliamentary Candidates and…

Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Health Policy and Analysis Dr Thomas Anaba has accused the government of Ghana and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) of conducting business with Covid-19 patients. He explained on 3FM’s morning show, Sunrise, hosted by Alfred Ocansey on Monday, June 22 that but for the business government is doing, some recovered patients should have been discharged long ago. He, however, failed to expatiate on how government is trading the Covid-19 patients but said: “They were not discharging patients because some people are benefiting from keeping patients for a very long time.  Because I know…