Author: Krobea

Life is a queue of death and every being is in this queue. Immediately one is born, they join this queue awaiting their turn to be served by death. Death is a delicacy everyone will taste once in their lifetime— regardless of how rich or poor they are. We are all born to die because the ultimate fate of life is death. Death crowns life. The goal of life is death. When it has all been said and done, death is a reward every man or woman is waiting for. Like a football match, death is the score line. It…

The journey for this year’s edition of Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB) reality show organized by Ghana’s leading television station TV3 commenced on Sunday, June 21 with the first episode airing live on the station. A stunning looking Anita Akua Akuffo discussed with the audition judges and Ghanaian celebrities – Lydia Forson, Prince David Osei, Salma Mumin and Adjetey Anang – all the painful, exciting and incredible moments during the auditions and selection of the 16 contestants. The official launch event to unveil the contestants of this year’s edition of the annually held reality show is to air on TV3 between 8:00pm…

For several years, many have shelved rapper C-Zar as one of Ghana’s least gifted rappers. According to critics and sections of the public, his rap prowess are below par and they will not count him among the country’s best. Even though people could easily rap along to his lines in the hit track ‘Araba Lawson’, his flow was tagged ‘kindergarten’ rap. Born Augustine Osei Owusu, C-Zar, speaking in an interview on Showbuzz on 3FM with MzGee, rubbished his critics saying he is unique. “Creativity is about coming up with something unique to get the attention you want…When I recorded my…

A regular guest on TV3’s specially designed programme to educate and sensistise viewers on coronavirus, Covid-19 360, has gone into self-isolation. Dr Newman Arthur, a clinical psychologist, went into self-isolation barely two weeks ago and has since undergone tests for the deadly viral disease. He is awaiting his second repeat test to get the all-clear, he said himself on Monday, June 22. Reports say he came into contact with a patient who later confirmed positive for coronavirus. Covid-19 360 – hosted by Berla Mundi and Anita Akua Akuffo – has become the reference point for everything coronavirus both in Ghana…

Sunday, June 21 was marked by many as Father’s Day. Father’s Day is a day for honouring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. On the day, several persons, including celebrities, showed off their fathers and also thanked them for their love and support for them over the years. Some known personalities including Moesha Boduong, Sonnie Badu, Shatta Wale, Gloria Sarfo and Emelia Brobbey, and Kwesi Arthur celebrated their fathers on the day. Check out some of their posts below: View this post on Instagram Happy Father’s Day to the best dad…

Rapper Sarkodie, after days of speculations, has given currency to rumours that he and his wife, Tracy, have welcomed a new child. The rapper used the occasion of Father’s Day, which fell on Sunday, June 21, to reveal his baby son to his followers and Ghanaians. After months of being stranded in the United States of America due to the closure of Ghana’s borders, rapper Sarkodie returned to Ghana last Wednesday with his family. Their arrival has fuelled speculations that the rapper and his wife have welcomed a new child. In January, there were rumours that Sarkodie’s wife had given…

Health officials in South Korea believe the country is going through a second wave of coronavirus, despite recording relatively low numbers. The country had been a success story in dealing with Covid-19, but now expects the pandemic to continue for months. Head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control (KCDC), Jung Eun-kyeong, said the first wave lasted up until April. Yet since May, clusters of new cases have grown, including outbreaks at nightclubs in the capital, Seoul. Between those periods, daily confirmed cases had fallen from nearly a thousand to zero infections recorded for three days in a row. Officials…

National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has lashed out at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) over the manner in which its primaries were conducted on Saturday. He said the entire exercise was conducted in “an environment where those who could afford the biggest pecuniary or monetary inducements carried the day”. Speaking at the weekly press briefing of his party in Accra, Sammy Gyamfi said the primaries by the ruling party were characterized by “obscene violence and unprecedented levels of vote-buying and showboating”. The NPP on Saturday elected parliamentary candidates for the December 7 elections in…

Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana Dr Alidu Seidu has noted that delegates of political parties, and indeed voters in general, are becoming critical following the defeat of some incumbent Members of Parliament in the just-ended parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). During the Saturday polls, 10 incumbent NPP MPs in the Ashanti Region lost. They include the MP for Bantama and government’s spokesperson on Finance, Daniel Okyem Aboagye, MP for Offinso South and Chairman of Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee in Parliament Ben Abdallah Banda, MP for Manhyia North and Chairman of Government Assurance…

Desensitisation, in this regard, is the phenomenon where the same people in our Ghanaian society that were very much concerned about the impact and threat of the novel coronavirus on our health and livelihood at large, have developed a much weaker emotional response to current COVID-19 issues. This is definitely partly due to the fact that, when we receive continual messages about the dangers of the COVID-19 over a long period of time, this inadvertently contributes to our desensitisation. I fell victim to this yesterday… to the desensitisation thingie, not coronavirus. This is an opinion piece. I remember Foster telling…