Author: Krobea

Silky-voiced songstress and now relationship show host on Onua FM/TV Mzbel has described her relationship with head pastor of Prophetic Hill Chapel Prophet Nigel Gaisie as “very horrible”. Though she shied away from giving details of the relationship, Mzbel admitted that they started the friendship talking about other stuff and not pastoral or religious stuff. “After a while the friendship became some way, very horrible,” she told Giovani Caleb on Showbiz360 on TV3 on Friday night. The relationship of the two – school mates with Mzbel as the senior – have been re-emerged following Assin Central Member of Parliament Kennedy…

The Ghana Educational Service (GES) has released guidelines ahead of the re-opening of high schools for final year students as well as 2nd year Gold Track students The fundamental principle for these guidelines is to ensure that students, teaching and non-teaching staff are safe at school and help stop the spread of coronavirus. Senior high school (SHS) final year students and 2nd year Gold track students are expected to resume school on Monday, June 22 while final year students at the junior high school (JHS) will report to school on Monday, June 29. Final year students of all tertiary institutions…

The World Health Organization has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic is entering a “new and dangerous” phase. Thursday saw the most cases in a single day reported to the WHO. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the day had seen 150,000 new cases with half of those coming from the Americas and large numbers also from the Middle East and South Asia. He said the virus was still spreading fast and the pandemic accelerating. He acknowledged people might be fed up with self-isolating and countries were eager to open their economies but he said that now was a time for extreme…

Some 145 delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Asante Akim North Constituency in the Ashanti Region have filed an interlocutory injunction against Saturday’s primaries. According to the delegates, their names have been “unlawfully” and “fraudulently” missing from the album. The contest on Saturday was going to be between incumbent Andy Kwame Appiah Kubi and former Member of Parliament Kwadwo Baah Agyemang. Mr Baah Agyemang, who is the Board Chairman of the National Sports Authority (NSA), is staging a comeback and is challenging the man who ousted him in the primaries in 2015. The contest in the constituency…

A 95-year-old Ghanaian World War Two veteran is to be honoured by Queen Elizabeth for his fundraising efforts. Private Joseph Hammond walked two miles (3.2km) a day for a week in May, raising $35,000 (£28,000) for frontline health workers and veterans in Africa. “I was overwhelmed and filled with joy,” he said on hearing he was to get a Commonwealth Point of Light award. He said he had been inspired by fellow veteran Capt Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m in the UK to fight Covid-19. Capt Moore completed 100 laps of his garden in the run-up to his…

Four more persons have died of Covid-19 in Ghana, taking the total number of deaths to 70. All four cases – three males and one female – were recorded in the Ashanti Region. They are between the ages of 64 and 80. The oldest did not have any underlying health condition. These were put out by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in its latest update on Friday, June 19. The total case count, according to the Service, as of Wednesday, June 17 is 13,203. Exactly 4,548 persons have recovered since then. The country is currently managing 8,585 cases with 22…

Popular radio presenter Nana Agyei Sikapa of Peace FM has died, the station’s online portal is reporting. The broadcaster died on Friday, June 19 at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital after a short illness. Known in private life as Daniel Agyei Peprah, Nana Agyei Sikapa hosted the popular Sunday evening Akan proverbs competition. He also hosted Wogyidie Ne Sɛn on Peace FM, also Sunday evenings. He joined Despite Media from Kumasi-based Garden City Radio. “Nana Agyei was also into both TV and Radio commercials,” Peacefmonline reported. “In fact, he was the first broadcaster who prepares dirges in the form of…

Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensa-Bonsu has expressed disagreement with the position taken by the Auditor-General, Daniel Yaw Domelevo, on the demands of payment salary arrears by some former members of Parliament (MPs). The request was made in a letter written by the Chief of Staff in order to have the former MPs and some serving ones, numbering over 200, paid their arrears. But Mr Domelevo described the request by Akosua Frema Osei-Opare as invalid and amounting to conflict of interest as most of the beneficiaries are members of the current government, including Madam Osei-Opare herself and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged its members and stakeholders in the primaries to once again demonstrate to the rest of the world that the Danquah-Busia-Dombo political tradition is indeed deserving of its enviable accolade as the citadel of democracy on the continent of Africa and beyond on the occasion of its parliamentary primaries set for Saturday, June 20. This, the party said, will only be realized if all the stakeholders adhere strictly to the rules of engagement spelt out by the National Executive Committee (NEC) including the Covid-19 health protocols for the conduct of the exercise, and accordingly…

The Concerned Youth of Yizesi has made a passionate appeal to the government to help put the teachers’ quarters in Yizesi in the Mamprugu Moaduri District of the North East Region in good shape. The project started in 2002 by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND) to house teachers who are posted to serve in the Yizesi community has been left to rot. It had its roof ripped off by a heavy storm about seven years ago. The lack of accommodation for teachers is making it difficult for teachers to accept posting to the area. The few that accept posting…