Author: Krobea

Leading Ghanaian television channel TV3 is preparing to roll out Season IV of Date Rush, the number one game show on television for eligible single gentlemen hoping to get a special date with a lady. The station this week announced the audition process, urging members of the general public interested in participating in the next season of the show to send their pictures and details (name, age, occupation and location) to WhatsApp number 0261197411. They are also expected to show up at TV3 on Tuesday, July 28 and Wednesday, July 29 to be auditioned. In a communiqué from the station,…

Chef José Andrés has been announced as the winner of the Basque Culinary World Prize 2020 for his World Central Kitchen (WCK) project. Andrés was chosen for providing a global and collaborative response from gastronomy to the most pressing challenge of our time: the Covid-19 pandemic. This year, alongside the winner, nine chefs including African chef Elijah Amoo Addo, were recognised for their creativity and commitment in helping society by going beyond the kitchen. In the true spirit of the award, this year’s winner José Andrés announced that he would share his prize money with the nine chefs who were recognised for their work.…

The West-Africa Competitiveness Programme in Ghana (WACOMP-Ghana), funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), on 22 July 2020, organised an online training on the national standard for hand sanitizers. The training was organised in collaboration with the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and aimed at promoting national requirements for alcohol-based hand sanitizers’ production. Over 50 Ghanaian Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) willing to produce high quality hand sanitizers for the national market registered for the training. The Chief Technical Advisor of the project, Mr. Charles Kwame Sackey, highlighted that many alcohol-based sanitizers…

Former boxing world champion in the Bantamweight division, Joseph Agbeko, says he wants to win a world title again before he hangs up his gloves. At 43, Agbeko is back training at the Seconds Out Gym behind the Kwame Nkrumah Museum and he has set his sights on a world title. Agbeko became world champion in 2007 after he beat Luis Alberto Perez. He retained the title twice before he lost it to Yonnhy Perez in 2009 and won back in a revenge fight in 2010, making him a two-time world champion. In 2013, he lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux and…

The Confederation of African football (CAF) has outlined a strategic plan to shape the future of the women’s game on the continent. Women’s football across the continent in due course would experience a new era that would be termed as ‘Growth or Development’. As noted by Winston Churchill, “To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often”. So to make the most of the current status of the women’s game, CAF has sought change. Isha Johansen, Chairperson of Organising Committee for Women’s Football, is optimistic this strategy will help improve the women’s game and enhance the developmental…

Liberty Professionals midfielder Mubarak Alhassan has joined Granada in the Spanish top-flight league. The deal was finalised on Thursday with the 18-year-old signing a five-year contract for an undisclosed fee. Alhassan has been on the radar of Coach Diego Martínez of Granada, a team that will be playing in the Europa League next season. He scored five goals and provided five assists in 12 league games before the season was annulled because of the coronavirus pandemic. He is expected to fly out to join his new teammates as soon as the borders are opened. By Daniel Nana Kwame Yeboah|3news.com|Ghana

In extraordinary terms, Liverpool won the Premier League title this season, with accompanying numbers that prompted the dusting of the history books. Admittedly, Liverpool deserve their title and the muffled celebrations that have followed the triumph. The Reds are lifting the title for the first time in 30 years, and in many ways, it was like the old times. They achieved their status as champions gloriously, gliding past opponents in the Division like none other for some time now. It has been a year full of medals for these crop of players who could have only dreamed of these colorful…

An old woman believed to be in her late 90s has been lynched to death at Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region on suspicion that she is a witch. A woman believed to be a soothsayer invited to Kafaba to exorcise witches from the community allegedly mentioned the deceased as spiritually holding at ransom the progress of the community. The deceased denied the claim and pleaded with the people to spare her life. But the soothsayer and the mob ignored her pleas and lynched her. The Savannah Regional Police Command has since been to the community…

The Communications Service Tax (CST) will be reduced from 9 per cent to 5 per cent, the Finance Minister has announced. Ken Ofori-Atta said the decision to reduce the cost for most Ghanaians is as a result of the huge numbers in the population working remotely and utilising online services. Mr Ofori-Atta announced this in the 2020 mid-year budget review presented to Parliament on Thursday, July 23. CST, popularly known as Talk Tax, was introduced in 2008. But Act 754 was amended in 2013 as Act 864. The CST was increased last year from 6 per cent to 9 per…

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has announced an extension of the free water and electricity provided by the government in the peak of the fight against coronavirus. He said the extension is by another three months. Mr Ofori-Atta made this known in his mid-year budget review presentation in Parliament on Thursday, July 23. In an effort to ease the Covid-19 burden on Ghanaians and local businesses, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, April 5 announced the absorption of water bills for all Ghanaians for April, May and June. He followed up three days later with the absorption of…