Author: Krobea

After recording an imported case of Covid-19 from Nkwanta in the Oti Region, the Kpandai District Assembly in the Northern Region has intensified education and provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and other materials to combat any spread of the virus. The Assembly is also considering procuring more nose mask for residents. The District in April this year recorded an imported case of Covid-19. The patient, a male, was one of the 13 persons who tested positive at Nkwanta en route to the north from Accra. The situation, according to the Kpandai District Assembly, brought fear and panic to the…

The Paramount Chief of the Manya Krobo Traditional Area, Nene Sakite II, has destooled the Paramount Queen mother of the Area, Nana Aplam II, 3news.com has gathered. Sources close to the Manya Krobo Paramountcy say the Paramount Chief announced the immediate destoolment of the Queen mother for “betrayal” before a meeting of chiefs and elders of the Area on Monday, May 11. Reasons for the destoolment of the Queen mother are linked to her recent marriage to a man from the Manya Division. The Queen mother’s husband hails from the Manya Division, headed by the Divisional Chief of the Area,…

Leader of the National Hawkers and Informal Vendors Association Madam Juliana Brown Afari has revealed that the market areas, especially in the capital city, have not received enough education on the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. She told Alfred Ocansey, the host of the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Friday, May 15 that the only platforms the market women seemed to be getting some form of education from are the televisions and radio stations. This, she said, is a problem for them because the education done on radio and television are broadcast in English, a situation that is cutting them…

A Covid-19 patient, Seyram Avotri, who has been sent to the Pentecost Isolation Centre in Gomoa Fete in the Central Region, has said they are made to exercise regularly on the corridors and staircase at the centre. A mental health nurse at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Seyram Avotri said they are only allowed to have access to the corridors and the staircase within the center but not the streets. He recounted on Sunrise on 3FM Friday, May 15 that the first day they arrived at the Centre, they were given materials to work. “We also exercise regularly, we use the…

Health workers at facilities in the Western Region have threatened to lay down their tools if they do not get personal protective equipment (PPEs) to work with. The non-availability of PPEs at hospitals across the Region has forced some of the facilities to continuously reschedule the sample taking of contacts traced from confirmed Covid-19 cases. Persons who are supposed to take the samples have resolved to pick the samples only if they have the right PPEs on. “What do you think will happen to us if we attend to positive cases without PPEs…Obviously, they want all of us to test…

All passport application centres (PACs) across the country will re-open for business from Monday, May 18, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has announced. Nonetheless, online applications can only be done from Wednesday, May 20. These were contained in a press release issued by the Ministry on Thursday. “The general public will be required to comply with the following measures intended to minimize the risk of exposure to the spread of the Covid-19 in consonance with the government’s directives,” the release noted. Among the measures are ‘No Face Mask, No Entry’ and ‘No Hand Sanitizers, No Entry’. This…

Scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) say nearly a quarter of a billion people in Africa could contract coronavirus within the first year of the pandemic. But they think more people will survive it than in the US and Europe because so many Africans are young. Their study, published in BMJ Global Health, says between 150,000 and 190,000 Africans could die from Covid-19. This is higher than previously predicted. It says 5.5 million people would need hospital treatment, overwhelming services already struggling to treat malaria, tuberculosis and HIV. Coronavirus has been relatively slow to spread in Africa but has…

Three Ghanaian internationals Kudus Mohammed, Majid Ashimeru and Gideon Mensah have underscored the importance of football academies. Making separate arguments for their contributions to the overall growth process of players, the trio, who are products of the system, touted its efficiency and critical role in a player’s early to mid-years. Appearing on #InConversationWith, they said it offers an ideal foundation for excellence, adding that it was a sure way to solidify young talents and get them grounded before the big break. Majid Ashimeru and Gideon Mensah who both played for WAFA, reechoed this. “Academy football is really important for a…

Businesses should obtain Tax Identification Numbers (TIN) before they can benefit from the GH¢600 million stimulus package, the Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) has said. Government has earmarked GH¢600 million as stimulus package for small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) to ease the pressure on them posed by the Covid-19. But Madam Kosi Yankeh-Ayeh told Alfred Ocansey, the host of the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Thursday that ‘No TIN numbers, No stimulus’. She assured the general public that her firm will be fair in the distribution of the GH¢600 million package. She said…

Plans are far advance by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) to open schools in other African countries, Chief Executives Officer Dr Afua Asabea Asare has said. Dr. Asabea Asare said GEPA has already opened a school in Nigeria to train Nigerians in export but the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has halted the opening of further schools in other countries. Speaking in an interview on Onua TV’s Maakye hosted by Bright Kwasi Asempa, she explained that “we have plans to open schools in other African countries”. “We are already in Nigeria and they pay in dollar and it helps…