Author: Krobea

Nigeria singer Hope James of Priceless life entertainment, has made known his aspiration of becoming the hope of African music as he journeys on in his music career. In an interview with MzGee on TV3’s New Day, Hope James explained that he’s charting a path of his own which will see him become a pace setter and the Hope of African music. “The likes of Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid, they have done it, now it’s high time for a new generation to do something equivalent to that or even better than that and I want to be the new era,…

Former workers of the Ghana Railway Company (GRC) who were retrenched in 2006 are crying for the full payment of their severance packages, saying 114 of them have already died out of economic hardship. They indicated that their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the company stipulated that the six months’ salary, multiplied by the number of years a worker had worked with the company, should be paid as severance package. But this has not been adhered to, they complain. Speaking on Takoradi-based Connect FM’s flagship morning show Omanbapa hosted by Paa Kwesi Simpson on Wednesday, July 22, General Secretary for…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has alleged that the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East Constituency, Mavis Hawa Koomson, who is also Minister of Special Development Initiatives, imported thugs from Bawku to coordinate her violent activities in Kasoa in the Central Region. The party said her first son, Ato Koomson, also led these thugs on one occasion to attack supporters of the NDC in the metropolis. The NDC claims the attacks did not start on Monday, July 20, when the MP admitted to firing a warning shot at the Steps to Christ Registration Centre, but started on the first…

Executive Secretary for Progressive People’s Party (PPP) Richard Nii Armah has debunked claims that Professor Ransford Gyampo, a renowned Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, is to be elected as the party’s presidential candidate for election 2020. He wants the general public to treat such claims or publication with contempt, revealing that Prof. Gyampo is not a card-bearing member of PPP and does not qualify to contest in any election on the ticket of the party. Nii Armah revealed this on the Yensempa morning show on Onua FM on Wednesday, July 22. He stated vehemently that Prof. Gyampo is not…

The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, says the action of the Minister of Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, who is also the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya East in the Central Region, is a disgrace to all the organs of government in the country. The Chairman said the shooting at a registration centre in Kasoa by the Minister is a disgrace to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President’s Office, the Minister’s Office, Parliament as an institution, the citizens in the Minister’s Constituency and women in the country. Madam Hawa Koomson…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has suspended his tour of registration centres in the Greater Accra Region due to low awareness in safety protocols on Covid-19. He has, thus, suggested that education and sensitisation be stepped up so that people will appreciate the “risk reduction” protocols. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer made this known in a couple of tweets on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/JDMahama/status/1285607045278965764?s=20 He had been surprised at how physical distancing and the wearing of face masks have been thrown to the wind. In videos seen of him in his unannounced tour of Accra and Tema, the forner president had…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to travel to Mali on Thursday, July 23 to help in mediation talks in that country. This is going to be the first travel of the president in barely four months, following his closure of Ghana’s borders due to coronavirus. Over the period, he went into a 14-day precautionary self-isolation, resuming official duties just last Monday. He is reported to have chaired an emergency cabinet meeting on Tuesday. President Akufo-Addo will be in the Eastern Region capital of Koforidua on Wednesday, July 22 to cut sod for the construction of the new Eastern…

Ecobank Ghana Limited has refuted reports that a High Court has granted a request for the seizure of its properties at its head office in Accra over refusal to honour a debt obligation. The request was granted, the reports said, after the bank defaulted in paying a businessman and two others a GHȻ4 million debt owed them. But in a statement on Tuesday, July 21, management said no record exists that such execution has been levied on the multinational banking firm. “Ecobank unequivocally refutes the story as reported,” it said, “and states clearly for the records that no such execution…

President Donald Trump has warned the US pandemic may “get worse before it gets better”, as he revived his virus briefings with a more scripted tone. Mr Trump also asked all Americans to wear face coverings, saying “they’ll have an effect” and show “patriotism”. The president, who was not wearing a mask at the briefing, has previously disparaged them as unsanitary. His aides have reportedly pressed him to adopt a more measured approach as virus caseloads spike across the US. The daily White House news conferences ended soon after Mr Trump suggested in April during freewheeling remarks from the podium…

Former junior featherweight world champion Isaac ‘The Royal Storm’ Dogboe made a triumphant return to boxing after an eighth round technical knock-out to Mexican-American Chris Avalos. It was a featherweight bout at the MG Grand in Las Vegas, USA on Tuesday night. The former WBO champion has been out of boxing since losing his title reclaim bout to Mexican Emanuel Navarrete in May, 2019. But he showed that he had made amends after stopping Avalos in his tracks. It was open exchanges in the first two rounds but the Ghanaian proved to be the sharper puncher afterwards, throwing consistent jabs…