Author: Krobea

Renowned Ghanaian legal practitioner Maurice Ampaw has advised women particularly those working in corporate offices and institutions to have a secret gadget that would record rapist or men who would force to have sex with them without mutual understanding. He says footages are used as vidence to buttress usually claims after the incident. The legal practitioner wants ladies to provide evidence like footages or soundtracks to sturdily fight perpetrators of sexual harassment in court. Speaking on Yensempa on Onua FM on Friday, July 17, Maurice Ampaw strongly advocated that women should be brave enough to clandestinely record men who forcibly…

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency Sam Nartey George says if erstwhile government officials are being cited in the Airbus scandal, then Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, who was Attorney General and Minister of Justice then, should also be blamed. He also says the Deputy Minister of Defence, Major (rtd) Derrick Oduro, has be interrogated as he was in the thick of affairs when the deal was sealed. For him, Samuel Adam Foster also known as Samuel Adam Mahama, widely alleged to have been the intermediary when the deal was brokered, was not in anyway found guilty by the Serious Fraud…

The Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has called for cool heads to prevail as she resolves to engage further with stakeholders in the impasse over her directive for the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to reduce its digital terrestrial channels. She, however, said the National Media Commission (NMC) cannot resolve the matter. The Director General of the state broadcaster, Professor Amin Alhassan, on the instructions of the board of governors, had written to NMC to intervene. “Complying with the request of the Minister will mean GBC has to lose 3 of these channels. It will virtually mean that GBC will have…

US President Donald Trump has vowed not to order Americans to wear masks to contain the spread of coronavirus. His comments came after the country’s top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, urged state and local leaders to be “as forceful as possible” in getting people to wear masks. Wearing face coverings, Dr Fauci added, is “really important” and “we should be using them, everyone”. The wearing of face coverings has become highly politicised in the US. The majority of state governors have now ordered that the wearing of masks outdoors be mandatory, rather than a personal choice. Among them…

The Savannah Regional Director of Health, Dr. Chrisantus Kubio, has confirmed the death of one person who tested positive for Covid-19 in the region. One other person is also on admission at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Catholic Hospital in Damongo. The deceased, according to Dr Kubio, has since been buried at a cemetery outside Damongo in accordance with the protocols put in place for Covid-19 burials. Information gathered by 3news.com revealed the victim was referred to the Catholic Hospital in Damongo from the Central Gonja District. Dr. Chrisantus Kubio appealed to residents of the region to strictly…

Ghana’s Covid-19 case count has seen a further reduction in the number of active cases under care and management at facilities and homes spread across the country In the latest update released by the Ghana Health Service on Friday, 447 new cases were confirmed. This shoots the total cumulative cases up from 26,125 to 26,572. There were more patients who either recovered and were discharged as their number is now 22,915, an increase of about 645. Five persons, however, lost the battle to the virus, bringing the total number of deaths since the outbreak to 144. Regional breakdown Greater Accra…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will complete his 14-day self-isolation today, Saturday, July 18, 2020. The president went on self-isolation on Saturday, July 4 after “at least one person within his close circle tested positive for Covid-19 [on July 4, 2020]”. He tested negative after his first samples were taken. Since then, government has been silent on subsequent tests of the president’s. But he has continued official duties from the Presidential Villa at the Jubilee House, where he has spent the past 14 days. He chaired the country’s first virtual cabinet meeting last Tuesday. It was the 80th cabinet meeting.…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has announced the continuation of its registration in senior high schools and prisons as well. The Commission said this is to enable those who could not register the last time do so. Despite an injunction against its move, the EC last Friday and Saturday mounted registration centres in some SHSs to register eligible students. “The Commission will continue with the registration exercise at the senior high schools because it was unable to complete the exercise on the 10th and 11th of July due to the large number of applicants,” the EC said in a statement…

The Ghana Police Service has yet again rung changes to its management board (POMAB) and some regional commands. Director General of Research and Planning COP Nathan Kofi Boakye has been moved to head Legal and Prosecutions. In his place comes the Central Regional Commander, DCOP Paul Manly Awini, who will have Transformation in addition to Research and Planning. Tema Regional Commander Edward Johnson Oyirifi-Akrofi moves to head the Eastern Regional Police Command. Find all the changes below: COP Mr. Nathan Kofi Boakye is now the Director-General for Legal and Prosecutions. COP Mr. Paul Manly Awini is now the Director-General for…

Leeds United have been promoted to the Premier League after 16 years away. Their place in the top flight for next season was confirmed by West Brom’s 2-1 defeat at Huddersfield Town on Friday. Leeds will now be crowned champions if Brentford do not beat Stoke on Saturday or the Whites then take a point from Sunday’s visit to Derby County. Argentine Marcelo Bielsa has led the Yorkshire side to promotion in his second season in charge after finishing third in the Championship in 2018-19. Even allowing for the enforced break because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been a…