Author: Krobea

The University of Ghana, Legon has announced that it will hold a maiden virtual congregation on Thursday, July 30. The ceremony will be for final year undergraduate students of the School of Law and students who took supplementary examinations at the University of Ghana Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. A notice issued and signed by Registrar Mercy Haizel-Ashia on Friday, July 17 said the virtually ceremony will be premiered on Youtube at 10:00am “and subsequently made available for viewing”. “The decision to hold a virtual ceremony was based on the current safety guidelines for meetings in large numbers,” the notice…

Commodity Monitor, a commodity trading, logistics, and research company based in Accra, has rolled out the first-ever successful mercury-free mining equipment that efficiently recover more gold for artisanal and small-scale miners in Ghana without using any chemical like mercury. In a demonstration organized in June this year in the Prestea-Huni Valley District of the Western Region, Commodity Monitor’s gold processor enhanced gold recovery, shortened the time for gold recovery process, and prevented the use of mercury. This intervention aligns with the government’s agenda to promote responsible artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) that curbs the destruction of forest and water resources.…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has denied issuing a voter identification card to an Asian male. This follows the circulation on social media of a new voter ID card with a photo of an Asian male. According to the EC, the card with an ID No: 2809012504 which was originally commissioned to Nana Kweku Okai Brako has been photoshopped with the image of the Asian male onto the face of the card. “All of the photographs on the EC voter ID card have a blue background. “In the photoshopped ID card, the background of the photograph with the Asian male…

Two registration officials of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) in the North East Gonja District have been arrested by police in Tamale for allegedly smuggling a registration kit from the Savannah region to Viting in Tamale to register people. The machine was detailed to be at the Tantulani Registration Center in the North East Gonja District. Twelve people had already been registered on the machine by the suspects. The North East Gonja EC Director, Frank Addu, confirmed the news but declined to give any information saying he was yet to brief his superiors. Meanwhile, the Northern Regional Secretary of the…

A final year student of Samoo SHS in Cape Coast is in the grips of the Kotokuraba Police for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death. The incident happened at Ekon, a suburb of Cape Coast. The 25-year-old student, whose name has only been given as Enoch, appeared before a Cape Coast District Court on Friday, July 17 and was remanded in police custody for two weeks. Onua FM’s Central Region correspondent Kwame Kakarba reported that the said girlfriend is a 23-year-old hairdresser. He further reported that the suspected killer visited her on Wednesday, July 15 but decided to spend the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s decision to ask the Auditor-General to proceed on his accumulated leave remains unchanged despite a petition by some citizens, the Presidency has said. In a letter dated July 13, 2020 and signed by Secretary to the President Nana Asante Bediatuo, the Presidency said the arguments of the petitioners were part of the considerations before the directive was issued. Citizens Korieh Duodu and Lolan Sagoe-Moses had petitioned the President on Wednesday, July 8, ultimately asking him to reconsider his decision to ask Daniel Yaw Domelevo to proceed on leave. But the Presidency said their request cannot…

Final year students of the Kpandai Senior High School who fled campus after a misunderstanding with their teachers are returning to the school. Security personnel deployed to the school have also been withdrawn. On Wednesday, July 15, a misunderstanding ensued between the students and their teachers over an alleged use of mobile phone by a student. According to the Kpandai District Police Commander, DSP Bernard Nugan, who confirmed the news, six police officers deployed to the school sustained various degrees of injury. He said preliminary investigations revealed that a teacher attempted to seize a mobile phone belonging to a student.…

Staff of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) are protesting a directive by the Minister of Communications to have channels of their employer on the national digital terrestrial television (DTT) network reduced from six to three. The directive given in a letter dated June 26, 2020 has stirred controversy with the Minority describing Ursula Owusu-Ekuful as acting ultra vires. According to the caucus, it is not within the remit of the Communications Minister to issue a directive to the state broadcaster. Board of GBC also seemed uncomfortable with the directive as it enjoined the Director General, Professor Amin Alhassan, to write…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has announced that the 2020/21 league season will start in the second week of October should the government approve it. In a statement, the GFA said it will “continue to work with Government, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the National Sports Authority, the Ghana Health Service, the GFA Medical Committee, Clubs and all relevant stakeholders to bring back football in the safest way for all participants”. The season will also be run on a project called ‘Football against Covid-19’ which will offer “entertainment to Ghanaians while staying safe at home”. The statement went on…

Medical negligence may seem difficult to prove owing to the protection health professionals get by legislation. While some surgeries end up with permanent disability, others result in fatalities. But how can a lay person prove medical negligence? Medical negligence is said to occur when a medical professional fails to provide acceptable standard of care, causing injury or harm to the patient. This may be by causing a new injury or illness due to substandard care or by making an existing injury or medical condition worse. Over the years here in Ghana, there have been reported cases of some people losing…