Author: Krobea

An Environment and Natural Resources Lecturer at the University of Ghana has said the registration of canoes in the country will fail to streamline fishing activities in Ghana’s territorial waters, if the illegal activities of foreign trawlers are not stopped. Professor Wisdom Akpalu says the foreign trawlers would continue to illegally fish small pelagic fishes and this will result in the same depletion of the country’s fish stock, a situation the registration is intended to prevent. The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has registered over 14,000 canoes so far, in a biometric canoe registration project aimed at regulating artisanal…

A two-bedroom nurses bungalow funded by the Chief Executive Officer of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama, for the Chache CHPS Compound has been commissioned. At a short ceremony to hand over the facility to the Bole District Health Directorate on Sunday, November 22, Member of Parliament for Bole-Bamboi Constituency Alhaji Yussif Sulemana admonished the health directorate to facilitate the posting of a midwife to the health facility. According to him, the gesture will curb the stress pregnant women go through travelling several kilometers from Chache to Bole to access health care. Alhaji Yussif Sulemana appealed to the health directorate to…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called an end to what he describes as negative propaganda in the nation’s politics. The President suggested that there have been misconception that Akyems do not like Krobos, reason the latter have voted against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for several years. “They say I am an Akyem man [and] that Akyems don’t like Krobo people, so if I am coming to power I am coming to harass Krobo people. Has anybody been harrased here or Akyem Abuakwa? It’s all negative propaganda, people who do things and they have to invent things to be…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has raised suspicions that some hoodlums could find their way into the security personnel to be deployed on elections day, Monday, December 7. According to the party, it is picking up information that some persons other than genuine officers will be clothed in the approved uniforms announced by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to intimidate voters in the party’s strongholds. “This normal dressing requirement for all service personnel should be strictly enforced to assuage fears that some Police uniforms being sewn will find its way into the hands of vigilantes/hoodlums recruited by the ruling…

The 8th anniversary celebration of the demise of the late former Vice President of Ghana under the erstwhile John Agyekum Kufuor administration was marked in grand style in Yendi, the traditional seat of Dagbon and hometown of the late Alhaji Aliu Mahama. In an address, the Executive Director of the foundation, Dr S.K Frimpong, indicated that the late former Vice President was an inspiration to many and his memories will ever live on as he instilled good training and great family values into all and sundry whom he came across. Dr SK Frimpong, who is also the Technical Advisor to…

Donald Trump has accepted a formal US transition should begin for President-elect Joe Biden to take office. The president said the federal agency overseeing the handover must “do what needs to be done”, even as he vowed to keep contesting his election defeat. The General Services Administration (GSA) said it was acknowledging Mr Biden as the “apparent winner”. It came as Mr Biden’s victory in the state of Michigan was officially certified, a major blow to Mr Trump. After the GSA announcement, the Pentagon said it would provide “support to the Biden team… in a professional, orderly, and efficient manner…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated emphatically the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has the blueprint of development for the country. He explained that foundations have been laid for the country’s development. He was addressing a mammoth gathering at the Aburi Senior High School in the Akwapem South Constituency of the Eastern Region. The crowd was thick and students from schools in the enclave came out in their numbers to catch a glimpse of the President and his entourage. The President was “at home” as both his great grandfather and father hail from the Akwapem Ridge. He was empathic the…

Connect FM’s flagship programme Omanbapa has been adjudged as the Programme of the Year at the Western Radio and Television Personality Awards held at the Takoradi Mall over the weekend. The host of the morning show, Paa Kwesi Simpson, received an additional citation for his immense role in the media landscape in the Western Region. The host of the Connect FM’s mid-morning programme Adwumapa Mmre, Nana Yaw Gyebi also emerged as the overall Radio Personality of the Year at the awards ceremony held on Saturday, November 21. Icing on the cake for the night for Connect FM was the Best…

Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa George Ayisi-Boateng has described the NDC flagbearer as a man with no conscience to talk about corruption. He explained the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stayed in power longer than any other political party in Ghana’s 63 years of independence but has nothing better to show. “NDC had 27 years in power which John Dramani Mahama was an integral part of throughout.” Mr. Ayisi-Boateng quizzed John Mahama “how your boss the late Atta Mills will constitute a committee to investigate you as a Vice President on the Airbus scandal?” He further explained that the…

The EC’s New Propaganda Style  Beware the Transparency Binge In the last few weeks, the propaganda and PR machinery of the Electoral Commission have been in overdrive. The central theme being pushed is “transparency”. Having hired sleek PR agencies and sidelined the career public servants in its communications department, the new management of the Electoral Commission (EC) has been churning out non-stop messaging meant to convince us all that it is the most transparent organisation on Earth since Adam and Eve found fig-leaves to cover their nakedness. The latest episode of this PR-driven “transparency binge” is the decision to dump…