Author: Krobea

One thing that has put this year into disarray is the coronavirus pandemic and sports has been one of the areas that has been hit hard. Leagues have been suspended, tournaments postponed, racing competitions rescheduled, among others. But the major one is the Olympics Games. A few weeks back it looked like an impossible decision to cancel the event but after various deliberation with stakeholders and major federations threatening to sit it out due to the effects of the pandemic, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed to rethink the decision. So how has it affected athletes? Many of the athletes…

Undoubtedly, mothers deserve to be celebrated as they always put others ahead of themselves. Ghana’s leading television station, TV3 Network, as part of this year’s Mothers’ Day celebration is providing a perfect opportunity for mothers to be celebrated as we reflect on all their hard work. TV3 this week launched a television and online show to air on mother’s day, Sunday, May 10. Dubbed ‘Mama’s Got Talent’, the one-hour show is exclusively for mothers to exhibit their talents. Speaking about the show, General Manager in charge of Operations at the Media General Group Winfred Kingsley Afful said “of course, Mother’s…

The Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) has appealed to the government and other stakeholders to accept the sign language as a nationally recognized language. According to the Association, the sign language is unique just as any other Ghanaian languages like Ga, Twi or Ewe, hence the need to accord it a lingual and facilitate its usage for easy communication among the deaf and their other counterparts. A sign language interpreter at GNAD, George Pinto, said these in an interview in the Ghanaian Times in Accra last week. He said per the 2010 Population and Housing Census, there were…

Outspoken actress Lydia Forson is not happy with Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia. The actress says she is very repulsed by the Vice President’s decision to compare the current coronavirus pandemic to the power crisis that befell the country during former President John Mahama’s administration. Lydia Forson made the comments in the wake of a press conference organised by Dr. Bawumia to respond to former President Mahama’s criticisms of the way President Nana Akufo-Addo has managed the economy. During the Vice President’s press conference Monday, he compared how former President Mahama managed the power crisis, popularly called Dumsor, that crippled…

There is no backlog of tests on coronavirus to be conducted at the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research (NMIMR), the Head of Virology has disclosed. All the backlogs have been cleared, he said. Professor William Ampofo made this known at the Ministry of Information’s Covid-19 update on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. He, however, indicated that the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), one of the major testing laboratories, have about 1,982 samples awaiting testing. Ghana’s vigorous testing regime has been commended as it ranks second on the African continent. So far, over 130,000 tests have been…

Pop star Beyoncé has teamed up with her mother, Tina Knowles Lawson, to support a mobile virus testing initiative in their hometown of Houston, Texas. The #IDIDMYPART campaign, taking place this weekend, aims to bring awareness of the daily testing available at a local medical centre. It will also provide free masks, gloves, household supplies and 1,000 free tests “administered under safe conditions,” according to a statement. “The virus is wreaking havoc on the Black community so we need a movement to prioritise our health,” Ms Knowles Lawson said. Figures from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention suggest…

The Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Center (KAIPTC) in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funding from the Government of Japan is commencing a new one-year project to develop the technical capacity of maritime crime control officials in Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The new project titled ‘Maritime Security Capacity Development for Safety and Security in The Gulf of Guinea’ is to promote effective implementation of relevant regional and international maritime protocols through research and capacity development, in order to control maritime crime including piracy in the Gulf of Guinea. Commenting…

Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia missed the point when he indicated that the erratic power supply christened ‘Dumosr’ that engulfed Ghana under the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration was internally generated, Seth Terkper, Former Finance Minister has told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise Show on 3FM Tuesday, May 5. He said the Vice President’s comments indicate that he lacks focus on the real cause of the problem that saddled the nation at the time. Dr Bawumia had replied former President John Mahama that the economy he superintended between 2012 and 2016 was so fragile that he couldn’t even mitigate…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged people not to put their faith in local untested remedies for coronavirus. The advice comes at a time when at least three African heads of state have said they are importing large quantities of a herbal tonic which the president of Madagascar claims can cure the virus. But its efficacy has not been proven by scientific peer reviews, and even Madagascar’s own national medical academy has cast doubt on it. In a statement, the WHO says it welcomes the use of traditional medicines in the search for potential treatments but it warns that…

The National Media Commission (NMC) says it has no power to ban “money doublers”, whose activities have been on ascendancy recently on television stations in the country. The NMC says it can neither sanction TV stations that also show pornographic materials because the law does not mandate the Commission to do so. The Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, petitioned two state institutions – Bank of Ghana (BoG) and National Media Commission (NMC) – about the activities of “money doublers” on television and urged them to take appropriate action. The Minister in a tweet stated: “I have written to the Bank…