Author: Krobea

The National Council of Parent-Teacher Associations (NCPTAs) has asked government to send all school children awaiting to write their final examinations home. “In the current circumstances, the children are psychologically unstable and would therefore, not be of sound mind to write the WASSCE and BECE examinations and come out successfully,” a decision taken at a National Executive Consultative Meeting indicated. “We, therefore, suggest that these examinations be postponed till the situation is brought under control.”, a statement by the association issued Monday, July 13 said. The association cited among other things the inadequacy of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and the…

The Western Region branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has strongly condemned the manhandling of the regional cameraman for Metro TV, Alhaji Mustapha Ashley, by a bodyguard of Member of Parliament for Evalue-Jomoro-Gwira Constituency and Minister State at the Presidency Catherine Afeku at the premises of the Axim Court House. The GJA is also bemused that video footages, of the court premises, were deleted from Mustapha Ashley’s camera “under supervision of the police” at his blind side. A statement issued by the Association’s Western Region Secretary, Zambaga Rufai Saminu, recounting events leading to the assault and subsequent deletion of…

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is demanding the closure of all schools opened for the resumption of academic work for final-year students. The schools were reopened upon a May 31 directive of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. In his Update Number 10 to the nation on his government’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic, President Akufo-Addo announced that night that measures have been taken for schools to reopen for final year students from junior high schools to tertiary institutions. The tertiary institutions had students reporting on Monday, June 15 while senior high schools had their students next, on Monday, June…

Host of the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Alfred Ocansey has dismissed reports making rounds that the Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Professor Stephen Adei, was granted an interview on his show on Friday regarding the nomination of Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the running mate to John Dramani Mahama for this year’s elections. Mr Ocansey stated on the show on Monday, July 13 that no such interview was conducted, hence the said report should be disregarded and be treated with the contempt that it deserves. The said report indicated that Prof Adei had described the former…

Some aggrieved ex-staff of defunct microfinance and savings and loans companies have besieged the offices of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in Accra to mount pressure on the Receiver of the companies to pay their outstanding salaries and exit packages. The Receiver announced on Sunday that an agreement has been reached with the Bank of Ghana to engage the affected staff to pay them outstanding salaries and exit packages. In a statement issued on Sunday, July 12, Receiver Eric Nana Nipah of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Ghana) Limited assured the affected staff that engagement will begin on Monday. But the former…

Manchester City have successfully overturned their two-year ban from European club competitions. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) announced the club were cleared of “disguising equity funds as sponsorship contributions”. Uefa issued the ban in February after ruling City had committed “serious breaches” of Financial Fair Play regulations between 2012 and 2016. City’s fine has been cut from 30m euros (£26.9m) to 10m euros. In delivering the ruling on Monday, Cas said City did “fail to cooperate with Uefa authorities” but overturned the decision by Uefa’s club financial control body (CFCB) to ban them. City said the decision was…

The Receiver for all microfinance companies and savings and loans firms whose licenses were revoked by the Bank of Ghana has announced that it will engage former employees from Monday, July 13 “to agree on modalities for the payment of outstanding salaries and exit packages”. This was contained in a statement signed by a Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Ghana) Limited, Eric Nana Nipah, who was appointed Receiver last year by the Central Bank in accordance with Section 123 of Act 930. The engagement has been occasioned by the vagaries of Covid-19 as it is becoming difficult, according to the statement, for…

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has recorded cases of coronavirus after a mass testing of its staff. A total of 450 staff including the Chief Executive Officer were tested. Out of this, 39 had their samples return positive. “All thirty-nine (39) staff were asked to go into self-quarantine and those who were in close proximity to them were also asked to do same and were provided with the necessary logistics to do so,” the Authority said in a statement. On a brighter side, 38 out of the 39 have recovered “and will soon be reporting to work whiles the…

Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South Africa’s anti-apartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died, public broadcaster SABC has reported. She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning aged 59. The death has been confirmed by a family source, SABC reports. She was the South African ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death. The cause of her death was not immediately revealed. “The 59-year-old daughter of former president Nelson Mandela and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, passed away at a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of this morning,” said SABC. She was Nelson Mandela’s sixth child and his…

The Eastern Regional Secretariat of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised to increase the percentage of accumulated votes in the 2016 elections by two to three per cent in this year’s polls. The party said they had a little over 68 per cent during the 2016 elections but they are poised to increase it to 70-to-71 per cent in the December 7 elections. The Regional Secretary, Jeffery Konadu, affectionately known as “General”, gave the promise in an exclusive interview with Onua TV’s Afia Tagor during her tour to some areas in Afram Plains North and South Districts of the…