Author: Krobea

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers-Ghana (COPEC) has played down expectations of Ghanaians for a reduction in petroleum prices. Oil prices on the international market have plummeted recently with some Ghanaians demanding a reflection at the pump. WTI is reported to be trading at -$15, which is said to be the lowest in decades. But Brent, whose benchmark the Ghanaian market is largely dependent upon, trades around $26. A statement issued by COPEC’s Executive Secretary noted that despite the development, it is unlikely there will be any reduction in Ghana. “The Ghanaian market is largely Brent benchmark dependent and as such…

Payboy Company Limited has condemned the action of the Coalition of Aggrieved Menzgold Customers after some members assaulted agents of the firm in Tarkwa, Western Region. Payboy is a one-stop digital payments vendor that promotes several digital payment services solution for individual and corporate clients worldwide. The company has so far brokered debt settlement agreements between Menzgold and hundreds of its clients. But on Thursday, April 9 members of the Coalition, numbering 50 and led by one Samuel Agyarko, besieged the offices of Payboy and vandalised some property. But for the intervention of the police on duty, 3news.com gathered, it…

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has dismissed reports that a decision has been taken at a National Steering Committee to hold the parliamentary and presidential primaries on Saturday, April 25. In a statement issued on Tuesday, April 21, Mr Boadu said no meeting has been held at any level of the party to review the date of the primaries since the president lifted the partial lockdown. “Indeed, the last National Steering Committee meeting of the party was held on April 14, 2020, at which meeting, the party decided to suspend its primaries till further…

The number of people officially identified as infected with coronavirus in Italy has fallen for the first time since the country’s outbreak began, authorities have said. As of Monday, there were 108,237 people either being treated in hospital or recovering at home, 20 fewer than the previous day. Authorities say the small but symbolic drop is a “positive development”. Italy’s lockdown continues until 3 May but some businesses have reopened. They include bookshops, stationers and shops selling children’s clothes, as officials see how social distancing measures can be safely applied. Italy has the third-highest number of Covid-19 cases in the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has explained his decision to lift the lockdown imposed on some cities in the country. He said the decision was as a result of the consistency in data churned out from the enhanced testing carried out by the health workers in the three-week period. According to him, the data gave the same demography as regards the infection rate, death rate, number of infected and those moderately ill and treated, among others. “All those things are remaining quite constant in the data that we have and I think it is that constancy and that robustness of…

Nigeria has confirmed 86 new coronavirus cases and 21 deaths – it highest daily figure so far. Officials say they have scaled up testing and so expect figures to increase exponentially. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has confirmed a total of 627 coronavirus cases and 21 deaths. It has imposed a lockdown in the capital Abuja, the commercial city of Lagos, Ogun state and Kano state. Source: BBC

Zipline, the world’s only national scale on-demand drone delivery service, has announced that it has begun delivering Covid-19 test samples. Zipline drones now fly test samples collected from patients in more than 1,000 health facilities located in difficult-to-reach rural areas of Ghana to Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research laboratories in Accra, the nation’s capital, and Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR) in Kumasi, the country’s second-largest city. The revolutionary new service improves the Government of Ghana’s ability to monitor the spread of Covid-19 more quickly. It is one of several ways Zipline is helping the country respond to the…

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has chastised the president for his decision to lift the restriction on movements in some parts of Ghana. After a three-week partial lockdown in Accra, Kumasi, Kasoa and Tema, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, April 19 withdrew the restrictions despite insisting “that lifting these restrictions does not mean we are letting our guard down”. There has been mixed reaction over this decision as Ghana’s coronavirus case count has risen beyond 1,000 with less than 100 recoveries. For Sammy Gyamfi, the decision by President Akufo-Addo was politically…

The negative impact of the global Coronavirus lockdown on business and commercial operations around the world is grave. The full damage is incalculable and even at this early stage, the loss runs into multiple trillions of dollars. Productivity has taken a nosedive and full recovery is a very long way.  The skill and business acumen necessary to adapt, survive and thrive in a crisis such as this is an indispensable quality of business leaders. A considerable number of these leaders have deployed interactive videoconference technology to circumvent the lockdown and continue working and being productive. There are many such tools,…

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told the UK’s tabloid press they are ending all co-operation with them.  In a letter to editors of all the Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express titles and websites, a representative said the pair had taken the step due to “distorted, false or invasive” stories. Harry and Meghan said they refused to “offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion”. The couple have relocated to California after stepping back as senior royals. In the letter, the couple’s public relations representative wrote it was “gravely concerning that an influential slice…