Author: Krobea

Renowned Sound Engineer Albert Ayeh-Hanson, popularly known as Ball J, has expressed worry about the trend of Ghanaian music put out there. He revealed that if Ghanaian artistes insist on singing in the local language despite using American instrumentation, it will be difficult to sell their music on the international market. According to him, African arts such as Fella Kuti, Angelique Cudjoe and Atongo, among others, who mostly sang in local languages, appealed to the international market because their instrumentations have an African feel. He stated that most foreigners attend shows performed by Ghanaian musician Atongo because of the instrumentation…

Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Elvis Afriyie Ankrah fears the country portends chaos and confusion if the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) defies his party’s concerns and goes ahead with the compilation of a new register for the December 7 polls. According to Mr Afriyie Ankrah, even the coronavirus cases will blow out of proportion if the EC mounts registration centres across the nation to compile a new register. He was addressing journalists at the NDC headquarters in Accra on Thursday, May 21, reiterating the party’s stern opposition to the EC’s decision. Exactly last week, the National…

Ghana Football Association (GFA) President is unhappy former Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah went public with his outstanding salary grievances. Appiah is owed three months of salary and other bonuses, which he went public about. But that decision has upset the Ministry of Youth and Sports, whose officials have in turn questioned his credentials on the job. And now GFA president Kurt Okraku says it is unfortunate Kwesi Appiah went public with the matter. “Everybody knows, Kwesi Appiah knows the processes that are involved,” Okraku told Ghanaweb. “He knows the GFA engaged him but we are not responsible for paying…

Former GFA presidential aspirant Nana Yaw Amponsah has questioned the current administration over its care for members. Nana Amponsah, who joined Happy FM’s panel of top football administrators to discuss the repercussions of the Covid-19 on football in our country, underscored the need for the FA to eschew what he called a luxurious lifestyle and focus on working on the plight of football clubs in the country. The President for Division One club Phar Rangers FC says football teams and their players are the most important part of the Ghana Football Association, hence the need to provide extra attention for…

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kpone Katamanso in the Greater Accra Region, Solomon Tetteh Appiah, has declared to ruthlessly deal with families that organize funerals in defiance to the ban on social and public gatherings. Mr Tetteh Appiah is livid about how bereaved families organize private burials for late relatives, totally defying the restrictive measures not to have more than 25 persons in attendance. The Kpone Katamanso MCE has said after exhausting all persuasive means, his assembly would use force to ensure people comply with government’s directives. Solomon Tetteh Appiah disclosed this to Nana Yaw Opare on Mantam Mpuntuo…

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has begun investigation into a report filed by former President John Dramani Mahama against New Patriotic Party’s Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC. Mr Mahama had written to the Director General of the CID through his counsel, Tony Lithur of Lithur Brew law firm, on Monday, May 4, drawing the attention of the security agency to an infringement of Section 208 of Act 29 which talks about publication of false news with intent to cause fear and alarm. Abronye DC, who is also the Bono Region Chairman of the…

Between Tuesday, May 19 and Wednesday, May 20, 173 cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Ghana. This brings to 6,269 the total number of cases recorded in the country. The latest update was released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on its website on Wednesday, May 20. The number of deaths remains the same, 31, while the number of recoveries reaches 1,898. Therefore, Ghana is currently managing 4,340 active cases in treatment centres and homes across the country. Eight of these cases are said to be “severe”. So far, the country has run 187,929 tests to confirm the cases,…

The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has taken a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), saying even if given 100 years in power, the opposition party cannot match what his party has done in the past three years in terms of achievements. He said the NPP is readying a “dashboard of manifesto promises and achievements” to let Ghanaians appreciate their achievements in the last three years. Mr Boadu was speaking on Wednesday, May 20 in the ‘temperature seat’ on 100 Degrees on Onua TV. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is said to have…

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu has disclosed that despite announcing publicly to boycott the last Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting as a result of the coronaviurs scare, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) sent their Deputy General Secretary, Peter Boamah Otokunor, to attend. But unfortunately, Mr Boadu revealed, Mr Otokunor came to “virtually insult” everybody at the meeting held on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. He said not even persuasion to have him apologise to the noble members of the Committee could get him to withdraw his comments. He walked out on all of them, Mr Boadu…

Popular evangelist Emmanuel Kwaku Apraku, known as ‘Apraku My Daughter’, has passed on days after a video of him drunk went viral. The Founder of erstwhile King Jesus Ministry International (KJMI) had earlier been reported dead but this turned out to be false. A few days ago a video of him drunk went viral which many found embarrassing because of his popularity in leading thousands of followers in the early 2000s. Some said the video was a sign of his end. The person taking the video threatened to put it on social media to let the world see his end.…