Author: Krobea

This article addresses some of the potential challenges likely to come up with respect to compliance with the suspension of public gathering, observance of social/physical distance and wearing of face masks after the lockdown. The behavioural issues involved have been discussed from psychological perspective. Experience with lockdown For most Ghanaians who are less than forty years of age, the March 30 to April 20, 2020, partial lockdown in greater parts of the two most populous regions (Greater Accra and Ashanti) in the country and the Ewutu Senya East Municipality in the Central region was the first time they have officially…

South Korea’s intelligence agency has said rumours about Kim Jong-un’s health were groundless, and there are no signs he had heart surgery. The North Korean leader recently went 20 days without appearing in public, and missed the celebration of his grandfather’s birthday – one of the biggest events of the year. Some media reports claimed he was “gravely ill”, or even dead. But he then appeared at a fertiliser factory – apparently in good health. What did South Korean intelligence say? The head of South Korea’s intelligence agency, Suh Hoon, spoke to a parliamentary committee on Wednesday. He said there…

Rapper Eno has brushed off the rap prowess and attacks by musicians Sista Afia and Freda Rhymz. The rapper, who tags herself as the ‘Rap Goddess’, believes that the two do not qualify to face her in any battle. For some days now, ‘MTW’, a song by Sista Afia, has ignited a lot of controversy after its release on April 22. While Sista Afia did not mention names, some people have concluded that Sista Afia took jabs at Sister Derby, Wendy Shay and Efia Odo in the song. The song has seen counter jabs and reactions from Freda Rhymz (released…

Imagine a room filled with only one lit candle but nine hundred and ninety nine dead ones. That room will appear dim. When this lit candle lights up the dead ones, the room becomes brighter because a thousand candles will shine far brighter than a single candle will. That aside, if a lit candle’s light goes out, there will always be another lit one that can light it up. This is the whole concept of mentorship— to light up dead candles! If you are a great personality today, the key to the future is to raise people like you. If…

Ashanti Gold Sporting Club is making the best out of the season’s break due to the coronavirus outbreak to make changes to a system that looked shaky.   Roy Arthur, who previously worked as Chief Executive officer for Bono giants BA United, was appointed new Sporting Director of the club last Thursday and has already set his sights on big things for the club. Ashgold regarded as one of the traditional and biggest clubs in the country have had an undulating form and structure for quite sometime since winning the league some five years ago under coach Bashir Hayford. Now,…

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…