Author: Krobea

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…

The Western Region Minister and MP for Takoradi, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, has commended Shout Africa Foundation, a Public Health Advocacy and non-profit organisation, for taking the initiative to sensitize more people on Covid-19 preventive measures in the region. In his endorsement for the campaign dubbed: ‘Western Region Shout Covid 19 Out’ [#WRShoutCovid19Out], the Minister stressed the need for Civil Society Organisations and communities to support government in the fight against the novel coronavirus. He admonished the public, particularly those in the Western Region, to adhere strictly to the preventive measures from the World Health Organisation and the Ghana Health Service…

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has recorded a 100 per cent recovery of patients on admission at the facility for coronavirus. “The patients were discharged after a series of confirmatory tests returned negative,” a statement issued by the Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital, Daniel Asare, on Monday said. The patients, discharged on Sunday, include a nurse, a doctor, an orderly and a security officer, who were all infected after coming into contact with an index patient. Seven in all, the patients were from Accra and Bolgatanga. “The patients were impressed with the level of care and the contributions of…

A team of immigration officers led by the Asankragwa Municipal Commander of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Francis Kofi Apaw, together with officers from the Ghana Police Service and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) on patrols on Friday, May 1 intercepted two Nissan Caravan mini buses with registration numbers GX 2137-17 and AS 1899-17 en route to Kumasi with 18 West African nationals on board. The arrested, all males and aged between 17 and 55 years, are made up of 17 Burkinabe nationals and one Ivorian national. Investigations conducted after their arrest, proved that all the suspects had entered…

The Bio-Safety Level 3 Laboratory at the Western Region Veterinary Services Department is scheduled to commence testing of COVID 19 samples from Monday, May 4. The laboratory will start with the testing of 300 samples a day before they ramp up to over 500. “…this testing facility has biosafety level 3 and biosafety level 2 labs which are required by WHO for testing. As we speak, we are ready to start testing today [May 4, 2020]. The staff have been trained already. All the logistics have been provided by Noguchi. Currently, we are going to start testing 300 samples a…

RuffTown Records act Fantana has described, without mincing words, some female musicians as clowns. According to her, all females involved in beefs currently on-going are clowns. For some days now, ‘MTW’, a song by Sista Afia, has ignited a lot of controversy after its release last week Wednesday. 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 Sister Deborah and Akuapem Poloo. Fantana, who says she just got into the music industry just…