Author: Krobea

About 500 workers of Ameen Sangari Industries Limited in the Central Region capital of Cape Coast are protesting the decision by management to close down the company without any prior notice. The workers were dismayed Monday morning to find a notice, announcing the closure of the company “until further notice”. “Severance awards negotiations are still ongoing,” the notice indicated. But the workers say they will have none of that as the foreign owners owed them two-month salaries. One Mr Nkrumah, an affected worker, told Onua FM’s Central Region correspondent Kwame Kakarba that they had petitioned the Oguaa Traditional Council on…

Youth in Sogakope in the Volta Region are up in arms against the police and have given them three days to produce killers of Marcus Mawutor Adzahli, the Assembly member for Sogakope South Electoral Area. The Assembly member was killed in cold blood on Sunday after being shot multiple times in what many suspect to be contract killing. Youth of Sogakope have accused the police of negligence. According to them, the crime would have been avoided or the outcome mitigated if the police had been swift. With the support of opinion leaders, they say the police should fish out the…

The Western Region Chairman of the Vetting Committee for parliamentary aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Fredrick Fredua Anto, has disclosed to 3news.com that the committee received more than 15 petitions from the seven constituencies that appeared before it on the first day of vetting. Fourteen aspirants from seven constituencies appeared before the F.F. Anto-led Committee on Sunday, March 1. “The exercise went on smoothly. Everyone comported him or herself. Obviously, whenever there is going to be vetting, people will bring petitions against people they think do not qualify. There were a lot of petitions. I think more than…

Some students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have been arrested by the police, 3news.com has gathered. The students, most of whom are affiliated to Atlantic Hall, were arrested in Kumasi and transferred to Cape Coast, where they have been kept in custody since Saturday. It is unclear what triggered the arrest but 3news.com sources say it is connected with the recent clash between students of Atlantic Hall and Oguaa Hall. That clash left several property of the school vandalized and some students hospitalized. Property vandalised as ATL, Oguaa Hall brawl The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of UCC has…

Former Executive Secretary to the Inter Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue has stated that he is prepared to wait on the Special Prosecutor for even ten years and more if that is how long it will take for him to finish investigations on him. He observed that his patience hinges on the fact that “the SP will find nothing incriminating against me because I served as the Executive Secretary with all the good intentions to ensure that the vision of President Nana Addo to sanitize the small scale mining sector is realized”. “You will…

As kids, we used to fantasize about big dreams. Mine was to go to the university one day. As time passed, I got to realize it was no big dream after all. Everyone attended university. Instead, I was the one perceiving such as a big dream because of where I found myself— my environment. There were only a few graduates… and those few were literally adored. Later in life, I have become very careful about what I refer to as ‘big dreams’. When one says their big dream is to be rich, for instance, I ask, “Rich according to whose…

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Government of Ghana and the Swiss Federal Council in Bern Friday to strengthen the mode of cooperation between the two countries under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on climate actions. The bilateral agreement will facilitate Ghana’s National Clean Energy Access Programme (NCEP), which will enable the country to receive international financial support to implement projects to fulfill its climate commitments. Although discussions around Article 6 was stalled at COP25 in Madrid, Switzerland and Ghana are responding to the need to implement enhanced climate actions, by moving ahead with an agenda to…

The Greater Accra Region Secretary of the Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) says the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, should himself chair any committee that is set up to tackle the fast-spreading coronavirus disease. According to Emmanuel Nana Opoku Acheampong, the attitude of the health authorities towards the disease has been quite disappointing. Speaking on TV3’s Midday Live on Saturday, the GUTA official said the way President Akufo-Addo is perceived to handle his tasks is a marked departure from the way the health authorities are handling Ghana’s preparations towards an outbreak of the deadly disease. Mr Opoku Acheampong made…

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has admonished companies to strive to make the wellbeing of members of communities that nestle around their operations their priority. According to her, national development should not be left in the hands of government alone but should be a shared responsibility. “Companies should care about the well-being of the communities within which they operate. Indeed, national development does not rest with the government alone. We must all play our part towards a healthy and prosperous nation,” she urged. She therefore applauded Gold Fields for the numerous social interventions it has instituted which are aimed at improving…

The Round of 16 draw for the 2019/2020 UEFA Europa League was held in Nyon, Switzerland on Friday, February 28. With the first leg matches scheduled to be played on March 12, the League will offer some must-see encounters. Greek side Olympiacos, after ousting Arsenal in the Round of 32, have been drawn to face another English Premier League side, Wolverhampton Wanderers, in the next round. Just like they hosted the Gunners first, Olympiacos will host Wolves at the Karaiskakis Stadium on Thursday, March 12 before travelling to England to play the second leg. The other English side in the…