Author: Krobea

Popular Ghanaian actress Gloria Sarfo has expressed her overwhelming joy following her nomination in this year’s Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards (AMVCA) for her supporting role in ‘Perfect Picture -10 Years Later’. The AMVCA is an annual accolade presented by MultiChoice, recognising outstanding achievements in television and film. In an exclusive phone in interview on Showbuzz on 3FM with MzGee, the ‘Efiewura’ actress said she is overly elated. “I’m very optimistic about this. My sister told me, ‘Ama this is for you because it looks like you are the only Ghanaian in there and they can never give all the…

The Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) has hailed the decision by the government to launch an application for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for customers to buy credit. The CPA said apart from fighting corruption in the system, the app will also help the ECG generate enough revenue. Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Tuesday announced at a Town Hall Meeting in Kumasi that government will on February 18, 2020, launch the mobile application to enable customers of the ECG to buy prepaid credit via mobile phones without having to visit sales points. Reacting to the issue on Onua FM’s…

The British government has suspended its funding of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the body that runs the international organisation from London, the BBC has learned. UK diplomats have told Lady Scotland, the secretary-general of the Commonwealth, that Britain’s annual £4.7m voluntary contribution will be withheld until her secretariat improves its financial procedures. The Secretariat insisted it was implementing recommendations made by external auditors. The UK decision came after Lady Scotland was criticised by auditors for “circumventing” usual competitive tendering rules when she awarded a lucrative consultancy contract to a company run by a friend. The auditors also discovered that procurement rules…

Former President John Dramani Mahama will on Wednesday, February 12 be part of a forum to be organized by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Accra. The forum, part of the Policy Dialogue Series of the largest opposition party, will see stalwarts talk about corruption in Ghana’s energy sector. It is dubbed: ‘State of Ghana’s Energy Sector: Confronting Corruption and Ensuring Wealth Creation For All, Not A Few’. It is scheduled to start at 1:00pm. The party’s leader and 2020 flagbearer took to Facebook to invite followers to the programme. The last of the Series was held last year. Source:…

Black Queens midfielder Priscilla Okyere made three assists on her debut for FC Gintra Universitetas in Lithuania as they thrashed MFK Kauno Žagiris 7-0. The 24-year-old was handed a starting berth and she impressed in her first outing for the club in the Lithuanian Women’s Winter Tournament. After the game, she took to Twitter to express her excitement. “Happy to have assisted three goals on my debut for FC Gintra Universitetas against MFK Kauno Žagiris. More coming your way in subsequent matches. God is the reason #KAKA14.” She joined the club on a one-year deal from Spanish side Rayo Femenino.…

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has predicted that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will come hard at him after delivering an address at the Government Townhall Meeting and Results Fair in Kumasi. But he called on participants of the Fair to challenge the NDC to back their “contrary” opinions with data. For him, the NPP has outperformed the NDC in every sphere of the economy when you compare the two governments. “I have no doubt that the NDC will come out and challenge what I have said here today,” Vice President Bawumia predicted. “But when they come out, ask…

Referee Hamid Sessay has been handed a four match ban in respect of the Ghana Premier League match between Great Olympics and WAFA in Accra. The GFA Referees Committee took this decision after receiving two complaints from Great Olympics on the performance of the Referee. The first complaint was on a penalty claim after Gladson Awako “was heavily brought down” on 62 minute inside the penalty box. The second complaint relates to a foul on the same player in the 70th minute which Olympics again felt they deserved a penalty. After a critical review, the Committee found that the referee…

The World Health Organization says the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-2019. “We now have a name for the disease and it’s Covid-19,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva. It comes after the death toll from the virus passed 1,000. Tens of thousands of people have been infected. The word coronavirus refers to the group of viruses it belongs to, rather than the latest strain. Researchers have been calling for an official name to avoid confusion and stigmatisation of any group or country. “We had to find a name that did…

Two school girls have been reported missing in Mallam and Gbawe, in the Greater Accra Region. According to a report from the Accra Regional Public Affairs Unit of the Ghana Police Service, the children – Betty Afanyibo and Theresa Koranteng – left home for school last Friday. But their guardians – Desmond Afanyibo and Stephen Okoampah respectively – said they have not returned since. Both children are said to be 15 years of age. All efforts to find them have proved futile, according to the police. Therefore, they are appealing to the public for information on the girls’ whereabouts. The…

Supreme Court justice Gertrude Torkornoo has admonished students of the Faculty of Law of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to prioritize integrity as they develop themselves to be future lawyers.  Addressing this year’s Legal Luminaries’ Platform of the Faculty as the keynote speaker, Justice Trokornoo advised students to stick to integrity as they are being trained to become future leaders. “When a person walks with integrity, there is a lack of duplicity. There is a lack of deception but consistent presence of conduct and truth-telling. What you see is what you get and there is no divineness,” she said.…