Author: Krobea

Malawi’s constitutional court has annulled last year’s controversial election, which saw President Peter Mutharika re-elected. The judge found there had been widespread irregularities in the May 21 vote. This is the first election to be legally challenged since Malawi’s independence. A new vote will take place within 151 days. There have been regular anti-government protests since the election. Source: BBC

About 290 students of the Buipe Senior High School in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region have been asked to return home. This follows the outbreak of fire that razed the entire girls’ dormitory on Monday, February 3. Though information is in short supply, 3news.com has gathered that the fire started at about 7:30am when the students were in class. They have been given one week to return to school. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) deployed from Damongo to douse the fire came without a fire…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has minced no words in pointing out that the Government Official 1 referred to in the approved judgement of the Crown Court at Southwark is John Dramani Mahama. Intermediary 5 is also a brother of Mr Mahama’s by name Samuel, the NPP further stated. The ruling party made this known at a press conference on Monday, February 3. The press conference comes in the wake of the publication of the judgement by Dame Victoria Sharp on Friday, January 31. The approved judgement highlighted Ghana as one of the destinations Airbus SE officials paid bribes in…

TV3’s multiple award-winning prime time news anchor and head of Business Desk, Alfred Ocansey, has been selected for the award-winning Thompson Reuters Foundation Wealth of Nations programme. With over 7,000 applicants across Africa, Alfred went through a highly competitive process to emerge as one of the 12 finalists selected for the fully funded training programme, which takes place in Cape Town, South Africa. Alfred was awarded a full grant for the week-long intensive training programme from Monday, February 3 to Friday, February 7, 2019. The programme is in collaboration with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. During the training period, Alfred will make…

If you walk into a pet shop and get for yourself a pet and take home, that pet becomes your responsibility henceforth. You don’t only make sure it is healthy and fit. You also make sure it doesn’t go wreaking havoc in other people’s homes. Just as raising a responsible pet is your responsibility, so is raising responsible children. We live in times where many parents are busier with their careers than they are with their children. They prioritize their jobs over whether their children are exposed to the right content or not. What profits a parent if they gain…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has thrown a jab at former President John Mahama, asking the latter to show him where his so called “unprecedented” roads in the Savannah Region are. The president indicated that the numerous appeals for roads he receives from chiefs are an indication that the Mahama administration lied about their unprecedented roads. President Akufo-Addo was responding to an appeal by the Chief of Kpembe, Kpembewura Banbagne Ndefeso, for the completion of the main Tamale-Salaga-Makango road. According to the chief, the road has been a major problem of the people of East Gonja over two decades. The…

The Member of Parliament of Ahanta West Constituency in the Western Region, Ebenezer Kojo Kum, has described as laughable a proclamation by a former District Chief Executive for the area, Kwesi Biney, that he is the “Messiah to take Ahanta West to the promised land”. Lawyer Kojo Kum insisted that the former DCE cannot hold himself as the “so called Ahantaman messiah” when the development history of Ahanta West shows that he did nothing monumental during his tenure. “When you left us in 2009, we are at a standstill and waiting for you…that you will come back in 2020 before…

Lynx Entertainment signee KiDi and UK-based afrobeats duo Kwamz & Flava have stitched up their social media brawl where he [KiDi] was accused of stealing their hook “enjoyment”. In a social media post, the duo wrote: “@kiDimusic, after you contacted Flava, about using the enjoyment vibe and he sad no becuase we wanted to release ours first, you thought you were a bad boy and still released it, I’m not even pised about the song becuase we make bangers but if you disrespect the thing thats different story Gee. “Just to clarify the situation, it’s about respect, Kwamz & Flava…

A former manager of Hiplife group 5Five has stated on 3FM’s Showbiz 927 that the group set the pace for Afrobeats in Ghana. Afrobeats, a musical genre with a fusion of West African musical styles, has influence from hiplife, hip-hop, dancehall and highlife. It has gradually gained grounds in Ghana and Africa as a whole. According to Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, popularly known as Bulldog, the amount of work 5Five did will not be erased totally or forgotten and that even the trend that brought the whole Azonto thing, they actually set the trend as well. He made this assertion…

Ghana (ranked 10th) has become one of the most prosperous nations in Africa, built on a strong tradition of democratic stability, widely respected governance institutions, and a well-educated population, free from large-scale violence. With increased investment and tourism, Ghana’s economy has consistently outgrown sub-Saharan Africa. The challenge for Ghana now is to sustain this economic success and convert it into better living standards, analysts have observed. Many Ghanaians have seen rising inequality while their living standards and employment opportunities have not improved. Most measures of Ghana’s economic performance have slipped over the last 10 years:  Ghana ranks 14th for economic…