Author: Krobea

Stars of Joker, The Irishman and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood are preparing to find out whether they have won Bafta Awards. This year’s ceremony takes place in London later, with Joaquin Phoenix, Al Pacino and Margot Robbie among the nominees expected to attend. Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations, while The Irishman and Once Upon A Time… have 10 each. But World War One epic 1917 is tipped to win the top prize, best film. Sir Sam Mendes’s gritty drama has nine nominations, and is also the bookmakers’ favourite to be named outstanding British film. Other nominees…

The JEA Mills-led government and the Mahama-led administration have been separately fingered in a major corruption case involving the procurement of C-295 military aircrafts for Ghana. The aircrafts were procured from Dutch firm Airbus SE, which has been found guilty in shady deals in some countries across the globe. Investigations by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the UK led to the exposé. Fines were imposed by the Royal Courts of Justice in its landmark judgement on Friday. The SFO focused its investigations on not only Airbus but its partners in South Korea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Taiwan, Ghana, Colombia…

A man has died of the coronavirus in the Philippines in the virus’s first confirmed fatality outside China. The patient was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, in Hubei province, where the virus was first detected. He appeared to have been infected before arriving in the Philippines, the World Health Organization said. More than 300 people have died in the outbreak so far, the vast majority from Hubei, and more than 14,000 people have been infected. The US, Australia and an increasing number of other countries have barred the arrival of foreigners from China and are requiring their own citizens…

Founder of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) Akua Donkor has waded into the controversy of the compilation of a new register for the 2020 elections. She said the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Jean Mensa, should simply be allowed to do her job. Speaking to Kumasi-based Akoma FM on Saturday, February 1, Madam Akua Donkor said the reasons adduced by the political parties against the decision to compile a new biometric voters’ register are not tenable. She said what the country wants is a free and fair elections, which the Commission has assured a new register will guarantee.…

Fifa President, Gianni Infantino, has proposed to the Confederation of African Football (Caf) that the Africa Cup of Nations be held every four years instead of two, as he outlined his vision to “project African football to the top of the world”. Infantino was speaking at a Caf seminar in Morocco, focusing on the development of football competitions and infrastructure in Africa. “I propose to organise the Africa Cup of Nations every four years rather than two years,” the Fifa President said. “The CAN [Africa Cup of Nations] generates twenty times less than the Euros. Having a CAN every two…

It has come to light that all Ghanaian students in China are safe from the deadly coronavirus. This was made known after a crunch 4-hour meeting held on Wednesday, January 29 between the Embassy of Ghana and China executives of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS). The students, however, complained of shortage of nose masks and hand sanitisers, which have prevented most of them from going out to buy victuals. Ghana’s Ambassador to China Edward Boateng has, as a result, donated 50,000RMB on behalf of the government to the students. Sixty per cent of that amount is to go…

Liverpool opened up the biggest lead by any team at the end of a day in English top-flight history with an emphatic victory over Southampton – but manager Jurgen Klopp says his side are “not even close to being perfect”. The Reds extended their advantage in the Premier League to 22 points over second-placed Manchester City, who face Tottenham on Sunday, with a 4-0 win against Southampton at Anfield. They have also equalled City’s record of 20 consecutive Premier League wins at home and only Bill Shankly’s Liverpool team in 1972 had a longer winning streak on home soil in…

Asante Kotoko coach Maxwell Konadu believes teenager Matthew Anim Cudjoe is ready to take on players in the Ghana Premier League. Konadu admits a player of Cudjoe’s talent deserves more playing time, but emphasised that there is no need to rush his development. Maxwell Konadu’s point has been reiterated by the player’s manager, Samuel Anim Addo, who says the rise will be handled steadily. Matthew Anim Cudjoe is 16 years old and already the son of Asamoah Gyan’s manager and GFA Executive Council member Samuel Anim Addo is ready to wear the big shoes as an African best player. Popularly…

Majority Leader of Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensa-Bonsu says he does not make promises on campaign platforms. He challenged all to find out from his constituents whether he makes promises when campaigning. Speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues on Saturday, the Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency says he knows the role an MP plays and so does not go about promising roads and other infrastructure. For him, his role is to lobby for such projects to be undertaken in his constituency. “I don’t tell them I am going to construct roads for them because I know that competence I don’t have,” he…

The road to Parliament for aspirants of Berekum East Constituency in the Bono Region for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) just got busy as political and security analyst, Solomon Kyere-Boadu, filed his nomination forms on Friday, January 31, 2020. Solomon Kyere-Boadu, affectionately called King Solomon, speaking to 3news.com after filing his nomination said being the first of the aspirants to pick and submit his forms spells victory not only for him but the Berekum East Constituency at large. “I picked nomination forms on Sunday, January 26, 2020 and successfully filed same in less than a week. My seriousness and preparedness…