Author: Krobea

There was near fisticuffs at the site of the Adiboo Dam in the Yendi Municipal Assembly of the Northern Region as supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) clashed with their counterparts in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Wednesday. The NDC led by its Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, had highlighted the state in which some of the dams under construction under the One-Village One-Dam Policy are. He had been at the Nakpachee One Village One Dam site, punching holes into the cost of the project. But supporters of the NPP, probably getting wind of the arrival of Sammy Gyamfi…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Western North Region has called on government to put in place strong mechanisms to monitor activities in communities bordering Ivory Coast to avert any case of Covid-19. The opposition party is alarmed that the level of interaction among Ghanaians and Ivorians along the border makes the country highly susceptible. “The Western North Region is a fragile region in respect of this virus. The region shares direct border with Ivory Coast or Coté d’Ivoire and that makes it dangerous for us even now that a case has been recorded in Coté d’Ivoire. We go…

Holders Liverpool were knocked out of the Champions League with a dramatic extra-time defeat by Atletico Madrid in the last 16. A finely balanced second leg turned on a catastrophic blunder by goalkeeper Adrian. Jurgen Klopp’s side – seeking to win the trophy for a seventh time – thought they had overturned Atletico’s 1-0 advantage from the first leg when Roberto Firmino’s first goal at Anfield this season at the start of the added 30 minutes gave them the lead in the tie. Georginio Wijnaldum’s first-half header was full reward for Liverpool laying siege to the Atletico goal for much…

Interim coach of Hearts of Oak Edward Nii Odoom says he knew his side will record a goal fest in their Ghana Premier League clash with city rivals Great Olympics given the scoring form at training prior to the game. The Phobians beat Great Olympics 4-0 Wednesday night at the Accra Stadium in their highest win this season. The match was a Match Day 14 fixture with Hearts of Oak playing as the home side. Benjamin Afutu got a brace in a man-of-the-match display while Joseph Esso and Dan Afriyie also recorded their names on the score sheet. The win…

US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But he said the “strong but necessary” restrictions would not apply to the UK, which has 460 cases of the virus. A presidential proclamation issued later specified that only travellers from the 26 countries in the Schengen border-free travel area were barred. This leaves a number of other European countries including Ireland unaffected. “To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe,” Mr Trump said from the Oval Office on Wednesday…

Transport operators and the Ministry of Transport (MoT) will meet in the coming week to deliberate on whether to reduce transport fares to commensurate with the impending 15 per cent reduction in the prices of fuel at the pump. The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) is estimating a 15 percent reduction in the prices of fuel at the pump from March 15, 2020. The Chief Executive Officer of the NPA, Hassan Tampuli, is quoted as saying: “We believe that by the next pricing window, from what we have seen with the movement of the products, the prices and so forth, we’re…

Unauthorized sand winning activities by persons believed to be from the palace of the chief of Amrahia in the Kpone Katamanso District of the Greater Accra Region have left property owners and residents with no option than to call for government’s immediate intervention. Indiscriminate sand winning has destroyed farms of innocent persons while landowners are facing threats of losing their property with demands made on them by the perpetrators to make re-payments. Buildings have been left hanging as the top soils have been indiscriminately extracted for sale.   Calls to have government intervene have fallen on deaf ears. Recent presence…

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has taken a swipe at government by saying the 2016 campaign promises by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo were all aimed at hoodwinking innocent Ghanaians. He stated that one of the promises, One Village One Dam, has not seen the light of the day since the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took over governance. That policy, meant for selected villages in the north, was the subject matter of NDC’s latest Moment of Truth series held at Nakpachee in the Yendi Constituency in the Northern Region of Ghana. Sammy Gyamfi addressed…

A mining expert, Dr. Christina Odoumah, has called for a repair of the soil at Dunkwa-on-Offin because of the alarming levels of mercury pollution. Speaking at the maiden edition of the Ghana Gold Expo in Takoradi, Dr Odoumah mentioned galamsey as the cause of the situation and called for a remediation of the soil there. The Offin River is a tributary of the main Pra River in the Central Region. Just like the Pra River, the Offin River is seeing a lot of galamsey activities with many using unconventional methods. These miners use mercury oblivious of the danger it poses…

The Bunkpurgu-Nakpanduri District Education Director, Reverend Francis Kojo Ennuson, has lamented the furniture deficit for pupils in the district. He revealed out of a total of 10,589 pupils enrolled in basic schools, 6,307 representing 59.6 percent lack access to furniture, a situation he said has compelled pupils to study on the bare floor. He noted the deficit at the kindergarten level alone is 3,804. Addressing stakeholders at the Empowering the School Children Project organized by Aserd Ghana, Rev. Ennuson said it is disheartening to see the pupils in that state. “Worse of it all is that the district also lacks…