Author: Krobea

The Producer Price Inflation (PPI) year-on-year rose to 13 per cent in December from 9.9 per cent in November 2019. The rise in the PPI was influenced by the manufacturing sector. The December rate is the highest in 12 months. That in January 2019 was 3.4 per cent and rose to 5.4 per cent in February. It was 7.1 per cent in March and April. It fell to 6.7 per cent in May but resumed the upward trend in June, recording a rate of 7.1 percent. The producer inflation quickened to 10.2 per cent in August, dropped to 8.9 per…

Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko will lock horns at the Accra Sports Stadium on Match Week 6 of the Ghana Premier League. Maxwell Konadu and Edwin Nii Odum are going to face each other for the first time as coaches of Asante Kotoko and Hearts respectively. The two coaches are poised to give supporters a thrilling game to establish dominance in the League. The two have played 5 games since the start of the 2019/20 Premier League season but they seem to be struggling. Hearts of Oak have won 2 games, lost 2 and one has ended in a…

Accra Hearts of Oak coach Edwin Nii Odum is optimistic his side will secure a win when they clash with Asante Kotoko on Sunday. Speaking in an exclusive interview, Edwin Nii Odum said after his team drew to WAFA, his players began to understand his style of play hence the determination they have acquired to win matches. “Since the Sogakope match, things have changed a bit. They are playing what I’ve told them to play and we are going the same way and we are not stepping back.” Hearts of Oak came from one goal down to beat Liberty Professionals…

The Central Regional Police CID has arrested one Isaac Eshun, the owner of Zen Filling Station near which a police officer was shot dead on Wednesday. Before the incident, police officers had foiled a robbery attack at the fuel station. Investigations were immediately launched into the murder with the Central Regional Command assisted by the Crime Scene Management Team from the Criminal Investigations Directorate at headquarters. The team realized that the spent cartrigdes retrieved from the murder scene are suspected to have been fired from a shot gun and pistol belonging to the owner of the fuel station. Lance Corporal…

Any given week in the Ghana Women’s Premier League could be tough, especially in the opening weeks of the season as new signings try finding their feet and others already with a flying start. However, Week 2 has some great games to consider. NORTHERN ZONE  The oldest derby in the league is happening this weekend as Ashtown Ladies host fabulous ladies at the Paa Joe Park on match day 2. Ashtown Ladies have suffered a poor result on the road to Ampem Darkoa Ladies and will be eager to bounce back on home turf. The story is not different either…

Fifty-five year old Haruna Iddrisu, driver, was on Thursday convicted for stealing a car battery and tape recorder at Suntreso in Kumasi. He has therefore been sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District of Ashanti. Haruna who pleaded guilty was convicted on his own plea. Prosecuting, Detective Chief Inspector Comfort Amankwaa, told the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey that, the convict was arrested by a team of police personnel who were on patrol duties at Suntreso at about 0500 hours on January 16, this year. She said the Police spotted…

ACP Benjamin Agordzo who is standing trial for an alleged coup plot has finally been released from police custody. The senior police officer was still kept in an “apartment” within the Ghana Police Service headquarters despite a bail application granted by an Accra High Court last Tuesday. According to reports, the state had filed an appeal against his bail, hence the reason he was still in custody. His brother, Cephas, had fumed over the continuous stay of ACP Agordzo in police custody despite the bail secured by his lawyers, accusing some elements within the Service of being behind the trial.…

The Western Region Communications Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited says it has become an annual ritual to ration water in the region at the beginning of every year. “I believe residents of Sekondi-Takoradi are very much aware of this annual ritual that we undertake every year from December to the first quarter of the ensuing year where we have to ration water,” Nana Yaw Barima Barnie told 3news.com while announcing a water rationing programme for the metropolis. He indicated that “whenever we enter the dry season the water level in our dam at Inchaban drastically reduces and once…

A banker implicated in the embezzlement and money-laundering case against Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been found dead in Lisbon. Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45, managed the account of oil firm Sonangol, formerly chaired by Ms Dos Santos, at the small Portuguese lender EuroBic. His death, on Wednesday, was reported on Thursday soon after Angolan prosecutors named both as suspects. Ms Dos Santos denies alleged corruption revealed by leaked documents. Mr Da Cunha was found dead at one of his properties in Lisbon. A police source told Portuguese media that “everything points to suicide”. Local media quoted police…

No government in its first term under the Fourth Republic can match the economic record of the Nana Akufo-Addo administration, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has averred. “For virtually every economic measure, from inflation, to interest rates, exchange rate depreciation, rate of increase of utility prices, social interventions, like free SHS, job creation, infrastructure et cetera, the data shows clearly that no government has achieved as much as the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and I challenge anyone to provide any facts to dispute it,” the Vice President declared on Thursday January 23. Vice President Bawumia, who was…