Author: Krobea

Scores of individuals have turned up for the Akoma FM blood donation exercise in Kumasi. The exercise, an initiative by Media General’s radio station in Kumasi, is to stock the Transfusion Medicine Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). The Head of Blood Donor Recruitment Exercise at KATH, Kwame Asenso Mensah, said the Blood Bank at the hospital on a normal day has to be stocked with 500 units of blood. “Without blood it will be difficult to run the operations at the hospital because of the number of patients who need blood on daily basis,” he said. “At…

A former TV3 broadcast journalist, Odilia Prempeh Agyeman, has been selected as a tutor for TV Production at this year’s International Careers Festival in Rome, Italy after competing hundreds of applicants for the position. The International Careers Festival is scheduled to take off from Saturday, March 7 to Tuesday, March 10. The International Careers Festival is a networking and meeting opportunity between brilliant young minds, institutions, companies, NGOs, and international organizations. The 11th edition will take place within the beautiful framework of the city of Rome. The key elements of the Festival are Guidance for an International Career – Simulations…

Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram Constituency Samuel Nartey George says the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has contradicted himself in the fight against illegal small-scale mining. “The president is a walking oxymoron,” he describes the head of state. According to him, President Akufo-Addo had described the fight as successful and yet said challenges still remained. “Operation vanguard has been largely successful even though problems still remain,” Sam George quoted the president as saying in his message on the state of the nation last Thursday. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) said this makes the president a contradiction to himself. “How…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that German automobile Volkswagen will start production as soon as April with Toyota also gearing up for production this year. “VW is building its plant at the North Industrial Area in Accra, and is due to start production by the end of April. Sinotruk has begun assembling its trucks. Toyota is scheduled to start the assembly of vehicles in Tema in the last quarter of this year. We have high hopes for this new industry, which has come to join our own Kantanka.” President Akufo-Addo was speaking on Thursday, February 20 in Parliament…

Customers of defunct savings and loans companies have cast doubt on government’s ability to pay their locked-up funds in full. This comes in the wake of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s announcement in his state-of-the-nation address that payment will begin Monday, February 24. The president indicated that it will disburse some GHؓ¢13.5 billion for the over 4 million customers, who have been affected in the financial sector clean-up. The Bank of Ghana revoked the licences of nine universal banks, 347 microfinance companies, 39 microcredit companies/money lenders, 15 savings and loans companies, eight finance house companies, and two non-bank financial institutions…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) wanted the love back. Eleven round of matches into the season, it seems everyone is fully on board that train. It is not often that hype matches the reality but the Ghana Premier League has in lived up to the well curated hype.  The twist and turns has got everyone at the edge of their seat. Games are no more predictable which is why teams are winning away a lot and also why there is no one dominant team in the season at the moment. Every goal that has been served every match week comes…

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has condemned Russia for its reported attempts to help his campaign, telling it to “stay out of American elections”. Mr Sanders said on Friday that US officials had told him last month about Russian efforts to aid his campaign. Speaking in Bakersfield, California, Mr Sanders said it was not clear how Russia intended to interfere. But the Vermont senator, 78, said he strongly opposed any attempts to do so. He denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin as an “autocratic thug” whose government has “used internet propaganda to sow division in our country”. “Let’s be clear, the…

Former Executive Director of Standard Chartered Bank Alex Mould has challenged the Resident Representative of International Monetary Fund (IMF) claim that Ghana’s debt servicing ratio to revenue for 2019 was around 30 percent. According to the financial expert, the figure quoted by the IMF rep was not accurate. “It should rather be approximately 60 per cent,” the former banker noted. He calculated that based on Ministry of Finance’s data on Ghana’s 2019 Fiscals released in February 2020. Ghana’s interest payment was around GH¢20 billion with debt amortisation (foreign debt alone) being about GH¢11 billion, he indicated. “So adding interest and…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Friday for a 12-day working visit to Scotland, Norway, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Belgium. On Saturday, February 22, President Akufo-Addo will deliver the keynote address at the St Andrews Africa Summit, a student-led initiative that promotes a versatile discussion about Africa, African and African Affairs, on the theme ‘Leadership, Development and Entrepreneurship’. The President will then travel to Oslo, Norway, to pay an official visit, at the invitation of Prime Minister Erna Solberg. As co-Chair of the Eminent Group of Advocates of the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with the…

A member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Evalue Gwira Constituency in the Western Region, Eric Selby Ogbame, plans putting an injunction on the upcoming parliamentary primary. He blames constituency and regional executives of the party for his inability to file his nomination forms to contest in the primary for Evalue Gwira. According to Eric Selby Ogbame, when the party opened nominations, he went to the constituency office but was denied the forms. Tried as he had, the constituency executives did not sell him a nomination form and with no explanation. He then proceeded to the regional…