Author: Krobea

New Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho won his first game in charge after leading the North Londoners to a 3-2 win at West Ham United. It was a match to savour for Spurs fans as the controversial Portuguese manager was named as replacement to Mauricio Pochettino on Wednesday. The former Chelsea and Manchester United boss, who has also coached Real Madrid and Inter Milan, signed a contract to keep him at Tottenham Hotspur till the 2022/23 season. Before taking over, the team had not won in their last five games in the English Premier League. But Mourinho pulled the needed…

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company, Alhaji Hanan Abdul-Wahab, says the hike in rice production is as a result of the success of government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. He said with the introduction of the flagship programme in the agriculture sector in 2017, government expected yields to increase across board. Squarely, he says, government has put in place measures to find market and use for the increased yields. The NAFCO CEO was speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues in the wake of complaints by some rice farmers in Fumbisi in the Upper East…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has been hailed by NDC MP for Tamale North Alhassan Suhuyini as ‘Infrastructure King’. According to the lawmaker, Mr Mahama’s unprecedented record in the area of infrastructure puts him in a pole position of returning to power in 2020. “We have the infrastructure king coming back,” Alhassan Suhuyini said on TV3’s New Day on Friday, November 22. “His record is unprecedented.” He pointed out that the current government has proven that talk is cheap as no record of any physical structure is in its name. He challenged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to name any…

Newscaster Nana Akua Mensah-Aborampah has been honoured at this year’s Discover mentorship series. The Business News presenter on News 360 was handed a citation after she made a presentation on ‘Branding’. The series under the auspices of Annette Diaries is held annually to groom students of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) to know more about their talents and potentials. It started in 2018 on the theme: ‘Identifying Talents and Making Efficient Use of Them’. This year’s was held on the theme: ‘What I Must Know: The Journey Ahead’. Mrs Mensah-Aborampah told the students to cultivate positive brands as…

Gold-mining company Golden Star Resources Limited in a show of proof of its commitment to engender trust and maintain a good working relationship with its host communities has signed a memorandum of understanding with all 12 communities nestling around its Wassa Mine in the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area of the Western Region. Since the commencement of its operations in 2005, the gold-mining company has been engaging community leaders and members on employment and development programs. Though the company has been honouring its commitment in giving employment and awarding contracts to community members, the absence of a formal framework to guide…

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Dr Ahmed Jinapor, has expressed astonishment at government for taking sides in the upcoming referendum. “I also find it intriguing when a proposal of this sort emanating from government…will [have] government take positions.” For him, “if you are giving us options, why will you take positions?” “It beats my imagination,” he stated. Dr Jinapor expressed these sentiments on TV3 & 3FM’s The Key Points on Saturday, November 23 over the seeming stalemate regarding the December 17 exercise. Despite plans far advanced to run the referendum, which is seeking to amend…

Ghana aims to make the production of rice from farmers sufficient for all by 2022, a Deputy Minister of Agriculture has announced. This will result in a ban on the importation of the commodity. Kennedy Osei Nyarko gave this hint on The Key Points on TV3 and 3FM on Saturday, November 23. He was speaking in the wake of cries by some rice farmers in Fumbisi in the Upper East Region that their produce have not attracted buyers this year. But information gathered after a visit to farms by the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) indicated that the farmers…

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a trader for allegedly biting off the forefinger of General Sergeant Kwame Abu, a policeman when effecting his arrest for an offensive conduct. Promise Anoma, 25, pleaded not guilty to resisting arrest and causing harm. He will reappear before the court on Friday, November 29. Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Emmanuel Ohene Agyei told the Court presided over by Mrs Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye that General Sergeant Abu is a resident at Nungua Nautical whilst Anoma lived at Texpo on the Spintex Road. He said on November 03, this year, the complainant, together with General…

It was all smile as Dorcas Nuku Darko, the second runner-up for the 2014 UBA Foundation’s National Essay Competition, graduated with Second Class Upper from  the University of Ghana, Legon on Friday November 15, 2019. Dorcas participated in the maiden edition of the UBA Foundation’s National Essay Competition in 2014 as a student of Keta Senior High Technical School. She emerged the second runner-up and was awarded a scholarship to support her tertiary education. Dorcas, a graduate of Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Information Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, was full of praise for UBA and could…

Niger is changing its national anthem to remove references to former colonial power France almost 60 years after gaining independence. Minister of Cultural Renaissance Assoumana Malam Issa says the government wants to introduce a new anthem to serve as “a sort of war cry reaching into our patriotic core” – and he’s asking people to submit their own ideas. Niger’s current anthem – La Nigérienne – was written by Frenchman Maurice Albert Thiriet in 1961 and many in the country consider the song’s lyrics deferential to France. Source: BBC