Author: Krobea

The Ghanaian-German Centre for Jobs, Migration and Reintegration (GGC) is providing skills apprenticeships and self-employment support for 150 young people in five communities in the Bono Region with the launch of its project ‘Community Works Training and Start-Up Support’. The project, which has a budget of €48,000 and funded by German Development Cooperation, is aimed at reducing youth unemployment by providing self-employment opportunities. Through this, it will provide alternatives to irregular migration whilst at the same time support the successful socioeconomic reintegration of returning migrants into their host societies. The GGC, which is implemented by GIZ Ghana, is part of…

Boxer Patrick Allotey has been slapped with a six-month suspension for assaulting a football fan during Hearts of Oak’s 1-2 loss to Asante Kotoko in the Ghana Premier League. Video of the assault went viral as the fan suffered a severe bruise from the boxer’s punches. Allotey, who is the WBO Africa Super welterweight champion, would have none of the Asante Kotoko fan’s taunts and punched him a couple of times in the face. https://twitter.com/tv3_ghana/status/1222102989604839425?s=20 The incident was reported at the Ministries Police Station as the boxer was subsequently arrested. On Wednesday, February 5, the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana…

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is producing 3.5 million gallons of water a day out of the usual 4.8 million it produces at its Daboase Treatment Plant in the Western Region. Regional Production Manager Vincent Opoku Ware Darko blames the 1.3 million shortfall largely on illegal mining on the Pra River. “The situation is not good because we are currently doing about 60 percent of what we normally do,” Mr Opoku Ware Darko said in an interview on 3news.com. “This is because we are not getting a lot of water at the intake point to be able to produce…

Scripts of the 2019 Entrance Examinations of the Ghana School of Law will be remarked, 3news.com has gathered. This comes after Parliament completed an investigation into a petition brought before it by the students who sat the exams. The failure rate in the exams has been alarming with the 2019 edition recording one of the worst rates. Out of 1,820 LLB graduates who wrote the exams in July, only 128 passed for the professional law course. This generated agitations among students, who staged demonstrations to demand fairness. According to them, the General Legal Council (GLC), which supervises the exams, forces…

Members of the Ghana Association of Certified Registered Anaesthetists (GACRA) have been directed to resume delivery of services to all forms of surgeries from Thursday, February 6. This comes after “fruitful” talks between leadership and stakeholders. According to a statement issued on Wednesday, February 5 by National Secretary Frederick Kporxah, the stakeholders showed goodwill. Registered anaesthetists withdrew their services on Friday, January 31, demanding an improvement in their conditions of service and fair treatment by the Medical and Dental Council. The action had a negative toll on surgeries at some major facilities across the country, particularly in the Ashanti Region.…

A mentally ill woman has been spared jail in Indonesia for blasphemy after carrying a dog into a mosque. A video of Suzethe Margaret entering a mosque wearing shoes before letting her dog run around went viral in July. It sparked anger in the Muslim-majority country where many consider dogs to be impure. A panel of judges in Bogor, a town near Jakarta, found her guilty of blasphemy on Wednesday but said she could not be held responsible for her actions. Margaret has paranoid schizophrenia, according to psychiatric examinations in 2013. Prosecutors had demanded she be sentenced to eight months…

The state has re-arraigned the former Chief Executive Officer of defunct UT Bank, Dr Prince Kofi Amoabeng, before court after discharging him on the initial charges. He has now been slapped with 42 charges and expected to appear before court on Wednesday, February 12. Among the charges levelled against Mr Amoabeng are fraudulent breach of trust, deceit of a public officer and fabrication of evidence. This came to the fore at an Accra Circuit Court on Wednesday when his case was called. State prosecutor ASP Emmanuel Nyamekye had told the Court Dr Amoabeng’s original charges of stealing and money laundering…

Asante Kotoko drew yet again in the Ghana Premier League after being held to a goalless draw game by West African Football Academy (WAFA). This follows a 1-1 draw with Liberty Professionals last Sunday. The Matchday 8 fixture at the Sogakope Park saw the two sides share the spoils after full regulation time. It was the only game not to have produced any goals in the mid-week encounters – barring Hearts of Oak’s Thursday kick-off with Ashanti Gold SC. Great Olympics emerged winners in a seven-goal thriller at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. They won 4-3, leaving King Faisal as…

A man parading himself as a lawyer was on Wednesday, February 5 arrested on the orders of Justice Alexander Graham inside the Techiman Circuit Court in the Bono East Region. Iddrisu Yahaya was representing some four accused persons involved in a case of robbery, kidnapping and murder when he asked to be arrested. He had collected a sum of GH¢25, 000 from the four accused to represent them in court. The case has been under investigation by the police in Techiman. But luck eluded him as he was arrested in court. Journalists were asked to take a photograph of him.…

Malawi’s president Peter Mutharika says he will contest a court ruling that overturned his election last May. Mr Mutharika, Malawi’s president since 2014, won the election with a 38.5% share of the vote. Opposition party leader Lazarus Chakwera came second with 35.41% On Monday, judges annulled the vote citing irregularities and ordered a new election within 150 days. There have been regular anti-government protests since the election. Mr Mutharika said he will lodge an appeal against the ruling by five judges. This was the first time a court had annulled an election in Malawi, creating further uncertainty in the southern…