Author: Krobea

Next year is going to be a busy year as far as the Ghanaian arts space is concerned. Many stakeholders have already unveiled what they have in stock and one of such is playwright Kobina Ansah. The writer-cum-director of ‘The Boy Called A Girl’ has hinted his first play for 2020 and it’s ‘Emergency Wedding’. It is sub-titled ‘Man has his timelines but God has the clock’. Kobina Ansah is known for his queer titles and interesting manner of telling stories, especially controversial ones. “Our new play is a double dose of everything we’ve ever served our patrons,” he explained.…

A Deputy Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Dr Bossman Eric Asare, has assured that the election-management body is ready to conduct the December 17 referendum. According to him, the Commission is on track with plans to run the exercise. “I will say that come December 17, the district level elections, the assembly members elections, unit committee elections and the referendum to determine whether political parties should be allowed to sponsor candidates for local government elections, everything is on course.” Dr Asare gave this assurance on Monday, November 18 in an interview on Sunrise on 3FM. He said from…

The Black Stars are in São Tomé to play São Tomé and Príncipe in a second Group C qualifier for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. The side beat South Africa 2-0 at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium in their first match in the campaign. Thomas Teye Partey and Mohammed Kudus were the scorers. Despite the win, Ghana is second in the group as Sudan walloped São Tomé and Príncipe 4-0 in the other Group C qualifier. The North Africans were beaten 1-0 by the Bafana Bafana on Sunday. Congolese Messie Jessie Oved Nkounkou Mvoutou will referee Ghana’s game on…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Accra on Sunday for a three-state visit to the United Arab Emirates, Germany and the United Kingdom. According to a statement from the Presidency, the visit to the UAE is at the invitation of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces. Ghana’s leader is expected to hold bilateral talks with the Crown Prince on Monday “with the aim of renewing and deepening the ties of co-operation and friendship between the two countries”. President Akufo-Addo will later travel to Germany as he…

Police are surrounding a Hong Kong university campus after a fiery overnight stand-off with hundreds of protesters inside. Dozens of protesters tried to leave after sunrise but turned back as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets. The police said tear gas was fired because “a large group of masked rioters…suddenly charged at cordons”. In the afternoon, another group of protesters tried to run from the campus but many were arrested. The group of around 100 tried to leave Polytechnic University by a tunnel entrance, but as police fired tear gas, a number were detained. Others from the group then…

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, says Ghanaians should exercise patience in calls to have ambulances parked in front of the State House distributed to health facilities across the country. He says government is awaiting more of the ambulances before starting distribution. About 98 ambulances have been parked for weeks in the face of shortage of such medical supplies in some of the country’s major health facilities. The lack of ambulances in some key health facilities in the country is said to be one of the causes of high mortality in rural areas. The National Ambulance Service despite having 130…

Arsene Wenger has been unveiled today as FIFA’s new Chief of Global Football Development. The illustrious French manager was welcomed by FIFA President Gianni Infantino to the world football governing body’s headquarters in Zurich. Wenger will be chiefly responsible for overseeing and driving the growth and development of the sport for both men and women around the world. He will also be the leading authority on technical matters, both as a member of the Football and Technical Advisory Panels involved in The IFAB’s review and decision-making process on potential changes to the Laws of the Game, and as chairman of…

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has disclosed that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will still have a private firm to partner it despite the cancellation of the deal with the Power Distribution Services Ghana Limited (PDS). Addressing Parliament on Wednesday, Mr Ofori-Atta said the government cannot overstate the importance of learning from past mistakes. He said the nation’s major power-distribution company still needs a private partner in order to make it more viable. “Mr. Speaker, considering ECG’s current distribution systems losses of 24 per cent, comprising 13 per cent commercial and 11 per cent technical losses, government is…

Next year will see the coming into existence of a new bank, National Development Bank (NDB), the Minister of Finance has revealed. Ken Ofori-Atta says already feasibility study for the establishment of the bank, specifying its rationale, mandate, business model, legal and regulatory framework, ownership, governance and sustainability has been been completed. He made this known in Parliament on Wednesday, November 13 when he delivered the 2020 economic statement and financial policy of government. He said $250 million has been secured from the World Bank for the start of operations of NDB in 2020. “The National Development Bank as envisioned…