Author: Krobea

The Ghana Football Association is close to appointing new technical heads for some of the various national teams, with the biggest announcement being Charles Kwabla Akunnor as Black Stars head coach. The head coach positions in the national teams have been untenanted after the GFA dissolved the technical teams on January 2, 2020. 3Sports understands, after deliberations and considerations of the possible candidates for the positions, the GFA is set to name local coaches to fill the roles. That includes former Eleven Wise, Dreams FC, Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak coach, C. K. Akunnor who will likely take on…

The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) has dispelled rumours that it is not ready to partner any television station for the broadcast of the Ghana Premier League. After the Ghana Football Association (GFA) named Chinese television company StarTimes as the television rights owners for the 2019/20 Ghana Premier League, the state broadcaster felt hard done by, claiming it tendered in a superior financial bid. GBC said it held the fort in the nadir of the football crisis in 2018 when no television station was interested in having anything to do with Ghana football. “Apart from GBC’s superior financial offer, we thought…

The 2020 housing and population census is likely to be postponed, 3news.com can confirm. The exercise will be held at a later date yet-to-be determined. The exercise, which is held every decade, was originally scheduled for March. However, it is gong to be postponed indefinitely as a result of a switch from a traditional census to an electronic one. According to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), the 2020 census will be an e-census in order for results to be delivered in real time. As a result, gadgets to be used for the exercise have to be procured and properly set…

Thirty-four persons have been confirmed dead in a motor accident at Dompoase near Komenda in the Central Region. The gory accident, which occurred at around midnight on Monday, January 13 involved a Man Diesel bus with registration number GR 5704-18 – which is said to be travelling from Takoradi to Accra – and a Hyundai bus with registration number GN 3780-10 heading the in the opposite direction. Eye witnesses told Connect FM’s Omanbapa morning show host Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson that the Takoradi-bound bus tried an overtaking but in the attempt collided with the opposite bus. Both drivers died instantly…

Nigerians online are angry after President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter Hanan travelled in a presidential jet to Bauchi in northern Nigeria for a private function. Ms Hanan, a photography graduate, was taking photos in the annual Muslim festival hosted by the Emir of Bauchi Rilwanu Adamu, according to Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper. She arrived aboard a presidential jet and was received by leaders before proceeding to the festival. Ms Hanan took photographs during the religious festival for her gallery. First Lady Aisha Buhari on Monday shared a video of her daughter’s trip kick-starting a debate on the use of presidential jet by…

The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has triggered Article 14(2) of the Premier League regulations by banning Asante Kotoko temporarily from playing at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. The decision was taken at a crunch meeting held on Monday, January 13. This follows a mayhem that ensued after Asante Kotoko lost 0-1 to Berekum Chelsea in a Match Day 3 game of the Ghana Premier League. Supporters threw objects onto the pitch in protest against referee Charles Bulu’s seventh minute allowed goal. The supporters of the home side felt cheated by Kofi Owusu’s goal, apparently becoming the…

The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) and the Technical University Senior Administrators of Ghana (TUSAAG) are yet to call off their strike actions despite an order to do so by the National Labour Commission (NLC). On Friday, January 10, the Commission met leadership of the two labour unions over their respective strike actions. Both are agitating for a reconciliation of their emoluments in line with all public universities. TUSAAG had also demanded unpaid allowances after complaining their colleagues in other universities earned more in December, 2019. They declared strike on Wednesday, January 8. TUTAG had withdrawn their services…

The Ashanti Regional Command of the Ghana Police Service has interdicted the officer who shot at a fan of Asante Kotoko after the club’s 0-1 loss to Berekum Chelsea on Sunday. The officer was interdicted at the instruction of the regional commander, Akwasi Mensah Duku. The Command has already launched investigations into the incident and has promised to bring all found culpable to book. This follows a similar assurance by the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Kotoko Shooting: GFA to deal ruthlessly with any club or official found culpable The incident was said to have been fuelled by a refereeing decision…

Security Analyst Adib Saani has descended heavily on the Minister of National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, for a widely circulated video of him in a raunchy chat with a lady believed to be his girlfriend. The Executive Director of Jatikay Centre for Human Security & Peace Building argues that if Mr Kan Dapaah could be easily set up by a lady and exposed in such fashion, “the probability of him getting compromised is certainly high”. In the video, the Minister was asked by the lady to show her what he was wearing, a move many find compromising to a minister…

Police have arrested four of the leaders of some trained teachers who have been picketing at the premises of the Ghana Education Service (GES) on Monday morning. The trained teachers are demanding postings, having completed their training as part of the 2016/2017 batch. But the action on Monday was deemed an infraction of the Public Order Act by the police. Speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise after the clash with the police, Juliana Yeboah, one of the protesting teachers, said the police arrested the four leaders including President of the Unposted Trained Teachers Emmanuel Asabere for no reason. She said they did…