Author: Krobea

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia left Accra, Ghana on Friday, October 11 for London, United Kingdom, to attend the 2019 edition of the Financial Times Africa Summit. Among other planned engagements, Dr Bawumia will deliver a keynote address on Ghana’s Digital Transformation Agenda, and participate in a number of plenary sessions. He will also meet with a number of world and business leaders to deliberate on ways to accelerate Ghana, and Africa’s socio-economic development. The FT Africa Summit brings together stakeholders and decision-makers to deliberate on Africa’s challenges and brainstorm to find lasting solutions. According to the organisers, the 2019…

Karpowership Ghana together with the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection marked the International Day of the Girl Child on Friday, October 11 with 10 basic and senior high schools from the Sekondi and Takoradi metropolis. As part of the celebration, the company organized a sensitization programme for 200 students from Sekondi-Takoradi. The objective of the programme was focused on this year’s theme ‘Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow’. The Corporate Communications Specialist of Karpowership Ghana, Sandra Amarquaye, explained that one objective of their CSR projects is to strive to achieve gender (e)quality, which…

Four days after a BBC Africa Eye documentary was broadcast revealing cases of sexual harassment at two top West African Universities, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said more needs to be done to prevent abuse in educational institutions. Although First Lady Aisha Buhari reacted to the BBC’s investigation on Monday, this is the first comment the president has made on the matter. The film – called Sex for Grades – explored allegations that academics demand sexual favours in exchange for the advancement of a student’s career. In a statement, Mr Buhari welcomed the recent re-introduction of a sexual harassment bill…

Eliud Kipchoge has become the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds. The Kenyan, 34, covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria on Saturday. It will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers. The Olympic champion missed out by 25 seconds in a previous attempt in 2017. Knowing he was about to make history on the home straight, the pacemakers dropped…

Prominent Ghanaian journalist, BBC columnist and former government minister Elizabeth Ohene recently wrote about her experience of being sexually abused more than 60 years ago, when she was just seven years old. Here she explains why she decided to go public after such a long time. I am not quite sure I had considered what the effect would be if I went public with the story of my having been sexually molested. Last Wednesday, I told that story in the weekly column I write for Ghana’s largest circulation newspaper, the Daily Graphic. I am a 74-year-old woman and I was…

Former Berekum Chelsea player Solomon Asante has been impressive throughout the season for Phoenix Rising FC but on Thursday, October 10 that was rubber-stamped at the club’s soccer ball to award players. Ghanaian footballer Solomon Asante swept four awards, making him the biggest winner at the end-of-year awards. The diminutive forward won the Golden Boot, Goal of the Season, Most Valuable Player and Player’s Player of the Season awards at the Arizona-based outfit’s end-of-season gala. Asante won the top scorer award after netting 22 league goals, becoming the 7th player in the history of the USL Championship to reach that…

The acting head of US Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, has resigned after six months in the post. In a tweet, President Donald Trump said Mr McAleenan wanted to spend more time with his family. He said his replacement would be named next week. Mr McAleenan, 48, is the fourth person to serve as the head of Homeland Security during Mr Trump’s tenure. He has overseen the president’s tough policies aimed at curbing immigration across the Mexican border. However, analysts have described a turbulent relationship between the two and Mr McAleenan has criticised the tone of the immigration debate. Recently he…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has sent his “warm” congratulations to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, for being named the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Mr Ahmed, who became Prime Minister in 2018, signed a landmark peace deal with Eritrea ending a 20-year-old conflict. This was listed as one of the feats that got him named as the winner by the Nobel Foundation in Oslo on Friday, October 11. Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize Taking to Twitter a few hours later, Ghana’s leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, said the win is “well-deserved”. He also stated that it is…

The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. He was awarded the prize for his efforts to “achieve peace and international cooperation”. Ethiopia reached a peace deal with Eritrea last year, ending a 20-year military stalemate following their 1998-2000 border war. He was named as the winner of the 100th Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. The prize, worth nine million Swedish crowns (about £730,000; $900,000), will be awarded in Oslo in December. A total of 301 candidates had been nominated for the prestigious award, including 223 individuals and 78 organisations. There had been great…

On Thursday, October 10, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo officially launched Ghana’s newest medical drone delivery base in the city of Mampong during a tour of the Ashanti Region. This marks the second of what will be four medical drone delivery bases that have been commissioned to help expand access to critical and life-saving medicines for people across Ghana. Zipline, a California-based robotics company, operates the medical drone delivery service with support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pfizer, the UPS Foundation and other partners. Like the facility in Omenako, the Mampong operation uses drones…