Author: Krobea

A member of the Women Caucus in Parliament has threatened to kill any male teacher who makes sexual advances at her daughter in any educational institution in the country. The Member of Parliament for Bosome-Freho Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Joyce Adwoa Akoh Dei, said such acts “should not be tolerated in schools” because they have tendencies of ruining the victims’ lives. “I will kill anybody who messes [up] with my daughter like that,” the MP warned. The MP issued the threat in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Sempa hosted by Nana Yaw Opare on Wednesday while sharing her thoughts on…

A foreign firm has launched electric motorbikes to operate as taxis in Rwanda. Safi said its fully charged e-motors can run for 45 minutes and cover a distance of 90km (55 miles). Motorbikes are a common means of transport in Rwandan cities, some 20,000 operate in the capital, Kigali, alone. Niyonkuru Christelle from Safi told journalists on Tuesday that the firm will install charging stations around the country. In August, President Paul Kagame said at a youth meeting that electric motorcycles “are coming soon to replace fuel motorcycles in the country”, and asked taxi operators to cooperate in the process.…

The White House has officially refused to co-operate with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. A letter sent to Democratic leaders rejected it as “baseless” and “constitutionally invalid”. Three Democratic-led House committees are investigating Mr Trump. The inquiry is trying to find out if the president held back aid to Ukraine to push it to investigate Joe Biden, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination. The White House letter comes hours after the Trump administration blocked the US ambassador to the European Union from appearing before a congressional impeachment investigation. What does the letter say? White House counsel…

World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October. It is the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss city of Berne. The date was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. Ghana Post Company Limited will on Wednesday, October 9 mark this year’s edition of the annual World Post Day Celebrations. This year’s celebration is based on the theme: ‘Delivering Development’ in line with the Sustainable Development Goal 16,  which focuses on ‘Peace, Justice and strong institutions.’ Ghana Post wishes to create awareness…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on the top hierarchy of the Ghana Police Service to investigate the circumstances that led to the excessive use of force against demonstrating law students on Monday, October 7. The ruling party says this will help bring to book officers who are found to have acted unprofessionally in order “to forestall future occurrence of this regrettable incident”. Monday’s demonstration by law students seeking reforms to legal education in the country ended abruptly as police fired tear gas, hot water as well as gunshots to disperse them. About 13 of the protesters were arrested…

Renowned playwright James Ebo Whyte, popularly known as Uncle Ebo Whyte, has given a chilling account of how God saved him through prayers following a revelation that he had been “taken somewhere” by “some people”. The revelation, according to him, was made by a man of God to a lady, whose name he gave as Esther, during a church service. He said after Esther, in turn, told his wife, there were “strange” happenings in his life as the prophecy was about death before his birthday two years ago. Uncle Ebo Whyte said on more than five occasions, different people at…

The Petroleum Commission has begun collaborating with International Oil Companies (IOCs) and local oil and gas training institutions to offer in-country training to Ghanaians as part of efforts to enhance in-country value addition and local content development. In the past, the training of Ghanaians for the oil and gas industry was done overseas in foreign institutions and such trends denied the growth of indigenous training institutions. However, the Petroleum Commission believes that in order to achieve its strategic objective of making Ghana a training hub for the oil and gas industry in the sub-region, the example should be to train…

Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has charged fellow MPs to develop a strong working relationship with their MMDCEs irrespective of the political party they belong to as that will safeguard development of their respective districts. “Between yourself as the MP and your DCE you have the option to either let your political differences thwart the development of your area or work together,” he said. “For me, I have decided to make education a topmost priority in Ellembelle and the DCE has been very supportive. And together we are doing great things for Ellembelle.” The MP…

A newly married woman and three of her family drowned in a reservoir after trying to take a selfie, said police in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The dead were among a group of six who held hands and stood in waist deep water near Pambar dam before one of them slipped, pulling the others. The woman’s husband was able to save his sister but the others drowned. India has the highest number of recorded selfie deaths in the world. India accounted for about half of the 259 reported fatalities between 2011 and 2017, according to a study…

Jasmine Baroudi is hopeless in an array of desolate shots. Imagine being immobile for hours on end without any possibility of relief…well that is what happens to Jasmine Baroudi’s character in the upcoming movie, The Cell. In the first released set pictures, movie lovers get to see the actress in character – a woman tied up and tortured for past mistakes. The upcoming movie captures the final moments of a medical professional caught up in a revenge web that quickly escalates to a life-and-death situation. The story focuses on how easily it is to tip from sanity to insanity as…