Author: Krobea

Kenya’s Ministry of Education has requested the assistance of its Ghanaian counterpart to run a double track system. Kenya is implementing a transition for two cohorts of learners who will transition to secondary school in 2023. A letter written to Minister of Education Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh and sighted by 3news.com requests a government-to-government technical support. “I applaud you for the robust reforms that your country has embarked on and the success stories that are emerging,” the letter signed by Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary, Professor George A. O. Magoha, said. “It is in this regard that I am writing to you…

A student of Alhassan Gbanzaba Memorial School, Nadia Chelpang Mashoud, has been crowned the 2020 Spelling Bee winner. She beat competition from 150 other contest to emerge winner. The final of the competition was held on Saturday, February 1 at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). By her feat, Nadia becomes the first person from the Norther Region to win the competition. She takes over from Kwabena Adu Darko-Asare, who won last year’s edition. As a result of winning the competition, Nadia will represent Ghana in the 93rd Scripts Spelling Bee contest to…

Tokyo 2020 qualifier Joseph Amoah reclaimed his 200m INDOOR national record clocking 20.75 secs at the 2020 Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational Competition in Boston, USA. Amoah’s time is the third-fastest in the nation this season and breaks Martin Owusu-Antwi’s school-record of 20.79sec. “I am very happy about it and I know there is more to come,” he said. “I have been training very hard for moment like this so I think it is right for me to get such results anytime I step on the track.” On January 26, 2020, Amoah broke Coppin State University’s school-record in the…

Adenta Youth Sports Academy emerged champions of the maiden edition of the Onua FM and Onua TV Community Soccer Gala at the Wembly Sports Stadium in Madina. In all, 14 teams took part in the maiden edition as they vied for the bragging rights. Media General played with One Corner FC in the curtain raise. The select side from the Adentan community emerged victorious. The Adenta Youth team won the ultimate trophy after beating Vision FC 3-1 in the final and were awarded football kits and a trophy. Addressing the teams after the final, General Manager of MG Radio Francis…

The Coalition of Aggrieved customers of Gold Coast Fund Management on Monday appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to guarantee full payment of their locked up investments. President Akufo-Addo in 2019 directed the Ministry of Finance to work with the Bank of Ghana to ensure a 100 per cent payment of depositors of failed banks, microfinance, and savings and loan companies whose licenses were revoked. The aggrieved customers said the capped amount of GH¢10,000.00 to GH¢20,000.00 as proposed by the Ministry of Finance for customers of locked up funds was unacceptable considering the different levels of individual investments, which…

Malawi’s constitutional court has annulled last year’s controversial election, which saw President Peter Mutharika re-elected. The judge found there had been widespread irregularities in the May 21 vote. This is the first election to be legally challenged since Malawi’s independence. A new vote will take place within 151 days. There have been regular anti-government protests since the election. Source: BBC

About 290 students of the Buipe Senior High School in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region have been asked to return home. This follows the outbreak of fire that razed the entire girls’ dormitory on Monday, February 3. Though information is in short supply, 3news.com has gathered that the fire started at about 7:30am when the students were in class. They have been given one week to return to school. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) deployed from Damongo to douse the fire came without a fire…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has minced no words in pointing out that the Government Official 1 referred to in the approved judgement of the Crown Court at Southwark is John Dramani Mahama. Intermediary 5 is also a brother of Mr Mahama’s by name Samuel, the NPP further stated. The ruling party made this known at a press conference on Monday, February 3. The press conference comes in the wake of the publication of the judgement by Dame Victoria Sharp on Friday, January 31. The approved judgement highlighted Ghana as one of the destinations Airbus SE officials paid bribes in…

TV3’s multiple award-winning prime time news anchor and head of Business Desk, Alfred Ocansey, has been selected for the award-winning Thompson Reuters Foundation Wealth of Nations programme. With over 7,000 applicants across Africa, Alfred went through a highly competitive process to emerge as one of the 12 finalists selected for the fully funded training programme, which takes place in Cape Town, South Africa. Alfred was awarded a full grant for the week-long intensive training programme from Monday, February 3 to Friday, February 7, 2019. The programme is in collaboration with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. During the training period, Alfred will make…

If you walk into a pet shop and get for yourself a pet and take home, that pet becomes your responsibility henceforth. You don’t only make sure it is healthy and fit. You also make sure it doesn’t go wreaking havoc in other people’s homes. Just as raising a responsible pet is your responsibility, so is raising responsible children. We live in times where many parents are busier with their careers than they are with their children. They prioritize their jobs over whether their children are exposed to the right content or not. What profits a parent if they gain…