Author: Krobea

The Rotary Club of Accra Osu Oxford Street has officially handed over a renovated four-classroom block and furniture to the Manhia Primary School and JHS in Accra. The handing over of the project last Friday at a cost of GH¢100,000 was  according to the President of the club, Della Kwaku Porbley,  “to enhance the learning environment” and in line with the club’s ideas of undertaking impactful projects within its area of operation. In addition to the renovated classroom block complete with new writing boards, the Rotary Club of Accra Osu Oxford Street also refurbished the toilet facilities at the school and…

An attempt by some persons to destabilise the government has been foiled by the state’s security agencies. A joint operation conducted on Friday, September 20 led to the arrest of three persons and the retrieval of several arms. The operation was at Alajo and Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region. A statement issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, on Monday said the operation by personnel drawn from Defence Intelligence, Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) was “to neutralize an elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency, and with the…

Two hundred students from the six coastal districts of the Western Region have earned an AKER Energy-GNPC scholarship for the 2019/20 academic year. This will be a fulfillment of a promise to increase the number of beneficiaries from 150 to ensure that more brilliant but needy students are able to transit from Junior High School to Senior High School and in doing so inching closer to the realizing of their dreams. The AKER Energy-GNPC Scholars Programme is presently the flagship social investment project of the upstream petroleum company operating the Deepwater Tano/Cape Three Points oil bloc. The Scholars Programme, which…

Black Stars B went 0-1 down at home in their final qualifier for the 2020 African Championship of Nations. The goal for the Stallions of Burkina Faso came four minutes after full regulation time. The match, played at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, was the first leg of the final round of qualifiers for the tournament, which takes place in Cameroon next year. The visitors had eliminated Ghana in the last qualifiers in 2017 and seem to be on their way to a repeat with Sunday’s late win. The second leg is scheduled to be played on October 18, 2019…

Four boys on Saturday, September 21 got drowned in a river at a Kumasi suburb, Breman, in the Suame municipality of the Ashanti Region The incident occurred at about 5:30pm. It comes barely two days after a primary six pupil got drowned at Bantama-Kokoso in Kumasi. The boys reportedly went to swim in the Nwabi River, which had overflown its banks following torrential downpour earlier in the week. Three of the victims named as Clinton Gyimasu, 9, Ezra Owusu Afriyie, 10, and Agya-Wusu, 9, were pronounced dead on arrival at the Tafo Government Hospital. Their bodies have been deposited at…

A former Director General of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP (rtd) Bright Oduro, has backed calls for an independent body to be a check on the Service. He opined that that will shore up the confidence of the public in the Service. For him, many see the Service as partial particularly over issues that have to do with its own.It is said to shield offending officers. COP (rtd) Oduro made these observations on TV3’s Hot Issues on Saturday, September 21. He disclosed that the Service cannot be rid of politics as most of the…

A former Chief of Defense Staff (CDS), Brigadier-General (rtd) Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, has predicted that Ghana may run into chaos if immediate steps are not taken to correct the current political system. He says seeds of chaos are being sown everywhere in the country. “I don’t sleep easily in Ghana today,” he bemoaned on 3FM/TV3’s The Key Points on Saturday, September 21. According to him, almost everybody including military officers, who are known to be disciplined, go about their duties anyhow. “We may run Ghana aground in the not-too-distant future,” he predicted. The former presidential security advisor was speaking on the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says African leaders and citizens of the continent, must work to make Africa attractive for the youth, enabling them to see the continent as a place of opportunities, and generate wealth and prosperity. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the irony is that Africa should really not be in this conundrum. There are good reasons why we should be able to get ourselves out of the hole and onto the path of hope and prosperity.  Indeed, as the theme rightly states, the future is African, and properly so.” Speaking at the Princeton University on Friday, 20th September,…

Cameroon’s Sports Ministry has announced that the former Portuguese footballer Toni Conceicao has been appointed as the new head coach of the Indomitable Lions. The 57-year-old, most recently coach of CFR Cluj in Romania, succeeds Dutch legend Clarence Seedorf who was sacked from the post in July following Cameroon’s early exit from the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. The length of Conceicao’s contract with Cameroon will be announced later this month. He will be assisted by former Cameroon international Francois Omam Biyik who played at three World Cups and helped the Indomitable Lions win the 1988 Africa Cup…

An American man has drowned while proposing to his girlfriend underwater on holiday in Tanzania. Steven Weber and his girlfriend, Kenesha Antoine, were staying in a submerged cabin at the Manta Resort, off Pemba Island. Footage shows Mr Weber diving under water to ask Ms Antoine to marry him. In the video, Mr Weber presses a hand-written proposal note against the cabin window as Ms Antoine films from inside. Ms Antoine, confirming Mr Weber’s death in a Facebook post, said he “never emerged from those depths”. The Manta Resort told the BBC Mr Weber “tragically drowned while free diving alone…