Author: Krobea

Staff of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) have threatened to treat all emergency works as within the regular working hours in a bid to demand all debts owed them by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and other key institutions. At a news conference in Accra, the staff said if by December 4, 2019 all debts owed the company are not settled they will embark on a sit-down strike. According to the staff of GRIDCo, during the 2018 tariff review, the company’s transmission service charges were reduced by 16 per cent, which saw a dip in revenue to about GH¢290 million.…

Community rights’ advocate Johnnie Hughes and the entire ‘Community Connect’ team will broadcast live from Nungua Obene Tso shishi on Friday, November 22 from 8:00am to 10:00am on 3FM. The gathering is expected to interact with the Member of Parliament for Krowor Constituency and Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye,  and Krowor Municipal Chief Executive Joshua Nii Bortey. Also in attendance will be all persons living with disability (PWDs) in Krowor, opinion leaders, assembly women, men and unit committee aspirants. The two-hour outdoor broadcast will tackle key issues of concern to the people of the Krowor Municipal Assembly,…

The maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards, slated for Friday, November 22, at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, is set to hold with Johnnie Hughes as host. The versatile broadcaster has become the toast of high-brow event organizers with the most recent being the opening ceremony of the Orbis Flying Eye – the world’s first and only accredited teaching hospital on a plane. The Ghana Cocoa Awards is an effort to reward and institutionalize an annual celebration of stakeholders in the cocoa industry to national development, 140 years since Tetteh Quarshie brought cocoa from Fernando Po to Ghana. The Ghana Cocoa…

Financial actors in the oil and gas industry are asking for a long-term roadmap in financing in the industry. They argue that the lack of a clear roadmap on deliverables in the sector does not encourage financial institutions to do business with the companies in the sector. Access to credit is one of the key challenges affecting active Ghanaian participation in the oil and gas industry. Figures from the Petroleum Commission show that as at September, 2018, there were about 600 indigenous Ghanaian companies participating in the upstream petroleum industry with a total fund of $799 million worth of contracts…

A cultural anthropologist, Osofo Kofitse Ahadzi, has rejected a proposal to build a national shrine for Ghanaian traditional priests. He said what they urgently need is a national holiday. On Wednesday, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Samuel Kofi Dzamesi at a Meet the Press Series in Accra hinted that the government is considering plans to build a national shrine for traditional believers. Mr Dzamesi said his ministry has been approached by some traditional groupings including Wulomei for the construction of the shrine. According to him, the construction of a national shrine would not be unrealistic since the Islamic and…

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application seeking to strike out a witness statement filed by the state in the case between NDC National Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and Deputy Communication Officer Kweku Boahen, on one hand, and the state. According to the Court, though prosecution filed the witness statement after the case management, it will not be injurious to the accused. Lawyers for the two accused argued that the state was late in filing the witness statement for one Listowell Fodjour because it did that after the case management conference. Counsel for the accused further argued that filing…

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday failed to show up at the National Peace Council dialogue series on political vigilantism at Peduase in the Eastern Region. The meeting, which is the final in the series, was meant to peruse the draft roadmap. It is expected to be followed the political parties appending their signatures for implementation. While the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was represented by its Director of Communications, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, and other senior members, the largest opposition party was conspicuously missing in action. Seats designated for them were empty. Chairman of Council Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel…

The Black Stars fan who invaded the Cape Coast Stadium pitch on Thursday, November 14 in Ghana’s 2-0 win over South Africa has been fined GH¢2,400. Failure to pay the fine will land Awal Sulemana in prison for three months. The sentence was pronounced on Thursday by a Cape Coast Circuit Court. He was charged on two counts of offensive disturbance and resisting arrest. Awal had run onto the pitch in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Group C qualifier ostensibly to have a photo opportunity with icon Thomas Teye Partey. He got that subsequently. Opinions were divided as to…

Wails by rice farmers in Fumbisi in the Upper East Region over failure to get buyers for their harvest have attracted several buyers, 3news.com has gathered. The Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) says most of the hitherto bagged paddy rice scattered on farms have been bought. “When the news got out there, it attracted other buyers,” Alhaji Hanan Abdul-Wahab told Winston Amoah on 3FM’s Sunrise morning show on Thursday. He discounted earlier media reports received about the glut of rice produce, saying “there is some disparity and exaggeration”. According to the NAFCO boss, the…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has issued a provisional calendar for the 2019/20 football season. The Association composed its Executive Council and elected a president last October in a long process to normalize Ghana football following an exposé by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in 2018. On Wednesday, the Association announced for the notice of clubs to apply for their licenses till Friday, November 29. There will be a club licensing workshop on Monday, December 2 after that. The football leagues are scheduled to start on the weekend of Saturday, December 21 and scheduled to end in July, 2020. The…