Author: Krobea

The Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS), a nonprofit organization that provides access to comprehensive, affordable orthopedic care, will host its 2019 FOCOS NYC Fundraising Gala on Monday, September 23 in Manhattan. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,who is in the United States, is expected to be the guest of honour. He will receive the organization’s Humanitarian Award on behalf of the Republic of Ghana, for the government’s longstanding support of FOCOS. President Akufo-Addo will be accompanied by several other ministers and government officials. Many dignitaries from the public and private sectors, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, are also expected to attend and support this effort. Since its inception…

The Ghana Railways Company Limited has vehemently refuted claims by the Ghana Manganese Company that it has given a sum of $10 million to the Railways Development Ministry for rehabilitation works on the Kojokrom to Tarkwa narrow gauge rail line in the Western Region. Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Railways Company Limited in charge of Engineering Dr. Eng. Michael Anyetei challenged the manganese company to provide proof of payment of the $10 million. On August 23, 2017, a contract of $10 million was signed between the Ghana Railways Company Limited, the China Tianyuan Manganese Limited, the Consolidated Minerals Limited…

The Bissa Fitness Club GH has made a cash donation to 7-year-old George Owusu at the Child Health Department of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. George suffers from nephrotic syndrome, a condition where the blood vessels in the kidneys are damaged, resulting in the inability of the kidneys to filter waste and excess water from the blood. His plight was brought to the attention of the club by a female nurse, who is also a member of the BFC (GH). According to doctors at the facility, George needs a specific drug, to improve his situation. However, authenticated versions of…

The world’s top rugby nations are poised for the start of the Rugby World Cup with the outcome as uncertain as any of the previous eight editions. New Zealand have won the past two World Cups, but Ireland are currently ranked as the best team in the world. A resurgent South Africa won the Rugby Championship earlier this year, while Wales took the Six Nations in March. England have won 10 of their last 14, while Australia’s minimum target is a repeat of their 2015 run to the final. Argentina, semi-finalists in two of the last three tournaments, talented Scotland,…

Former Burton Albion defender Kelvin Maynard has been shot and killed in Amsterdam, Dutch police have confirmed. The 32-year-old was shot in his car and police are appealing for witnesses as they search for two suspects who they say escaped on a black scooter. Officers from a nearby fire station tried to help Maynard but he later died of his injuries. The Dutch-Surinamese player, who also had a spell at Royal Antwerp, was at non-league Dutch club Alphense Boys. “Everyone at Burton Albion is saddened to learn of the tragic death of our former player Kelvin Maynard,” the club said…

Tunisia’s former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has died in exile aged 83, his family says. Ben Ali led the country for 23 years and was credited with delivering stability and some economic prosperity. But he received widespread criticism for suppressing political freedoms and for widespread corruption. In 2011, he was forced from office following mass street protests. This triggered a wave of similar uprisings across the Arab world. At least half a dozen countries in the region saw their president fall or conflicts break out in the wake of the former Tunisian leader’s downfall, in what became known as…

I have for the past weeks searched my archives and it appears there is no single topic – whether in Ghana or elsewhere – which I have spent so much time writing on than the issue of the Takoradi missing girls. On January 14, 2019, I published what would be my first piece on the subject titled, “Takoradi jail break, a case of criminals in uniform!” which was followed by “Hello CID boss, promotion in commotion?” on April 11, 2019 and on May 17, 2019, “From ‘found’ to ‘hope’? Maame Yaa Tiwaa, ‘Aboro so!’” It was not the case that…

Media General’s Natalie Fort has sued celebrity gossip website, GhanaCelebrities.com and six others for defamation. The writ of summons issued on September 4, 2019 from an Accra High Court is an action taken in response to a defamatory publication published on July 15, 2019 by GhanaCelebrities website. The publication wrote that the News Anchor and Journalist was “pregnant for four married men including an NPP Politician”. The publication was later republished by additional online news outlets, some of which published their own slant to the initial defamatory story. The defamatory publications further indicated that “Natalie Fort together with her family…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left the country on Thursday, September 19 as leader of Ghana’s delegation to the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Whilst in New York, the President, as co-Chair of the Advocacy Group of Eminent Persons for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will participate in a series of SDGs events. At the invitation of the President of Princeton University, he will deliver a public address at Princeton University on Friday, September 20, and, also, at the invitation of Mr. Robert Barchi, President of Rutgers, he will deliver another public address at the Achebe…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has by an Executive Instrument declared Monday, September 23 as a statutory public holiday. The day marks the birthday of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, which is September 21 but falls on Saturday this year. “However, in view of the fact that 21st September, 2019 falls on a Saturday, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana has by Executive Instrument (E.I), declared Monday, 23rd September, 2019 as an Additional Public Holiday to be observed as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day throughout the country,” a news release issued by the Minister of Interior,…