Author: Krobea

Any given week in the Ghana Women’s Premier League could be tough, especially in the opening weeks of the season as new signings try finding their feet and others already with a flying start. However, Week 2 has some great games to consider. NORTHERN ZONE  The oldest derby in the league is happening this weekend as Ashtown Ladies host fabulous ladies at the Paa Joe Park on match day 2. Ashtown Ladies have suffered a poor result on the road to Ampem Darkoa Ladies and will be eager to bounce back on home turf. The story is not different either…

Fifty-five year old Haruna Iddrisu, driver, was on Thursday convicted for stealing a car battery and tape recorder at Suntreso in Kumasi. He has therefore been sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District of Ashanti. Haruna who pleaded guilty was convicted on his own plea. Prosecuting, Detective Chief Inspector Comfort Amankwaa, told the Court presided over by Mr Michael Johnson Abbey that, the convict was arrested by a team of police personnel who were on patrol duties at Suntreso at about 0500 hours on January 16, this year. She said the Police spotted…

ACP Benjamin Agordzo who is standing trial for an alleged coup plot has finally been released from police custody. The senior police officer was still kept in an “apartment” within the Ghana Police Service headquarters despite a bail application granted by an Accra High Court last Tuesday. According to reports, the state had filed an appeal against his bail, hence the reason he was still in custody. His brother, Cephas, had fumed over the continuous stay of ACP Agordzo in police custody despite the bail secured by his lawyers, accusing some elements within the Service of being behind the trial.…

The Western Region Communications Manager of the Ghana Water Company Limited says it has become an annual ritual to ration water in the region at the beginning of every year. “I believe residents of Sekondi-Takoradi are very much aware of this annual ritual that we undertake every year from December to the first quarter of the ensuing year where we have to ration water,” Nana Yaw Barima Barnie told 3news.com while announcing a water rationing programme for the metropolis. He indicated that “whenever we enter the dry season the water level in our dam at Inchaban drastically reduces and once…

A banker implicated in the embezzlement and money-laundering case against Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been found dead in Lisbon. Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45, managed the account of oil firm Sonangol, formerly chaired by Ms Dos Santos, at the small Portuguese lender EuroBic. His death, on Wednesday, was reported on Thursday soon after Angolan prosecutors named both as suspects. Ms Dos Santos denies alleged corruption revealed by leaked documents. Mr Da Cunha was found dead at one of his properties in Lisbon. A police source told Portuguese media that “everything points to suicide”. Local media quoted police…

No government in its first term under the Fourth Republic can match the economic record of the Nana Akufo-Addo administration, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has averred. “For virtually every economic measure, from inflation, to interest rates, exchange rate depreciation, rate of increase of utility prices, social interventions, like free SHS, job creation, infrastructure et cetera, the data shows clearly that no government has achieved as much as the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and I challenge anyone to provide any facts to dispute it,” the Vice President declared on Thursday January 23. Vice President Bawumia, who was…

The Western Region Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) impounded 150 uncustomed vehicles in 2019. The owners failed to provide the necessary documentations for their vehicles when the cars were confiscated by the Division’s taskforce. Speaking to 3news.com on the sidelines of an end-of-year programme in Takoradi, Head of the Takoradi Customs Division Assistant Commissioner Francis Tanlongo said the impounded vehicles came through the land frontiers of the country. “No vehicle can come through the port and be smuggled. We have very stringent methods by which vehicles are cleared. What we have realized is that a vehicle may…

ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo who is standing trial over an alleged coup plot is still in police custody despite being granted bail by an Accra High Court on Tuesday. ACP Agordzo was granted a self-recognisance bail in the sum of GH¢500,000 and is expected to report to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) or his representative twice every week for the next three months and once a week afterwards. His passport has also been seized, 3news.com gathers. But speaking on TV3’s News 360 on Wednesday, January 22, a brother to ACP Dr Agordzo, Cephas, says the senior police officer is…

Entertainment critic Ola Michael is advocating for the CEO of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to be the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture. He believes strongly that Akwasi Agyemang can do a better job than Barbara Oteng Gyasi, who is the current sector minister. Ola Michael explained in an interview on Showbiz 927 on 3FM with MzGee that the current Minister is simply not fit to be at the Ministry. Ola, who is also a movie producer, stressed that Barbara Oteng Gyasi is a “total misfit” because she does not know anything about the sector she is handling. The entertainment…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for the Essikadu-Ketan Constituency in the Western Region, Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has observed that the constituency is currently in what she describes as Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and will need sheer tactfulness alas it dies. She claims Essikadu-Ketan has for the past 16 years been stifled of much-needed development and as a result has been left for dead. “For the past sixteen years, Essikadu-Ketan has been voting one way. I’m asking, what is there to show for all these long years,” she wondered when she met members of the Western Region Press Corps…