Author: Krobea

A schoolgirl in Kenya has taken her own life after allegedly being shamed in class for having her period and staining her uniform. The 14-year-old’s mother said her daughter hanged herself after being humiliated by a teacher, Kenyan media reported. Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 200 parents protesting outside the school, reports said. Kenya passed a law in 2017 to provide free sanitary towels for schoolgirls. However, a parliamentary committee is currently investigating why the programme is yet to be rolled out across all schools. The girl’s mother said a teacher had called her “dirty”…

An Accra-Nsawam passenger train on test run has derailed. The train derailed at Chinto, just a few meters away from Nsawam, our reporter said. After evacuating the passengers, Evelyn Tengmaa reported, engineers managed to decouple four coaches to ease the train to its destination. Operations of the train were suspended in October, 2018 for works on the railway following a derailment which left several passengers injured. The Ghana Railway Company on Thursday embarked on a sensitisation test run from Accra to Nsawam. The 40-kilometer journey started from Tema at 6:15am and made a pit stop at Accra at 7:30am. The…

Eighteen aspirants have been disqualified by the National Parliamentary Appeals Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the party’s parliamentary primaries in orphan constituencies. Two aspirants have also had their nominations referred to the National Executive Committee (NEC) for a substantive decision. The rest out of a total of 292 aspirants have consequently been cleared to contest the primaries. These were disclosed by the Appeals Committee on Wednesday, when it submitted its report to the General Secretary, John Boadu. The General Secretary on Wednesday, August 21 inaugurated a nine-member Appeals Committee chaired by former National Chairman Peter Mac…

The immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria, Professor Attahiru Jega, has been invited by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) for a three-day visit. He will be in Accra on Thursday, September 12 and leave on Saturday, September 14. After his appointment in July, 2010, Professor Jega oversaw two general elections in Nigeria. He oversaw the election of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 2011 and his defeat by General Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. He has been invited by the EC “as part of efforts to broaden its scope, knowledge and learn best practices on the electoral…

Gospel artiste Chosen YesuBa has released the long awaited Extended Play project titled ‘Last Days EP’. He released the 7-track gospel rap mixtape on online music platforms on Saturday, September 7. According to Chosen YesuBa, the project is to serve as a call of awakening to all believers in the present day church. The project delves into many issues in the house of God; lots to do immorality, extortion, hate, envy, sexual immorality and many other vices smuggled into the house of God. The ‘Last Days EP’ is a believer’s companion to stay on guard in order not to fall…

The final of the second edition of the Connect FM Community Street Rap Battle came off last Saturday in the Western Region capital. After hotly contested battles including one-on-one rap confrontations, Yaw King of Effiakuma beat nine others to emerge winner. He takes the mantle from Chichiz, who won the maiden edition. Below are pictures of the event at Positive Action Bay: It was the second edition and the battle lines were drawn. . . Others did not want to hear the ‘noise’ from their opponents. . . The creativity round really produced the best from the finalists. . .…

The Black Meteors are through to their first ever U-23 Africa Cup of Nations after a good display at the Setif Stadium to eliminate the Fennecs of Algeria. The Algerians had played out a 1-1 drawn game at the Accra Sports Stadium days before so the general chorus was that the Meteors will be eliminated. But Coach Ibrahim Tanko and his boys defied all the naysayers to sail through. Yaw Yeboah strike qualifies Black Meteors for CAF U-23 tourney The road to reaching this far has been tough. The Meteors had to scale several hurdles including backlash from fans to…

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has assured the public that findings by the committee tasked to investigate the illegal felling and export of rosewood would be made public. At the Meet the Press Series on Wednesday, Mr Asomah-Cheremeh insisted the seven-member committee will work diligently as it is bent on ending the illegal rosewood trade. The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on August 26 inaugurated the committee to probe allegations of rosewood smuggling in Ghana. This followed a US-based Environmental Investigations Agency’s (EIA) publication which alleged rosewood smuggling is rampant in the country despite a…

A Senior Lecturer at the History and Political Science Studies Department of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Samuel Adu Gyemfi, has strongly panned and opposed a decision by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to review the voting duration ahead of the 2020 elections. According to the Chair of the Commission, Jean Mensa, the move to reduce the duration from 7:00am-5:00pm to 7:00am-4:00pm – though not approved yet – is to improve the security at the polls. Speaking at the opening ceremony of an ECOWAS-UN Workshop on Tuesday, Ms Mensa said: “The Commission will discuss the idea…

A second half strike by captain Yaw Yeboah has sent the Black Meteors through to the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations to be staged in Egypt. The goal gave Ghana a 2-1 aggregate win over Algeria. Ghana drew 1-1 with the North Africans in the first leg played at the Accra Sports Stadium last Friday. After the Algerians scored an early goal in that game, Ghana’s Olympic football team had things difficult as Yeboah failed to convert a penalty. Though the Meteors equalized through another spot-kick, the journey to Algiers was going to be a tall order given West African…