Author: Krobea

Mario Balotelli was sent off seven minutes after coming on as a substitute in Brescia’s draw with Cagliari in Serie A. The striker was shown a second yellow card for dissent nine minutes from time, moments after being booked for a high challenge on Fabio Pisacane. Balotelli will now miss Friday’s game against former club AC Milan through suspension. The 29-year-old has scored five goals since joining Brescia in August. Balotelli has now received 13 red cards in his career, and is only the second player in Europe’s top five leagues to have been dismissed in each of the past…

Liverpool continued their charge for a first league title in 30 years by beating rivals Manchester United. Virgil van Dijk opened the scoring at Anfield when he headed in Trent Alexander-Arnold’s early corner. A Roberto Firmino strike was ruled out by VAR for a foul on David de Gea, who also made a couple of superb saves to prevent the Reds scoring more. The hosts withstood some late pressure before Mohamed Salah made the win safe when he raced through to score. The win means Liverpool have 64 points from 22 games and they are 16 points clear of second-place…

A founder member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffour, has referred the protests by the opposition parties against the new voters’ register as evidence that “they are dying”. To him, if the parties led by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are confident enough, they would not protest the decision by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) to have a new voters’ register. “If you are not confident enough, everything that comes your way is a problem,” he told Stephen Anti, host of Hot Issues on TV3, on Saturday, January 18. He said without recourse to the decision…

Medeama SC’s unbeaten run came to an end at Ghana’s version of Theatre of Dreams in Dawu, where Dreams FC pipped them by a lone goal. The game was a Week 5 fixture and the Tarkwa-based side wanted to match Berekum Chelsea, which is the only side yet to taste defeat and even concede in the 2019/20 Ghana Premier League. Issah Ibrahim’s strike under 10 minutes of play was the goal that separated the two sides at Dawu. In Dansoman, Hearts of Oak managed to come from 0-1 down at the Carl Reindorf Park to beat Liberty Professionals 2-1. It…

Ghanaian boxer Ayittey Powers is making a passionate appeal to his wife to return his son to him. According to the boxer, he returned from a trip in December, 2019 only to find his home empty without any sight of his wife and son and all efforts to reach her has proven futile. Speaking to 3news.com, the clearly disturbed Powers, born Michael Okine, stated that he had gone on a working trip outside Accra with the hope and excitement of seeing his wife and son but only came to meet the unexpected surprise. “I came back that day just within…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has dismissed reports that the award of a contract to Persol Systems Limited to construct a data centre for the commission was as a result of links with the Chairperson, Jean Mensa. According to the reports, the data management company is owned by the husband of the EC Chair. “This is an outrageous lie since the said company has no links whatsoever to the Chairperson and her husband,” the EC said in a statement on Sunday. Signed by Acting Director of Public Affairs Sylvia Annoh, the statement asked the public to disregard “this fabrication and…

Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority Dr. Akwasi Osei has told 3news.com that the Authority is going to engage all relevant stakeholders in the sector to get the Ministry of Finance to establish a Mental Health Levy. “One of our biggest expectation for 2020 is to establish the Mental Health Levy that we’ve been clamouring for,” Dr Osei indicated. “In the first quarter of this year, we are going to put in a lot of effort by engaging the finance and health ministries a lot to agree to establish the levy.” He added: “We will bring all our…

Medical Director of the Pantang Psychiatric Hospital Dr. Frank Baning is calling on government to as matter of urgency help deal with infrastructure challenges at the hospital. According to him, the situation is crucial, affecting quality healthcare delivery. “There is a looming danger that nobody is talking about,” he said. “The hospital has old buildings, concrete roofings, cracked and leaking.” He added: “Some of these buildings are so weak and as far as I’m concerned an assessment has to be done and those that are very weak must be brought down and those that they think they can salvage something…

The Somanya District Police Command has arrested one person in connection with the ransacking of the office of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Yilo Krobo Constituency. Officers charged to hold balloting for three candidates ahead of the party’s parliamentary primary in the Constituency were shocked on Saturday morning to see the sliding door of the office vandalized. The computer as well as documents to be used for the exercise were missing. The party had to postpone the balloting after reporting the crime to the Somanya District Police, whose swift investigations led to the arrest. The suspect is currently…

Professor Kwesi Yankah, Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, has observed that Volta Region was gradually becoming the hub for formal education. He said the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) and the Ho Technical University were repositioning the Region, which had the highest number of Colleges of Education and among regions with high number of Senior High Schools, “opening it up as access way to education in the country.” Prof Yankah made the observation at the second session of the fourth congregation of UHAS on Saturday in Ho. He said UHAS, the only public University dedicated…