Author: Krobea

Former Ghana winger Quincy Owusu-Abeyie has swapped careers after quitting football at 33 years to become a rapper with his first solo mix tape. The former Arsenal player, who also represented the Black Stars at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, now goes by the name BLOW. Owusu-Abeyie told VICE his new name springs out of a lifestyle that blew his earnings as quickly as it came. He now hopes his songs about how he grew up in Amsterdam, role models and other issues can help young people after giving serious consideration to a music career for a long time.…

The political parties against the compilation of a new register by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) have been advised to approach the proposed dialogue with “open heart and open mind”. The EC was advised by the Eminent Advisory Committee led by retired Justice Francis Emile Short on Wednesday, after a crunch meeting, to dialogue with political parties further before implementing its decision to compile a new register. Some major political parties led by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have protested the move by the EC, saying it is not necessary and a waste of the country’s financial resources. Known together…

Director of Information Technology (IT) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Osei Kwame Griffiths has descended heavily on the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) over the move to have a new biometric voter management system ahead of the general elections. According to Mr Griffiths, all the technical issues raised by the EC for the controversial move “are false”. Speaking on The Key Points on TV3/3FM on Saturday, January 18, the NDC official argued that, for starters, the EC is not mandated by law to pick biometric data of any Ghanaian for any purpose. He said it is the National Identification Authority…

About 217 girls of Wa Islamic Senior High School in the Upper West Region have been displaced after fire razed down a dormitory block on Friday. Some of the affected students have been asked to go home in order to return the following week while others – most of whom stay far – have also been relocated temporarily to sleep in a classroom block. The fire destroyed several items including beds and mattresses, school uniforms, bags, note books and text books, all running into thousands of Ghana cedis. The students only managed to salvage some items, most of which were…

Michael Nyinaku, former Managing Director of defunct Beige Bank who was being held for stealing GH¢340,000.00 and money laundering was on Friday admitted to bail by an Accra Circuit Court. Nyinaku who is said to be on admission at the Police Hospital, was admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢342 million with two sureties who are to be public servants earning not less than GH¢2,000.00. The court presided over by Mr Emmanuel M. Essandoh further ordered Nyinaku who was not in court today to deposit his passport at the court’s registry and report to the Police twice a week.…

Heavy rains and thunderstorms have lashed parts of Australia’s east coast, dousing some of its fires but bringing a new threat of flooding to some areas. There have been downpours in the states of Victoria, New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, which have all been badly hit by the bushfire crisis. Major roads were closed in Queensland and power cuts were reported in parts of NSW as a result of the weather. But fire officials said the rain was helping to tackle some of the blazes. Fires have been raging in Australia since September, killing at least 28 people, destroying…

MTN Ghana has apologised to its numerous customers for the recent disruption in data connectivity across the country. It said the challenges go beyond Ghana to “many areas in West Africa”. “This is as a result of a double undersea fibre optic cable cut in Europe,” it explained in a statement issued on Friday, January 17. Most customers began experiencing connectivity issues from Thursday. The situation is affecting all operators and customers in the West Africa region due to cut on the West Africa Cable System (WACS). The West Africa Cable system is an ultra-high capacity fibre optic submarine cable…

The quest to claim the Ghana Premier League title continues this weekend on Match Week 5. Kumasi Asante Kotoko will be desperate to bounce back from two straight defeats and also with their fans banned from their next 5 games. The Porcupine warriors will face Ebusua Dwarfs who sit at the bottom of the table with 0 points. In the last five meetings of the two, Kotoko have won 3 times with Ebusua Dwarfs winning once and the two sharing the spoils on one occasion. Accra Hearts of Oak will face stiff competition when they head to the Carl Reindorf…

Great Olympics clinched their first win of the 2019/2020 Ghana Premier League after a 2-0 win over Karela United FC. The match, played at the Accra Stadium on Thursday, January 16, was the final game in Week 4. Gladson Awako put the Dade boys ahead in the first half after converting from the spot. Abdul Razak Yusif nailed the coffin on the Western Region side after he got on the scoresheet in the 85th minute. The win, however, does not change Great Olympics’ position on the log as they stay second from bottom with the 3 points won over Karela.…

The family of investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale, who was shot dead exactly a year ago, is disappointed the state has failed to arrest the killers. Speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the death of the member of the Tiger Eye PI team, brother Alhassan Unus said it appears arresting the killers “remains a mirage and a tall order for the state”. Ahmed Hussein-Suale was shot three times by two men said to be on a motorbike near his Madina residence. The heinous crime is believed to have been committed as a result of the deceased journalists’ investigations in exposing corruption…