Author: Krobea

Media General’s towering presence in the media landscape was felt once again as programmes and staff of its subsidiaries won a combined eight awards at the 9th edition of the Radio and Television Personality (RTP) Awards held at the Accra International Conference Centre on Saturday, October 12. Top among the awards is News 360, which won the News Programme of the Year, the second time in a row. The programme’s consistent presenter Alfred Ocansey also took home the TV Male Newscaster of the Year the second time in a row. His co-presenter, Ayisha Yakubu, was also adjudged the TV Discovery…

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Alex Mould has accused Energy Minister John Peter Amewu of not meeting performance targets in key areas of his job. Speaking to Nuong Faalong on TV3’s Hot Issues, Mr Mould said Mr Amewu failed abysmally in rolling out tender bids for the country’s oil blocs. “We had over 40 people interested in the blocs, we had 16 people or so who took the actual tender forms and only 3 people bid for two blocs when we had about 6 or so blocs out there,” he said. “I don’t know…

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Alex Mould has accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of state capture in the agreement with Hess Ghana. He said GNPC signed an agreement with Hess Energy to pay for 10 percent of the shares once the legal tussle with Ivory coast over the countries’ maritime boundary was over. Ghana was required to pay $40 million to earn the accruing revenue of $2 to $3 billion. But Ghana failed to pay for the shares thereby forgoing the revenue. Alex Mould argues that since Ghana did not pay for the shares, the…

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana has advocated the return to the basics in finding a solution to the menace of sexual harassment in schools. According to Dr Samuel Nkumbaan, recommending books like ‘Courtesy for Boys & Girls’ can help reduce the menace among students. “We are so fast to think about what will benefit [us] in many respects and that is what we have our eyes fixed on. So, I think we need to re-look at our curriculum from the basic level.” He was contributing to a discussion on TV3’s The Key Points on Saturday, October 12…

Former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Alex Mould has said former president John Dramani Mahama put a lot of work into putting the economy on track for growth especially in the area of infrastructure, commodities and energy. Speaking to Nuong Faalong on TV3’s Hot Issues, which airs on Saturday, October 12 at 12:30pm, Mr Mould said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has a good shot at returning to power based on the work former president Mahama put into stabilizing the economy particularly with the introduction of the ESLA Fund. He said the failure of the…

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia left Accra, Ghana on Friday, October 11 for London, United Kingdom, to attend the 2019 edition of the Financial Times Africa Summit. Among other planned engagements, Dr Bawumia will deliver a keynote address on Ghana’s Digital Transformation Agenda, and participate in a number of plenary sessions. He will also meet with a number of world and business leaders to deliberate on ways to accelerate Ghana, and Africa’s socio-economic development. The FT Africa Summit brings together stakeholders and decision-makers to deliberate on Africa’s challenges and brainstorm to find lasting solutions. According to the organisers, the 2019…

Karpowership Ghana together with the Ghana Education Service and the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection marked the International Day of the Girl Child on Friday, October 11 with 10 basic and senior high schools from the Sekondi and Takoradi metropolis. As part of the celebration, the company organized a sensitization programme for 200 students from Sekondi-Takoradi. The objective of the programme was focused on this year’s theme ‘Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow’. The Corporate Communications Specialist of Karpowership Ghana, Sandra Amarquaye, explained that one objective of their CSR projects is to strive to achieve gender (e)quality, which…

Four days after a BBC Africa Eye documentary was broadcast revealing cases of sexual harassment at two top West African Universities, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said more needs to be done to prevent abuse in educational institutions. Although First Lady Aisha Buhari reacted to the BBC’s investigation on Monday, this is the first comment the president has made on the matter. The film – called Sex for Grades – explored allegations that academics demand sexual favours in exchange for the advancement of a student’s career. In a statement, Mr Buhari welcomed the recent re-introduction of a sexual harassment bill…

Eliud Kipchoge has become the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds. The Kenyan, 34, covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria on Saturday. It will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers. The Olympic champion missed out by 25 seconds in a previous attempt in 2017. Knowing he was about to make history on the home straight, the pacemakers dropped…

Prominent Ghanaian journalist, BBC columnist and former government minister Elizabeth Ohene recently wrote about her experience of being sexually abused more than 60 years ago, when she was just seven years old. Here she explains why she decided to go public after such a long time. I am not quite sure I had considered what the effect would be if I went public with the story of my having been sexually molested. Last Wednesday, I told that story in the weekly column I write for Ghana’s largest circulation newspaper, the Daily Graphic. I am a 74-year-old woman and I was…