Author: Krobea

All the three aspirants who picked nomination forms to contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary primary in the Krachi West Constituency have been disqualified. The recommendation to get them disqualified was contained in a brief report jointly issued and signed by the Party’s constituency chairman, Douglas Amanfo, secretary Peter Krah and the chairman of the election committee, J.B Donkor. The three aspirants – Tony Fofie, Jalulah Khajal and Francis Odenke Ntem – are said to have failed to submit their forms at close of nominations. The filing fee was pegged at GH¢20,000 with women, youth and the physically disabled…

Arsenal have agreed an £8m deal with Chelsea to sign defender David Luiz on a two-year contract. The 32-year-old Brazil centre-back, who signed a new two-year Chelsea deal in May, will have a medical at Arsenal on Thursday. On Tuesday, Arsenal sold defender Laurent Koscielny to French side Bordeaux for a fee of up to 5m euros (£4.6m). They are also set to sign Celtic left-back Kieran Tierney for £25m. Luiz has spent six and a half years at Chelsea during two spells and has made 160 Premier League appearances, scoring 11 goals. His departure, if confirmed, comes five weeks…

The Anglican Diocese of Sekondi under the Chairmanship of His Lordship Rt. Reverend Alexander Kobina Asmah has organized its second session of the 5th Diocesan synod under the theme ‘Repositioning for Church Growth and Advancement in Pluralistic and Challenging Time of Ours’. Speaking on the theme, the Diocesan Bishop enkindled Christians especially Anglicans to reflect on th sequential, historical, theological and entrepreneurial insights that had been recounted over the years of the Anglican presence in Ghana. He urged all to hope in prayer and make adventure as they walk together and become apologists to Christian beliefs, bearing in mind the…

Some concerned members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ellembelle Constituency of the Western Region are threatening to put an injunction on the party’s upcoming parliamentary primaries following what they term as “subtle attempts to disqualify one of the aspirants”. The vetting committee of the party has put on hold the vetting results of one of the two aspirants for the parliamentary primary in the constituency, Mieza Mea Alleah. This followed a petition filed against the candidature of Mr. Mea Alleah. According to the concerned members, a few minutes before the vetting of Mr. Mea Alleah, a group…

A man who donated his mother’s body to what he thought was Alzheimer’s research learned later it was used to test explosives. So what does happen when your body is donated to medical science? Last week new details of a lawsuit emerged against The Biological Resource Centre in Arizona following an FBI raid in 2014 in which gruesome remains of hundreds of discarded body parts were discovered. The now closed centre is accused of illegally selling body parts against the donors wishes. Newly-released court documents revealed that families of those whose bodies had been donated to the centre said they…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the second season of the Presidential Pitch initiative, an entrepreneurship competition for persons between the ages of 18 and 35 years. Presenting cash awards, ranging from GH¢25,000 to GH¢60,000 to the contestants, the President explained that these awards are grants, and not loans, and represent the continuing demonstration of Government’s commitment to providing seed capital for some of the nation’s enterprising youth to enable them run successful businesses. In his remarks at the event on Tuesday, August 6, President Akufo-Addo explained that the importance of the entrepreneurial mindset cannot be overemphasized. “Entrepreneurship is…

The Igbo community Ghana in partnership with the National Theatre is organising a West African Regional Festival Of Arts and Culture on the 14th and 15th of September 2019, at the National Theatre and Efua Sutherland Children’s Park respectively. The event is another edition of the previously held ‘New Yam’ Festival in October, 2011 due to its success that year. The Igbo ‘New Yam’ Festival is usually held between the months of August and October every year in Igboland, and the Igbos in the Diaspora also celebrate theirs in their respective countries of residence. Igbos or Ndigbo are about 60…

The Ministry of Education has debunked allegations that Social Studies has been scrapped from the basic school curriculum. The National Social Studies Association (NaSSA) in a press conference threatened to march to the seat of government over the issue. Social Studies teachers threaten to storm Jubilee House over scrapping of subject But speaking exclusively to 3news.com, the Public Relations Officer for the Ministry, Ekow Vincent Assafuah, stressed that Social Studies has not been scrapped. He said stakeholders engagement is still in progress towards the second phase of the curriculum. According to him, the new pre–tertiary curriculum review process is in two…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with funding from the European Union (EU) has trained 20 cluster development experts from relevant institutions responsible for trade industrialization, export, agribusiness, quality infrastructure, trade associations and standards on cluster development in Accra. The four-day training on UNIDO’s cluster development methodology is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 5, 8 and 9. It is part of the activities of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) implemented by UNIDO in partnership with the Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) to develop the technical capacity and capability of potential…

Some few days ago, I read with disgust an Oxfam article published on 28th July, 2019 on their website. Titled Buried Treasure- Aussie mining companies behaving badly in West Africa, the article only sought to bury the truth, smearing Perseus Mining (Ghana) Ltd. with untold lies and unfounded facts [Read article here; https://www.oxfam.org.au/2019/07/buried-treasure/]. I was awed by the depth of falsehood in the poorly-researched piece by no other brand but Oxfam. There is a plethora of concerns that Oxfam raises in the above piece. As a Ghanaian industry player, I can only conclude that they are either uninformed or just…