Author: Krobea

Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Akuapem North in the Eastern Region, Dennis Edward Aboagye, has upbraided the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for their campaign against a YES vote in the upcoming referendum. Mr Aboagye expressed fret over NDC’s position, describing it as “hypocritical”, “duplicitous” and “traitorous”. He wants the general public to reject their NO campaign. At a press conference last week, the country’s largest opposition party detailed its position against the YES vote in the December 17 referendum, which seeks to amend Article 55(3) of the 1992 constitution and to introduce partisan politics at the local level. According to…

Measles has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, authorities said, after the disease spread to all the provinces in the country. Close to a quarter of a million people have been infected this year alone. The World Health Organization (WHO) says this is the world’s largest and fastest-moving epidemic. Measles in DR Congo has now killed more than twice the number who have died of Ebola there in the last 15 months. The Congolese government and the WHO launched an emergency vaccination programme in September that aimed to inoculate more than 800,000 children. But…

The 470MW Karadeniz Powership Osman Khan currently located in Sekondi in the Western Region has commenced power production utilizing Ghana’s indigenous Natural Gas, Karpowership Ghana Company Limited has announced. The powership relocated from the Tema Harbour to the Western Region in August in a government stratey to make use of natural gas from the western enclave. It was to ultimately save the country millions of dollars annually. The commissioning was completed on Friday, September 6. Ghana National Gas Company assured last month that there will be sufficient gas for consistent supply. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Staff of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) have threatened to treat all emergency works as within the regular working hours in a bid to demand all debts owed them by the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and other key institutions. At a news conference in Accra, the staff said if by December 4, 2019 all debts owed the company are not settled they will embark on a sit-down strike. According to the staff of GRIDCo, during the 2018 tariff review, the company’s transmission service charges were reduced by 16 per cent, which saw a dip in revenue to about GH¢290 million.…

Community rights’ advocate Johnnie Hughes and the entire ‘Community Connect’ team will broadcast live from Nungua Obene Tso shishi on Friday, November 22 from 8:00am to 10:00am on 3FM. The gathering is expected to interact with the Member of Parliament for Krowor Constituency and Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye,  and Krowor Municipal Chief Executive Joshua Nii Bortey. Also in attendance will be all persons living with disability (PWDs) in Krowor, opinion leaders, assembly women, men and unit committee aspirants. The two-hour outdoor broadcast will tackle key issues of concern to the people of the Krowor Municipal Assembly,…

The maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards, slated for Friday, November 22, at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra, is set to hold with Johnnie Hughes as host. The versatile broadcaster has become the toast of high-brow event organizers with the most recent being the opening ceremony of the Orbis Flying Eye – the world’s first and only accredited teaching hospital on a plane. The Ghana Cocoa Awards is an effort to reward and institutionalize an annual celebration of stakeholders in the cocoa industry to national development, 140 years since Tetteh Quarshie brought cocoa from Fernando Po to Ghana. The Ghana Cocoa…

Financial actors in the oil and gas industry are asking for a long-term roadmap in financing in the industry. They argue that the lack of a clear roadmap on deliverables in the sector does not encourage financial institutions to do business with the companies in the sector. Access to credit is one of the key challenges affecting active Ghanaian participation in the oil and gas industry. Figures from the Petroleum Commission show that as at September, 2018, there were about 600 indigenous Ghanaian companies participating in the upstream petroleum industry with a total fund of $799 million worth of contracts…

A cultural anthropologist, Osofo Kofitse Ahadzi, has rejected a proposal to build a national shrine for Ghanaian traditional priests. He said what they urgently need is a national holiday. On Wednesday, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs Samuel Kofi Dzamesi at a Meet the Press Series in Accra hinted that the government is considering plans to build a national shrine for traditional believers. Mr Dzamesi said his ministry has been approached by some traditional groupings including Wulomei for the construction of the shrine. According to him, the construction of a national shrine would not be unrealistic since the Islamic and…

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application seeking to strike out a witness statement filed by the state in the case between NDC National Chairman Samuel Ofosu Ampofo and Deputy Communication Officer Kweku Boahen, on one hand, and the state. According to the Court, though prosecution filed the witness statement after the case management, it will not be injurious to the accused. Lawyers for the two accused argued that the state was late in filing the witness statement for one Listowell Fodjour because it did that after the case management conference. Counsel for the accused further argued that filing…

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Thursday failed to show up at the National Peace Council dialogue series on political vigilantism at Peduase in the Eastern Region. The meeting, which is the final in the series, was meant to peruse the draft roadmap. It is expected to be followed the political parties appending their signatures for implementation. While the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was represented by its Director of Communications, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, and other senior members, the largest opposition party was conspicuously missing in action. Seats designated for them were empty. Chairman of Council Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel…