Author: Krobea

Investigators from the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday, August 6 discovered a fourth set of human remains at a location once occupied by Samuel Udutoek Willis, the prime suspect in the case involving the three missing Takoradi girls. The police went to the scene at Nkroful new site, a suburb of Takoradi, to retrieve the remains from a well. According to the police, the place is near an uncompleted building where the suspect was re-arrested when he broke jail. The police on Friday, August 2 followed a lead to retrieve three sets of human remains from a septic tank at…

The National Adolescent Health Ambassadors Camp 2019 has opened in Accra with a call on the ambassadors to participate fully and initiate intellectually stimulating discourse which would leave a lasting impression on adolescent health. This is the third edition of the Camp Over 600 participants from all the regions are taking part in the three-day event The programme among other things aims to afford the ambassadors the opportunity to pitch and compete for grants for their small-scale health promotion projects. The ambassadors would discuss health issues and address myths and misconceptions regarding adolescent health and most importantly look into the…

The Nigeria Black Stallions managed to beat the Ghana Eagles by 14 points to 12 in a nailbiting rendition of the first-ever Ghana-Nigeria Rugby Presidents’ Cup on Saturday 3 August 2019 at the Nduom Sports Stadium in Elmina-Ghana. In doing so Nigeria also managed to take the second spot in the first-ever WARS (West Africa Rugby Series) Ghana Men’s XVs Invitational that was won by the Ivorian Elephants. The tri-nations tournament that was hosted and partly sponsored by Ghana Rugby was made possible with contributions from Rugby Africa, Sunda International and GB Foods by way of their Gino Brands. In…

Money makes life easy. It solves a lot of headaches. Without good money, you can’t have good education. Money prolongs our life. Indeed, someone may have been alive today if they had had enough money to take care of themselves when they fell ill. Life without money can be Hell! Others say love makes the world go round but we all know that without money, love is only a noun. When some good money abounds, love becomes a vibrant verb. When they say one should marry for the sake of love, the question one should be asking is whether love…

A 31-year-old man, who was on a flight from Los Angeles to Dubai when he assaulted an air hostess and behaved erratically, faced multiple charges at the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday. The Dubai public prosecution accused the Jordanian passenger – who works as a purchase PRO – of sexually harassing the Ghanaian hostess and physically assaulting her by twisting her arm on April 13. He also treated her with contempt by telling her that he did not want to look at her face or at any of the crew members. The man also verbally abused and threatened…

The Family Physician and Director for Medical Services at FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, Dr. Gerhard Ofori-Amankwah, gave a talk on ‘Your Spine, Your Health and Back Pain’ among professionals at this year’s Bar, Bench and Faculty Conference held last week at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra. Addressing the gathering of lawyers and judges of various divisions, Dr. Ofori-Amankwah first made the point that pain is “an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage”. He emphasised that back pain is usually the pain extending from the nape of the neck…

A lot is expected from Team Ghana in the 2019 All Africa Games scheduled to take place in Morocco. But as has been with previous scripts, there is a lot of doubt beneath that hope. Ofori Asare, the coach of the national boxing team, the Black Bombers, has bemoaned the lack of attention for his team. He says any form of support including official visits will go a long way to boost the morale of the boxers. “The trend has been like that for long, supporting football is something that we don’t know whether we can change it,” he said.…

The State of Israel has upgraded its ten years old neonatal units at the Kumasi South and Suntreso hospitals in the Ashanti Region to enhance infant delivery and reduce mortality. In a special inauguration of the upgraded units, the doctors of the facilities who have been trained by Israeli specialties revealed that, every year, each unit saves the lives of about 700 babies. As part of the upgrading of the units, a medical team from the Soroka Medical Centre also took the medical professionals at the hospitals through a four-week intensive training to enhance their skills in the management of…

The Takoradi Port is gearing itself up to increase the annual container handling of 50,000 to 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the next 24 months. This follows the successful casting of the first block for the commencement of work on a one million TEU ultra-modern multi-purpose container terminal at the port. The one million TEU ultra-modern multi-purpose container terminal is a joint venture between wholly Ghanaian owned company IBISTEK and the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) under a concession agreement. The contractor, Jan DE Nul, has begun the casting of blocks for a 600-meter quay wall with a…

Energy expert Kojo Opoku says the blame for the failure of due diligence to be done over the concession agreement between government and Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited must be laid at the doorstep of the Minister of Finance and not any other. He says it took a Qatari company to alert government of the fraudulent documents tendered in by PDS to win the bid. No due diligence was done, he stressed on 3FM’s Hot Edition on Wednesday. Government in a statement on Tuesday suspended the whole agreement after it said further due diligence was conducted. Fundamental and material…