Author: Krobea

Ghana Medical Relief a non-profit organisation, made up of medical practitioners and volunteers from the US and Ghana, has embarked on a health outreach exercise in Anomabo in the Central Region. For four days, the team offered paediatric, urology, general medicare, dental, gynecology and obstetrics services to 3,000 people in Anomabo free of charge. Dr Samuel Kwapong Owusu,  a physician and President of Ghana Medical Relief told journalists the number of fibroid cases and the sizes  recorded through the screening of women during the exercise was of great concern. He urged the community members, especially the women, to endeavour to have regular…

The Vetting Committee of the National Democratic congress (NDC) has approved 60 parliamentary aspirants to contest in the forthcoming primaries of the Party in the Volta Region. Paul Mensah Voegborlo and William Mawuli Ahado, aspirants for Keta and North Tongu Constituencies respectively, were disqualified by the Committee chaired by Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, National Chairman of the Party. The Committee also placed the approval of Madam Rebecca Agbogah, an aspirant for Adaklu Constituency on hold. Mr Ampofo told the media at the end of the exercise that Madam Agbogah’s approval was put on hold following the receipt of some information,…

Organisers have unveiled the logo for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. The blue and yellow “B” emblem is meant to link the venues of the sporting events to be held as part of the games. The colour palette “represents Birmingham as the youngest city in Europe”, designers said. Locations referenced in the design are Stourbridge, Cannock, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Birmingham, Solihull, Royal Leamington Spa and Coventry. The logo is “bold and dynamic just like the region itself”, said Josie Stevens, chief marketing officer for Birmingham 2022, as organisers held a special event in Birmingham’s Centenary Square to…

Given its unflinching effort to inspire sustainable economic development through innovation, charisma and leadership, the Nkosuo Initiative has been nominated to receive an award for its credibility, demonstrated business excellence and potential capacity to create an impact on the African economy. The initiative was nominated by the Executive and Board of the Young African Chief Executive Directors Network (YACEDX). An event will take place at the Bank of Ghana Auditorium, University of Ghana, on Monday, August 19, 2019 for the awards ceremony. The Nkosuo Initiative (2019-2024) is a Local Economic Development (LED) Project, to strengthen, increase and diversify the income…

Cuba has accepted to train 40 brilliant but needy medical students a year from Zongos, inner cities and other deprived communities in Ghana. This follows a proposal by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to the government of Cuba to extend the special arrangement between the two countries for the training of health personnel in deprived communities. Vice President Bawumia made the proposal when he held bilateral talks with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel as part of a two-day official visit to the Caribbean country. According to officials, the programme will begin next year. Gender parity will be ensured in the selection…

The newly formed Congress Fundraising Committee of the People’s National Convention (PNC) is set to be dissolved. Following the proposition of a seven-member team to raise funds for PNC’s upcoming Congress, there has been mixed reactions by proposed members to be on the committee. The names of the members were tabled on Saturday, July 13 at a National Executive Committee meeting. But the decision to dissolve the Committee, according to a statement signed by the Party’s National Treasurer, Akane Adams, stems from the fact that “some persons selected to be part of the committee have occasionally in writing and orally…

It was a huge magnitude of confusion that rocked not only the Methodist Church of Ghana but Christians and others in Ghana and, perhaps, Africa as a whole when the Methodist Church, UK, said it had [technically] approved same sex marriage. “The bird,” our elders say, “has no business worrying itself over a collapsed bridge.” If it is a section of the world that has legalized homosexuality and same sex marriage for that matter, one would have thought that Christians had no business worrying themselves contemplating as to whether to indulge in the practice or not. Is that not so?…

Speaker of US House of Representatives Nancy Patricia Pelosi is scheduled to address Ghana’s Parliament next week, the Majority Leader announced Friday. Osei Kyei-Mensa-Bonsu said the US Speaker will deliver the address on Wednesday, July 31. The Suame Member of Parliament disclosed this while reading the business statement for the 10th week ending Friday, August 2. Democrat Pelosi was elected to the third highest position in the US in January, 2019. She is scheduled to be in Ghana on an official visit. She was first elected to the US Congress in 1987, representing California’s 12th congressional district. She has served…

A member of the Nigerian Air Force who returned a lost parcel containing 37,000 euros ($41,500; £33,300) cash has received a two-rank promotion, as part of his reward. Bashir Umar had been on patrol duties with other colleagues at an airport in the northern state of Kano when he discovered the cash. He then called the phone number that was written on the package and returned the cash to the owner. He was promoted from aircraftman to the rank of corporal, a promotion that should have taken him 10 years to achieve, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. He…

Barely four days after a Paramount chief in the Western Region was abducted and assaulted by some unidentified masked men, there has been yet another attempted attack on another prominent chief in the Region The Chief of Fijai, Barima Ekow Gyesa, who doubles as the acting President of the Sekondi Traditional Council, claims some unidentified masked men in a 4-Wheel Drive vehicle came to his house in the evening on Wednesday to ask of his whereabouts from his daughter The daughter told them her father was not around after she had contacted father in the room. The chief, who narrated…