Author: Krobea

The Black Stars fan who invaded the Cape Coast Stadium pitch on Thursday, November 14 in Ghana’s 2-0 win over South Africa has been fined GH¢2,400. Failure to pay the fine will land Awal Sulemana in prison for three months. The sentence was pronounced on Thursday by a Cape Coast Circuit Court. He was charged on two counts of offensive disturbance and resisting arrest. Awal had run onto the pitch in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Group C qualifier ostensibly to have a photo opportunity with icon Thomas Teye Partey. He got that subsequently. Opinions were divided as to…

Wails by rice farmers in Fumbisi in the Upper East Region over failure to get buyers for their harvest have attracted several buyers, 3news.com has gathered. The Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) says most of the hitherto bagged paddy rice scattered on farms have been bought. “When the news got out there, it attracted other buyers,” Alhaji Hanan Abdul-Wahab told Winston Amoah on 3FM’s Sunrise morning show on Thursday. He discounted earlier media reports received about the glut of rice produce, saying “there is some disparity and exaggeration”. According to the NAFCO boss, the…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has issued a provisional calendar for the 2019/20 football season. The Association composed its Executive Council and elected a president last October in a long process to normalize Ghana football following an exposé by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in 2018. On Wednesday, the Association announced for the notice of clubs to apply for their licenses till Friday, November 29. There will be a club licensing workshop on Monday, December 2 after that. The football leagues are scheduled to start on the weekend of Saturday, December 21 and scheduled to end in July, 2020. The…

The leader of Israel’s Blue and White party, Benny Gantz, has said he cannot form a coalition government, making a third election in a year more likely. Mr Gantz was given a mandate by the president last month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also failed to secure a majority in parliament. Lawmakers now have 21 days to nominate a candidate with majority support. Blue and White and Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party emerged from September’s election with almost the same number of seats. President Reuven Rivlin called on the two leaders to form a national unity government, but they could not…

Award-winning Ghanaian Dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has expressed excitement at the nomination of Beyoncé’s ‘The Lion King: The Gift’ album for the 2020 Grammy Awards. Shatta Wale featured on the album in his collaboration with the American songstress on the 12th track ‘Already’. The album gained nomination in Best Pop Vocal Album. The nominees list for the 62nd was released on Wednesday on CBS. Shatta Wale took to Twitter to express his excitement at the nomination. https://twitter.com/shattawalegh/status/1197182509890654211?s=20 And he plans massive celebration if Beyoncé wins. https://twitter.com/shattawalegh/status/1197201585807470592?s=20 Source: 3news.com|Ghana

The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has explained that it will not be a misplaced priority for the government to construct a national shrine for Ghana. The CCG said the fact that Christians do not believe in traditional religion and as such evangelizing to have them change does not mean traditional believers do not have the right to demand for what is due them. The Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Samuel Kofi Dzamesi, on Wednesday announced that the government is considering plans to build a national shrine for traditional leaders. According to him, the construction of a national shrine…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has committed his country to being “open defecation free by 2025”, according to a series of tweets from his spokesman Garba Shehu. More than 20% of Nigerians do not have access to a toilet, a statistic that the president described as “disturbing”. The Executive Order 009 came into being against the background that: Nigeria is ranked second amongst the nations in the world with the highest number of people practicing open defecation estimated at over 46 million people… — Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) November 20, 2019 Mr Buhari has set up the Clean Nigeria Campaign Secretariat, which…

The family of late President Dr Hilla Limann is unsatisfied with the level recognition given the former statesman. According to Kuoro Kuri-Bukkie Limann IV, the Paramount of the Gwollu Traditional Area,  the state has continuously failed to show appreciation to the statesman who served Ghana in humility. A mausoleum started by the state in his honour has been abandoned while his relics have been left at the mercy of the weather. Speaking 3news.com, the family of the late Dr Hilla Limann led by Kuoro Limann IV recounted the contributions of the late leader. He said Dr Limann served Ghana in…

The National Treasurer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Akane Adams, is pushing for a ‘Yes’ vote in the upcoming referendum. According to him, partisan election at the district level will open great opportunities for minority political parties with no representation in Parliament, and deepen Ghana’s decentralization process. “Election at the district assembly level will afford some of the minority parties the opportunity to have a representation at the district level, because we don’t have representation in parliament, it’s even the minority political parties who should be advocating for this gesture.” He further explained: “From where I sit, I will…

Ghanaian companies found fronting for foreign firms will have their licenses revoked, according to the Petroleum commission. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, a collaboration between the Registrar-Generals Department and his outfit in 2020 will expose companies whose activities are undermining efforts at increasing local content participation in the petroleum upstream sector. Egbert Faible Jnr made this known at the 2019 Local Content Conference and Exhibitiong ongoing in the Western Region capital, Sekondi-Takoradi. Fronting usually occurs where a local company acts as a subsidiary of a foreign company in order to enjoy benefits such as tax exemptions. The issue…