Author: Krobea

A girl by name Abigail Addy is reported missing since Friday, February 28, 2020 in Tamale, Northern Region. She is a resident of Poloyafong, a suburb of the regional capital. According to the police, frantic investigations have been launched into the case as it appears to be one of kidnapping. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Northern Regional Command is handling the case. The victim is 21 years of age and “all efforts made to trace her have not been successful”. “Police strongly suspect she has been kidnapped and we are appealing to the public to be on the…

Since the 15th of January, 2020 when the country was notified of Charles Kwabla Akonnor’s selection as Black Stars Head Coach, there’ve been many debates and predictions about what his Black Stars team would look like. Ghanaians have wondered whether he would have the spine to drop renowned veterans such as Asamoah Gyan and Christian Atsu and put his faith in the numerous rising talents we have, or whether he would stick with the old guns and go for proven experience ahead of potential quality. With the AFCON 2021 qualifier doubleheader against Sudan coming up next month there are many…

About 500 workers of Ameen Sangari Industries Limited in the Central Region capital of Cape Coast are protesting the decision by management to close down the company without any prior notice. The workers were dismayed Monday morning to find a notice, announcing the closure of the company “until further notice”. “Severance awards negotiations are still ongoing,” the notice indicated. But the workers say they will have none of that as the foreign owners owed them two-month salaries. One Mr Nkrumah, an affected worker, told Onua FM’s Central Region correspondent Kwame Kakarba that they had petitioned the Oguaa Traditional Council on…

Youth in Sogakope in the Volta Region are up in arms against the police and have given them three days to produce killers of Marcus Mawutor Adzahli, the Assembly member for Sogakope South Electoral Area. The Assembly member was killed in cold blood on Sunday after being shot multiple times in what many suspect to be contract killing. Youth of Sogakope have accused the police of negligence. According to them, the crime would have been avoided or the outcome mitigated if the police had been swift. With the support of opinion leaders, they say the police should fish out the…

The Western Region Chairman of the Vetting Committee for parliamentary aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Fredrick Fredua Anto, has disclosed to 3news.com that the committee received more than 15 petitions from the seven constituencies that appeared before it on the first day of vetting. Fourteen aspirants from seven constituencies appeared before the F.F. Anto-led Committee on Sunday, March 1. “The exercise went on smoothly. Everyone comported him or herself. Obviously, whenever there is going to be vetting, people will bring petitions against people they think do not qualify. There were a lot of petitions. I think more than…

Some students of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have been arrested by the police, 3news.com has gathered. The students, most of whom are affiliated to Atlantic Hall, were arrested in Kumasi and transferred to Cape Coast, where they have been kept in custody since Saturday. It is unclear what triggered the arrest but 3news.com sources say it is connected with the recent clash between students of Atlantic Hall and Oguaa Hall. That clash left several property of the school vandalized and some students hospitalized. Property vandalised as ATL, Oguaa Hall brawl The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of UCC has…

Former Executive Secretary to the Inter Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) Charles Cromwell Nanabanyin Onuawonto Bissue has stated that he is prepared to wait on the Special Prosecutor for even ten years and more if that is how long it will take for him to finish investigations on him. He observed that his patience hinges on the fact that “the SP will find nothing incriminating against me because I served as the Executive Secretary with all the good intentions to ensure that the vision of President Nana Addo to sanitize the small scale mining sector is realized”. “You will…

As kids, we used to fantasize about big dreams. Mine was to go to the university one day. As time passed, I got to realize it was no big dream after all. Everyone attended university. Instead, I was the one perceiving such as a big dream because of where I found myself— my environment. There were only a few graduates… and those few were literally adored. Later in life, I have become very careful about what I refer to as ‘big dreams’. When one says their big dream is to be rich, for instance, I ask, “Rich according to whose…

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Government of Ghana and the Swiss Federal Council in Bern Friday to strengthen the mode of cooperation between the two countries under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on climate actions. The bilateral agreement will facilitate Ghana’s National Clean Energy Access Programme (NCEP), which will enable the country to receive international financial support to implement projects to fulfill its climate commitments. Although discussions around Article 6 was stalled at COP25 in Madrid, Switzerland and Ghana are responding to the need to implement enhanced climate actions, by moving ahead with an agenda to…

The Greater Accra Region Secretary of the Ghana Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) says the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, should himself chair any committee that is set up to tackle the fast-spreading coronavirus disease. According to Emmanuel Nana Opoku Acheampong, the attitude of the health authorities towards the disease has been quite disappointing. Speaking on TV3’s Midday Live on Saturday, the GUTA official said the way President Akufo-Addo is perceived to handle his tasks is a marked departure from the way the health authorities are handling Ghana’s preparations towards an outbreak of the deadly disease. Mr Opoku Acheampong made…