Author: Krobea

All the three living former presidents invited for the 70th anniversary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) failed to turn up, 3news.com has gathered. According to the party’s Acting General Secretary, James Kwabena Bomfeh, only former President John Agyekum Kufuor responded to the invitation by sending a representative to the programme held on Wednesday, June 12. The CPP, the second political party to be formed in Ghana, was founded on June 12, 1949 after its first leader Kwame Nkrumah mobilized a mass group of people of about 60,000 to counter the ideals of elitist United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC). Dr…

UEFA Champions League winners Liverpool will kickstart the 2019/20 English Premier League season with a home game at Anfield against newly promoted Norwich City on Friday, August 9. It will be the start of a season they will hope to annex the domestic league after coming close twice. Champions Manchester City will travel to West Ham United on Saturday, August 10, when a majority of the opening day games will be played. The top fixture on Matchday 1 will be a clash between rivals Chelsea and Manchester United at Old Trafford. That match will be played on Sunday, August 11,…

Conservative MPs will begin the process of choosing their new leader and the next prime minister later when a first round of voting is held in Parliament. Voting will take place by secret ballot in the Commons, with a result expected some time after 13.00 BST. Any of the 10 candidates who fails to secure at least 17 votes will be eliminated from the contest. Further ballots will be held next week, with the two most popular MPs moving to a run-off of Tory party members. The winner of the contest to succeed Theresa May is expected to be announced…

Nigeria’s Super Falcons recorded a first win for Africa in their second Group A game on Wednesday after beating South Korea 2-0. Both sides had lost their opening games. While South Korea lost 0-4 to hosts France, Nigeria lost 0-3 to Norway on Matchday 1. After the first round of matches, none of the three African participants in the tournament picked any points. After the Super Falcons’ loss, South Africa’s Banyana Banyana lost 1-3 to Spain on Saturday, June 8. Cameroon’s Indomitable Lionesses played two days later but lost by a lone goal to their counterparts from Canada. On Wednesday,…

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has accused the security services, particularly the police, of being compromised in the discharge of their professional work. He says all discerning Ghanaians cannot escape that conclusion. In an interview on TV3’s Midday Live on Wednesday, Mr Asiedu Nketia said recent events leading to the arrest and subsequent release of his party’s chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, makes them cotton on to that conviction. “We have come to the painful conclusion that the security services have been compromised and are being used by government to prosecute their political agenda,” he…

The Sekondi High Court 2 presided over by Justice Hannah Taylor has remanded the alleged mastermind of the Takoradi kidnappings, John Oji, into prison custody. John Oji, 29, has been identified as a Nigerian. Adelaide Kobire Woode, who led a team from the Attorney General’s Department, told the court that John Oji’s name has been mentioned in connection with the alleged kidnapping of three girls of Takoradi. She mentioned his offence as conspiracy to kidnap and kidnapping. She pleaded with the court to remand John Oji into police custody. Justice Hannah Taylor proceeded to remand John Oji into prison custody…

hony Tyson Fury believes former world champion Anthony Joshua is “finished” after his shock defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr. Joshua, 29, gave up his IBF, WBA and WBO titles in a seventh-round stoppage loss to Ruiz in New York on 1 June. Speaking before Saturday’s bout with Tom Schwarz – which will be broadcast by BBC Radio 5 Live – Fury said Joshua did not want to be in the ring. “When a man doesn’t want to be there once, he will always do it and it’s hard to come back from,” said Fury. “It’s been done many different times…

A Deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide, has assured that the security services are seriously working to rescue the kidnapped girls of Takoradi, the capital town of the Western Region. The assurance came after the two Canadians, who were kidnapped in Kumasi last week, were rescued in the early hours of Wednesday, June 12. The swift rescue of the two Canadian women who were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Kumasi within a week has raised questions and suspicions as to why the three Takoradi girls kidnapped between August and December last year have not been rescued as yet. A…

The two Canadian women recently kidnapped in the Ashanti Region capital of Kumasi have been rescued, 3news.com has gathered. They were rescued in the early hours of Wednesday, June 12 at Suwaba, a suburb of Kumasi. According to a statement issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the two – 19 and 20 – were rescued following an operation led by National Security Operatives. “Details of the operation and ongoing efforts to ensure that similar incidents are successfully resolved will be made available in a subsequent press briefing scheduled for 15:00 hours today,” the statement indicated. He assured…

The five siblings who were killed in a mudslide at Ngyresiah in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region during a torrential rain have been laid to rest. The five siblings were sleeping when they were crashed to death on Friday, May 31. A bamboo tree that had been uprooted by torrential rains slid together with mud and collapsed a wall on them. The bereaved family, scores of pupils, MPs and MMDCEs in Sekondi Takoradi, heads of departments and other well-wishers attended the solemn burial service at the Sekondi Wesley Methodist Church to pay their last respect. Relatives and neighbours…