Author: Krobea

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad have been named the male and female World Athletes of the Year at the World Athletics Awards 2019, held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Saturday (23).  Kipchoge, the winner of the award last year, added to his phenomenal marathon CV in 2019. In April he captured his fourth victory at the London Marathon with a 2:02:37 course record, the third fastest performance of all time. The 35-year-old Kenyan followed up in October by blasting through the distance’s two-hour barrier with a 1:59:40.2 performance at the Ineos159 Challenge in Vienna. Muhammad, 29, broke the…

Media General was strongly represented at the 24th Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Awards held on Saturday, November 23 at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra. Three journalists of the media giant won a combined four awards while its English-speaking television station, TV3, received a special award. The station’s flagship morning show, New Day, won the Best Television Morning Show in English. Portia Gabor, Evelyn Tengmaa and Peter Quao Adattor were the journalists honoured at the event, which also marked the 70th anniversary of GJA. Portia Gabor won more awards as she received the Best Female Journalist of the Year…

Premier League champions Manchester City got back to winning ways by coming from behind to beat in-form Chelsea in an entertaining game. The visitors, who had won their previous seven away games, led when N’Golo Kante slipped the ball past Ederson from Marco Kovacic’s aerial pass. At that stage City were facing back-to-back Premier League defeats which would have left them 12 points behind leaders Liverpool and given them an uphill task to retain their title. But the hosts rallied and equalised when Kevin de Bruyne’s shot hit Kurt Zouma and wrongfooted goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga. Riyad Mahrez put the reigning…

At least 29 people have died in landslides caused by severe weather in West Pokot county, Kenya. The landslides, affecting the villages of Nyarkulian and Parua, were reportedly caused by heavy rains. Officials say the villages have been cut off by flooded roads and at least one bridge was reportedly swept away. President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a statement that his “heartfelt condolences” were with the relatives and friends of the victims. Mr Kenyatta said there had been “massive destruction” of property and infrastructure, and that he has ordered armed forces and rescue services to the area to help. Seven…

Three people have been confirmed dead after an unknown assailant stormed the house of the Chief of Pai Kantanka in the Oti Region and fired into a gathering of elders Saturday morning. Three are in critical condition at the Worawora Government Hospital, where they were rushed to. Police have so far retrieved a locally made rifle from the scene, 3news.com has been informed. A journalist who was at the hospital said a suspect is also on admission after he was hit by a stray bullet. The attack is said to have been launched by rivals of Nana Diawuo Bediako II,…

New Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho won his first game in charge after leading the North Londoners to a 3-2 win at West Ham United. It was a match to savour for Spurs fans as the controversial Portuguese manager was named as replacement to Mauricio Pochettino on Wednesday. The former Chelsea and Manchester United boss, who has also coached Real Madrid and Inter Milan, signed a contract to keep him at Tottenham Hotspur till the 2022/23 season. Before taking over, the team had not won in their last five games in the English Premier League. But Mourinho pulled the needed…

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company, Alhaji Hanan Abdul-Wahab, says the hike in rice production is as a result of the success of government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme. He said with the introduction of the flagship programme in the agriculture sector in 2017, government expected yields to increase across board. Squarely, he says, government has put in place measures to find market and use for the increased yields. The NAFCO CEO was speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues in the wake of complaints by some rice farmers in Fumbisi in the Upper East…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has been hailed by NDC MP for Tamale North Alhassan Suhuyini as ‘Infrastructure King’. According to the lawmaker, Mr Mahama’s unprecedented record in the area of infrastructure puts him in a pole position of returning to power in 2020. “We have the infrastructure king coming back,” Alhassan Suhuyini said on TV3’s New Day on Friday, November 22. “His record is unprecedented.” He pointed out that the current government has proven that talk is cheap as no record of any physical structure is in its name. He challenged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to name any…

Newscaster Nana Akua Mensah-Aborampah has been honoured at this year’s Discover mentorship series. The Business News presenter on News 360 was handed a citation after she made a presentation on ‘Branding’. The series under the auspices of Annette Diaries is held annually to groom students of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA) to know more about their talents and potentials. It started in 2018 on the theme: ‘Identifying Talents and Making Efficient Use of Them’. This year’s was held on the theme: ‘What I Must Know: The Journey Ahead’. Mrs Mensah-Aborampah told the students to cultivate positive brands as…

Gold-mining company Golden Star Resources Limited in a show of proof of its commitment to engender trust and maintain a good working relationship with its host communities has signed a memorandum of understanding with all 12 communities nestling around its Wassa Mine in the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area of the Western Region. Since the commencement of its operations in 2005, the gold-mining company has been engaging community leaders and members on employment and development programs. Though the company has been honouring its commitment in giving employment and awarding contracts to community members, the absence of a formal framework to guide…