Author: Krobea

The Ghana Police Service says it will continue to operate its emergency numbers despite the new unified emergency number announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The president on Tuesday, January 28 announced 112 as the new number for emergency services for the police, fire service and the ambulance service. “In the past, the [Ghana] Police Service, the [Ghana National] Fire Service and the National Ambulance Service all had different emergency numbers,” President Akufo-Addo told a gathering at the Black Star Square. “I’m happy to announce that thankfully, we’ve merged all the emergency numbers to one number which is 112.”…

Top seed Rafael Nadal was denied a place in the Australian Open semi-finals as Austria’s Dominic Thiem rattled the Spaniard with a powerful display to win a four-set thriller. Fifth seed Thiem won 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 7-6 (8-6) at Melbourne Park. The 26-year-old, beaten by Nadal in the past two French Open finals, missed two match points before taking a third to win in four hours and 10 minutes. He will now face Germany’s Alexander Zverev in Friday’s last-four match. It will be a first semi-final in Melbourne for both men and the winner will face either Serbia’s…

A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, Francis Addai Nimoh, is accusing constituency executives of his party in Mampong, the Ashanti Region, of deliberately scheming to prevent him from picking nomination forms and contesting the April 25 parliamentary primaries. He has, consequently, written to the Ashanti Region Chairman of the party appealing for his intervention. In his appeal letter dated Tuesday, January 28, 2020, Mr Addai Nimoh said on Saturday when he made contact with the constituency chairman, Luther Asare, to buy his forms, he was told all three sets of forms received on behalf of Mampong Constituency had…

The Director General of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Professor Amin Alhassan, has suggested the setting up of a national broadcasters’ association to deal with emerging policies confronting broadcasters. “What affects private television stations affects GBC too and we must come together.” Speaking during a courtesy call on management of Media General, Prof. Alhassan expressed uncertainty about the future of digital television and called for unity. The meeting afforded management of the two TV stations to discuss the future of broadcasting and deliberate on outstanding issues. It also afforded the new Director General of the national broadcaster an opportunity to introduce…

The two major water bodies in the Western Region, River Ankobra and River Pra, which until recently had regained their natural ecology as a result of the vigorous work of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), have now become turbid again. The rivers, until the work of the IMCIM, were heavily polluted as a result of the activities of illegal small-scale mining – no wonder we were concerned if not rightfully alarmed. In April last year, these rivers regained their natural outlook… and boy oh boy, what a relief it was for the local folks. No wonder, fishermen and…

It was dramatic on Wednesday at the Accra High Court where the trial of the National Chairman of the opposition NDC, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, and Deputy Communication Officer Kweku Boahen is being heard. A broadcast journalist with Adom FM, Benjamin Osei Ampofo Adjei, denied his own witness statement despite acknowledging his signature to it when he appeared to testify against the two accused. Prosecution then decided to tender in the statement but the defense counsel objected, indicating that the rules say both parties had to agree before it is tendered in. After some back and forth, the court adopted the…

The Inter-Party Resistance Against New Voter Register (IPRAN has petitioned former President Jerry John Rawlings to seek his counsel in its quest to stop the Electoral Commission from compiling a new register ahead of the 2020 elections. A delegation of the coalition, led by People’s National Convention (PNC) National Chairman Bernard Mornah, who met the former President at his office on Tuesday, said the Electoral Commission’s “refusal to listen to wise counsel particularly from persons who have participated in the electoral process for a very long time has led to very painful but wrong decisions”. The coalition said while the…

Socialite Rosemond Brown says she is happy to have secured for herself a new car. She said most of the celebrities who have been in the limelight for long cannot boast of their own cars but rather hire the services of Uber and taxi drivers. Asked if she got the car in exchange for sex, Akuapem Poloo, who refers to herself as a drama queen, answered in the negative. She told TV3’s Johnnie Hughes on New Day on Wednesday, January 29 that she got the car through twerking, acting as well as serving as brand ambassadors for some products. “I…

Details are emerging that fire officers initially called in to put out Tuesday night’s fire at Accra Academy went there with empty water canons. It took a second tanker to bring the inferno under control. A total of three tankers were spotted at the school. It is unclear what the cause of the fire was but it comes almost a fortnight after another fire gutted Alema and Halm Addo halls. Fire destroys two halls of residence at Accra Academy News of the outbreak got to old boys as well as parents, who trooped to the school to get their wards…

On the heels of the tenth anniversary of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the private-sector-led philanthropy focused on empowering African entrepreneurs has enhanced its flagship Entrepreneurship Programme to empower more entrepreneurs across the continent. These enhancements, which took effect from January 1, 2020—the launch of the 6th cycle of the Programme—will achieve the Foundation’s mandate to transform the African continent through entrepreneurship. Most prominent among the enhancements are the new dates in the Programme cycle, its emphasis on providing thousands of entrepreneurs with business training, and its focus on leveraging technology to optimise the application and selection process as well…