Author: Krobea

Will anyone fight for an award if it weren’t worth the fight? This year’s VGMA awards have clearly revealed the value and prestige associated with it. Have you wondered how such a prestigious award comes to life? Well, it definitely begins from the ‘blackboard”. May I introduce the creative mind behind this year’s masterpiece. The 2019 VGMA award was designed by Nobert Fosu, a Communication Design graduate student from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He completed in 2009-2013. He’s the current CEO of Visual Dummy GH, a firm that deals in video editing, animation and directing…

Gregory Afoko, who is standing trial for the 2015 murder of New Patriotic Party’s then Upper East Region Chairman Adams Mahama, has written to Amnesty International to save him from human right abuses. According to the letter written by Robert Atong Asekabta on behalf of the Ayieta Family to which Afoko belongs, the life of the accused is in danger and, therefore, they need the international human rights organisation’s support. “We believe even condemned prisoners have some rights. “Gregory [Afoko] has not been convicted of any crime, he has only been charged with committing a crime which has not been…

President of the National Union of Ghana Students Tinkaro Asare Osei has been appointed by the Commonwealth Students’ Association to be the representative of the Commonwealth Association in Ghana. The Commonwealth Students Association (CSA) unifies and embodies the needs and aspirations of national student councils and other student organisations in the Commonwealth. It was launched in 2012 at the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (18CCEM) in Mauritius, where student leaders gathered to make recommendations on the current issues in education and strengthen their role in the Commonwealth’s education sector. The main aims of the CSA are “to promote unity…

An agreement has been reached by authorities in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region, directing residents to allow staff of Power Distribution Services (PDS) access to homes to “pick current readings from their metres to generate actual bills for them”. This follows an emergency meeting held on Friday after days of clashes between residents and staff of PDS over electricity bills. The clashes, which saw the intervention of the police, have led to the loss of one life. The emergency meeting had in the attendance the Member of Parliament of Lower Manya Krobo Constituency, Ebenezer Tei Larbi,…

About 200 Muslim households in the Tema Manhean community have benefited from the generous donations of Karpowership Ghana Company Limited towards their ongoing annual Ramadan fast. The donation included bags of rice, oil and beverages. Presenting the items on behalf of Karpowership Ghana, the Corporate Communications Specialist of the Company, Sandra Amarquaye, said the annual donation was part Karpowership’s way of supporting and giving back to the community in which it operates. “At Karpowership our ‘One World Philosophy’ drives our operations,” she said. “We believe we live in one world therefore impacting lives wherever we operate is one of our…

From May 8 – 17, 2019, the Ghana Education Service and the American people, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Learning Project, distributed over 400,000 reading and teaching materials to 7,273 public primary schools in 100 districts in Ghana.  Through this project, USAID partners with the Ministry of Education and its agencies to improve primary school students’ reading and to foster a culture of reading in primary schools. USAID has supported the production and distribution of over 2.6 million early grade reading materials since 2017. The materials reinforce student and teacher skills and enrich the public primary…

The Foundation of Orthopedic and Complex Spine (FOCOS) on Saturday, May 18, 2019, celebrated its Third Annual Fundraising Dinner held at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel. Themed ‘Let’s make a difference together’, the event so far is the Foundation’s most successful fundraising event in Ghana and brought together over 300 guests from all over the world. The third annual event went off with a “big bang”, as organizers achieved their goal of raising GH¢1 million at the event. Founder and President of FOCOS Prof.  Oheneba Boachie-Adjei in his message recounted the difference FOCOS has made in the lives of over…

On Thursday, May 23, 2019, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, in the Sala Clementina of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, received new Ambassadors to the Holy See from Thailand, Norway, New Zealand, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Luxembourg, Mozambique and Ethiopia on the occasion of the presentation of their credentials. The Holy Father respectfully asked the ambassadors to convey to their respective heads of state his sentiments of esteem, and to assure them of his prayers for them and for the people that they serve. “Taking this opportunity, at the start of your new mission, to acknowledge the variety of positive…

Preamble Since 2013, the UN set 23rd May to be observed as the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula (IDEOF). This promotes global actions to prevent and end obstetric fistula. A condition that affects only women and girls in underdeveloped regions of the world. Each year, the global effort is galvanized around a theme. This year, “fistula is a human rights violation, end it now” is the theme chosen. What is Obstetric Fistula (OF)? Obstetric fistula is an abnormal hole between the birth canal and the bladder (in front). Or between the birth canal and the rectum (behind). Or both.…

The Ministry of Communications has called on teachers, parents and the general public to encourage girls to take interest in the study of science subjects and consider careers in ICT even as Ghana gets ready to mark the National Girls in ICT DAY on Monday, May 27, 2019 as a member state of the International Telecommunication Union. A statement issued by the Public Relations Unit of the Ministry states that the celebration which is under the theme, ‘Expanding Horizon and Changing Attitudes’ is part of fulfilling its mandate to promote access to ICT among girls and teachers in Ghana. The…