Author: Krobea

A banker implicated in the embezzlement and money-laundering case against Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been found dead in Lisbon. Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45, managed the account of oil firm Sonangol, formerly chaired by Ms Dos Santos, at the small Portuguese lender EuroBic. His death, on Wednesday, was reported on Thursday soon after Angolan prosecutors named both as suspects. Ms Dos Santos denies alleged corruption revealed by leaked documents. Mr Da Cunha was found dead at one of his properties in Lisbon. A police source told Portuguese media that “everything points to suicide”. Local media quoted police…

No government in its first term under the Fourth Republic can match the economic record of the Nana Akufo-Addo administration, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has averred. “For virtually every economic measure, from inflation, to interest rates, exchange rate depreciation, rate of increase of utility prices, social interventions, like free SHS, job creation, infrastructure et cetera, the data shows clearly that no government has achieved as much as the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and I challenge anyone to provide any facts to dispute it,” the Vice President declared on Thursday January 23. Vice President Bawumia, who was…

The Western Region Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) impounded 150 uncustomed vehicles in 2019. The owners failed to provide the necessary documentations for their vehicles when the cars were confiscated by the Division’s taskforce. Speaking to 3news.com on the sidelines of an end-of-year programme in Takoradi, Head of the Takoradi Customs Division Assistant Commissioner Francis Tanlongo said the impounded vehicles came through the land frontiers of the country. “No vehicle can come through the port and be smuggled. We have very stringent methods by which vehicles are cleared. What we have realized is that a vehicle may…

ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo who is standing trial over an alleged coup plot is still in police custody despite being granted bail by an Accra High Court on Tuesday. ACP Agordzo was granted a self-recognisance bail in the sum of GH¢500,000 and is expected to report to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) or his representative twice every week for the next three months and once a week afterwards. His passport has also been seized, 3news.com gathers. But speaking on TV3’s News 360 on Wednesday, January 22, a brother to ACP Dr Agordzo, Cephas, says the senior police officer is…

Entertainment critic Ola Michael is advocating for the CEO of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) to be the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture. He believes strongly that Akwasi Agyemang can do a better job than Barbara Oteng Gyasi, who is the current sector minister. Ola Michael explained in an interview on Showbiz 927 on 3FM with MzGee that the current Minister is simply not fit to be at the Ministry. Ola, who is also a movie producer, stressed that Barbara Oteng Gyasi is a “total misfit” because she does not know anything about the sector she is handling. The entertainment…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for the Essikadu-Ketan Constituency in the Western Region, Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has observed that the constituency is currently in what she describes as Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and will need sheer tactfulness alas it dies. She claims Essikadu-Ketan has for the past 16 years been stifled of much-needed development and as a result has been left for dead. “For the past sixteen years, Essikadu-Ketan has been voting one way. I’m asking, what is there to show for all these long years,” she wondered when she met members of the Western Region Press Corps…

Ghana’s Black Stars have been drawn in Group G in the second round of qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar. At the draw held in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday, Ghana were drawn with South Africa, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Ghana and South Africa will have to make the required strategies count as the two African football giants are already locked in the same group in qualifiers for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. The battle for a place in the play-offs of the World Cup qualifiers will come foremost in any strategies to be plotted…

Four persons believed to be from the same family have been trapped to death in a galamsey pit at Salema near Ainyinase in the Ellembele District of the Western Region. An eye witness tells Connect FM’s OMANBAPA morning show host Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson that the incident happened late Monday, around 4pm. The pit in which they were mining is said to have caved in. The victims, 2 males and 2 females, are between the ages 30 and 34, reports say. The bodies have since been deposited at the Axim Government Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

British boxer Anthony Joshua has been pictured prostrating before Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in London. Joshua, who is of Nigerian descent, also told the gathering he would “stand up for Nigeria” whenever it was needed. The pictures have had a mixed response on social media, with critics of Mr Buhari angry that Joshua didn’t raise the challenges faced by Nigerian youth. Joshua said in an Instagram story: “It’s not about politics. It’s about culture and respect for our elders.” Others, however, have praised Joshua for embracing his Nigerian roots, and for prostrating before Mr Buhari – a traditional show of…

There appears to be bad blood between former President Jerry John Rawlings and authorities of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) over the dismissal of some senior staff of the school, including a former Vice Chancellor Professor Mawutor Avoke. The University had been incensed by comments made by Mr Rawlings when he commemorated the 31st December Revolution anniversary in Winneba last year. According to the University, the former president had made his comments from an “ill-informed” position. “Indeed, the ex-President, in similar remarks a couple of months ago, waded into the issue from same ill-informed position and we, through our…