Author: Krobea

Media General on Sunday marked the 2019 Mothers’ Day with lots of fun for selected mothers. Mothers of viewers and listeners, who sent in special messages were given a nice treat at the premises of the station in Kanda. Musicians like Tagoe Sisters were present to treat the audience to good music. Most of them received goodies from sponsors. This special Mothers Day programe was dubbed ‘Mommies Connect’. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

The Chief Driver of Takoradi Flour Mills has committed suicide by hanging at his residence at Effiakuma in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis. The deceased, John Kofi Adams, 55, is believed to have committed the act around 2:00am on Sunday, May 12 at the gate of the compound house where he lived with his family. Kofi Prah, who is the landlord, tells host of Connect FM’s OMANBAPA morning show, Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, it was a lady tenant who woke up at dawn to sweep and bumped into the lifeless body of Mr Adams and raised an alarm. According to the landlord,…

The Ghana Report can now confirm that the notorious forty three year old Chinese national Helena Huang who was arrested by police in the Northern Region with four containers of Rosewood timber has jumped bail and escaped under suspicious circumstances into neighbouring Togo. Questions are being asked by well-meaning Ghanaians on how the lady who was considered very influential and cunning could slip through Ghana’s borders without being noticed by the security services. Close sources to the Northern Regional Police Command disclosed to The Ghana Report that hopes of tracking down Helena Huang is fading after an influential individual stood surety for…

Despite amassing 97 points, Liverpool FC missed the 2018/2019 English Premier League title. The title was won on the final day on Sunday, May 12 by Manchester City, who shrugged off an earlier scare from Brighton & Hove Albion. The Citizens beat the Seagulls 4-1 at their home to win the title. It is their second in two years as they successfully defend the trophy. Liverpool gave them a run for their money until the final day as they trailed by only one point. The Reds beat Wolves by two Sadio Mane goals to finish the campaign with 97 points.…

Gunmen have burned down a church during mass and killed six people, including a priest, in Burkina Faso, officials say. The morning attack happened in the northern town of Dablo, security sources and local official said. “Armed individuals burst into the Catholic church…They started firing as the congregation tried to flee,” the mayor of Dablo, Ousmane Zongo, told news agency AFP. It is the third attack on churches in Burkina Faso in the past five weeks. A priest was among those killed in the attack which happened at 09.00 local time [10:00 GMT), Mayor Zongo said. The militants also set…

The Zongo Chief of Kpedze in the Volta Region, Alhaji Iddrisu Eliasu, has praised President Nana Akufo-Addo and his government for the far-reaching policies that address the basic living needs of the ordinary Ghanaian. Alhaji Iddrisu Eliasu has indicated that he is pleased with the manner in which the government is trying to lessen the burdens of the Zongo people by not just giving them perishables like rice and sugar but rather implementing policies that guarantee them sustainable livelihood. “Your Excellency, as you are here we are very happy that you have joined us. We have always needed somebody to…

Men ought to love women and women, men. It is just natural for a man to have a thing for another woman. Indeed, God made man for a woman just as like a jigsaw, He made the woman to fit into the life of a man. As boys grow into young men and then into old men, one pledge they must make to themselves is to owe allegiance to one woman… as much as it may seem impossible. Even though it may seem one woman is not satisfactory enough, every man must know that staying away from the entanglement of…

A mentally challenged patient has stoned her 52-year-old husband to death at Koforidua Aboabo in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region. Police reports say about 5pm on Thursday a report was made to their outfit. On reaching the scene, they gathered that Rebecca Lamptey, 45, used a flat grinding stone to hit the head of her husband severally, harming him to death. The deceased was found lying in a prone position in a pool of blood injured on the head with a completely deformed face. The suspect has been arrested to aid investigations by the Eastern Regional Police…

South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has been returned to office after winning parliamentary election, but with a reduced majority. The ANC secured 58% of the vote, ahead of the Democratic Alliance (DA) on 21%. The radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), came third with 11%. A struggling economy and corruption have eroded the ANC’s popularity. ANC leader, President Cyril Ramaphosa, called on the people to build a united South Africa. In his victory speech, he said the result showed that South Africans still had faith in the ANC – in power since 1994 – to deliver. “Let us now work…

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has denied flatly a publication that its National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, ignored the party’s advice to meet with the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service. “This publication is totally false and that Hon. Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo has not dishonoured his own party by meeting with the CID, nor does he intend to do so,” a statement issued by Director of Communications Kakra Essamuah said. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo was invited by the CID on Wednesday for investigations as his name is said to have come up during investigations by the police forensic wing into recent cases…