Author: Krobea

The Black Meteors will be hoping to begin their campaign at the Cairo International Stadium with a flyer when they face their counterparts from Cameroon later tonight. This competition, set up in 2011 as the qualification ticket for the Olympics, is an eight-nation tournament Ghana has never played in. This is the first time the Black Meteors have qualified for the showpiece and are hoping it goes according to plan so they can end the country’s 15-year absence from the Olympic Games. “I have confidence in the team I have put out and I believe the boys can grab the…

The contagion effect of Ghana’s financial crises appears to have hit the operations of Credit Reference Bureau’s in the country. Checks by TV3 Business reveal the closedown of banks and other financial institutions have greatly impacted on the bottom-line of the three credit reference bureaus (CRBs) namely XDS Data, Dun and Brudstreet and Hudson Price Data Solution. The CRBs make their monies largely based on charges on subscription with unlimited usage. XDS Data, for instance, which had over 200 clients before the revocation of licenses now has just about 83 active client user base with the closure of some banks,…

A family of one of the dead Takoradi girls has met the police administration requesting the skeletal remains for interment. Both parents of Ruth Abekah say they are satisfied with police investigations and ready to bury the child, who they believe is dead. In August this year, a team from the Ghana Police Service in the company of a psychiatrist visited the family of Ruth Abekah, the fourth missing girl, to take samples for the DNA test. Subsequently, the police DNA and forensic report confirmed the death of the girls including Ruth Abekah. But families of three of the girls…

Newly elected GFA President Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku says defeated aspirant Amanda Akuokor Clinton has something to offer and she is likely to play a role in his administration. The British-trained lawyer did not get any votes, just like George Ankomah Mensah, in the October 25 elections that saw the Dreams FC owner elected head of the country’s football-governing body. She has since offered herself up to serve in any role by the new administration. Amanda Clinton wants GFA post; spent almost $5,000 on campaign And this offer appears to be coming her way as Kurt Okraku has promised to…

The Moroccan government supports local large-scale poultry farmers with 40 per cent of free capital investment to start their businesses. This forms part of the Moroccan Green Plan Project to empower farmers to permanently prevent importation of poultry products into the country and make that business competitive. This initiative Ghanaian poultry farmers on an educational tour in Casablanca and Rabat, the capital of Morocco, wants adopted. They made this known to TV3’s Josephine Antwi-Adjei during a tour to the Ben Cherki Farms at El Jadida, Casablanca. Ben Cherki Farms is the largest farm in Casablanca with over 18 branches spread…

The mayor of a small town in Bolivia has been attacked by opposition protesters who dragged her through the streets barefoot, covered her in red paint and forcibly cut her hair. Patricia Arce of the governing Mas party was handed over to police in Vinto after several hours. It is the latest in a series of violent clashes between government supporters and opponents in the wake of controversial presidential elections. At least three people have died so far. What happened? A group of anti-government protesters was blocking a bridge in Vinto, a small town in Cochabamba province in central Bolivia,…

The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat in partnership with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture is sponsoring 2018 National Best farmers in a week-long training tour to Casablanca, Morocco. The programme is aimed at enhancing the capacity of participating farmers and also engaging them to modern forms of farming as well as business opportunities and collaboration. The awardees are expected to engage in series of activities including visit farms and factories. In an interview, the National Coordinator at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Philip Osei Nkrumah, said the programme demonstrates government commitment to build the capacity of farmers. He stressed: “It…

Four persons were on Wednesday grabbed by authorities of the Ghana Highway Authority following a swift operation on the George W. Bush Highway. The four were illegally removing the median on the highway, popularly known as the N1 Highway. Upon arrest, they produced a letter purportedly granted by the Authority giving them permission to replace the median with new wires under a project in collaboration with Wire Weaving Industries Ghana Limited. The wire company is said to provide new coated wire mesh for the new median. But officials from the Authority at the scene said the letter was fake. The…