Author: Krobea

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has revised the disbursement plan of incentive packages for staff of senior high and technical schools. According to a release on Thursday, May 2, both teaching and non-teaching staff will benefit from the package. While 80 per cent goes to teaching staff, 20 per cent will go to non-teaching staff in each secondary school. While 60 per cent of the allocation for teaching staff will serve as base rate, the rest will be based equally on rank and approved total instructional hours per week. For non-teaching staff, half of the 20 per cent will serve…

The United States Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, attended the premiere of Season 5 of the megahit Ghanaian TV series, ‘You Only Live Once’ (YOLO) at the Silverbird Cinemas in West Hills Mall on May 1.  Ambassador Sullivan joined representatives from the Ministry for Water Resources and Sanitation, the Ghana Health Service, and the National Population Council to mark this milestone. Since 2016, the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has worked with the Ghana Health Service and the National Population Council and provided financial support to produce the YOLO series. This series is a…

Veteran broadcaster Henrietta Twum, known popularly as Maame Afia Konadu, has passed on. She died in the United States of America on Wednesday, May 1 while receiving treatment for a short ailment. Maame Afia Konadu retired from a long service at Peace FM in 2015. She had hosted award-winning programmes such as ‘Wo haw ne sɛn?’, ‘Mpom Te Sɛn’ and ‘Asomdwee NkomƆ’. She, however, started her professional life as a teacher before moving into broadcasting at Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). Peacefmonline.com reported on Thursday that owner Dr Osei Kwame Despite invited her to come and help in the running of…

Women entrepreneurs numbering 1000 have benefited from the National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Plan (NEIP). Funds were given out under the Presidential Empowerment for Women Entrepreneurs with Disability Programme, which is a scheme specially designed to support physically challenged women who have entrepreneurial initiatives and businesses. At a brief presentation ceremony at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, April 30, President Nana Akufo-Addo stated that the Presidential Empowerment Programme is not only a fulfillment of an NPP manifesto pledge to support women entrepreneurs and help improve the livelihoods of the disabled, but also to help realize Goals 5, 8, and 10 of…

Lionel Messi’s two second-half goals – including a stunning free-kick – earned Barcelona a handsome advantage and left Liverpool with an almighty task in their Champions League semi-final. The Reds were in the ascendancy despite going behind to Luis Suarez’s first-half strike – but they were then hit by a double sucker-punch from the Barcelona number 10. The Argentine forward’s first was instinctive, as he followed up Suarez’s shot that came off the bar, but the second was majestic as he found Alisson’s top-right corner from 25 yards out. That was his 600th goal for the Spanish giants. Liverpool came…

Porto goalkeeper Iker Casillas has been taken to hospital after suffering a heart attack at their training ground, the club has said. The 37-year-old is “stable” in hospital and remains under observation. Spain goalkeeper Casillas won three Champions League titles, and La Liga five times, at Real Madrid. He was also part of the national squad that won two successive European Championships, in 2008 and 2012, and the World Cup in 2010. A Porto statement read: “Casillas suffered an acute myocardial infarction during Wednesday morning training session held at the PortoGaia training centre in Olival. “The work session was promptly…

The Special Cup under the auspices of the Normalisation Committee overseeing the Ghana Football Association (GFA) began in earnest across the country as efforts at bringing back domestic football are doubled. On Sunday, 12 Ghana Premier League clubs took to the field in what is supposed to sustain them as the sport crawls back after the Anas exposé brought it to a grinding halt. At the Accra Sports Stadium, Kwadwo Obeng Jnr’s 48th minute strike was what separated Hearts of Oak from their steeled opponents Dreams FC. Abas Mohammed also achieved a similar feat for Asante Kotoko in their 1-0…

“The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it” What you’re seeing in the picture below isn’t huge eggs of some mysterious quails, neither are they the raw paintings of Leonardo Davinci. No! That is a raw photograph of uterine fibroids which were removed from the uterus of a lady in her early thirties three days ago. Right now, someone may be wondering, why this? I am a liberal Presbyterian, I pray to God often and I am also a believer of miracles. My life has been full of miracles and this is…

I think the very first word I heard from my dad as a child was ‘ you for look sharp’ yes, look sharp, be smart, shine your eyes. Accra we dey, life no be easy. Daddy of course seemed like a smart guy, yes he never lost an argument with mum and the days mum tried to stand her grounds, a slap was not far from her face. By class four, I knew school was not my   forte. I was the hen of the class always laying eggs, I had to look sharp. I had to stretch my neck…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings brought joy to Emmanuel Ofoe, a physically-challenged street beggar, on Friday when he donated an undisclosed sum to him to cater for his daughter’s graduation as a hairdresser. Emmanuel, who rides in a rickety custom-made wheelchair with a CD number plate at the Kawukudi junction in Kanda, slipped a note detailing his predicament to the former President in traffic earlier in the week. The note informed the former President of the challenge he had in supporting his daughter who had completed training as a hairdresser in Ada, to graduate. Excited after the donation at the…