Author: Krobea

Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe will be buried in the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare, his family says, following a row with the government over his final resting site. Family spokesman and nephew Leo Mugabe says the date is yet to be determined. Before that there will be a public ceremony at the state cemetery in Harare on Sunday, followed by a ceremony at Mr Mugabe’s home village. Mr Mugabe, who was 95, died last week while being treated in Singapore. His body is now lying in state at the Rufaro football stadium in the capital. What did Mugabe’s…

The Chief of Gomoa Buduburam in the Central Region has hailed the joint police-military swoop at Buduburam, near Kasoa, in which some 141 people were arrested. Nana Kojo Essel I is urging the joint police-military not to end such exercise but make it routine to rid the area of criminals. “The president showed he is the father of the country. We appreciate the police and military operations and it should not be a one day wonder.” The joint police-military swoop was conducted on Thursday, September 12, 2019. The suspects, which include 15 females, are currently undergoing screening at the Police…

2019 VGMA Artiste of the Decade Sarkodie will gun for the Best International Flow Award at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards next month  following his nomination on Thursday. The category has just been introduced with Sarkodie becoming the first Ghanaian artiste to be nominated. It will also highlight artistes from different countries such as Nigeria, UK, France, South Africa and Canada. The Awards return to Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Centre on October 5, 2019 after two years in Miami. Ghana’s Sarkodie will battle Falz (Nigeria), Ghetts (UK), Kalash (France), Lil Simz (UK), Nasty C (South Africa) and Tory Lanez (Canada)…

The Bangyili gate of Bimbilla has pledged commitment to ensuring that the Togbe Sri mediation process in the Bimbilla chieftaincy succession dispute achieves the needed results. The family says Bimbilla has been lagging behind in development for years due to the insecurity in the area. Addressing a press conference in Bimbilla, the spokesperson for the Bangyili gate, Gbei Naa Amadu Mustapha Zakari maintained that the gate will cooperate in any form for peace to be restored in Bimbilla. He indicated that they do not understand why  President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is being…

Barely a month into the 2019/2020 English Premier League season, Jordan Ayew has been voted as Crystal Palace’s Player of the Month for August. The 28-year-old has two goals from his three appearances in the League so far, scoring the winner in the Eagles’ last league outing against Aston Villa, as well as bagging the crucial opener for the club’s historic victory against Manchester United at Old Trafford. He won the award with an 84% majority from more than 1,000 fans who voted on the club’s official app. The Ghanaian forward was a hugely important figure in helping push Palace…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has hinted at standing for presidency again in the 2020 elections. He has therefore reiterated the independence of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) in conducting “free and open” polls to allow electorates make a credible choice. “I said it to you and I repeat,” he told Chair of the Commission Jean Adukwei Mensa, “I don’t need an Electoral Commission to win an election.” “I don’t want to win an election in Ghana because of the Electoral Commission. I want to win an election in Ghana because of the people of Ghana, that they make a…

A schoolgirl in Kenya has taken her own life after allegedly being shamed in class for having her period and staining her uniform. The 14-year-old’s mother said her daughter hanged herself after being humiliated by a teacher, Kenyan media reported. Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 200 parents protesting outside the school, reports said. Kenya passed a law in 2017 to provide free sanitary towels for schoolgirls. However, a parliamentary committee is currently investigating why the programme is yet to be rolled out across all schools. The girl’s mother said a teacher had called her “dirty”…

An Accra-Nsawam passenger train on test run has derailed. The train derailed at Chinto, just a few meters away from Nsawam, our reporter said. After evacuating the passengers, Evelyn Tengmaa reported, engineers managed to decouple four coaches to ease the train to its destination. Operations of the train were suspended in October, 2018 for works on the railway following a derailment which left several passengers injured. The Ghana Railway Company on Thursday embarked on a sensitisation test run from Accra to Nsawam. The 40-kilometer journey started from Tema at 6:15am and made a pit stop at Accra at 7:30am. The…

Eighteen aspirants have been disqualified by the National Parliamentary Appeals Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the party’s parliamentary primaries in orphan constituencies. Two aspirants have also had their nominations referred to the National Executive Committee (NEC) for a substantive decision. The rest out of a total of 292 aspirants have consequently been cleared to contest the primaries. These were disclosed by the Appeals Committee on Wednesday, when it submitted its report to the General Secretary, John Boadu. The General Secretary on Wednesday, August 21 inaugurated a nine-member Appeals Committee chaired by former National Chairman Peter Mac…

The immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria, Professor Attahiru Jega, has been invited by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) for a three-day visit. He will be in Accra on Thursday, September 12 and leave on Saturday, September 14. After his appointment in July, 2010, Professor Jega oversaw two general elections in Nigeria. He oversaw the election of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 2011 and his defeat by General Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. He has been invited by the EC “as part of efforts to broaden its scope, knowledge and learn best practices on the electoral…