Author: Krobea

Fifty students from Ghana were among 1,600 students from Asia, Africa, and South America to successfully complete the annual AgroStudies project in Israel on Monday, September 2. The AgroStudies training is a joint project organized by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture. In Ghana, the project is a collaboration between the Embassy of Israel, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and AgroStudies of Israel. The students spent about 12 months in Israel during which they received training from various agronomists and agricultural instructors. They were trained in fields such as irrigation, aqua culture, fruits and vegetables with…

Two-time Olympic 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya has joined a South African women’s football team. The 28-year-old is unable to compete without taking testosterone-reducing drugs following a rule change by the IAAF, athletics’ governing body. It means she cannot defend her 800m World Championship title in Doha this month – though she is fighting the rule change through the courts. She is now training with Gauteng-based women’s football club JVW. The three-time world champion, who announced in July that she would not be defending her 800m world title, cannot starting playing for JVW until the 2020 season, having joined outside…

Karpowership Ghana Company Limited has resumed operations after a successful commissioning in Takoradi in the Western Region. The power ship went off on Thursday, August 17 to be relocated from Tema in the nation’s capital. The relocation of the 470MW plant was in line with government’s strategic policy for  Natural Gas from the western enclave to be utilized. Karpowership said in a statement prior to the relocation that the move was aimed at saving the government millions of dollars annually. Karpowership off; relocates to Sekondi On Friday, September 6, Karpowership Ghana announced that the commissioning is complete. “The 470MW power…

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, has died at the age of 95. He died after battling ill health, his family confirmed to the BBC. Mr Mugabe was ousted from power in a military coup in November 2017, ending his three-decade reign. Zimbabwe’s education secretary Fadzayi Mahere tweeted: “Rest In Peace, Robert Mugabe.” He was born on 21 February 1924, in what was then Rhodesia. He was imprisoned for more than a decade without trial after criticising the government of Rhodesia in 1964. In 1973, while still in prison, he was chosen as president of the Zimbabwe African National Union…

A third year student of the University of Ghana Medical School has reportedly committed suicide. Joseph Opuni is said to have taken his life after failing his courses and therefore billed for repeat. He seemed to have made an effort to study harder, nonetheless. https://twitter.com/joseph_opuni/status/1123981470870249475?s=20 Though the cause of death is yet to be verified, Master Opuni nicknamed Mobb Deep, is said to have contemplated suicide based on his posts on social media. https://twitter.com/joseph_opuni/status/1114896810877816834?s=20 https://twitter.com/joseph_opuni/status/1116318207529377794?s=20 https://twitter.com/joseph_opuni/status/1142547649909968904?s=20 Source: 3news.com|Ghana

The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has taken on the Office of Special Prosecutor in what it describes as an attempt to discredit it in an oil misappropriation case. In a letter to the CID, the Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Amidu, accused the Directorate of failing to supply it with a 2011 docket on a probe into the misappropriation of a $15 million oil deal. The CID, however, says the dockets on the case have gone missing for the past eight years. Director DCOP Nana Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah says that dockets are not in the records…

A 20-year-old architectural engineering student of the Central University, David Gifat Ampiaw, has emerged the topmost winner of the maiden IFC Students Architectural Design Competition organized by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Olufemi Abodunrin and Cheryl Omani-Baah of the same institution emerged second and third place winners respectively. For their prizes, each of them was presented with a ticket for an all-expense-paid trip to Cape Town South Africa for the Green Building Conference, an opportunity to receive a Free Edge Expert Training as well as write Free Edge ideas, among others goodies. All participants in the maiden competition – 20…

The Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Limited has been exonerated following a 30-day investigation by government. The concession agreement between PDS and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) was suspended on Tuesday, July 30 by government due to “fundamental and material breaches”. According to government, PDS failed to provide demand guarantees for such an agreement. A full-scale investigation was, therefore, launched into the deal with ECG returning to operations. A delegation was dispatched to Qatar and the United States as part of investigations into the deal. Already, calls were rife for the contract to be abrogated. The Minority, for instance,…

Ghana and Hellas Verona midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang Badu insists that suffering from a blood clot on his lungs will make him ‘psychologically stronger.’ The 28-year-old admits that he was left worried after the initial diagnosis of a pulmonary embolism after he was rushed to hospital by his club suffering from a sudden bout of dizziness. He is yet to return to even light training since being hospitalised on 14 August, he is still undergoing tests and awaits the all-clear to start working in the gym. “I have never heard of such illness in my life so I was shaking after…

The anxiety and trepidation among authorities of the Atwereboanda M/A Junior High School in the Prestea Huni Valley Municipality of the Western Region over closing school anytime the clouds thicken will be no more. A licensed Cocoa Buying Company, the Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCo) in partnership with Walter Matter and Valrhona SA, have constructed a six-unit classroom block with toilet facilities for the school. Until the construction, authorities of the Atwereboanda M/A Junior High School were forced to close school anytime there is the slightest indication that it will rain. The school was housed in a three-unit mud structure with…