Author: Krobea

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development and the Fisheries Commission with support from the United States Government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), organized a three-day conference, from August 19-21, 2019, in Accra to highlight and discuss successes, lessons learned, opportunities, and challenges in the fisheries sector in Ghana. The conference, entitled ‘Fisheries and Coastal Management in Contemporary Times’, was designed to strengthen policy linkages and create a platform for fostering discussion among policymakers, resource managers, fishermen and fishmongers, researchers, journalists, and think-tanks in connection with the sustainability and productivity of the fisheries sector in Ghana. Minister…

Residents of Elmina are up in arms against the government for revoking the license of GN Savings and Loans. They claim President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is scheming to render the Chairman and President of Groupe Nduom, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, poor. The residents say they consider Dr Nduom their father, son, helper, caretaker of the jobless and father of orphans in the coumminity and would not sit for his business to be collapsed. According to them, Dr Nduom even has a business in Kyebi, the hometown of the president, and so revoking the license of his group will affect…

Major stakeholders in Ghana football are due to gather for an Extraordinary Congress in two weeks but even before then the stage has been set for one last confrontation over the statutes that the Normalisation Committee has designed for elections and future running of the sport in Ghana. The proposals put forward as the future statutes by the Normalisation Committee of Ghana football will change a few things but in a significant way. They include the structure of the football association, the criteria for the election of its head, the substitution of the constitution of Congress, amongst others. For instance,…

The Ashanti Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has declared a 38-year-old man wanted over the killing of the Asamponhene of the Asante Kingdom, Nana Oheneba Kwadjo Afodour. Police say the man, full name Saddat Mohammed and popularly known as Alhaji, was spotted on Sunday, August 18 with the deceased shortly before he was killed. The Asamponhene was found dead in the back seat of his car at Ebuom on the Ejura-Nkoranza highway. He had been stabbed multiple times. Asantehene’s Asamponhene ‘stabbed to death’ The police said three persons have so far been arrested as part of investigations.…

Beneficiaries of the AKER Energy-GNPC Scholars Program will be increased from 150 to 200 students for the 2019/20 academic year. The increase is to expand the scope of the scholarship programme to cover more brilliant but needy students in the six coastal districts of the Western Region. The AKER Energy-GNPC Scholars Program was instituted in 2012 to provide scholarship to students whose attainment of secondary school education had become a challenge due to the inability of their parents or guardians to provide funds. Since its inception, the Scholars Program has supported close to 700 students in the six coastal districts…

Since the shutdown of Menzgold Ghana Limited up till now, 23 customers have given up the ghost. “Most of them are also bedridden,” a customer has disclosed. He, therefore, called on the Chief Executive Officer of the defunct gold dealership firm to take frantic efforts to settle the remaining customers before the worst happens. The customer spoke during an event that saw Menzgold boss Nana Appiah Mensah unravel to journalists steps he has taken to settle his debts. “Customers’ expectation is just to get their monies,” the customer told NAM1, as the CEO is affectionately called. Customers have staged a…

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has intensified its campaign to improve the standard of household and public places of convenience in the metropolis through its bye-laws.  Speaking on 3FM’s Community Connect with Johnnie Hughes, the head of Public Health Department of AMA, Florence Kuukyi, said the Assembly was going to insist on acceptable sanitation standards with the public places of convenience in the metropolis. According to her, there were sanitation standards attached to every public toilet facility: hand washing basin, clean seat, hygienic floors and sanitation papers instead of newspaper. She continued, “Your floor must be a floor that can…

Paul Pogba had a second-half penalty saved as Manchester United were held to a Premier League draw at Wolves. With the scoreline 1-1, the Frenchman won a spot-kick when he was fouled by Conor Coady but then saw his resulting effort brilliantly saved by Rui Patricio in the 68th minute. United’s Anthony Martial swept in the opener in the 27th minute after good work from team-mate Marcus Rashford. Ruben Neves equalised after the break with a stunning strike from 20 yards. Source: BBC

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its 2020 flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, have dismissed reports making rounds that a Vice Presidential Candidate has been selected. On Monday, August 19, 3news.com received a hint that Dr Kwesi Botchwey will be named the running mate of Mr Mahama for the 2020 presidential elections. Even January 7, 2020, our sources tabled, was selected as date for the announcement. Mahama picks Dr Kwesi Botchwey as running mate? But a quick cross-check with the NDC saw the party dissociate from the reports. National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi said a running mate for Mr Mahama can…

A 22-year-old apprentice, who was abducted by some unknown assailants at Inchaban in the Western Region and later dumped in Accra, has been reunited with her family. The victim, Edem Amevor, tells CONNECT FM’s OMANBAPA morning show host Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, she had closed from work on Thursday, August 15 around 6:30pm. According to her, she had gone to hand over the keys to her shop to her madam in her house off the Dwomo road, a few meters from the shop, when she was suddenly attacked. “I was on my way home from my madam’s house when suddenly…