Author: Krobea

A man who donated his mother’s body to what he thought was Alzheimer’s research learned later it was used to test explosives. So what does happen when your body is donated to medical science? Last week new details of a lawsuit emerged against The Biological Resource Centre in Arizona following an FBI raid in 2014 in which gruesome remains of hundreds of discarded body parts were discovered. The now closed centre is accused of illegally selling body parts against the donors wishes. Newly-released court documents revealed that families of those whose bodies had been donated to the centre said they…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the second season of the Presidential Pitch initiative, an entrepreneurship competition for persons between the ages of 18 and 35 years. Presenting cash awards, ranging from GH¢25,000 to GH¢60,000 to the contestants, the President explained that these awards are grants, and not loans, and represent the continuing demonstration of Government’s commitment to providing seed capital for some of the nation’s enterprising youth to enable them run successful businesses. In his remarks at the event on Tuesday, August 6, President Akufo-Addo explained that the importance of the entrepreneurial mindset cannot be overemphasized. “Entrepreneurship is…

The Igbo community Ghana in partnership with the National Theatre is organising a West African Regional Festival Of Arts and Culture on the 14th and 15th of September 2019, at the National Theatre and Efua Sutherland Children’s Park respectively. The event is another edition of the previously held ‘New Yam’ Festival in October, 2011 due to its success that year. The Igbo ‘New Yam’ Festival is usually held between the months of August and October every year in Igboland, and the Igbos in the Diaspora also celebrate theirs in their respective countries of residence. Igbos or Ndigbo are about 60…

The Ministry of Education has debunked allegations that Social Studies has been scrapped from the basic school curriculum. The National Social Studies Association (NaSSA) in a press conference threatened to march to the seat of government over the issue. Social Studies teachers threaten to storm Jubilee House over scrapping of subject But speaking exclusively to 3news.com, the Public Relations Officer for the Ministry, Ekow Vincent Assafuah, stressed that Social Studies has not been scrapped. He said stakeholders engagement is still in progress towards the second phase of the curriculum. According to him, the new pre–tertiary curriculum review process is in two…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with funding from the European Union (EU) has trained 20 cluster development experts from relevant institutions responsible for trade industrialization, export, agribusiness, quality infrastructure, trade associations and standards on cluster development in Accra. The four-day training on UNIDO’s cluster development methodology is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 5, 8 and 9. It is part of the activities of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) implemented by UNIDO in partnership with the Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) to develop the technical capacity and capability of potential…

Some few days ago, I read with disgust an Oxfam article published on 28th July, 2019 on their website. Titled Buried Treasure- Aussie mining companies behaving badly in West Africa, the article only sought to bury the truth, smearing Perseus Mining (Ghana) Ltd. with untold lies and unfounded facts [Read article here; https://www.oxfam.org.au/2019/07/buried-treasure/]. I was awed by the depth of falsehood in the poorly-researched piece by no other brand but Oxfam. There is a plethora of concerns that Oxfam raises in the above piece. As a Ghanaian industry player, I can only conclude that they are either uninformed or just…

Investigators from the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday, August 6 discovered a fourth set of human remains at a location once occupied by Samuel Udutoek Willis, the prime suspect in the case involving the three missing Takoradi girls. The police went to the scene at Nkroful new site, a suburb of Takoradi, to retrieve the remains from a well. According to the police, the place is near an uncompleted building where the suspect was re-arrested when he broke jail. The police on Friday, August 2 followed a lead to retrieve three sets of human remains from a septic tank at…

The National Adolescent Health Ambassadors Camp 2019 has opened in Accra with a call on the ambassadors to participate fully and initiate intellectually stimulating discourse which would leave a lasting impression on adolescent health. This is the third edition of the Camp Over 600 participants from all the regions are taking part in the three-day event The programme among other things aims to afford the ambassadors the opportunity to pitch and compete for grants for their small-scale health promotion projects. The ambassadors would discuss health issues and address myths and misconceptions regarding adolescent health and most importantly look into the…

The Nigeria Black Stallions managed to beat the Ghana Eagles by 14 points to 12 in a nailbiting rendition of the first-ever Ghana-Nigeria Rugby Presidents’ Cup on Saturday 3 August 2019 at the Nduom Sports Stadium in Elmina-Ghana. In doing so Nigeria also managed to take the second spot in the first-ever WARS (West Africa Rugby Series) Ghana Men’s XVs Invitational that was won by the Ivorian Elephants. The tri-nations tournament that was hosted and partly sponsored by Ghana Rugby was made possible with contributions from Rugby Africa, Sunda International and GB Foods by way of their Gino Brands. In…

Money makes life easy. It solves a lot of headaches. Without good money, you can’t have good education. Money prolongs our life. Indeed, someone may have been alive today if they had had enough money to take care of themselves when they fell ill. Life without money can be Hell! Others say love makes the world go round but we all know that without money, love is only a noun. When some good money abounds, love becomes a vibrant verb. When they say one should marry for the sake of love, the question one should be asking is whether love…