Author: Krobea

Cuba has accepted to train 40 brilliant but needy medical students a year from Zongos, inner cities and other deprived communities in Ghana. This follows a proposal by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to the government of Cuba to extend the special arrangement between the two countries for the training of health personnel in deprived communities. Vice President Bawumia made the proposal when he held bilateral talks with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel as part of a two-day official visit to the Caribbean country. According to officials, the programme will begin next year. Gender parity will be ensured in the selection…

The newly formed Congress Fundraising Committee of the People’s National Convention (PNC) is set to be dissolved. Following the proposition of a seven-member team to raise funds for PNC’s upcoming Congress, there has been mixed reactions by proposed members to be on the committee. The names of the members were tabled on Saturday, July 13 at a National Executive Committee meeting. But the decision to dissolve the Committee, according to a statement signed by the Party’s National Treasurer, Akane Adams, stems from the fact that “some persons selected to be part of the committee have occasionally in writing and orally…

It was a huge magnitude of confusion that rocked not only the Methodist Church of Ghana but Christians and others in Ghana and, perhaps, Africa as a whole when the Methodist Church, UK, said it had [technically] approved same sex marriage. “The bird,” our elders say, “has no business worrying itself over a collapsed bridge.” If it is a section of the world that has legalized homosexuality and same sex marriage for that matter, one would have thought that Christians had no business worrying themselves contemplating as to whether to indulge in the practice or not. Is that not so?…

Speaker of US House of Representatives Nancy Patricia Pelosi is scheduled to address Ghana’s Parliament next week, the Majority Leader announced Friday. Osei Kyei-Mensa-Bonsu said the US Speaker will deliver the address on Wednesday, July 31. The Suame Member of Parliament disclosed this while reading the business statement for the 10th week ending Friday, August 2. Democrat Pelosi was elected to the third highest position in the US in January, 2019. She is scheduled to be in Ghana on an official visit. She was first elected to the US Congress in 1987, representing California’s 12th congressional district. She has served…

A member of the Nigerian Air Force who returned a lost parcel containing 37,000 euros ($41,500; £33,300) cash has received a two-rank promotion, as part of his reward. Bashir Umar had been on patrol duties with other colleagues at an airport in the northern state of Kano when he discovered the cash. He then called the phone number that was written on the package and returned the cash to the owner. He was promoted from aircraftman to the rank of corporal, a promotion that should have taken him 10 years to achieve, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. He…

Barely four days after a Paramount chief in the Western Region was abducted and assaulted by some unidentified masked men, there has been yet another attempted attack on another prominent chief in the Region The Chief of Fijai, Barima Ekow Gyesa, who doubles as the acting President of the Sekondi Traditional Council, claims some unidentified masked men in a 4-Wheel Drive vehicle came to his house in the evening on Wednesday to ask of his whereabouts from his daughter The daughter told them her father was not around after she had contacted father in the room. The chief, who narrated…

Embattled Chief Executive Officer of defunct gold-trading firm Menzgold Ghana Limited Nana Appiah Mensah has been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court. He was granted the bail to the tune of GH¢1 billion on Friday, July 26. The bail as announced by the judge, Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye, was with five sureties. Three of those sureties are to be justified. NAM1, as he is popularly known, was also ordered to report to the police every Wednesday at 10:00am. After reading the 13 charges to him by Justice Akweley Quaye, NAM1 pleaded not guilty to all. Prior to the hearing,…

As part of strategies to strengthen ties between the United States of America and Ghana, the US Navy Band visited the Western Region capital Sekondi-Takoradi from Sunday, July 21 to Tuesday, July 23 to engage residents in activities that portray the human face of the security agency. The band is touring countries along the Gulf of Guinea, playing music to entertain their audience as well as learning from different cultures. Residents of Sekondi-Takoradi were treated to several music genres; from jazz, samba, to Afro-centric music at a colourful welcome reception on Sunday at the Sekondi Youth Center. Chief Musician First…

Black Stars striker Jordan Ayew has made his move from Swansea City to Crystal Palace permanent. Ayew, 27, penned a three-year contract on Thursday, having spent the 2018/19 season on loan at the south London club. The striker made 20 appearances for the Eagles last season, scoring once in the Premier League. “I am very happy,” the former Aston Villa striker said when he put pen to paper at Selhurst Park. “I really enjoyed myself last season. I enjoyed the stadium, the fans, the boys –they were really good to me – everything here was positive and that’s why I…

Former Minister of Youth and Sports Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye has lashed out at the Minister of Youth and Sports for his “poor” presentation on Ghana’s AFCON 2019 budget in Parliament on Wednesday, July 24. “The presentation [on Wednesday] to me was a sham,” he minced no words. “It was a very poor report.” Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Thursday, the Member of Parliament for Odododiodio Constituency asked the Minister to come again as he believes there is a cover-up on the expenditure. Minister Isaac Kwame Asiamah was in House to present the total expenditure of the Black Stars…