Author: Krobea

Former President John Dramani Mahama will embark on a Thank You tour of three new regions in the north, from Tuesday, August 27. The 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will spend six days on the tour. He is expected to start in the Savannah Region before travelling to the North East and Oti regions. “I will be interacting with the Chiefs, opinion leaders, community members and executives of the NDC in the various constituencies,” he stated on his official Facebook page on Monday. The tour comes two days after his party elected a majority of its parliamentary…

The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron – who hosted a G7 summit that ended on Monday – said $22m (£18m) would be released. Brazilian officials gave no reason for turning down the money. But President Jair Bolsonaro has accused France of treating Brazil like a colony. His defence minister said the fires in the Amazon were not out of control. Commenting on the G7 offer of aid, Mr Bolsonaro’s chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, told the Globo news website:…

The Functional Executive Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will meet on Tuesday, August 27 to review the parliamentary primaries held last Saturday. The meeting will seek to also look into allegations of vote-buying peddled by some aspirants, 3news.com has gathered. Aside losing aspirants making those allegations, the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) also alleged same while congratulating the NDC. NDC displayed opulence, profligacy & exhibited violence in primaries – NPP claims The meeting will consider the various reports filed by national executives, who were deployed nationwide to monitor the polls. The party elected 157 candidates out of 275…

Government has met independent power producers (IPPs) as well as gas producers to come out with a sustainable strategy to ensure a viable energy sector. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance on Monday, the current energy structure poses serious financial risks to the economy. The meeting had representatives of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Energy in attendance. At the said meeting, it was agreed that an initial three-month consultation process begins in earnest. “The consultation will provide a forum for stakeholders to contribute to government’s energy strategy,” the statement signed Chief Director of the…

Police in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District of the Savannah Region have arrested eight armed men who attacked and burnt houses in Taletuma, a farming community in the district. The arrest was confirmed by the Sawla District Police Commander, ASP Degraft Armah Adjei. According to him, he received a call at 10:30pm Sunday that some armed men have attacked the community and immediately he organized his men. ASP Degraft added that when they got to the community, the armed men were there and some houses set ablaze. “So we quickly arrested the suspects made up of  two chiefs and six heavily built…

Conservative radio show host and former lawmaker Joe Walsh has become the second man to challenge President Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s 2020 White House nomination. “The country is sick of this guy’s tantrum [sic] – he’s a child,” Mr Walsh, 57, told ABC’s This Week, in what is seen as a long-shot challenge. President Trump made no immediate public comment on the news. Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld announced his challenge in April. Both men now face an uphill battle to take over a Republican Party that has been refashioned in Mr Trump’s image. No sitting president in…

Dear John Dumelo, Let me begin by congratulating you for winning the NDC parliamentary primaries in the Ayawaso West Wuogon (AWW) constituency to become the party’s Parliamentary Candidate in the constituency for election 2020. I also wish to welcome you to the enterprise of partisan politics, your newly found love. I only do hope that you haven’t totally abandoned the Creative Art industry and that, you would use your new ‘office’ to champion the interest and welfare of your former colleagues, actors and actresses in particular. As a brother and friend, kindly indulge me to share with you this piece…

“33And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth. 34But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, 35I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth; and if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him and killed him. 36Your servant has…

Kenya has exported its first batch of oil as President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the crude shipment from the port of Mombasa on Monday morning. It is being described as a historic day and an important step on the way to the full exploration and development of oil in the East African nation. This is an experimental phase to test the country’s crude oil before full production and exportation begins in around 2024. The country is expected to earn $84m (£69m) over the next two years. UK-based Chinese company ChemChina UK Ltd won the bid to buy the first batch…

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has secured a 24–acre land for the construction of its operational head office in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region. The land is between the campus of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) and the Western Region head office of the suspended Power Distribution Services (PDS) in Takoradi. A team of officials from GNPC, the Western Region Coordinating Council, Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) and other relevant stakeholders have already inspected the land. The relocation of the operational head office of GNPC to the Western Region was among the many campaign promises of the…