Author: Krobea

Nigeria’s Super Falcons recorded a first win for Africa in their second Group A game on Wednesday after beating South Korea 2-0. Both sides had lost their opening games. While South Korea lost 0-4 to hosts France, Nigeria lost 0-3 to Norway on Matchday 1. After the first round of matches, none of the three African participants in the tournament picked any points. After the Super Falcons’ loss, South Africa’s Banyana Banyana lost 1-3 to Spain on Saturday, June 8. Cameroon’s Indomitable Lionesses played two days later but lost by a lone goal to their counterparts from Canada. On Wednesday,…

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has accused the security services, particularly the police, of being compromised in the discharge of their professional work. He says all discerning Ghanaians cannot escape that conclusion. In an interview on TV3’s Midday Live on Wednesday, Mr Asiedu Nketia said recent events leading to the arrest and subsequent release of his party’s chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, makes them cotton on to that conviction. “We have come to the painful conclusion that the security services have been compromised and are being used by government to prosecute their political agenda,” he…

The Sekondi High Court 2 presided over by Justice Hannah Taylor has remanded the alleged mastermind of the Takoradi kidnappings, John Oji, into prison custody. John Oji, 29, has been identified as a Nigerian. Adelaide Kobire Woode, who led a team from the Attorney General’s Department, told the court that John Oji’s name has been mentioned in connection with the alleged kidnapping of three girls of Takoradi. She mentioned his offence as conspiracy to kidnap and kidnapping. She pleaded with the court to remand John Oji into police custody. Justice Hannah Taylor proceeded to remand John Oji into prison custody…

hony Tyson Fury believes former world champion Anthony Joshua is “finished” after his shock defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr. Joshua, 29, gave up his IBF, WBA and WBO titles in a seventh-round stoppage loss to Ruiz in New York on 1 June. Speaking before Saturday’s bout with Tom Schwarz – which will be broadcast by BBC Radio 5 Live – Fury said Joshua did not want to be in the ring. “When a man doesn’t want to be there once, he will always do it and it’s hard to come back from,” said Fury. “It’s been done many different times…

A Deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide, has assured that the security services are seriously working to rescue the kidnapped girls of Takoradi, the capital town of the Western Region. The assurance came after the two Canadians, who were kidnapped in Kumasi last week, were rescued in the early hours of Wednesday, June 12. The swift rescue of the two Canadian women who were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Kumasi within a week has raised questions and suspicions as to why the three Takoradi girls kidnapped between August and December last year have not been rescued as yet. A…

The two Canadian women recently kidnapped in the Ashanti Region capital of Kumasi have been rescued, 3news.com has gathered. They were rescued in the early hours of Wednesday, June 12 at Suwaba, a suburb of Kumasi. According to a statement issued by the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the two – 19 and 20 – were rescued following an operation led by National Security Operatives. “Details of the operation and ongoing efforts to ensure that similar incidents are successfully resolved will be made available in a subsequent press briefing scheduled for 15:00 hours today,” the statement indicated. He assured…

The five siblings who were killed in a mudslide at Ngyresiah in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in the Western Region during a torrential rain have been laid to rest. The five siblings were sleeping when they were crashed to death on Friday, May 31. A bamboo tree that had been uprooted by torrential rains slid together with mud and collapsed a wall on them. The bereaved family, scores of pupils, MPs and MMDCEs in Sekondi Takoradi, heads of departments and other well-wishers attended the solemn burial service at the Sekondi Wesley Methodist Church to pay their last respect. Relatives and neighbours…

Member of Parliament for Bongo Constituency Edward Abambire Bawa says officials responsible for the ‘One-Village, One-Dam’ policy must be prosecuted for throwing dust in the eyes of northerners. He said what is being constructed in the north cannot be described as dams but “ponds”. Mr Bawa stressed that the policy has become “an opportunity to siphon money especially at the expense of the ordinary Ghanaian”. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP was sharing his sentiments on TV3’s New Day on Tuesday. He was speaking in reaction to government’s response to the Minority’s concern about the policy. 1V1D: NPP didn’t promise…

A Deputy Majority Whip in Parliament has discredited the joint survey conducted by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana (UG) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. The survey noted that about 49.5 percent of eligible voters across the country will not vote to retain their Members of Parliament (MPs) if the 2020 elections were held today. But Matthew Nyindam, who is also the MP for Kpandai Constituency in the Northern Region, says the dynamics in political parties and elections change so the researchers cannot use the current trend to determine the 2020 election. The survey presented by the…

A measles epidemic has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country’s health ministry says it has recorded 87,000 suspected cases since the start of the year. Cases of measles have now been reported in 23 of DR Congo’s 26 provinces, both in urban and rural areas. Measles, while highly contagious, is preventable with the right vaccines. However, the disease has repeatedly flared in the country in recent years due to poor infrastructure, insecurity and an under-equipped public health system. So far, measles is believed to have killed more than 1,500 people here since the beginning of this…