Author: Krobea

Mining giants AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Ghana have launched their agrobusiness programme dubbed ‘Obuasi Goes Agro (OGA)’ in Adaase, a farming community in Obuasi. The OGA programme is in sync with government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme, which aims to promote food security and immediate availability of selected food crops on the market. The OGA programmme is one of the flagship socio-economic development interventions of AngloGold Ashanti which is part of their three-year Social Management Plan aimed towards the socio-economic development of Obuasi communities to contribute to the diversifying local economy through the design and implementation of innovative interventions…

Eastern Regional President of the Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists (GABMLS) has called for the arrest and prosecution of all politicians and their supporters in the country. Samuel Appiah said with the Imposition of Restrictions Act in Ghana to fight coronavirus and the current political health walks and rallies, all politicians and their supporters should be arrested and prosecuted. The President made the call in an interview with Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Monday while reacting to the President’s address on the virus on Sunday. Ghana introduced a range of measures in a bid to stop the spread of…

In the past few years, Whatsapp broadcasts and Facebook news feeds are channels I have employed in writing about women – especially their roles in the Church and in Ministry. Speak of the name-calling, the tags and labels; we have endured them all. Many needed to know the truth, and for a society where we had to be the lone wolves – advocating with passion and aggression amongst many of our like, enduring same cultural resistance but just couldn’t be bothered, we soldiered on. They called us “not-marriageable”, women whose marriages will not last, iron women, yet in all, we…

Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramini Mahama will from Monday, October 19 begin a five-day campaign tour of the Western Region. His tour will take him to all 17 constituencies in the Region. Western Region Communications Director of the party Richard Kirk Mensah told 3news.com ahead of the tour that John Dramani Mahama and his team will visit and interact with traditional authorities, opinion leaders, strategic groupings and party faithfuls. “The former president is expected to address key issues in the Region especially the abandoned infrastructural projects, locked-up funds, cocoa-related issues, fishing and small-scale mining challenges,”…

An independent parliamentary aspirant in the Assin South Constituency in the Central Region fears his people will drive him away if he rescinds his decision to contest the 2020 election. Joseph Kofi Damtse, who is a member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) but was disqualified from contesting the primaries, explained that the chiefs and people have poured libation to support his independent bid, so failure on his part to go ahead with would mean disappointment to the people. The former US Army Officer gave the hint in an interview with Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Sunday, October 18.…

Getafe striker Jaime Mata’s second-half penalty condemned Barcelona to their first La Liga defeat of the season. Mata slotted his 56th-minute spot-kick into the bottom corner following Frenkie de Jong’s foul on Djene Dakonam. Lionel Messi struck the post for Barcelona in the first half while Antoine Griezmann fired over at close range. Juan Hernandez also hit the crossbar for Getafe with five minutes remaining. Defending champions Real Madrid also suffered a shock 1-0 defeat by promoted Cadiz earlier on Saturday. Barcelona and Real go head-to-head at the Nou Camp in the first El Clasico of the season next Saturday…

State election officials across the US are reporting record numbers of voters casting their ballots ahead of election day on 3 November. More than 22m Americans had voted early by Friday, either in person or by mail, according to the US Election Project. At the same point in the 2016 race, about 6m votes had been cast. Experts say the surge in early voting correlates to the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused many people to seek alternatives to election day voting. On Tuesday, Texas, a state that has relatively tight restrictions on who can qualify for postal voting, set a…

Former President John Dramani Mahama says from all indications the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has set out to organise a flawed election on Monday, December 7. “Who accepts a flawed election? Nobody. And everything the Electoral Commission is doing is showing that we are heading to a flawed election,” he observed. Addressing supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Abura on Thursday as part of his five-day campaign tour of the Central Region, Mr Mahama “we are not trouble makers” but the EC appears to be pushing them beyond their limit of forebearance. “We want to make sure that…

Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has charged the security agencies, particularly the Ghana Police Service, to ensure that the December 7 elections pass without any incidents of violence. He said the police should deal with whoever would want to foment trouble before, during and after the elections. He gave this charge on Thursday, October 15, when the Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, called on him at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi. “The peace of the elections is in your hands,” the king of the Asante Kingdom said in local language Twi. “The IGP has assured that the police are…

Security Analyst and Executive Director of Jatikay Centre for Human Security and Peace Building Adib Saani has described as “disingenuous” the move by government to provide security for members of Parliament (MPs). According to him, the move is a betrayal of the trust the ordinary Ghanaians have put in the MPs, who appear to have left their followers to their fate. The decision to beef up personal security for the country’s lawmakers was announced in Parliament on Tuesday after the Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery, met the legislature in a closed-door meeting. He told journalists after the meeting that 200…