Author: Krobea

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is expected to have a reconstituted Governing Council announced on Friday by Chancellor Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. But before the list comes out, government is not happy with the representative presented by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). Ironically, government has failed to meet the Wednesday deadline for the presentation of its representatives for  the soon-to-be-announced Council. Speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise on Friday, National President of UTAG Dr Eric Opoku Mensah insisted UTAG is not changing its representative on the Council. According to him, Professor Eric Forkuo’s performance on the…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say. Prince Mohammed’s reported phone call to the White House came before Saudi Arabia admitted he had been killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia has denied the reports in the Washington Post and New York Times. A Saudi national and well-known critic of Saudi rulers, Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered on 2 October. His body has not yet been found. Saudi Arabia denies its royal family was involved and says it is “determined…

Uganda is to become the first country in the world to give a vaccine against Ebola without experiencing an active outbreak. The country’s health authorities along with the World Health Organization have taken the decision because of the threat of the spread of Ebola from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Insecurity around the town of Beni, in the east of the DR Congo, has hampered efforts to contain Ebola in the latest outbreak in which 179 people have already died. The affected region is close to the borders of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. In Uganda, the vaccine will be given…

Usain Bolt’s trial with Australian football club Central Coast Mariners has come to an end. The Jamaican eight-time Olympic sprint champion, 32, joined the A-League side for an “indefinite training period” in August. He scored two goals in his first effort for the Mariners in a friendly, but did not play matches when the season began. Efforts to secure a “commercial solution” to keep Bolt at the club had failed, the Mariners said on Friday. Last month, the Mariners said they had made a contract proposal broken down into “football” and “commercial” terms. However, it hinged on a contribution from…

Apple briefly lost its $1tn valuation on Thursday when its shares fell 7% in after-hours trading despite posting record results. The tech giant’s strategy of charging more for its phones has paid off, with revenues jumping in the last three months despite relatively flat sales. Revenues rose 20% to $62.9bn year-on-year, and profits rose 31% to $14.1bn. But a warning of possible weaker sales in coming months sparked a share price slide after official trading ended. The sell-off accelerated after Apple said it would stop disclosing the number of units sold. Apple executives defended their decision, arguing that the figures…

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the energy crisis that hit Ghana between 2012 and 2016 – popularly referred to as ‘dumsor’ – was solved by his administration, not the current government. He is therefore telling the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop deceiving Ghanaians that the Akufo-Addo-led government resolved the crisis. Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at the Adentan Constituency as part of his five-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region, Mr Mahama described as false claims by NPP officials that they solved dumsor. He explained that every single additional generation capacity of electricity currently…

Michael Jackson, who died in 2009, holds his place at the top of business experts Forbes’ list for another year, after raking in around $400m (£310m) over the past 12 months. A large chunk of the cash comes from Sony’s recent acquisition of his estate’s stake in EMI Music Publishing for an eye-watering $287m (£223m). It sees The King of Pop hold off The King, Elvis Presley, in second with a mere $40m ($31m) to show for this year. The bulk of Elvis’ posthumous fortune comes from selling tickets to his home in Graceland and a new $45m (£35m) entertainment…

The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has completed investigations into alleged fraud by former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi, government has said. Mr Nyantakyi was reported to the Directorate by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in May for defrauding by false pretences by the use of the name of the president, his vice, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and other government officials in a deal. This came to light following an investigative documentary by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The documentary was publicly screened at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) – and subsequently nationwide – from…

The Asuogyaman District Chief Executive, Samuel Kwame Agyekum, has expressed surprise about the theft of bolts and nuts on the Adomi Bridge at Atimpoku in the Eastern Region. He said there are police officers constantly on the tollbooth side of the Adomi Bridge so surprised  thieves have managed to steal implements on such national property. The €12.9 million-renovated Adomi Bridge, which links the Eastern and Volta Regions, may soon become a death trap following a habit of people making away with its bolts and nuts that brace the bridge up. The bridge was in December 2015 reopened to the public…

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Samuel Annor, has announced that some subscribers of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) will by the end of the year have the opportunity to renew their membership electronically using their mobile phones. Dr. Annor said his outfit will ensure that issues of unauthorized charges at the NHIS health facilities are stalled. He disclosed this on Wednesday, October 31 when he paid a working visit to the Authority’s Ayawaso District office in Accra. About 400 subscribers of the NHIS throng the district office on daily basis to either…