Author: Krobea

Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has announced his retirement from the senior national men’s soccer team. Gyan, who made his international debut in 2003 against Somalia, appears to be uncomfortable with a decision by the technical team to give the team’s captaincy to another player for next month’s Africa Cup of Nations tournament. “As an active footballer yet to retire, I have been in the team since 2003 and have played with some members of the technical team who were my seniors,” he said in a statement released on Monday, May 20. “Through such periods, there were no times substantive…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has scheduled Friday, June 7 to Thursday, June 27 as the period to undertake this year’s limited voter registration ahead of the 2020 polls. According to the Chair of the Commission, Jean Mensa, the limited voters registration is to afford Ghanaians who have attained 18 years since the last registration exercise as well as those who for one reason or the other never registered to do so. Addressing journalists immediately after an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting on Monday, May 20, 2019, Madam Jean Mensa said the exercise will include Saturdays and Sundays. It will…

To complement effort to address challenges girls face in managing their menstruation, Inspire to Rise, a non-governmental oragnisation has educated two schools on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). The schools were Saint Peters Anglican School and Adenta Community School in the Greater Accra Region. Ms Wendy Laryea, a UNICEF Menstrual Hygiene Influencer who addressed the students in separate sessions said the menstrual hygiene had effect on women and girls’ reproductive health, ultimately affecting progress on gender equality under the Sustainable Development Goals. Ms Laryea, who is also the Founder of Inspire to Rise, described Menstrual Hygiene Management as the practice of…

Founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga has had his house flooded after heavy rains in Accra on Monday. Parked cars at his residence in West Legon are stuck as frantic efforts are being put into draining the floods. The intermittent rains have also resulted in floods in some areas of the country’s capital city. Adabraka, Haatso, Ashongman and Madina are among the areas flooded by Monday’s downpour. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

The Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has blamed the rift between Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy on the media. MUSIGA said the media’s love for controversies between the two erupted into the disturbances that rocked the 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) in the early hours of Sunday, May 19, 2019. The Accra Regional Police Command on Sunday afternoon detained the two in connection with the disturbances at the Accra International Conference Centre for investigations. Shatta Wale, born Charles Nii Armah Mensah, and Stonebwoy, born Livingstone Etse Satekla, were embroiled in a scuffle, causing the latter to pull out a gun…

Ecuador has begun giving the US some of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange’s possessions left behind following his stay in its London embassy. The country’s foreign minister José Valencia authorised the seizure of equipment earlier this month. The material includes manuscripts, legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment. Mr Assange’s lawyer said the move was “completely unprecedented in the history of asylum”. “Ecuador is committing a flagrant violation of the most basic norms of the institution of asylum by handing over all the asylee’s personal belongings indiscriminately to the country that he was being protected from,” added lawyer Aitor Martinez. Mr…

Students of Adonten Senior High School (ADONSCO) and Aburi Secondary Technical (Aburi Sec Tech) in the Akuapem South District of the Eastern Region have for the past two weeks been engaged in perennial free-for-all fights resulting in injuries. Currently, five students have sustained knife injuries, the most serious affecting the scrotum and testicles of a student. The fight, according to Media General’s Castro Amoako, who is stationed at Aburi, normally happens at nights. The situation, according to some parents and residents of Aburi, may affect the ongoing West African Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). In an interview on Onua FM’s Yen…

Some aggrieved customers of Gold Coast Fund Management (GCFM) have petitioned the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to investigate the directors of the investment firm. Assuring to offer their full cooperation during the probe, the customers claim their investments have been illegally transferred to Liberia and the US by Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, the President of Groupe Nduom. “Our own investigation shows that monies had been transferred to Liberia and US through illegal means to conceal the funds,” the customers stated in the petition dated 17 May, 2019. They also alleged that a part of their investments has been…

Charles Mensah, the father of 2019 VGMA Highlife Artiste of the Year Shatta Wale, has stated emphatically that his son did not have a gun at last Saturday’s event. “Shatta [Wale] didn’t have a gun yesterday,” Mr Mensah told TV3’s Komla Klutse on Sunday at the Tesano Police Station, where the self-acclaimed dancehall king is being questioned for on-stage disturbances during the awards event. “I never saw any of his boys holding a gun or wielding one,” Shatta Wale’s father insisted. He said it is unfair for the police to detain his son alongside 2019 VGMA Dancehall Artiste of the…

This July promises to be amazing as Ghanaian playwright Kobina Ansah is set to unveil his new suspenseful play, THE BOY CALLED A GIRL. The 11-cast family play, set in a dance studio, is pregnant with a great plot that will hurl its audience into a new world of bewilderment. Not a usual theatrical piece, the musical stage play is slated for National Theatre on July 20th at 4pm and 8pm. Aside the enthralling music and dance that the play is laced with, Kobina Ansah has littered the piece with some thought-provoking quotes that will set everybody thinking so deeply…