Author: Krobea

“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.”— Ecclesiastes 1:9 Times will change. Development will happen. There will be inventions. As many great leaders as bad ones will come our way. Life will happen. Whatever happens, however, the future is only going to be a recurring past. As long as we live under the sun, anything new will only be a remake of the old! Life is a cycle. Today is yesterday’s future and tomorrow’s past. This interesting cycle of life makes sure…

The final funeral rites for the late chief of Nanton, Naa Alhassan Abu is scheduled to begin on Friday, February 15. That day will see the shaving of the sons and daughters of the late chief, popularly called Nyabto. The late chief died last year. He was born E A Alhassan in 1966. He attended the Sandu Primary School in Nanton in the Northern Region and continued at the Savelugu Middle School. He worked for the Ghana Water Company and in 1999, became the Assembly member for Gumani/Nyashegu electoral area. He subsequently served for three terms. He was also the…

The truth they say hurts, and it does so because the world’s superstructure is built on hypocrisy. For us in Ghana, even the 1992 constitution makes our case worse. Last Thursday’s violent incident at Ayawaso West Wuogon (AWW) was an unfortunate incident that should not be countenanced again in future elections. It is worth recalling, however, that pockets of violence have featured in all elections and both parties have contributed to the build up to the bloodshed seen at AWW last Thursday. The by-election which saw B.T. Baba elected is fresh on our minds. Coincidentally, I met Mark Woyongo at…

Police in the Western Region with the support of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and the Information Service Department (ISD) have begun a sensitization campaign on personal safety in second cycle institutions in the region. The one-week campaign, which will move to the tertiary level on completion, is to calm and assure students of police security and conscientize them on some of the everyday mistakes that make them vulnerable. Schools which have benefited so far are the Adiembra Senior High School, Methodist Senior High School, Archbishop Porters Girls Senior High School and Fijai Senior High School. Speaking to…

The body recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane is that of Cardiff City player Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police have said. Sala, 28, was travelling to Cardiff in a plane piloted by David Ibbotson, which went missing over the English Channel on 21 January. The Argentine’s body was recovered late on Wednesday after the wreckage was found on Sunday morning. Dorset Police confirmed the identification on Thursday night. Emiliano Sala search team recover body from plane wreckage In a statement, the force said: “The body brought to Portland Port today, Thursday 7 February 2019, has been formally identified by…

Two bosses of an investment firm in Benin have been jailed for 10 years each for defrauding more than 150,000 people in a Ponzi scheme. The case has been described as the biggest financial scandal in Benin’s history and has been compared to the one run by Bernie Madoff in the US, reports French broadcaster RFI. The chief executive of ICC Services, Guy Aplogan, and the director-general, Ludovic Dohou, were convicted with two other colleagues at a special court hearing for economic crimes. All four have already spent more than eight years in custody. They were charged with conspiracy, defrauding…

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Roads and Transport has called for the scrapping of payment of road tolls and in the country. Samuel Ayeh-Paye said the payment of the road toll can be replaced with just GHp1 increment of the Energy Levy and that can take care of the tolls that are collected at the various toll booths in the country. The Member of Parliament for Ayensuano Constituency in the Eastern Region made the call in an interview with Onua FM’s Yen Sempa hosted by Bright Kwasi Asempa on Friday. Mr. Ayeh-Paye was commenting on Roads Minister Kwasi Amoako-Atta’s…

A fire has engulfed a dormitory at the youth team training centre of one of Brazil’s biggest football clubs, killing 10 people, local media report. Three people were also injured when the fire broke out at Ninho de Urubu, the training ground of Flamengo football club, in Rio de Janeiro. The fire reportedly broke out as players were sleeping in the dorm. The cause is not yet known. Flamengo is one of Brazil’s biggest and best-known clubs. Source: BBC

The Ghana chapter of Nairobi-based PLO Lumumba Foundation, which seeks to nurture young African leaders, imbibe in the youth with the spirit of Pan Africanism, among others has appointed Joseph Kobla Wemakor, an astute journalist and staunch human rights activist, as the Deputy Head of Media and Communication effective February 5, 2019.  Having been duly registered in 1990 as a company limited by guarantee, the PLO Lumumba Foundation was formed for the noble cause of assisting the needy and brilliant students to achieve their academic dreams; an idea nurtured by the founder, Prof Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, an astute Kenyan Lawyer…

Parliament’s Privileges Committee has suspended hearing on the alleged contempt case brought before it by Member for Asawase Constituency Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed against the Member for Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. The Committee had sat on Wednesday to hear from Alhaji Muntaka, the complainant, but was served with a notice of motion by lawyers for the defendant. Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Evelyn Tengmaa on Thursday, Vice Chairman of the Privileges Committee Andrew Kofi Mercer explained that though the Committee has been clothed with powers to continue hearing, a decision was taken to consider the motion. “We deliberated…