Author: Krobea

The Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC), Jean Mensa, on Thursday, June 20 paid a courtesy call on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu. The IG was joined by members of the Police Management Board (POMAB) for the meeting with the EC Chair. The meeting is to strengthen the partnership between the Commission and the Ghana Police Service. The two discussed reforms of the Commission since August, 2018 and the strategies put in place from now till the 2020 elections, 3news.com gathers. A major topic of discussion was the performance of police officers deployed during each election.…

Ghana’s firebrand Kuchoko crooner and radio show host Blakk Rasta was invited to the inauguration of Oman Ghana Baako in London over the weekend and it looked like the organisers bargained for more than they expected as Blakk Rasta sat quietly throughout the event, which started about five hours late. The artiste was booked to deliver a speech and possibly sing a couple of songs to pep up the crowd of over 500 people, one of the biggest Ghanaian gatherings in London in recent times. The colourful ceremony looked like an end-of-year party as patrons drank and ate amidst music…

October 15th 1987. Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara had gathered at the Conseil De L’Entente with a handful of his trusted aides. He was receiving reports on various assignments he had put his men to. It was a familiar exercise he usually undertook. At the courtyard of the building were his driver and two bodyguards. They were the first victims. Sounds of the spraying bullets echoed into the meeting room. Sankara stood up and told everyone to stay put. “It is me they want,” he is reported to have said. He walked out of his last supper to face…

Seven persons died instantly in an accident that occurred at Asitey in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region on Saturday, June 15. The seven were parishioners of Santa Barbara Catholic Church in Akosombo. They were returning from a funeral at Akim Oda. Police reports say the drivers of the Daewoo vehicle with registration number  GV 2497-14 belonging to the Volta River Authority while descending the hill veered off and landed in a valley in a sharp curve after an alleged brake failure. The seven are three males and four females. Over 20 persons on-board sustained several degrees…

Argentina’s bid to reach a third straight Copa America final began with a 2-0 loss against Colombia – a first defeat to their South American rivals in 12 years. Roger Martinez and Duvan Zapata scored in the final 20 minutes after an Argentina side featuring Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero had dominated. Messi, 31, said the Group B defeat left his side “feeling bitter”. “We didn’t want to start this way,” the five-time Ballon d’Or winner said. “But now we have to lift our heads and keep going.” Argentina have won the tournament 14 times – second only to Uruguay…

US President Donald Trump has once again criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a “national disgrace” who is destroying the UK’s capital. His comments came after five attacks in London in less than 24 hours left three men dead and three others injured. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was “absolutely awful” Mr Trump was using the “tragedy of people being murdered to attack the mayor”. President Trump’s tweets follow a long-running feud between the two men. Retweeting a post by right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins about this weekend’s violence in London, the president said Mr Khan was “a disaster”…

The Aka tribesmen in the Central African Republic often look after their young children while the mothers are out hunting. They soothe, clean and play with their babies, and spend more time holding them than fathers in any other society. Their devotion has earned them the title of “the world’s best dads” from online commentators – which is somewhat ironic given that the Aka are strictly egalitarian and shun rankings. Still, it shows just how dramatically the wider view of being a “good father” has changed over time. Today, many dads are celebrated for being sensitive, caring and hands-on. A…

A seven-month-old baby girl has been abducted by a 19-year-old suspect at Asuboi-Bonka in the Eastern Region. The police say the case was officially reported to them on Thursday, June 13 despite it happening the night before. Earlier on that night at about 5:30pm, Abena Priscilla took the baby away and had since not returned. She is a fiancée to Maxwell Agyeman, whose sister is the mother of the abducted baby. 3news.com gathers the suspect was babysitting for its mother while on a visit her fiancée. She left the house to town with the pretext to buy food even though…

The Black Stars were held to a goalless draw by the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in their final preparatory game for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. The match was played on Saturday at the Police Academy Park in the United Arab Emirates, where the team has based since Saturday, June 1. The four-time African champions shaded possession in Saturday’s friendly but could not make it count. Coach James Kwesi Appiah ensured that almost all the outfield players had a taste of the warm-up game. Ghana had lost their previous preparatory game 0-1 to Namibia and wanted a boost…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has, in principle, agreed to a request by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, to send some 375 Ghanaian nurses to Barbados to work in a number of their government medical facilities. This came to the fore on Friday, June 14 when President Akufo-Addo and Prime Minister Mottley held bilateral talks, in Bridgetown, Barbados, after the Ghanaian leader paid a day’s working visit to that country. Addressing a press conference in the aftermath of the bilateral discussions, and with Barbados facing an acute nursing shortage, the Barbadian Prime Minister stated that “we have…