Author: Krobea

Arsenal keeper Petr Cech is to retire at the end of the season. The 36-year-old joined Arsenal in June 2015 from the club’s London rivals Chelsea, where he spent 11 years. “Having played 15 years in the Premier League and won every single trophy possible, I feel like I have achieved everything I set out to achieve,” said the ex-Czech Republic international. “I will continue to work hard at Arsenal to hopefully win one more trophy this season.” Cech’s career was in doubt in October 2006 when he required surgery for a skull fracture after a collision with Reading’s Stephen…

Hundreds of congregants of the Destiny Empowerment Chapel International and partners in the United States of America will in February awaken an element of power and integrity for service to climax the church’s 5th anniversary celebration. The celebration, which will be all about prayers and thanksgiving, is christened ‘TALITHA CUMI’ and will come off at the Destiny House, Spintex. Destiny Empowerment, which boasts of hundreds of members who are spread all over the globe, has its core aim of empowering people through teach-preaching of God’s infallible word to excel in all facets of life, under the leadership of the firebrand…

Government is going to engage its counterparts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on more than one grounds to have the arrested Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited brought home to face prosecution, a deputy minister has stated. Already, plans are afoot, Deputy Minister of Justice Joseph Kpemka noted, to have a delegation fly out of Ghana within the next 24 hours to engage Emirati officials. This follows correspondence between Dubai police and the Ghana Police Service on Sunday, January 13 that wanted Nana Appiah Mensah has been in the custody of the Gulf city police since December 7,…

Special Prosecutor Martin Alamisi Amidu has assured Ghanaians that despite the challenges his office faces, there will be some prosecutions this year. He said some of the cases are near-completion and they involve members of both political divides. “We have done serious investigations.” He observed that some of the cases are “very sensitive”. Mr Amidu was speaking on Monday, January 14 on Accra-based Citi FM. He claims he works on the quiet and his experience of serving several years as a minister of state in numerous portfolios justifies his current posture. But he explained that his previous roles are quite…

Not many of her kind are that fortunate to have access to basic education, let alone enrol themselves into Senior High School (SHS) to even come out with flying colours despite their woes. Similarly, nowhere in the history of Ghana has it been told about a head porter, popularly called Kayayo, who has demonstrated outmost discipline, commitment and dint of hard work backed by an admirable academic prowess as an achievement. But standing tall among her peers, Abudu Salah,22, a Kayayo who resides within a slum in Accra has defied every odd, broke through the cycle of poverty, torture and all…

The Institute of Public Relations, Ghana (IPR) has expressed sadness over the death of the Marketing and Public Affairs Manager of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Josephine Asante.    According to President Elaine Sam, the Institute extends its condolences to Josephine’s family and colleagues at Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA). “We pray that God will grant you the strength as you come to terms with what has happened to our dear one,” a statement noted. The Marketing and Public Affairs Manager of the Authority at Tema, was stabbed to death the dawn of Sunday, January 13, having attended…

In the Bible, the story is told of how Potiphar’s wife did everything possible to lure young Joseph into her bed. After several failed attempts, she finally got hold of his shirt as the lad fled from the clutches of her seduction. Out of shame and pain, she concocted the story that he had wanted to rape her! At this point, Potiphar’s wife seemed believable. She had Joseph’s shirt as evidence. She seemed to be all truthful… until Joseph presented his side of the story. Though Potiphar’s household never took his word for it, his side of the story explained…

The embattled Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Ghana Limited has been arrested, according to the Ghana Police Service. Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly known as NAM1, has been arrested since Friday, December 7, 2018 by police in Dubai, a statement from their Ghanaian counterparts said. The information was relayed to the Service just on Sunday, January 13. His arrest was to facilitate investigations into suspicion that he had been involved in a gold-trading deal, which had gone bad, in Dubai. “Ghanaian officials have visited NAM1 in the custody of Dubai Police,” the statement said. Since an order for the shutdown of…

“When the man who stole your bag of beans went out of the building, did the officer follow him outside?” asked Samson Luhila, the police commander at the Lusaka Central Police Station. “He did, yes he did,” answered Nasula. In his book, A Cowrie of Hope, Binwell Sinyangwe says Nasula’s eyes blurted. A notorious confident trickster named Code Silavwe had cunningly succeeded buying the poor woman’s beans not with money but sugar-coated words and had bolted. We are told in that rich novel that the woman’s name [Nasula] meant ‘mother of Sula’ and Sula’s name translated as ‘Let things be.’…

A joint police and military team is patrolling the streets of Yendi in the Northern Region following disturbances late Friday. This is to instill calm after the disturbances led to the death of one person, the police have said. A similar disturbance cranked up by youth said to be from the Abudu gate led to the burning of some houses on Thursday night. One person lost his life while three persons sustained various degrees of injury. One dies in fresh Yendi crossfire Friday’s disturbances, which erupted after Jummah prayers, is said to have been triggered by the demand of keys…