Author: Krobea

Black Queens Head Coach Mercy Tagoe is excited her side played an international friendly against Morocco after a long break. Ghana’s senior female national team has been off for a long while due to the outbreak of Covid-19, which prevented countries from engaging in friendly matches. The Black Queens on Thursday, November 26 engaged their counterparts from Morocco at the Accra Sports Stadium. They won by 3-1. Speaking to the media after the win, Mercy Tagoe revealed how excited she was for the exercise and added that her side can do better in subsequent games. “We have won the game,…

Fifty-seven parliamentary candidates made up of 56 male and a female are contesting in the 18 constituencies in the Northern Region. Fifty-three of them are contesting on the ticket of nine registered political parties with only 4 contesting as independent candidates. With barely 11 days to the December 7 polls, 3news.com’s Christopher Amoako takes a look at the political atmosphere in these constituencies. Before the creation of the North East and Savannah regions, the then Northern Region was made up of 31 constituencies. It used to be a stronghold for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). However, with the creation…

The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it doesn’t matter the “lies” the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will churn out about who introduced the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme but the facts are there to show that former president John Mahama did. Sammy Gyamfi stressed that his party’s flagbearer launched the programme in 2015 with fees of over 360,000 day students absorbed. At a press conference in Accra on Thursday, November 26, Sammy Gyamfi said the launch five years ago was even followed with the procurement of over 306 million textbooks. Besides, the “full implementation…

The Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Brigitte Dzogbenuku, has courted the youth to take up leadership positions. She expressed worry over how high-ranked public positions occupied by the aged with little space allocated to the youth, who she believes are capable in strength and ideas. Madam Dzogbenuku admonished the youth to get involved in nation building as she explains the affairs of the country is for the youth to spearhead not the other way round. Speaking on Akoma FM’s morning show GhanAkoma in an exclusive interview with Aduanaba Kofi Asante Ennin on Thursday, November 26, the former…

Burkina Faso’s incumbent President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has won Sunday’s presidential election with 57.9% of the votes, the electoral commission says. His main challengers, Eddie Komboigo and Zephirin Diabre, got 15.5% and 12.5% respectively. In all, 13 candidates contested the elections. Kaboré was elected as President in 2015 winning a majority after the first round of voting. Source: BBC

Universal Music UK on Wednesday announced the launch of 0207 Def Jam, a new frontline label and the UK home of the iconic Def Jam Recordings label, with a stellar cast of executives including the appointment of highly respected industry executives and Ghanaian London-born twin brothers, Alec and Alex Boateng as co-Presidents. 0207 Def Jam, which takes the first part of its name and inspiration from a telephone code in London as a nod to the music, culture and art the UK is famed for, is partnering with the legendary Def Jam label which has shaped and propelled cutting-edge hip hop culture around the world for over…

A group of pro–New Patriotic Party (NPP) lecturers at the Takoradi Technical University (TTU) has opined that recent pronouncements by former President John Dramani Mahama on the Free Senior High School programme are nothing but calculated lies coupled with political gimmicks and only aimed at throwing dust into the eyes of unsuspecting Ghanaians, all to woo them to vote for him and the NDC in the upcoming elections. In an interview with 3news.com, Chairman of Patriotic Intellectuals (PI) Michael Asare Appiah said he is bemused that the former President, who before his defeat in the 2016 general elections was consistent…

The Ashanti Region branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is complaining of being sidelined in security briefings ahead of next month’s special voting and general elections. Regional Chairman Augustus Nana Kwasi lamented that with only five days to the Special Voting, the party is yet to be fully briefed on security arrangements and other special arrangements that are crucial to ensuring free, fair and safe elections. The NDC Chairman while speaking on Akoma FM’s morning show GhanAkoma on Thursday, November 26 told host Aduanaba Kofi Asante Ennin that the regional security council (REGSEC) doesn’t invite the party any more…

The Western Region branch of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has claimed that the only thing that the Akufo-Addo-led administration has given the region are “doses of Sakawa projects”. Addressing a press conference, Communications Director of the NDC in the Region Richard Kirk Mensah said the Akufo-Addo administration has shown gross disrespect to the chiefs and people of many communities in the Region by performing many “matricki wo” sod-cutting ceremonies for landmark projects that otherwise would have changed their fortunes. “On 18th June 2018, the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo disrespected the Chiefs and…

The Commanding Officer of the 4th Infantry Batalion (4BN), Lieutenant Colonel Kwasi Peprah, has told 3news.com that there will be heavy military presence in areas tagged as hotspots in next month’s polls. The military commander also warned troublemakers not to attempt to mar this year’s election. “There are electoral rules governing this country and must be upheld, so if anyone has plans to cause chaos in this year’s election, we can assure them of similar force to deal with them.” He further advised the youth not to indulge in any violent acts which they may regret in the end “because…