Author: Krobea

Management of Connect FM, a subsidiary of the Media General Group, has indicated its readiness to host the Western Trade Fair from Wednesday, September 30 to Sunday, October 4. A good number of business owners, small and medium enterprises within and outside the Western Region have registered to participate in what has become the Region’s biggest trade fair over the years. The Western Trade Fair is a bi-annual event designed by Connect FM to create a platform for businesses to market directly to their target consumers and also get feedback on their products and services. In addition, the five-day event…

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency Kennedy Ohene Agyapong on Monday, September 28 failed to show up in court in the contempt case filed against him by Justice Amos Wunter Wuni. According to lawyers of the outspoken MP, he suffered from complications of the post-Covid-19 condition he suffered last month. Lead counsel Kwame Gyan told the Accra High Court that arrangement was, as a result, made to have the lawmaker get treated by a doctor. Ken Agyapong is facing contempt charges after he was accused by Justice Wuni of making statements that scandalized the court. The case was…

Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has announced members will embark on a nationwide strike from Thursday, October 1 over their long-standing unresolved grievances. In a press release signed by the Association’s General Secretary, Richard Kofi Jordan, the members noted that they “had to work in intolerable conditions including the constant inhalation of dangerous and cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde”. MOWAG noted that its employer, the Ministry of Health (MOH), has failed to resolve members’ grievances and only seemed to make moves to resolve the grievances. “MOH was supposed to have effected certain simple changes in the working conditions of the members…

The Volta Region Minister has called on Ghanaians and investors to continue embarking on their business activities despite the attempt by secessionists to create confusion in the Region. Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa said security has been restored and security personnel have been placed at vantage points in the region to forestall any such occurrence. The group, after blocking major entry points, attacked two police stations at Aveyime and Mepe, and seized 10 AK47 assault rifles after breaking into the police armoury. They ransacked the police stations, released inmates in custody, physically assaulted and injured some officers. The group, subsequently, blocked…

The immediate past President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, Nana Soglo Alloh IV, has charged the government and the security agencies to stop pampering members and key actors behind the Western Togoland secessionist group. The Paramount Chief of Likpe Traditional Area in the Oti Region does not understand why those who were arrested two years ago were released and as such the group keep committing treasonable offences. The group, after blocking major entry points to the Volta Region, also attacked two police stations at Aveyime and Mepe, and seized AK47 assault rifles after breaking into the police armoury.…

Mali’s transitional President Bah Ndaw has named a new civilian prime minister, the state television announced on Sunday. Mr Ndaw appointed former diplomat Moctar Ouane to the position. Mr Ouane served as Mali’s foreign minister between 2004 and 2011. He was Mali’s permanent representative to the UN from 1995 to 2002 and later became a diplomatic adviser to the west African regional bloc, Ecowas. His appointment could see the lifting of sanctions imposed by Ecowas after last month’s coup. The coup leader Col Assimi Goita had picked Mr Ndaw – who was inaugurated on Friday – to be the transitional…

A four-day workshop has been organized for Assembly and Unit Committee members in Obuasi. The programme, which was organized by the Obuasi Municipal Assembly, was also used to inaugurate the two zonal councils in Obuasi Municipal. Addressing participants after the exhaustive but highly educative workshop, the Municipal Chief Executive for Obuasi, Elijah Adansi-Bonah, praised the members for their cooperation and comportment throughout the process. He opined that the training will help them to be better placed to perform their responsibilities very well. “This training was designed to make you better of as compared to your compatriots who have not gone…

Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah admits there are still immediate threats posed by secessionist group Western Togoland Restoration Front. Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Monday, September 28, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said the state takes the action by the group seriously and will deal with them “with dispatch”. Last Friday, activists calling for a secession of Western Togoland from Ghana attacked key installations and mounted road blocks in Juapong in the Volta Region, ostensibly to declare independence. But their activities were foiled by a joint operation by state security agencies with 31 initially arrested and airlifted to Accra. Four…

The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) of Ghana, John Boadu, was, on Friday, September 25, 2020, elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of Africa (DUA), which is the African Alliance of all right wing political parties and like-minded organizations and think-tanks on the continent of Africa. John Boadu was elected to the number two position of the African Alliance of the International Democrat Union at the Union’s 2020 conference. Prior to his election, the NPP chief scribe had been acting as the Deputy Chair of DUA responsible for West Africa. The 2020 conference…

Mrs Jean Mensa, Chairperson, Electoral Commission, says the Commission’s priority is to ensure peace in the conduct of the 2020 General Election. “We recognise that this year is a crucial year as we go to the polls on December 7. What we say and do will have a positive or negative bearing on the nation. We have, therefore, resolved that our activities and words should leave a lasting and positive impact on our dear nation,” she said The EC Boss was addressing the leadership and members of the Church of Pentecost (CoP) at the launch of the Agent of Peace…