Author: Krobea

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has said it is “normal” for top police officers to resort to WhatsApp and SMS messages in communication. He disclosed that he is even on the same page with all regional commanders and they communicate frequently. The IGP was responding to questions at the Commission of Inquiry sitting looking into the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence. He appeared as a witness on Tuesday at the Christianborg Castle in Osu. From previous sittings, it came out that the Accra Regional Commander sent a WhatsApp message to the East Legon Divisional Commander for an…

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah, has asked the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to clarify invitations given to persons it wants to interrogate. He said without such clarifications, these persons seem to flout police rules with impunity. This suggestion comes in the wake of singing and chanting at the headquarters of the CID on Monday by National Democratic Congress (NDC) officials, who escorted the party’s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, to the place. Mr Ofosu Ampofo had gone to the CID headquarters upon invitation last Thursday over a secret recording said…

Growing up, I used to get confused about sheep and goats. I usually missed out on which was a goat and which was a sheep. I wasn’t to blame after all. They looked alike. Like an eel and a snake, you could sometimes mistake one for the other. However, an eel was never a snake… and a goat could never be a sheep. They were all distinct creatures. In the same vein, lust looks like love. In the beginning, they all speak the same language but when the tests of life start walking in, one is distinguished from the other.…

President and Board Chairman of Ghana Rugby Herbert Mensah has been incorporated as Representative of the newly elected Rugby Africa Board. This step followed after a new Board was elected for Rugby Africa in Marrakech-Morocco on 2 March 2019. The officers of the Executive Board were elected ex officio, unopposed: President: Khaled Babbou (Tunisia) Vice President: Andrew Owor (Uganda) Treasurer: Tano Elvis (Ivory Coast) Secretary General: Jurie Roux (South Africa) The 27 voting members, by secret ballot, elected the 7 officers of the following Executive Committee (EXCO): Rolande Boro (Burkina Faso), Aaron Jani (Zimbabwe), Clement Sinkamba (Zambia), Nasser Bougja (Morocco),…

The son of Liberia’s ex-President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been charged with economic sabotage in connection with the unlawful printing of local currency worth millions of dollars. Charles Sirleaf is suspected of pocketing some of the proceeds in 2016-18. He was a deputy governor of Liberia’s Central Bank at the time. Four other ex-bank officials were also charged. Two of them are on the run. The accused have so far made no comments on the allegations. An independent report into the missing millions was released last week. One of the world’s poorest nations, Liberia has been struggling with rampant corruption.…

The board of governors of Adisadel College has rejected the nomination of a new headmaster for the school. According to the board, the Ghana Education Service (GES) did not consult its members, neither did the Service consult the Anglican Church for the selection of a candidate, contrary to laid-down procedure. This comes in the wake of a tussle between the school and GES over interdicted headmaster William Kusi Yeboah. Already, the Old Boys’ Association of the school has resolved to petition President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to have Mr Kusi Yeboa reinstated. Adisco Old Boys petition Akufo-Addo over interdicted head…

National Security operatives have arrested another person in connection with ongoing kidnap trial in the Western Region. The suspect, whose name was only given as KODA, was arrested at Ekurasi, a community in Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The Takoradi Market Circle District Court’s presiding Judge, Michael Ampadu, at the last hearing, gave the prime suspect, Samuel Wills, two weeks to help investigators locate one Kwesi who is claimed to have aided Mr Wills’s escape from police custody. When the court called the case Monday, March 4, a National Security operative, Boakye Abeam, told the court Samuel Wills told them…

The National Union of Ghana Student (NUGS) is calling on government to intervene in the case of child slavery on the Volta Lake. The attention of the students’ mother union was brought to a documentary that was telecast on CNN with the heading Troubled Waters. The documentary exposed the plight of children of school-going age being exploited in a manner akin to slaves in their own motherland. Already, government has protested the content of the documentary and says it will produce its sequel to it. Gov’t of Ghana protests CNN ‘Child Slavery’ documentary According to the documentary, 20,000 children work…

The Mandela Washington Fellows Association of Ghana over the weekend inducted into office seven new executives made up of President, Vice President, General Secretary, Treasurer, Financial Secretary, Project and Programmes Coordinator and Media and Publicity Director to govern and support the activities of the Association. Speaking at the inauguration at the Secretariat of the Mandela Washington Fellowship at Soronko Academy in East Legon, Accra, where the colourful ceremony was held, the newly elected President, Dr. Hilda Mantebea Boye, assured the alumni network of the commitment of the new executives to the mission of the Fellowship. She also added: “In the…

Algeria’s veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has defied protesters by confirming he will run again – but says he will not serve a full term. In a letter he said if he won April’s vote he would oversee a national dialogue leading to fresh elections that he would not contest. His decision to seek a fifth term in office sparked nationwide protests. Mr Bouteflika, 82, has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013. Sunday saw new protests as a midnight deadline loomed for candidates to register. By nightfall young people were again marching in the capital Algiers…