Author: Krobea

Nigeria’s Super Falcons successfully defended their Africa Women’s Cup of Nations title after beating South Africa’s Banyana Banyana 4-3 on penalties on Saturday. The 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations’ final match, played at the Accra Sports Stadium, had ended goalless in full regulation time. After the 30 extra minutes produced no goals, the match went into shoot-outs. The South Africans were seeking to win the title for the first time in their history, though already having chalked a maiden qualification to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. They went into Saturday’s game having beaten the champions 1-0 in Group…

I mean, who wouldn’t want a wife?  We all at some point in our lives, want to have someone else do things for us. These things range from doing chores and tasks, such as laundry and cooking, to just keeping us satisfied in life, dealing with our mental, physical, social, and sexual needs. I was reading an article ‘I want a wife’ written by Judy Brady. She wrote about how it dawned on her one evening about how she too being a wife and a mother, would of course love to have a wife to do all her chores, attend…

Quality content suitable for audience who are children have become hard to come by lately. In these days that almost every media platform has been polluted by violence and sex among others, it is almost impossible to leave your children alone to watch even cartoons all by themselves. They may inadvertently be exposed to something ill. Children in their formative years are very fragile and vulnerable. Whatever they consume can have an indelible impact on them. A child is very much influenced by what they see or hear. With the media being a strong agent of socialization, it goes without…

Cameroon have been stripped of the hosting rights of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. The decision was taken by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) at its Executive Committee meeting in Accra on Friday. Decision as to who replace Cameroon was not taken. The meeting rather promised to give further information later. https://twitter.com/CAF_Online/status/1068569649233764352 CAF had considered relieving Cameroon of the hosting rights last year but pulled the breaks, warning the country to double up efforts on preparations. CAF President Ahmad Ahmad warned authorities in the central African nation of the likelihood of the hosting rights being handed to another…

Cameroon’s Indomitable Lionesses on Friday beat Mali’s Female Eagles 4-2 to win Bronze in the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations. The third-place play-off, which came off at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium, also served as the final qualification game for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. By their win, Cameroon, therefore, secure the final ticket for the tournament to be held in France. Cameroon went 2-0 up in the first half courtesy Ninon Abena’s brace. But the Malians pulled one back before the break to keep the score just as how their group phase meeting ended. The Malians had…

An Assistant Black Stars Coach, Ibrahim Tanko, has been given an additional duty to handle the national U-23 men’s soccer team, the Black Meteors. This follows the death of Yusif Abubakar on Tuesday, November 20. Tanko will continue to be part of the Stars’ Technical Team but has been appointed to prepare the Meteors for their upcoming qualifiers. Ghana’s Olympic team is preparing for home-and-away first round qualifiers with Togo ahead of next year’s Africa U-23 Cup of Nations to be held in Egypt. The first leg will be played in Kumasi on Tuesday, December 18 with the second leg…

Kenya’s government plans to restrict access to online pornographic sites in a bid to reduce pregnancies among schoolchildren, Information Minister Joseph Mucheru has told the BBC Focus on Africa radio programme. His comments came amid growing concern in Kenya about teenage pregnancies. Between July 2016 and June 2017, the Kenyan health ministry recorded almost 350,000 pregnancies in the 15 to 19 age group. He has ordered the communication regulator to see how children and teenagers can be blocked from watching pornographic sites, Mr Mucheru said. The government would not want to “condone” children and teenagers accessing pornophrapy online, even if…

Captain of the Black Maidens Mukarama Abdulai has been nominated for the 2018 Women’s African Player of the Year by the Confederation of African Football (Caf). Mukarama, who is likely to be named the Golden Boot winner of the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, led Ghana’s U-17 women’s team to the quarter-finals of that tournament. Her seven goals at the tournament – which ends on Saturday – makes her the country’s all-time leading goal-scorer in that tournament, and probably in a FIFA world cup. Mukarama was nominated together with Black Queens’ captain Elizabeth Addo, who plies her trade in…

Black Stars midfielder Thomas Teye Partey is the only Ghanaian player nominated for the 2018 African Footballer of the Year Award. The Atletico Madrid player was named among 34 African players for the award scheduled to be held in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. Partey’s success in the year under review saw him win the UEFA Europa League at club level while he has played in all the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers for the Stars. He was recently shortlisted for the BBC African Player of the Year. Thomas Partey shortlisted for BBC African Footballer of the…

Ghana’s highest pension earner takes home about GH¢51,000 every month, the Director General of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has disclosed. “He contributed for so long so he earned the full pension right,” Dr John Ofori-Tenkorang stated on Thursday, November 29, when he met a cross-section of journalists in Accra. He was responding to a question on pension discrepancies vis-à-vis salaries earned during active service. Dr Ofori-Tenkorang indicated that the pension paid monthly is regulated by an act of Parliament, which also determines the end-of-service earnings for contributors. “I as DG cannot change what is legitimately due…