Author: Krobea

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pointed at the private sector as bearing the primary responsibility of job creation. He stressed, therefore, that government’s ability to create jobs is limited. But he indicated that the private sector’s disposition to create jobs must have the “active support” of government. President Akufo-Addo was speaking at the commissioning of three factories for Unilever Ghana Limited on Tuesday, January 15. He said since assuming office two years ago, he has sought to build the most business-friendly environment in Africa and he is on course. “My government will work to continue to create a stable…

The Institute of Public Relations (IPR) Ghana has announced the date for the 7th National Communications and Public Relations Awards. The Awards will be organized on Friday, February 1. According the President of the Institute, Elaine Sam, the event will take place at the La Palme Royal Beach Hotel and is open to all parties involved in PR and communications for government and non-governmental agencies and media owners. The event will be chaired by a former President of the Institute, Kojo Yankah, who is also the chairperson of the adjudication panel. The special guest of honour will be Chairman of…

Ghanaian suede boots brand Warm Their Feet has launched an open shop with the aim of making quality desert boots more accessible to brand patrons. Located on the Madina New Road, 200 meters from the Rawlings Circle and opposite P-Cular Heights, the WTF shop is a 500m2 branded open space. It is the company’s official display and purchase point for all of its assorted Ghanaian-hand-crafted boots. At a brief event characterized by a public exhibition to mark the opening of the shop, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the company Noel Nutsugah his firm has previously been using online platforms…

The Normalisation Committee tasked to bring Ghana football back after the Anas Aremeyaw Anas exposé has unveiled six ad hoc committees as it races behind time to meet the March 31 deadline. The committees are to help the four-member FIFA-backed Committee execute its mandate. The committees cover Referees, Technical, Domestic League, Marketing and Sponsorship, Communications and Promotion as well as National Teams, onto which former Black Stars defender Samuel Osei Kufour has been named Vice Chairman. Hearts of Oak’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Noonan has also been named as a member of the Technical Committee. Below is the full list…

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…