Author: Krobea

The Northern Regional Police Command says it has resolved – with the help of the military – to dominate Chereponi and Saboba in the face of tribal conflict. The two districts in the Northern Region have been engaged in the ethnic conflict between the Konkombas and Chokosis. It has spanned five days and not even a dawn-to-dusk curfew has deterred the tribes from attacking each other. On Friday, two separate attacks left at least one dead. Some three communities, namely Shidoto, Tigenga and Kunajiku, were also torched. Three communities burnt in Chereponi despite curfew; one feared dead But speaking on…

Information gathered by 3news.com indicates that the Chereponi and Saboba districts are gradually becoming a den for lawbreakers due to the incessant defiance of the dusk-to-dawn curfew. As a result, military officers dispatched to man the areas have been advised to treat everyone they find with offensive weapons as a rebel, a source says. This also follows series of discussions among security heads owing to the five-day siege in communities in the two districts. Meanwhile, a reprisal attack by the Chokosis Friday morning saw two Konkomba communities, namely Nanchem and Tambong, torched as residents fled to neighbouring Togo. This was…

Former President John Dramani Mahama arrived in Sefwi Bekwai on Saturday to begin a five-day campaign tour of the Western Region, a statement from his campaign team has said. The immediate past president is expected to visit all 26 constituencies in the Region. But his first stop is the Bibiani Constituency. Mr Mahama is seeking to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the third time into a presidential election. His first attempt in 2012 was successful but he failed in his second, in 2016. The party will go to the polls this month to elect its flagbearer for the…

GN Bank has revealed that it made a “conscious decision” not to sell the bank to foreign interests in the process of looking for the GH¢400 million minimum capital. It said the foreign investors were only interested in the nationwide network built by the bank “with the intention to abandon our vision of promoting financial inclusion and serving the needs of ordinary Ghanaians”. On Friday, January 4, Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr Ernest Addison announced that the commercial bank license of GN Bank has been revoked and an advisor appointed to help it go through a transition back…

The perception surrounding Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s capability to fight corruption prior to his assumption of office is eroding, a panelist on TV3’s The Key Points has opined. Senior Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) Dr Ahmed Jinapor says the “messianic figure” portrayed by Nana Akufo-Addo while a flagbearer as an apostle of anti-corruption is seriously in doubt. He was contributing to discussions on the programme on Saturday, January 5 on the two-year performance of the incumbent government. Monday, January 7, 2019 will mark exactly two years since Nana Akufo-Addo was sworn in as the 5th president of…

One’s environment has an influence on their mindset. The way we think is directly or indirectly due to where we have lived and what we have been exposed to. Little wonder some narratives we grew up exposed to have eventually become a part of us. Though some of these are toxic, we have never noticed because we have been exposed to such for so long a time that they have become a norm. 2019 years after the death of Christ, we can’t still be accommodating such toxicity in our minds.  The world has advanced. 19 years after the second millennium,…

US President Donald Trump has said he could declare a national emergency to build a US-Mexico border wall without the approval of Congress. It came after he met senior Democrats, who refused his requests for funding. The stand-off has seen Mr Trump withhold support for a bill to fully fund the government until he gets money for the border wall. He said he was prepared for the partial government shutdown – now in its third week – to last years. Around 800,000 federal workers have been without pay since 22 December. Trump aides and lawmakers will meet later on Saturday…

Green track students under the Free Senior High School programme are expected to resume their second semester on Saturday, January 5. They will be joined by final year students, who are the last batch of non-Free SHS students. Students on the Gold track are also expected to return to school on Saturday to complete their first semester after proceeding on Christmas break. A statement issued by the Ghana Education Service (GES) on Friday, January 4 indicated that the final year students are resuming early “to give them ample time to prepare towards the West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE)”.…

Jay-Z and Lady Gaga are among the stars who allegedly declined to appear in a documentary about R Kelly, the series’ producer has said. Surviving R Kelly, which premiered in the US on Thursday, explores decades of sexual abuse allegations brought against the artist, all of which he denies. John Legend is one of the only musicians who agreed to be interviewed. In December 2018, the New York screening of the series was evacuated. It followed individuals stating they received “a threatening phone call”. ‘Messy and muddy’ The show’s producer Dream Hampton said it was “incredibly difficult” to get celebrities…

The Tema Regional Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service is investigating a murder case in which suspect Francis Appiah is alleged to have stabbed one Mohammed Tijani to death. The deceased is said to have assaulted the suspect on Saturday, December 29, 2018. The suspect reported the case to the Community 8 Police Station, where he was issued a medical form to go to the hospital for treatment. On Wednesday, January 2, 2019, Mohammed Tijani and five others attacked the suspect, a mason, and hit his head with a stone, according to the police. He went back…