Author: Krobea

Newly elected National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has rubbished claims that the party is losing the energy and strength of the Volta Region. “Such concerns are not grounded on facts,” he emphatically stated. Sammy Gyamfi was speaking on TV3’s Midday Live on Monday in the wake of concerns that the Region – which gives the party its heaviest votes – failed to get a single slot on the National Executive Committee (NEC) at the 9th National Delegates’ Congress held at the Fantasy Dome of the Accra International Trade Fair Centre. All the aspirants from…

South Africa on Sunday stunned Nigeria’s Super Falcons in a 1-0 win in the first game of Group B at the ongoing Women Africa Cup of nations. The game between Nigeria  and South Africa  was like a heavy metal versus classical music and Thembi Kgatlana  helped Desiree Ellis in her conducting as she scored the decider. Thembi Kgatlana watched the long pass over her shoulders before lashing it past Nigeria’s goalkeeper Tochuku Oluehi for her first goal in the competition. Coach for Banyana Banyana Desiree Ellis described Kgatlana’s goal as a moment of brilliance and said the victory is not…

Atiku, Abubakar, the main challenger to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in February’s poll, has launched his manifesto with a pledge to get Nigeria working again. In a Facebook live he laid out his vision and asked Nigerians to “join me on this journey”: Some of the lines were also shared on his Twitter account. https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1064474188591833088 He said that he wanted to use the expertise of all the people in the country saying “one Nigerian cannot be as wise as all Nigerians”: Mr Abubakar also pledged to create more jobs through attracting investment into the country: https://twitter.com/atiku/status/1064477023471570944 Mr Buhari’s APC party…

Japanese car giant Nissan has proposed removing chairman Carlos Ghosn from his post over financial misconduct claims. The firm said it had been conducting an internal investigation for several months which showed Mr Ghosn had been under-reporting his compensation. “Numerous other significant acts of misconduct” including “personal use of company assets”, were also found. “Nissan deeply apologises for causing great concern to our shareholders and stakeholders,” the company added. The firm said it had been providing information to the Japanese Public Prosecutors Office and would continue to do so. Nissan said it also planned to oust a senior executive Greg…

Ghana’s Black Maidens inched closer to making it to the quarter-final of the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup after a 3-1 win over Finland on Friday. The Maidens scooped maximum points, having won their opening game 5-0 against the hosts, Uruguay. Five-star Black Maidens stun hosts Uruguay in world cup But they had to tire for the second win in the tournament despite beginning brightly. Goal poachers Millot Abena Pokua and Mukarama Abdulai combined upfront to give the West Africans two goals after just a quarter-of-an-hour played. Pokua slotted home a cross in the sixth minute for her second…

IMANI-Africa has come out with its first analysis of the 2019 budget statement presented by the Minister of Finance to Parliament on Thursday. The policy think tank delved into the energy sector. The critique laid bare some questionable moves by government as regards debt restructuring in the power sector, unaccounted for expenditure in the oil and gas sector and readiness for solar energy in the renewable energy sector. Find the analysis below: IMANI’s first budget analysis on Energy: Power Sector Debt restructuring vrs debt accumulation The announcement within the 2018 budget that the energy sector debt had been reduced to…

Some students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have made their way back to school for reopening. They were found going through arrival formalities to be re-registered for the semester. The University has been shut down since a student demonstration on Monday, October 22. The originally intended peaceful demonstration turned violent after some students went on a vandalism spree, smashing state-of-the-art property and setting others ablaze. They visited violence on the central administration block. An assessment later that day by the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) left it with no option than to ask all Ghanaian…

Officials of the Central Bank involved in alleged misconduct leading to the collapse of some indigenous banks are being investigated, 3news.com has gathered. Most of them will be sacked if the allegations against them are found to be true. On Thursday, the Minister of Finance confirmed the move by the Bank of Ghana when he read the 2019 budget statement. Ken Ofori-Atta disclosed that an Office of Ethics and Internal Investigations has been set up by the Central Bank “to investigate all allegations of misconduct by staff, including any role [played] in the collapse of defunct banks”. He gave the…

The United States of America, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and in collaboration with the ministries of health in 11 countries, has launched a new five-year $200 million programme to control and eliminate five neglected tropical diseases in West Africa. This newly launched programme deepens USAID’s efforts to eliminate trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in 11 West African countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The programme seeks to support disease-endemic countries to control and eliminate targeted neglected tropical diseases using proven, cost-effective public health interventions.…

Gabon’s constitutional court has intervened to avert a political crisis brought about by the ill health of President Ali Bongo. There have been no government meetings since he was taken to hospital in Saudi Arabia last month. The court has amended the constitution to allow the vice-president or prime minister to run cabinet meetings if the president is temporarily unavailable – a move the opposition says is illegal. Amid speculation that the president had suffered a stroke and some even questioning whether he was still alive, Mr Bongo’s office finally admitted on Sunday that he was recovering from surgery. In…