Author: Krobea

Gabon’s opposition leader Jean Ping has again claimed victory in elections held in 2016, as President Ali Bongo is being treated in a hospital abroad. Speaking in Libreville, Mr Ping urged the nation to overcome its divisions and rally around a common ideal. He said this ideal was the one conveyed in the August 2016 poll, adding it was him who really won most of the votes. Bloody protests erupted after President Bongo was officially declared the winner by a razor-thin margin. Mr Bongo, whose family has governed the west African nation for some 50 years, is currently being treated…

A Deputy Minister of Communications, George Nenyi Andah, has been involved in a motor accident, 3news.com has gathered. The accident occurred around 8:00am Saturday at Awutu Loye in his constituency. It is unclear what may have caused it but the vehicle he was travelling in is said to have been hit by a tipper truck with registration number GX 1780-17. Speaking on the issue on TV3’s Midday Live on Saturday, aide to the Minister Emmanuel Oscar cautioned the media over their reportage, stating that the Member of Parliament for Awutu Senya West is responding to treatment. He said he spoke…

Government has named its members for the Governing Council of the Kwame Nkrumah Science and Technology (KNUST) to be reconstituted by Chancellor Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Government missed a Wednesday, October 31 deadline to submit its representatives. All the other parties had made the names available to the Chancellor, who was expected to reconstitute the Council on Friday. Earlier on that day, government accused the other parties of maintaining the same representatives for the Council, a move that in its estimation does not redound to finding a solution to the impasse. Gov’t, UTAG clash over reps for KNUST Council The…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has called on the Akufo-Addo government to fulfill its promises to teacher trainees and nursing students by paying the allowances owed them. Mr Mahama made the call when he addressed delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Ada on Friday to wrap up his five-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region. He said prior to the 2016 general elections, the NDC administration explained to the students that it was better to shift them onto the students’ loan scheme in order to use the extra money to build more schools and hospitals to enable…

Have you ever thought about the possibility of having your future hiding in your past? Well author Francis Kwabena Atta has come out with his latest work to motivate readers to have a good part of their past work for their future. Titled ‘The Future In Your Past’ with subtitle ‘Making Your Past Work For Your Future’, the 128-page book dwells mostly on Bible characters like David and Paul to goad readers into fulfilling their dreams. Some popular figures like Nelson Mandela were also cited. Each of the eight chapters begins with a motivational maxim as its prelude. “The book…

Penis fillers, designed to increase the organ’s girth, are gaining in popularity – despite warnings over complications. Two men tell the BBC why they are not ashamed to have them. Abdul Hasan, 27, is a returning customer for penis fillers. This time he is having the procedure as a surprise present for his girlfriend. He has been with her for eight years, but says it still plays on his mind whether he can please her sexually. Last time he had a filler she was “100%” surprised, he tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme. “I thought, ‘One more can’t hurt’. “It makes…

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is expected to have a reconstituted Governing Council announced on Friday by Chancellor Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. But before the list comes out, government is not happy with the representative presented by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG). Ironically, government has failed to meet the Wednesday deadline for the presentation of its representatives for  the soon-to-be-announced Council. Speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise on Friday, National President of UTAG Dr Eric Opoku Mensah insisted UTAG is not changing its representative on the Council. According to him, Professor Eric Forkuo’s performance on the…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the US he considered murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be a dangerous Islamist, media reports say. Prince Mohammed’s reported phone call to the White House came before Saudi Arabia admitted he had been killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia has denied the reports in the Washington Post and New York Times. A Saudi national and well-known critic of Saudi rulers, Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered on 2 October. His body has not yet been found. Saudi Arabia denies its royal family was involved and says it is “determined…

Uganda is to become the first country in the world to give a vaccine against Ebola without experiencing an active outbreak. The country’s health authorities along with the World Health Organization have taken the decision because of the threat of the spread of Ebola from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Insecurity around the town of Beni, in the east of the DR Congo, has hampered efforts to contain Ebola in the latest outbreak in which 179 people have already died. The affected region is close to the borders of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. In Uganda, the vaccine will be given…

Usain Bolt’s trial with Australian football club Central Coast Mariners has come to an end. The Jamaican eight-time Olympic sprint champion, 32, joined the A-League side for an “indefinite training period” in August. He scored two goals in his first effort for the Mariners in a friendly, but did not play matches when the season began. Efforts to secure a “commercial solution” to keep Bolt at the club had failed, the Mariners said on Friday. Last month, the Mariners said they had made a contract proposal broken down into “football” and “commercial” terms. However, it hinged on a contribution from…