Author: Krobea

The Ghana Police Service has announced that its officers from the National Headquarters will embark on a route march in Accra on Monday, September 21 in what it describes as a “confidence building march”. According to the Service, this is to “assure the public of the readiness of the Police to lead provision of adequate security for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections”. Ghana has barely two months to go to its eighth polls in the Fourth Republic. Splashes of violence were recorded in the past seven elections with many blaming the state’s law enforcement agency of taking sides with…

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has dispatched a delegation to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, where survivors of a deadly accident involving some colt footballers are receiving treatment. The accident left six of the footballers dead instantly with two later dying at KATH. The players had travelled on Saturday to Afrancho to register for the upcoming district colts football league and were returning to Offinso in the Ashanti Region. But their bus, carrying 36 passengers, submerged in the Offinso River. In a statement to condole the team and bereaved families, the GFA said a joint team consisting…

Ghana’s Most Beautiful crowns its 2020 queen on today, Sunday, September 20, inside TV3’s Studio B. The reality show began in June when 16 ladies from the 16 regions were introduced as participants in this year’s competition. Since then the ladies have gone through a comprehensive journey of rediscovery and grooming in preparation for the finals, at which one will be selected to succeed reigning queen Ekua Mends Bannerman. In an interaction with 3news.com, the ladies shared their experiences and what it will mean to them if they get to be crowned winner of the car, cash and crown. Ahafo…

The Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, was on Friday installed as the Nkosouhene (Development Chief) of the Apesika Traditional area in the Kintampo South constituency of the Bono East Region. Under the stool name Nana Beyeman Kwame Ababio I, Mr. Mahama was taken through the customary rites by the Chief of Jema and Kyidomhene of the Nkoranza Traditional Council, Nana Amponsah Gyan II. Nana Amponsah Gyan II explained that the NDC presidential candidate deserves to be honoured as he undertook massive development projects in the area when he was the President of Ghana. Speaking…

Four persons have died in an accident that occurred at Nyanteh near the Eastern University of Environment and Sustainable Development in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region. An Opel Astra taxi cab with registration number AS 2061-12 and a Green Hyundai H-100 with registration number 5954-15 had a head-on collision The taxi driver was driving from Accra towards Somanya with eight passengers including children on board. That of the Hyundai had 13 passengers on board. The taxi veered off its lane and collided with the Hyundai, reports say. All vehicles were mangled beyond recognition. The four casualties are…

Members of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) will go ahead with their intended strike on Monday, September 21, its National President has said. According to Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo, the Association has not received any injunction from any court. After the Association and its allies announced their intention to embark on an industrial action by withdrawing their services, the National Labour Commission (NLC) proceeded to an Accra High Court to secure an interlocutory injunction on Friday. But speaking on TV3’s Midday Live on Saturday, September 19, Madam Ofori-Ampofo stressed: “We have not been served.” She said, as a result,…

Introduction  Almost three decades after Ghana signed onto the UN Charter on the Rights of the Child (1992), the ideals of gender inclusiveness remain hard to realize in technology based Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) learning and career in Ghana. In the wake of the free secondary level education policy in Ghana, girls’ enrolment into TVET institutions has significantly increased. However, information from the Ghana Education Service (GES) clearly shows that enrolments of girls into male dominated programmes like Electrical Installation Work, Electronics, Auto-Mechanics, among others, remain woefully low. The logical questions then are “Where are the girls and…

The final of this year’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful is scheduled to be held on Sunday, September 20 at TV3’s Studio B, for the first time in years. Six contestants have braced the odds to get to this stage. Greater Accra Region’s Naa, Volta Region’s Kafui, Central Region’s Afriyie, Ahafo Region’s Abena, Northern Region’s Zuzu and Upper East Region’s Talata are the contestants going to vie for the car, crown and cash. Organisers have promised an exciting show with Covid-19 safety protocols expected to be strictly enforced. Since the show was launched on Sunday, June 28, it has been held under…

Fourteen new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA). This was announced by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on its website on Friday, September 18. The number comes up to 15 those who have so far tested positive at the country’s major entry point since Tuesday, September 1, when it was reopened after its shutdown in March. All of them are in isolation. This has also increased the country’s total number of cases since the outbreak of the disease in March. The new cases at the Kotoka International Airport adds up to the 83 new…

The National Chief Imam, Shiekh Dr Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, has suspended, indefinitely, Alhaji Khuzaimah Osman, his Personal Assistant. “The National Chief Imam, in consultation with his Advisory Board, has indefinitely suspended Alhaji khuzaimah Osman from acting as an Officer at the National Chief Imam’s Office with immediate effect,” a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency said on Friday. The statement, signed by Alhaji A.D. Kadiri-English, Secretary to the Chief Imam Advisory Board, said henceforth Alhaji Khuzaima seizes to be the Personal Assistant to the National Chief Imam. He also seizes to be the Executive Director of the Chief Imam…