Author: Krobea

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the 2018/2019 academic year is expected to see a double of enrolment figures at the senior high school level due to the free education policy. At its implementation in 2017/2018, 90,000 more students were enrolled across various SHSs in the country, records show. “This year, the number will be doubled to 180,000 more young men and women in our secondary schools,” President Akufo-Addo told a gathering in Janga in the Northern Region. “We are also extending rapidly our teacher population,” he announced. “We are employing 8,000 more teachers this year to take care of…

As part of efforts to improve healthcare delivery in the country, Van Moorhouse Foundation, an NGO committed to enhancing lives of the underprivileged in the society, has extended its charity arm to the Renal and Oncology Units of the Child Health Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with assorted items worth GH¢10,000. It has also presented an unspecified amount of cash to support the payment of hospital bills including drug prescriptions among others of the disadvantaged children. The items included cartons of bottled mineral water, clothes, toiletries, toys, books, mackintosh bed, diapers and food. The idea was borne out…

Some physically challenged persons in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region have received support from the local assembly to expand and establish small businesses. The Assembly has used the 3% of its Common Fund allocated to the physically challenged to purchase start-up items for beneficiaries to go into economically viable venture. The items include refrigerators, sewing machines, food stuff for provision stores, farm inputs, baking machines, hairdressing kits, and capital for expansion of businesses. The beneficiaries, mostly unemployed, are hopeful the assistance will make them economically independent. “The items given to me will empower me economically and enable me…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has lent his “complete support” to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) for his swift action against the police officer who visited violence on a lady with a two-month old baby at Midland Savings and Loans. A video of the incident triggered public outrage after it went viral on social media Friday. https://youtu.be/0oIMVtgsbd8 The IGP, David Asante-Apeatu, directed the immediate arrest of the officer, Lance Corporal Godzi Federick Amanor, and initiated criminal processes against him. In a statement issued on Friday, the police high command issued a stern warning to all officers “reminding them to…

US president Donald Trump has called for NFL players to be banned for a season with no pay if they kneel for the national anthem. In May, the NFL introduced a new policy with teams fined if players fail to stand during the anthem. Since 2016, some players have knelt to protest against police treatment of African Americans. “Isn’t it in contract that players must stand at attention, hand on heart?” President Trump wrote on Twitter. “First time kneeling, out for game. Second time kneeling, out for season/no pay!” The NFL policy also asked that players who would refuse to…

Mental health units across the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions have taken delivery of psychotropic drugs worth $4 million from Breast Care International through non-governmental organization Basic Needs Ghana for supply to mental health patients. Speaking at a media briefing to hand over the medicines to beneficiary health directorates in Tamale, the Programmes Manager for Basic Needs Ghana, Adam Dokurugu Yahaya, appealed to the facilities not to sell the drugs to the mental health patients because persons with mental health are the poorest in society. “These medicines are worth over $4 million and what we require of you is…

A bullion driver has been accidentally shot dead by a police officer at Manya Kpongnor in the Odumase Krobo District of the Eastern Region. Details were sketchy but police later confirmed that Constable Amidu Osman was involved in the incident and he is already assisting investigations. Constable Osman accidentally shot the driver of a Nissan bullion van with registration number GN 1630-12. He was returning to Koforidua from Akosombo but on reaching Manya Kpongnor, a suburb of Odumase Krobo, a group of mourners had blocked the road. In an attempt to open up the road, Constable Osman accidentally shot the…

Former Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Charles Yaw Aheto-Tsegah has expressed little surprise at the result of the 2018 West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). He says the results reflect the kind of education received by students over the period they were in the classroom. The 2018 WASSCE results, released on Friday, July 13 by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), recorded a drop in performance in English Language and Mathematics. There was a marginal improvement, however, in Social Studies and Integrated Science. But generally about 60 per cent are said to have performed below standard…

There’s a type of leopard called the Amur leopard. In the whole world, there are less than 60 Amur leopards left. The Amur leopard and a good spouse have one thing in common today― they are both endangered species! You had better thanked your stars if you can call your spouse a good one. If they have faithfully helped you climb life’s ladder, be grateful you have in your home, at least, one of the endangered species. If they have unflinchingly stood by you in good and bad times, thanking God and showing appreciation to these spouses is a must,…

An Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of the Nigeria Police Force appeared startled by the assault a Ghanaian police officer meted on a woman carrying a baby in a banking hall. The incident, a video of which has since gone viral, involves Lance Corporal Godzi Frederick Amanor of the Accra Regional Police Operations Unit. He was captured brutally assaulting one Patience Sarfo, a customer of Midland Savings and Loans at Shiashie after her request to withdraw her total savings of GH¢270. https://youtu.be/0oIMVtgsbd8 The officer has since been arrested with investigations begun. But upon watching the video, the Head of the…