Author: Krobea

A driver and his mate were left to their fate after their car was dangerously parked when police pulled them over. The Accra-bound cargo vehicle was on its way to deliver goods on Tuesday when the incident happened. Ghana is tipped to lead Africa as the fastest growing economy in 2018 with a growth rate of eight per cent, according to the World Bank. In its latest report dubbed ‘Global Economic Prospects: Sub-Saharan Africa’, the World Bank forecasts that growth in sub-Saharan Africa will pick up at 3.2 per cent in 2018, and Ghana will lead the economies in Africa…

A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia. Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town’s Merkeb Tabya district. Residents and police told BBC Amharic a crocodile leapt from the water during the baptism and attacked him. Pastor Docho died after being bitten on his legs, back and hands. “He baptised the first person and he passed on to another one. All of a sudden, a crocodile jumped out of the lake and grabbed the pastor,” local resident Ketema…

Medifem Multi-Specialist Hospital & Fertility Centre has announced a one-year healthcare sponsorship package for finalists of the 2018 edition of the National Science & Maths Quiz. In the sponsorship deal, Medifem is providing a healthcare package which will see all nine finalists of the 2018 edition of the Quiz receive free primary healthcare from the facility for a one year-period. The hospital will also be providing primary healthcare cover to the competing students, teachers and production crew during the production of the 2018 National Science & Maths Quiz and Science Festival. At a brief signing ceremony, Hospital Manager Wilhelmina Banful…

Yep! I love porn and God or God and porn whichever works for you. I have never been one to put labels on things or position things in my life. I believe as humans we can love people or things equally without subjecting ourselves to unnecessary scrutiny or questions or judgements. My obsession with porn began when I started watching movies with erotic scenes. I am a virgin but I have made out with several guys I dated who to be fair did their very best to get me in the “mood” but I always found myself stopping them or…

Controversial artiste Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah, known in showbiz as Mzbel, says that regardless of her admiration of the excellent talent and vocal abilities of young female musicians, she notices that they are too cautious. She feels that attitude holds them back from greatness. “…music is like a spirit, you have to let yourself go and allow the song to carry you,” she said Explaining in clearer terms, she cited Ebony as an ideal example of one who went all out and that paid off in the success she chalked within the very short period of time. “It is not…

Leadership of Persons With Disability (PWDs) in Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese in the Central Region in collaboration with the local assembly is mapping out a strategy to disburse the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF) to their members. In an interview with Kwame Kakraba, the District Chief Executive of for Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese District Assembly, Aba Hagan, urged leadership of various associations in charge of disability common funds across the country to be transparent in dealing with its members. The government has increased the allocation of DACF to PWDs from 2 per cent to 3 per cent. Speaking during the presentation of items in Abura/Asebu/Kwamankese, Ms…

A former Chief Executive Officer of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Osei Kwame Griffiths, says the public-private partnership (PPP) agreement for the National Identification System (NIS) project is “highly inappropriate”. He also says the contract is overpriced. “In its current form, I have serious doubts the contract will pass a value for money audit,” he said in a release on Monday. The release is to react to assertions by NIA on the project, which failed to roll out last Monday. The Authority apologised for the outcome. READ: Registration for Ghana Card suspended indefinitely after failed roll-out Mr Griffiths contends that…

“…I don’t know why God decides to give us so many lives…” [Rawlings narrating the events of June 4 on its 35th commemoration] Perhaps the exact thoughts of the Former President informed this article. Having had no encounter whatsoever with this ‘defining’ event of our history, as a young inquisitive person I cannot but help muse over what our country could have become if events did not unfold as we know it today. Perhaps the very popular 2006 science fiction thriller ‘Deja Vu’ that featured Hollywood’s most celebrated, Denzel Washington, has had so much influence on me. But as one…

The tackle which forced Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah to leave the pitch 30 minutes into the Champions League final last week has featured as a question in a law exam, it’s been reported. Syrian pages on Facebook circulated images from the General Penal Code exam sat by first-year students at the University of Damascus. The question reads: “Sergio Ramos injured Mohamed Salah in the 2018 European Champions League final. Naturally, Ramos cannot be held to account for this action from a criminal law perspective due to four conditions that make the use of violence justified in sports. State these conditions.”…

Songstress Mzbel seems to have had enough of religious controversies. She has in the recent past expressed disbelief in the Christian Messiah, Jesus Christ, and has described Christianity as idol worshipping. The vocal singer has taken it a step further, describing speaking in tongues as utter nonsense. In a new song, ‘Tongues’, produced by Hydraulix, Mzbel, born Belinda Nana Akua Amoah, begins with a few lines in a strange language – considered tongues. While responding to why she was poking fun at Christians and tongue-speaking, she said: “Tongues itself is play. It is very silly… when you go to church…