Author: Krobea

Morocco’s bid to host the 2026 World Cup has passed a Fifa inspection – but is deemed “high risk” in three areas. The North African country will compete with a joint United States, Canada and Mexico bid in a vote on 13 June. Morocco scored 2.7 out of five in Fifa’s test while the joint bid scored four, with no “high risk” areas. Fifa said of the 14 stadiums submitted by Morocco, nine were yet to be built and the remaining five “require significant renovation or upgrading”. Only two of the 14 stadiums were deemed to have “sufficient levels of…

Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore on 12 June is back on, the US president says, a week after it was scrapped. Mr Trump made the announcement after talks with a senior North Korean envoy at the White House. The envoy, General Kim Yong-chol, hand-delivered a letter from the North Korean leader to President Trump. Mr Trump at first said the letter was “very interesting” but later said he had not yet opened it. He also said the issue of formally ending the Korean War would be on the table in Singapore. The 1950-53 conflict only ended with…

“And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.” Judges 14:8 Many a times, our lives stink. It reeks of misfortunes and stagnancy. Sometimes, when we take a retrospect of our lives, all we see is the needless waste we made out of it. The only remains we have of it is the carcass. The biblical Samson, during one of his usual adventures, tore apart with his bare hands a young lion…

Two lions, two tigers and a jaguar have escaped from a zoo in Lünebach in western Germany, police have said. Local authorities advised residents to stay inside their homes and call police if they see anything. A massive hunt is under way for the five big cats. A bear had also escaped from the privately owned Eifel zoo, but was shot, a local official told AFP. German media report the animals were able to break out after flooding from a storm overnight. Owned by the Wallpott family, the 30-hectare (74-acre) zoo is home to nearly 400 animals of 60 species,…

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has begun an exercise to rid the country’s capital town, Accra, of beggars and street children. The exercise, which began last Friday, has seen about 200 persons including children from Niger and Nigeria picked up from some ceremonial streets, under bridges and in traffic, mostly begging for alms. La Dadekotopon Municipal Assembly (LADMA) has been added to the exercise. As a result, areas such as  Airport City, Airport, Accra Mall, Spanner Junctio, 37 Military Hospital and the Ghana Standards Board (Shiashie) have been covered. A statement released on Friday said the AMA is working closely…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has corrected an impression that he used Nigeria as a negative example in a recent speech in the UK. The immediate past president of Africa’s most populous nation, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, is said to have mentioned Mr Akufo-Addo as passing disparaging comments about Nigeria. “It is important to stress that the comments made by the former Nigerian President, at the inauguration of the first bridge built by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State in Ado Ekiti, took the words of President Akufo-Addo completely out of context,” a release issued by Ghana’s High Commissioner to Nigeria,…

The General Overseer of God’s Crown Chapel, Prophet Reindolph Oduro Gyebi, popularly nown as Eagle Prophet, has warned young men in the country to be wary of some young women of today since most of them have been sent by the devil to trap these young men. Prophet Oduro Gyebi said such ladies are rampant everywhere, especially in public places like hotels. Eagle Prophet gave the caution in an interview on Friday on Onua FM’s Yen Nsempa hosted by Bright Kwasi Asempa. He said such temptations also happen to men of God who believe they are too powerful because such…

Defending champions Golden State Warriors took a 1-0 lead in the NBA Finals with a controversial 124-114 overtime win against Cleveland Cavaliers, despite a 51-point haul from LeBron James. Late in the fourth quarter, Cavaliers’ JR Smith ran down the clock instead of attempting a game-winning shot. The Warriors dominated overtime at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. Game two in the best-of-seven series takes place in Oakland on Sunday night. Stephen Curry scored 29 points for Golden State, who beat the Cavaliers in the first game of the finals for the fourth year in a row. James, playing in his…

Staff of the Komenda College of Education have bemoaned the allocation of programmes to the College by the Ministry of Education. According to them, the College and others across the country would be without students if the Ministry goes ahead with the current allocation plan. This was disclosed at a news conference on Wednesday. Addressing the media, the worried teachers of the Komenda College called on the Ministry of Education and the National Council for Tertiary Education to intervene to avert the collapse of the College  by maintaining the running of the General Programme. The General Programme is apparently the…

A 20th minute strike by Richmond Lamptey separated Inter Allies and Hearts of Oak in their Match Day 14 fixture played at the Tema Sports Stadium. The match on Thursday was definitely centered around former Hearts of Oak trainer, Kenichi Yatsuhashi. The American-Japanese parted ways with Hearts two seasons ago but returned to the Ghana Premier League with his appointment as Inter Allies’ gaffer. READ: Kenichi Yatsuhashi returns as Inter Allies coach There were lots at stake in the encounter in Tema. The balances tilted in favour of the home side, who still kept their clean record at home. The…