Author: Krobea

The 3FM parliamentary debate train makes a stop at the Ablekuma South Constituency on Friday, September 18, 2020.  The debate will see incumbent Member of Parliament, Dr Alfred Oko Vanderpuye, face off with the New Patriotic Party’s Bernard Nii Anya Brown. The debate will give the constituents an opportunity to quiz both aspirants before the December 7 elections. From 6:00am to 11:00am, all roads in the Constituency will lead to the Chokor Tea Garden Filling Station, where the debate will be held. The 3FM town hall meeting is a Media General initiative to give a fair playing ground to aspirants…

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has advised members and supporters of the party to verify their names on the provisional voter register when the Electoral Commission opens it for exhibition at polling stations in all constituencies from Friday, September 18. Addressing the chiefs and people of Amanten in the Atebubu Amanten Constituency to kick-start his three-day tour of the Bono East Region, Mr Mahama said it would be unfortunate for any eligible voter to be disenfranchised because the person did not verify his or her name on the voters register during the Electoral Commission’s exhibition…

The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has directed its members to withdraw their services from Monday, September 21. According to the Association, government has failed to approve their conditions of service for the over 82,000 members. President of the Association Perpetual Ofori Ampofo on Thursday, September 17 told TV3’s Daniel Opoku that negotiations with government over their work conditions did not yield any results. She also raised issues with non-payment of the allowances for frontline health workers and insurance, which were promised as part of incentives in the fight against Covid-19. The Association says it has petitioned the…

After eight competitive weeks of extraordinary performances, which saw the men being separated from the boys, the final showdown is here!   The grand finale of season three of Connect FM’s Community Street Rap Battle is scheduled to take place this weekend, Saturday, September 19 at Kojokrom Lorry Park at 7:00pm. The show will also stream live online, Facebook: Connect 97.1. According to management, the grand finale of the Connect FM Community Street Rap Battle promises to be fun-filled with unique rap bars, hard punchlines, inventiveness and lyrical dexterity. Your guess is as good as mine, who wins the night when…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has announced that 5,000 of its biometric verification devices (BVDs) will be piloted during the voter exhibition exercise which begins on Friday, September 18. The devices will be operated alongside the physical copies for the eight-day exercise, the Chair of the Commission said on Thursday. Mrs Jean Mensa made this known while addressing journalists in Accra ahead of the start of the exhibition exercise. The exercise is aimed at affording prospective voters the opportunity to confirm or correct details in the recently compiled register. Aside the “light” corrections, the BVDs are expected to biometrically verify…

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has refuted claims of sabotaging the government with the recent incessant fluctuations in power supply. Ashanti Regional Chairman of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi Bosiako alleged that ECG and its energy allies such as GRIDCo have been fluctuating electricity supply intentionally to make the government unpopular. ECG’s Public Relations Manager for the Ashanti Region, Erasmus Kyere Baidoo, however, refuted the allegation. He says the power company gains nothing in sabotaging the government, but rather should be commended for working hard to keep the lights on. Speaking on Akoma FM’s flagship morning show, ‘GhanAkoma’,…

The governor of Nigeria’s north-western Kaduna state, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, has signed into law a measure introducing tough penalties for convicted rapists. The law says those convicted of raping a child below the age of 14 should be surgically castrated and given the death sentence. Where the victim is over 14 years, the law provides for surgical castration and life imprisonment. Female adults convicted of raping a child will face bilateral salpingectomy (removal of fallopian tubes) and death. In rape cases where the victim is under the age of 14, a medical report will be necessary to corroborate the allegations.…

Residents of Epowano, a fishing and farming community in Shama District of the Western Region, have resolved to exercise their franchise this year in the Western Region in December . The community even though geographically located in the Western Region had been voting in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipality of the Central Region for the past 16 years. They complained that Western Region had abandoned them. Epowano is a coastal community located along the border between the Shama District of the Western Region and the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipality of the Central Region. The community is without an engineered access road. As a result,…

One of the candidates writing this year’s ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), Richard Mensah, has died at Apremdo in the Western Region.  He died on Wednesday, September 16 after writing the Monday and Tuesday papers. According to his grandmother, who was speaking in an interview on the Omanbapa morning show on Connect FM with Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, he started complaining of headache last Saturday and was taken to the hospital for treatment. He, therefore, managed to participate in the exams only for him to pass on at the Jemima Hospital at Kwesimintsim on Wednesday. The deceased was a…