Author: Krobea

Former Member of Parliament for Nanton Constituency Ibrahim Mohammed Murtala has accused the Akufo-Addo-led government of trying to divert attention in the Anas-Nyantakyi saga from the bribery issues involving the president, vice president and other government functionaries. The former National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP says the issues unearthed by the investigation of Anas Aremeyaw Anas goes beyond the Ghana Football Association (GFA). But, he argues, government is trying to shift the focus onto the GFA by dissolving it and forming an interim management committee to oversee football administration. Making this known on TV3’s New Day on Tuesday, Mr Mohammed Murtala…

Authorities at Ketan Methodist Primary School had a shock of their lives on Tuesday morning when they got to the school to see the storeroom broken into by thieves. All items needed to cook for the over 400 pupils under the Ghana School Feeding Programme were made away with by the thieves. The storeroom is where the caterers kept the ingredients for the daily meals of the school kids. The school authorities have, as a result, decided to close school early to get the kids home. Speaking on 3FM on Tuesday, Western Region correspondent Paa Kwesi Simpson said sacks of…

Phones of journalists covering the case involving the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Obengfo Hospital were seized on the orders of magistrate Efua Sackey. According to her Worship Efua Sackey, journalists cannot report from the court as of right. As a result, she ordered the court warrant officer (CWO) to seize all the phones of the journalists present before beginning to hear the case. The case involving Dr Dominic Obeng-Andoh has attracted interests from many media firms as he has been charged for the murder of the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Plan (NEIP), Stacy Offei…

A former Vice-President of the Ghana Football Association(GFA), Fred Pappoe, has backed efforts by the government to reform the Association, following the release of Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s investigative piece. Fred Pappoe, who made an appearance on ‘After Hours’ on TV3 last Friday, argued that the “state has power to take decisions it considers to be in the interest of Ghanaians” though he insisted that the right “procedures” should be adopted. Fred Pappoe also indicated to host Mikki Ose Berko his desire to return to the GFA if the requisite reforms are instituted. He stated: “If the ban is lifted and…

AirtelTigo announced today that its CEO Roshi Motman has decided to leave the company to pursue new opportunities.  She will be replaced by Mitwa Kaemba Ng’ambi. Ms Motman has enjoyed considerable successes during her time with first Tigo Ghana and subsequently AirtelTigo. Having joined Tigo Ghana in 2014, she steered the company to significant achievements, including the successful completion of the merger between Airtel and Tigo last year. During her time at Tigo Ghana she revived the company and gained recognition for the financial and operational turnaround of the business and her strong record of developing and nurturing talent. Her…

President of the Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) Kudjoe Fianoo is reported to have withdrawn from the five-member committee set up by the government to oversee football administration in Ghana in the face of a dissolved Ghana Football Association (GFA). The reports of his withdrawal came on Monday, a day before the committee’s inauguration. The committee was set up by government on Wednesday, June 13 after an Accra High Court upheld an injunction application to have the GFA dissolved. The chairman of the interim management committee (IMC) is Dr Kofi Amoah, the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of Ghana…

Maradona Yeboah Adjei, known by his stage name Guru, has stated that award snub by Charterhouse Ghana Limited over the years has rather encouraged him to put in more effort into his music. Guru, who has sparred with Charterhouse over awards snub in the past, insisted that there is no way he is ‘beefing’ with the production company as a body. He told Mikki Osei Berko on the ‘After Hours’ on TV3 last Friday: “I cannot have any problem with Charter House but my fans are disappointed. I can only work harder. [Charterhouse] rather inspire me a lot.” The NKZ…

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is making a two-day visit to China, a week after meeting US President Donald Trump. It is expected he will discuss sanctions and the commitment he made at the summit, in general terms, to denuclearise the Korean peninsula. Beijing, North Korea’s only economic ally, has already suggested sanctions against North Korea could be eased. Meanwhile, the US and South Korea have confirmed they have suspended planning for their next joint military drills. That follows a pledge made by Mr Trump at the Singapore summit. The visit to China is Mr Kim’s third since March, when his…

A member of the legal team of investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Sammy Darko, says after all said and done, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) will be chased to cough up at least GH¢20,000 for work done. This is in connection to an undertaking given by the former President of the GFA, Kwesi Nyantakyi, in November, 2017 that an incentive to the tune of GH¢20,000 will be handed to anyone who provides evidence on corruption within the Association. “One of the things that we will be doing come next season is to discourage corruption,” Mr Nyantakyi told journalists in Cape…

Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) President Kwesi Nyantakyi has rendered unqualified apologies to some high-ranking state officials including a former president. “I owe them my deepest apologies because in my interaction with the supposed Sheikh from Qatar and his agents, I made comments that were not responsible having regard to my stature and experience,” Mr Nyantakyi said in a statement released on Monday to tell his side of the story about an exposé by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. “Those comments resulted from a poor exercise of discretion arising on the spur of the moment and in circumstances in which I…