Author: Krobea

The death toll of Cuba’s deadliest air disaster in 30 years has risen to 111 after one of the survivors died of her injuries on Monday evening. Grettel Landrove, 23, was a flamenco dancer and student engineer. The news comes on the same day that Mexico’s civil air authority suspended the operations of a company that owned the plane involved in the crash. Officials said in a statement that Aerolíneas Damojh was under “extraordinary verification”. The charter company had leased the aeroplane in question to Cuban state airlines Cubana de Aviación. Speaking to the BBC outside the hospital, Ms Landrove’s…

Arsenal are set to appoint Unai Emery as their new manager. Manchester City assistant manager and former Gunners captain Mikel Arteta was strong favourite to succeed Arsene Wenger. Emery emerged as the unanimous choice following a recruitment process in which all candidates were spoken to. The 46-year-old Spaniard is available after leaving Paris St-Germain where he won one Ligue 1 title and four domestic cups in two seasons in charge. Previously he guided Sevilla to three consecutive Europa League triumphs between 2014 and 2016. Emery announced last month he would leave French champions PSG when his contract expired at the…

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are teaming up with Netflix to produce films and TV shows. Netflix say the former US President and First Lady have “entered into a multi-year agreement” with the service. It says the “films and series” will “potentially” include “scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features.” “Barack and I have always believed in the power of storytelling to inspire us,” said Michelle Obama. Exact details of programming have yet to be announced. The couple have created Higher Ground Productions to produce the content to be aired on Netflix. “One of the simple joys of our…

Highlife musician Gladstorm Kwabena Akwaboah Jnr., popularly known as Akwaboah Jnr., has disclosed that he is open to joining music label Zylofon Media if the deal is right. Akwaboah Jnr, who is currently signed to Sarkcess Music, made this disclosure on ‘After Hours’ on TV3 last Friday. Asked by host Mikki Osei Berko if he would ever consider joining Zylofon Music, Akwaboah responded, “I will think about it first”. “Why, because if the direction I want to go they cannot take me there, then I won’t be on. You read contracts and tell them what you want to do. You…

Ghanaian actress Jasmine Baroudi has disclosed that she gets orgasms anytime she gets a tattoo. Jasmine, who is not new to tattoos, made this revelation on After Hours on TV3 last Friday. She told host Mikki Osei Berko: “I do actually like tattoos. If it wasn’t for my mum, I would have probably covered my whole body with tattoos.” Asked why she likes tattoos considering the pain that is often associated with getting it, she responded: “The pain yeah, people ask me Jasmine, ‘you have so many tattoos are they not painful?’ “They are extremely painful depending on where you…

Government will in the next two weeks start advertisement for interested companies to apply for the bid to fly over and capture all parts of the country. This is part of plans to digitise the administration of land in the country by the end of 2018. Minister for Lands and Natural Resources John Peter Amewu made this known on Monday when he paid a visit to the newly constructed Ashanti Regional Lands and Natural Resources Office in Kumasi. “We need to move from the manual system and adopt a digital approach…We need a complete map of the country. Digitization is…

Songstress Mzbel says she is sad that no member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has checked up on her since she suffered a minor accident. She said her perceptions about NDC were worsened by a surprise visit she had from Member of Parliament for Weija/Gbawe Constituency Tina Mensah, a politician she strongly campaigned against in the last elections. In a Facebook post on Monday, the multiple-hit musician, who is beginning a love show on Onua FM Thursday, expressed gratitude to Ms Mensah, whom she described as “just too real”. “I am learning my lessons and I’d also want to…

An Accra High Court has dismissed an application brought before it by Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni, the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board, to have his account unfrozen by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). Dr Opuni’s account has been frozen by EOCO pending judgement on his trial of willfully causing financial loss to the state, among other 26 charges. He had applied to the Court to have his account unfrozen, arguing that the two accounts – at Standard Chartered Bank and Ecobank Ghana Limited – are not the subject of investigation in the trial.…

First Lady and Head of the Rebecca Foundation Rebecca Akufo-Addo has urged church groups, corporate entities and individuals to tailor some of their activities to include support for the needy and vulnerable in society. Quoting Matthew 25, verses 34-36 of the Bible and describing it as a picture of the admission criteria into Heaven, the First Lady said, “Then the King will say to those on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:  for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and…

Workers of METKA at Aboadze in the Western Region are said to be living in fear after youth of the area besieged the firm’s premises last Friday. Reports gathered by 3news.com say the youth attacked the company in demand for jobs they say are going to non-indigenes. Speaking on anonymity, a worker told Connect FM’s Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson that the youth numbered about 100. He said they were wielding “cudgels” and “other weapons”. They attacked the whites and other Ghanaian workers, our local station reported. Some workers were injured in the process. https://twitter.com/Connect971fm/status/998506450925375488 A report has since been made…