Author: Krobea

The Passport Office in Accra has been temporarily shut down after a fault was detected with the lighting system. The shutdown is a stop-gap measure to allow work to be undertaken on the facility, a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration told TV3. Speaking on News 360 on Tuesday, Mohammad Habibu Tijani said workers at the Office detected smoke coming out of one of the rooms. “Everything went off,” he said, “as [electricians] were able to shut down the machines.” Officers from the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) were later called in to assess the situation, the deputy…

US President Donald Trump has picked one of his political strategists as campaign manager for his 2020 re-election campaign. The Trump Organization hired Brad Parscale, 42, in 2011 as a digital media guru. He was asked in 2015 to create a website for Mr Trump’s exploratory White House bid and a year later became the campaign’s digital director. The president’s son, Eric Trump, confirmed the appointment. He said in a press release on Tuesday: “Brad is an amazing talent and was pivotal to our success in 2016. “He has our family’s complete trust and is the perfect person to be…

The Minister of Youth and Sports has handed a three-bedroom house to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to serve as a permanent residence for any Black Stars coach. The house, located at Airport Residential Area in Accra, the country’s capital city, will therefore serve as residence for current coach James Kwesi Appiah, who is said to have been impressed with the apartment. The move comes in the wake of huge expenses on accommodation for the national team’s coach with some, especially the expatriates, living in relatively expensive hotels. The last expatriate to handle the Stars, Avram Grant, for instance, is…

North Korea will participate in the Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang, according to South Korea’s news agency. The two countries have been discussing North Korea’s involvement at the border village of Panmunjom. The decision follows the North’s participation in the Olympics, widely seen as successful piece of diplomacy which brought a hint of rapprochement. However, countries like the US and Japan remain wary of nuclear-armed North Korea’s intentions. It will be the first North Korean delegation to attend a Winter Paralympics. Only two athletes, both para skiers, have been invited to take part in the Games, which will be held…

Lizzy Sports Academy was at the weekend crowned champions of the first ever Skyboom FC Open Football tournament held at the Oyarifa Doga Football Park. The Academy boys defeated Division One campaigners Phar Rangers 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 drawn game in regulation time. En route to the finals Lizzy Sports Acadmey defeated GHC FC 1-0 in their opening game before thrashing Royal Success FC 4-1 in the second game. They, however, lost their final group game 1-0 to Krystal Palace. But they continued their championship quest by beating Royal Life FC 1-0 quarter finals and recorded the same…

Edward Kufuor, the son of the former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor, has explained why he decided to pursue a career in acting, rather than follow in the steps of his father to become a politician. Mr. Kufuor, who made an appearance on the hit satirical show After Hours with Mikki Osei Berko on TV3, also revealed that in addition to being an actor and a businessman, he is also a farmer and a pastor. Having made his debut theatre performance in 1986, Edward Kufuor bemoaned the seriousness attached to the acting profession in Ghana. “We do not quite…

One of the accused persons in the case in which Aisha Huang and some four other Chinese nationals are standing trial for engaging in illegal mining has defied the court order asking him to file his medical report to the registrar. The order followed his absence from court on Monday, February 19 compelling the judge to adjourn the case. Aisha Huang told the court Lu qi Ju was taken ill on Saturday, February 17 and subsequently sent to the hospital for medical attention. The judge, Justice Charles Ekow Baiden, ordered the accused person to file medical reports from an accredited…

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has launched a Youth and Sports Development Sub-Committee to uplift the image of sporting activities in the Kumasi metropolis. Speaking at a ceremony to officially outdoor the committee, KMA Chief Executive Osei Assibey Antwi, said Kumasi is known to be a haven for outstanding sporting talents. He said many talented footballers were first discovered in Kumasi. However, in recent years the neglect of promising stars by stakeholders, he said, has resulted in a sharp decline or in some cases, the non-development of some sporting discipline. The mayor of Kumasi said the establishment of the Youth and Sports…

A welder, Quarshie Bruno, who attacked a student and stole her phone at Dansoman has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour. The presiding judge at the Accra Circuit Court, Aboagye Tando, warned that the sentence should be a deterrent to others. According to prosecution, on September 10, 2017, while the complainant was returning from school around 10:30pm, Bruno snatched her Samsung Mobile phone worth GH¢ 860. The student, Ruth Birago Owusu, then started shouting for help that attracted sympathizers including a taxi driver, who chased the accused and apprehended him and handed him over to the Dansoman…

The High Court in Kenya has ordered the government to facilitate the return of opposition politician Miguna Miguna who was deported to Canada, local news site The Nation reports: https://twitter.com/NationBreaking/status/968040189267529733 The Kenyan-born politician was deported to Canada, where he also holds citizenship, after being held for days by the police. Kenyan authorities say that under the old constitution, Kenyans couldn’t hold dual-citizenship meaning that Mr Miguna’s acquisition of a Canadian passport in 1988 cost him his Kenyan nationality. Under Article 17 of the Kenyan Constitution, a person born in Kenya can only have their citizenship revoked if it was acquired…