Author: Krobea

A Russian passenger plane has crashed after leaving Moscow’s Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow. All those on board are thought to have died, officials told Russian media. The An-148 was en route to the city of Orsk in the Urals, near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. It crashed early in the afternoon local time. Pictures from the crash site appear to show pieces of wreckage in a snow-covered field. Flight-tracking site Flightradar24 tweets that the aircraft was…

Agriculture alone cannot be the game-changer for Ghana, Professor Cletus Dordonoo has argued. He said every sector plays a part in the growth of the economy. The Chief Executive Officer of ClayDord Consult was contributing to discussions on TV3’s New Day on Saturday. The discussions were on last Thursday’s State of the Nation address by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. President Akufo-Addo shared with members of Parliament results his policies on agriculture are yielding. “For generations, we have bemoaned Ghana’s reliance solely on rain-fed agriculture,” the president noted. “This means the slightest change in the rainfall pattern exposed our farmers…

The Member of Parliament for Jomoro, Paul Essien has cut sod for the construction of seven circuit bungalows for Circuit Supervisors. The gesture is part of efforts towards ensuring effective supervision by Circuit Supervisors to help reduce teacher absenteeism in the Jomoro District of the Western Region. According to the MP, the roles of Circuit Supervisors are often hampered, especially in the area, due to lack of accommodation. He said the supervisors are to serve as a mediator between parents, opinion leaders, teachers as well as pupils as enshrined in the education regulation. But the Jomoro MP said effective monitoring…

Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running out of drinking water. However, the plight of the drought-hit South African city is just one extreme example of a problem that experts have long been warning about – water scarcity. Despite covering about 70% of the Earth’s surface, water, especially drinking water, is not as plentiful as one might think. Only 3% of it is fresh. Over one billion people lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce for at least one month…

Teenager Red Gerard snatched a dramatic gold medal in the men’s slopestyle to win the United States’ first gold of the Pyeongchang Games. The 17-year-old scored 87.16 on his final run with just four other athletes left to complete their third run. Canadian pair Max Parrot and Mark McMorris took silver and bronze respectively. “I feel awesome and so stoked about today,” Gerard said. “I cannot believe what has just happened it is insane.” Jamie Nicholls, Billy Morgan and Rowan Coultas all fell in qualifying on Saturday meaning there were no Britons in the final. Gerard made mistakes in his…

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has released 13 people who were kidnapped in north-eastern Nigeria last year, the government says. They include 10 women seized during an attack on a police convoy and three lecturers from Maiduguri taken during an oil exploration trip. President Muhammadu Buhari’s office said their release was facilitated by the Red Cross. About 20,000 people have died in Boko Haram’s eight-year insurgency. In a statement, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had acted only as a neutral intermediary and were not involved in the negotiations. ICRC vehicles arrived at a refugee…

The final year student of the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) shot dead by a police officer at Nyankrom in the Shama District of the Western Region has been buried. Lawrence Joe Baidoo was buried on Saturday. He met his untimely death on Friday, December 22, 2017 when detective corporal Adjei Shaibu shot at him and four other mates. They were mistaken for thieves, according to earlier reports, while going for a jam at night. While Lawrence Joe Baidoo, 18, died instantly, the others sustained injuries and were treated at the St Benedict Hospital in Takoradi. The officer has since…

The Deputy Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Nana Boakye has said vigilantism is not in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as many people may think. The National Youth Organiser aspirant said perhaps recent disturbances by some of the party’s youth members may have given room to the assertion. Speaking to Media General on Saturday while on an official visit to the north, Mr Boakye said the NPP is not noted for such. Recent vigilantism by some of the party’s youth groups notably Delta Force and Invisible Force have awakened the need for the majority of the youth to…

It appears the attention of the management team of dancehall artiste Ebony Reigns was drawn to an impending fatality but all efforts to turn it away proved futile given Thursday’s crash. Sound engineer Kaywa is named as one of the close pals who had a premonition that the unexpected will befall Ebony. “Kaywa saw this long time and did a lot of directions and prayers for us,” Ebony’s manager Ricky Nana Agyemang, popularly known as Bullet of Ruff N Smooth fame, posted on Facebook on Saturday. “I have chats with prophets who also saw this coming,” he added. “We did…

Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency Sam Nartey George appears unhappy with judgements of the country’s Supreme Court. According to him, some of the judgements “give government a carte blanche to be irresponsible”. He cited judgements in the Waterville and Isofoton, among a few others, as cases in point. Sam George was speaking on TV3 and 3FM’s New Day on Saturday. He was commenting on the recent high court decision upholding Exton Cubic Group’s license to prospect in the Nyinahini bauxite concession in the Tabo Offin Forest Reserve of the Ashanti Region. The Accra High Court held that the Minister…