Author: Krobea

The Youth and Sports Minister, Isaac Asiamah, has tasked the two clubs representing Ghana in African club competitions to go and make the nation proud. Dormaa-based Aduana Stars and Kumasi Asante Kotoko will be playing in the preliminary stages of the CAF Champions League and the Confederation Cup respectively this weekend. The Minister, who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Atwima Mponua Constituency in the Ashanti Region, told journalists at a press briefing that the government is committed to support the teams shine Africa. “We are praying they play in the continental competition and do exploits,” he said. “For some time…

Nana Opoku Kwarteng, the father of popular artiste Ebony Reigns, has expressed sadness over the death of her daughter. He was obviously short of words on Friday morning when journalists caught up with him at his Dansoman residence. Speaking to Media General’s Owusu Worae, Nana Kwarteng said he heard the news on radio just like most people. “I actually didn’t believe that until it was confirmed by the Regional Police Commander or something that my girl is dead.” He told our entertainment reporter that the last time he spoke with his daughter was on Wednesday. She told him about her…

Andre Ayew has revealed how his father, legendary former Ghana and Marseille player Abedi Pele, helped persuade him to rejoin Swansea City. The Swans spent a club-record £18m – possibly rising to £20m – to sign Ayew on January transfer deadline day. His father, Abedi Pele, is a three-time African Player of the Year and won the 1993 Champions League with Marseille. “He’s happy. Even when I was leaving [in 2016] he wasn’t for me leaving Swansea that season,” said Ayew. “He didn’t really want me to leave but football things happen and decisions are made. “When I had the…

Award-winning actor Kofi Adjorlolo has made an audacious call to organisers of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) to give the Artiste of the Year gong to Ebony. “Like we all know, [2018 VGMA] Artiste of the Year, they have to decide to give it to her posthumously.” The veteran actor made this suggestion on Friday at the family house of the late songstress. He was there to mourn with the family. He recounts how he grew fond of the talented artiste liking everything she posts on Instagram. “What saddens me is that this girl is dead and gone with…

A man suspected of hiding drugs inside his body is refusing to do a poo for Essex Police. His self-imposed toilet strike has now passed 20 days and officers are getting fed up with the lack of movement in the case. They say he’s under constant watch and undergoing daily medical tests. Newsbeat’s been finding out what holding on for so long does to your insides and, perhaps surprisingly, it turns out it might not be that bad. “There’s only so long you can hang on,” says Trish Macnair, from the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology. She points out the…

The 2018 Winter Olympics have opened in South Korean city of Pyeongyang. The multi-sport event will involve 92 countries and close to 3,000 athletes. The event was officially opened South Korean president Moon Jae-in. The 2,952 athletes will compete in 15 disciplines but in 102 events. Before the Games, there was uncertainty over the participation of North Korea due to the political tension with the South. READ: North Korea to send team to Olympics But the North thawed the relations by confirming participation while athletes decided to compete together. The Koreas will use a single flag. Ghana will be represented…

Barely eight days into the ultimatum given to the president by the Minority in Parliament to sack the Finance Minister for his involvement in the infamous ‘$2.25 billion Kenbond saga’, the president has expressed satisfaction with the work of the beleaguered minister so far. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his second State of the Nation address delivered Thursday, February 8 described the minister as a “national asset” through whose contribution “the world is taking notice of Ghana’s economic strides”. According to the president, the economy of Ghana has started showing good results, a feat he attributed to the Economic…

Thirty-eight years old man Andy Abraham has gone missing since Tuesday and the family is in desperate distress. The man, who works with AVIANS in Airport Accra, left home for work and never returned. In an interview on Onua FM’s morning show Yensempa, a brother of Andy’s said when the wife of the missing man called AVIANS, she was told by some of his colleagues that he has been picked up by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for taking pictures of government vehicles, which arrived at the Kotoka International Airport and sent to it to a radio station. According…

A Nigerian airline has blamed a passenger after one of its aircraft doors fell off shortly after landing. The flight from Lagos to Abuja was taxiing on the runway when the emergency exit door came away. Dana Air denied that it was caused by a mechanical fault, and said the door could not fall off “without a conscious effort by a passenger to open it”. But one passenger told the BBC that everyone on board had denied tampering with the door. Dapo Sanwo, from Lagos, said: “The flight was noisy with vibrations from the floor panel. I noticed the emergency…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed sadness over the sudden death of multiple award-winning songstress Ebony Reigns. Ebony, as she was popularly known, died on Thursday in a motor accident on the Accra-Sunyani highway. READ: Ebony gone! Many celebrities have already paid tribute to the 20-year-old artiste. President Akufo-Addo also took to Twitter on Friday to pay his tribute. Saddened by the news of the death of the young, but extremely talented female artiste, Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, aka Ebony Reigns. — Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) February 9, 2018 By all accounts, she had a very promising music career. My deepest condolences…