Author: Krobea

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is set to take its People’s Manifesto to the Ashanti Region and its environs. The opposition party has scheduled a town hall meeting in Kumasi, the regional capital, on Tuesday, September 15 on the document. The event, which will afford the party an opportunity to break down and explain the transformational policies and programmes contained in its 2020 manifesto, will also be held in other regions of the country in the coming weeks. The programme will be addressed by flagbearer John Dramani Mahama and other speakers. “The NDC assures the general public that we intend…

Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. In a Zoom call with about 250 of them, he said the party must not return to “miserable squabbling” over Europe. The EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month. And a Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any UK-EU trade deal…

Jamaican reggae pioneer Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert has died at the age of 77. The legendary musician fronted the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals from the early 1960s. Hibbert “passed away peacefully” in Kingston, Jamaica surrounded by his family, the group announced on Friday. As yet it is unknown how Hibbert died, although he had been tested for coronavirus in the last two weeks and was put into intensive care. Hibbert is credited with popularising reggae music and even naming the genre – his 1968 single “Do the Reggay” is the first song to use the term.…

The family of the late Dr Suleman Mahama Haroon Bakuri has rejected a donation of GH¢20,000 from the Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as his support for the funeral and burial rites of the late Wa Imam. According to the family, though the donation is well-intentioned, it is belated as the final rites have been performed already. But they raised other concerns. “Besides, the Vice President never showed up in person to mourn with the family when he paid a visit to the region on the 7th of September, 2020. “The money was only sent through the constituency Chairman…

The National Lottery Authority (NLA) in collaboration with the Volta Regional Police Command has successfully arrested four lotto fraudsters in the Volta Region. The four lotto fraudsters are Godwin Agbenyefia alias Demon, 19, Reuben Abusah alias Last Burial, 20, Kelvin Kwame Abouzi alias Kartel, 20, and Kingsley Adelekey, 21. The accused persons were operating from Akatsi and Ho. The Circuit Court in Ho presided over by His Honor Felix Datsomor has remanded the suspects in police custody to re-appear on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. The lotto fraudsters have created several Facebook accounts, Whatsapp platforms and other social media platforms using…

Ghana has recorded two additional deaths as regards the coronavirus pandemic. This takes the total number of deaths from 283 to 285. In the latest update released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Friday, September 11, 75 new cases were recorded. This takes the total cumulative number of cases to 45,388. The recoveries-cum-discharge is 44,267 while the active cases continue to fluctuate. They are currently 836. Regional breakdown Greater Accra – 22,885 Ashanti – 10,912 Western – 2,963 Eastern – 2,388 Central – 1,904 Bono East – 777 Volta – 668 Western North – 638 Northern – 528 Ahafo…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given the assurance that government will pay back the deposits of all customers of the defunct ‘DKM’ micro finance company by the end of October. He said his administration inherited GHC700 million debt in the “DKM” brouhaha from the previous government, but the official liquidator had finalised modalities and customers were expected to receive their deposits as soon as possible. President Akufo-Addo gave the assurance when he inaugurated the Weddi Africa Tomato Processing and Agro farms under the government’s One-District-Factory (1D1F) initiative at Domfete in the Berekum West District of the Bono Region. The…

Residents of Yama in the West Mamprusi Municipality in the North East Region last Wednesday demonstrated over the state of the main access road to the town from Walewale. The aggrieved residents, who walked peacefully on the main access road from Mishio to the town for two hours, said they do not understand why the contractor had abandoned the road, leaving the culvert unfilled. This they say has made it totally impossible to use the road thereby denying them access to healthcare in Walewale despite numerous promises by authorities to get the contractor back on site to continue work on…

Excellent Ghana says it has been observing with keen interest, the matters and issues arising from the outbreak of Bird Flu (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza HPAI H5NI) in Ghana since 2015. While commending government for adopting tough measures to contain the bird flu outbreak, the civil society organization says it is shocked, at the revelation by Mr. Victor Oppong, President of the Ghana Poultry Farmers Association, that the majority of their members whose birds/farms were destroyed owing to the Bird Flu outbreak are yet to be compensated five solid years after their livelihoods have been destroyed. The CSO, says, it…

The Senegalese army says about 100 of its soldiers from the peacekeeping mission in The Gambia have tested positive for coronavirus. The military contingent composed of 600 soldiers was returning home. They have been quarantined in Toubacouta, on Senegalese territory near the border with The Gambia, as a precautionary measure. Those who tested positive are asymptomatic. More tests are being done. The peacekeeping mission in The Gambia, deployed by regional bloc Ecowas in 2012, mainly consists of Senegalese soldiers. It was deployed to force former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to hand over power to his elected successor Adama Barrow and…