Author: Krobea

Residents in the South African city of Cape Town have been warned to “save water as if your life depends on it” to avoid the supply being shut off. A severe drought has forced the city’s municipality to limit consumption to 50 litres (11 gallons) per person per day. Officials are urging people to switch off their toilet cisterns and limit flushing to conserve water. The head of the provincial government said if the taps ran dry it would be “the disaster above all disasters”. Helen Zille said it was still possible to avoid what has become known as Day…

Ghanaian artiste Afro Moses has gotten rid of some centimeters of his dreadlocks in a gesture to honour Hugh Masekela. The legendary South African trumpeter died on Tuesday after a long battle with prostate cancer. A private funeral is expected to be held in his honour in accordance with his wishes. In an interview on a special edition of 3FM’s Urban Blend presented by Francis Doku on Friday, Afro Moses, popularly known as the African James Brown, said he cut some of his long hair off after he heard the news about Masekela’s demise. According to him, his locks were…

Three men have been mistakenly admitted to a cholera centre in Zambia after eating herbs with “sex enhancing” qualities, an official has said. The men were vomiting, a symptom of cholera, so worried well-wishers rushed them to the centre, Chanda Kasolo said. It turned out that the vomiting was caused by food, beer and the herbal concoction, he added. A cholera epidemic which broke out last year has so far claimed 70 lives in the southern African state. More than 3,000 cases have been reported. President Edgar Lungu last month ordered the military to clean markets and unblock drains to…

Four lives were lost at Beahu in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region on Friday after an ambulance collided with a truck. The ambulance was conveying a patient from Dixcove Hospital to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital. According to the police, the driver of the ambulance with registration number GV 1453-14 knocked down a pedestrian while overtaking some vehicles and rammed into the oncoming truck with registration number GT 7348-15. The truck was carting manganese from Takoradi to Tarkwa and said to belong to BBS Company, 3news.com gathered. The drivers of the two vehicles – Alex Asare and…

The five-member ad hoc committee set up by the Speaker of Parliament to probe into claims that foreign businesses were levied to sit near President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA) has finished its work. The committee brought its work to an end on Thursday after meeting a representative of the Controller and Accountant General. Prior to Thursday’s meeting, all the expatriate businesses invited to face the committee, in-camera, had failed to honour their respective invitations. This forced the committee to suspend sitting indefinitely. READ: No show by expatriates at ad hoc committee sitting Some…

Smokers need to quit cigarettes rather than cut back on them to significantly lower their risk of heart disease and stroke, a large BMJ study suggests. People who smoked even one cigarette a day were still about 50% more likely to develop heart disease and 30% more likely to have a stroke than people who had never smoked, researchers said. They said it showed there was no safe level of smoking for such diseases. But an expert said people who cut down were more likely to stop. ‘Stop completely’ Cardiovascular disease, not cancer, is the greatest mortality risk for smoking,…

The government of Ghana is at risk of payment of over GH¢200 million judgment debt as a result of failure of the University of Ghana Enterprise Limited to pay a loan contracted in 2008. The University of Ghana Enterprise Limited (UGEL), which is a wholly owned company of the University of Ghana responsible for hospitality activities, contracted a loan of GH¢43 million from a consortium of six banks with the University of Ghana as a guarantor of the loan in February 2008 but has since failed to repay the loan. iWatch Africa’s review of the Auditor General’s report revealed that…

The Chairperson of the Local Organising Committee of the 2018 Women’s Cup of Nations, Freda Prempeh, says the Committee is on course to stage a successful tournament. This assurance comes ahead of an inspection by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in the next three months. Speaking to TV3 about their plans, Ms Prempeh said everything will be ready in the next six months. “I have not given myself ten months. I have given myself six months because the next six months, we need to get everything in order, everything in shape for the tournament to take off.” The women’s…

Robert Sepey, the headmaster at the center of a leaked sex tape at Breman Edumanu in the Central Region, has not been sacked, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has clarified. This comes barely a day after a report sighted by 3news.com stated clearly that Mr Sepey, headmaster of Breman Edumanu D/A Basic School, has been relieved of his position. The report signed by the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Director of Education, Isaac Godwin Kwasi Acquah-Arhin, said Mr Sepey was relieved of his post after he admitted engaging in sex with Priscilla Tettey, a final year student of Odoben Senior High School. They…

Black Stars left back Abdul Baba Rahman is set to undergo medicals at German outfit Schalke 04 for a widely reported loan spell. The Royal Blues’ Sporting Director, Christian Heidel, announced this on Thursday at a press briefing. He appears impressed with the state of the Chelsea player’s health. Baba Rahman suffered a knee injury at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations during Ghana’s opening 1-0 win over Uganda’s Cranes. But he is steadily recovering though not in the plans of Chelsea coach Antonio Conte. Heidel stated: “We will give him the time he needs but the medical will reveal…