Author: Krobea

Former National Coordinator of the erstwhile National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) Abuga Pele has been convicted on 13 counts of offences and subsequently sentenced to six years imprisonment. The former boss of NYEP – which was later renamed Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Development Agency (GYEEDA) and now Youth Employment Agency (YEA) – was facing trial on a total of 19 counts including ‘willfully causing financial loss to the state’. Justice Afia Serwaa Asare-Botwe found him guilty and jailed him for six years. He is to serve four other years concurrently. Businessman Philip Akpeena Assibit, who was the Chief Executive…

2017 FA Cup champions Asante Kotoko have relieved coach Steven Polack of his duties barely a day after the club returned from an unsuccessful trip to Congo in the CAF Confederation Cup. The fortunes of the club were ruined by penalty misses, which caused its exit from the continent’s second-tier club competition at the expense of Congo’s CARA-Brazzaville. The playing body as well as technical team returned to Ghana on Thursday. But in a brief statement on Friday, the club said management has relieved the Englishman of his role as Head Coach of the club “effective immediately”. “We wish him…

Angry villagers in the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra have set a church ablaze after its pastor conducted a wedding between a man and his teenager sister, the website of privately-owned daily Nigerian Tribune has reported. The local community in Agba, Ekwulobia, termed the siblings’ union as an abomination. “In an apparent reaction to the unusual wedding, Agba Village youths who saw the marriage as an abomination set ablaze the church where the wedlock took place,” the newspaper said. According to the report, the siblings’ older brother conducted the wedding, citing Biblical scriptures to back up his actions. In a…

Barnaby Joyce says he will resign as Australia’s deputy prime minister following a politically damaging saga that began with his affair with a former staffer. Mr Joyce said he would step down on Monday as leader of the Nationals, the junior government partner. He had previously resisted calls to quit amid intense scrutiny over his ministerial conduct. The scandal has dominated Australian politics for more than two weeks. He described his decision on Friday as a “circuit-breaker” for his family and new partner, with whom he is expecting a baby in April. “This current cacophony of issues has to be…

A delegation of Chiefs and Queen mothers of Ngleshi Alata Traditional Council on Thursday paid a courtesy call on the President of the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs, Nii Okwei Kinka Dowuona VI, to officially inform him of the demise of Oblempong Nii Kojo Ababio V, the Paramount Chief of Ngleshie Alata Traditional Area and to introduce the acting President of Ngleshi Alata Traditional Area, Nii Ngleshi Addy V, to him. Accepting the acting President for Ngleshi Alata, the President of the Regional House of Chiefs, reckoned that in all spheres there ought to be a leader. He advised…

Ghana’s Black Queens beat their archrivals Nigeria’s Super Falcons 5-4 on penalties in the semi-final of the ongoing WAFU Women’s Cup on Thursday to book a place in the final. The match ended 1-1 in full regulation time after Faustina Ampah cancelled out Alice Ogebe’s first-half opener. The high-tempo game at the Parc de Sports in Ivory Coast saw the rivalry of the two African giantesses rekindled. In the shootouts, Ghana won 4-3 to carry the day. The Queens will play hosts Ivory Coast in the final on Saturday. The two sides have already met in the tournament, having played…

The BBC is seeking a rising star of African journalism for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award, now in its fourth year. Journalists from across the continent are invited to apply for the award, which aims to uncover and promote fresh talent from Africa. The winner will spend three months at the BBC headquarters in London, gaining skills and experience. Applications close on 23 March 2018 at 23:59 GMT. The award was established to honour Komla Dumor, an exceptional Ghanaian broadcaster and presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41 in 2014. This year’s award is being…

A total of 27 street lights have been successfully installed on the Abdul Gamel Naser Street as part of Media General’s #LetThereBeLight campaign. The #LetThereBeLight campaign began on November 6, 2017 and was spearheaded by 3FM’s and Onua FM’s morning show hosts – Winston Amoah and Bright Asempa respectively. Their passion was borne out of numerous complaints received daily on Sunrise and Yensempa about the absence of street lights on some major roads. The latest gesture was done on the stretch that runs from the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) to the Ghana Police Service headquarters junction on the Ring…

Some adolescent boys in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region diagnosed of HIV have reportedly developed swollen breasts, a condition which health experts say is the side-effects of anti-retroviral drugs they are taking. A pediatric specialist and head of the adolescents HIV clinic at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital(KATH), Dr Anthony Enimil, indicated that the swollen breasts of the boys is an irreversible medical condition called gynaecomastia, which can only  be corrected through surgery. “The tissues would have to be removed and surgically sutured such that it does not show because we cannot take them off the drugs and if they…

US President Donald Trump has said arming teachers could prevent school shootings like that which left 17 people dead last week in Florida. A staff member with a gun could end an attack “very quickly”, he said. Mr Trump floated the proposal – long-championed by the powerful NRA gun lobby – as emotional survivors of the 14 February massacre urged him to take measures to stop similar attacks. The US leader called for improved background checks on gun buyers. “It’s not going to be talk like it’s been in the past,” he said. What do students and parents want? President…