Author: Krobea

Minister of Energy Boakye Agyarko says government has succeeded in stabilizing the supply of power. “Our next mandate is to begin the reduction in pricing,” he pointed out. He indicated that already the Ministry is getting cooperation from stakeholders to achieve the set target. “We believe that through this budget to the end of the year, we should be able to start bringing prices down,” he said on Wednesday at a press briefing in Accra. Ghana had battled erratic power supply, popularly known as Dumsor, from late 2012 until 2016. The then National Democratic Congress (NDC) government said power production…

An Italian woman has married herself in a ceremony complete with white dress, three-layer wedding cake, bridesmaids and 70 guests. “I firmly believe that each of us must first of all love ourselves,” said Laura Mesi, a 40-year-old fitness trainer. “You can have a fairytale even without the prince.” The ceremony carries no legal weight. But Ms Mesi is part of a growing trend for self-marriage – dubbed “sologamy” – in countries around the world. Proponents of such ceremonies say it is about self-love and acceptance, and claiming the social affirmation normally reserved for couples who wed. Laura says the…

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for more determination in countering the menace of human trafficking. The Secretary General made the remarks at Wednesday’s High level meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons, in New York. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, tens of millions of people are victims of forced labour, sexual servitude, and recruitment as child soldiers and other forms of exploitation and abuse. The Secretary General noted that trafficking in persons grips the weakest and most…

A Former Minister of Health under the President Kufuor administration, Dr. Richard Anane, has maintained that the National Health Insurance Levy must be increased by one and half percent. According to Dr. Anane, he had constantly proposed to the ousted NDC government to increase the levy by one and half percent with the suggestion that the increase is taken from the National Infrastructure Fund. “What I kept on telling them was that you want to do infrastructure but infrastructure you don’t need to put the money aside and say I am now going to do infrastructure because not until someone…

Chancellor Angela Merkel has been warned by potential coalition partners she faces a tough task in pulling together a workable German government. “Politics is not mathematics,” warned the leader of the business-friendly FDP, Christian Lindner, seen as a natural coalition ally. In a separate, dramatic development, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble was reported to have lost his job, He will take on the role of president of the Bundestag, sources say. Mr Schäuble, 75, has long been seen as an influential figure in the eurozone and a leading advocate of austerity measures. Choosing his successor will now become an important part…

An eight-member board of trustees has been inaugurated for the East Dadekotopon Development Trust to oversee La lands. The Trust has been worried that over the past years, supervision of lands in the catchment area has been loose. On July 31, 2017, an Accra High Court by a judgement empowered the new Trust, leading to the inauguration of the new board of trustees. “The board of trustees derive their authority from the settlers and they are mandated to run the Trust for the benefit of the people of La,” a press release said. The settlers raised concern about the encroachment…

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has informed the Ghana Police Service that he is not interested in the matter that led to the arrest of Frank Kwaku Appiah, popularly known as Appiah Stadium, the Minister of Information has disclosed. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid confirms that the president has, thus, asked the police administration to “be accordingly advised”. These were contained in a press release issued on Tuesday over the arrest of the known NDC serial caller. Appiah Stadium, who has since been granted bail, was arrested by the Ashanti Regional Police Command at the instance of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of…

National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist Appiah Stadium has been granted bail barely 24 hours after being arrested by the Ashanti Regional Police Command. Born Frank Kwaku Appiah, the NDC serial caller was arrested Tuesday morning in Kumasi for calling President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo names in an audio that has gone viral on social media. The arrest was at the instance of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, according to the Public Relations Officer of the Ashanti Regional Command, ASP Juliana Obeng. READ: CID demanded Appiah Stadium arrest – A/R Police PRO He was thus brought to…

The Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to “walk his talk” by ordering the release of Appiah Stadium. The Kumasi-based NDC serial caller was arrested on Tuesday for “criticizing the President”. According to the NDC Youth Wing, Appiah Stadium was just being a citizen and not a spectator as advocated by the president in his inaugural speech to Ghanaians. A statement signed by the National Youth Organiser, Sidii Abubakar Musah, said the arrest of Appiah Stadium defies all what President Akufo-Addo claims he stands for. “We will be left with no other…