Author: Krobea

The board of directors, management and workers of the New Times Corporation have agreed to amicably resolve the grievances that led to the locking out of Managing Director Carol Annang on Monday. At a meeting on Friday between the board and management, on one hand, and the workers, represented by the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), on the other hand, the parties called for the immediate return of normalcy to the state media firm. On Monday, workers demonstrated against management by calling for the head of Ms Annang. They locked their offices as they also protested their working conditions,…

The Metropolitan Chief Executive for Kumasi, Osei Assibey Antwi, is rallying the support of assembly and unit committee members to embark on an exercise to pull down emerging slums in the metropolis to save lives. The Kumasi Mayor has observed slums are fast springing up in almost every sub-metro, particularly erection of accommodation and trading structures on wetlands around the city. “This should not be allowed since such areas experience severe flooding during the rainy season and might result in deaths,” said the Mayor as he addressed the 3rd Ordinary Meeting of 2nd Session of the 7th Assembly meeting in Kumasi. Recent rains…

Greater Accra Region Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Joseph Cobbina Ade Coker says he is not unaware that some leading members of the party wanted to mount last Thursday’s platform to “campaign”. But he had to stop them since “nobody has told me they are campaigning”. Followers of leading NDC member Professor Joshua Alabi, who is said to be interested in running for the party’s presidential primary, were angry on Thursday for the refusal of organizers to allow their idol to speak. Organisers allowed some key personalities including National Chairman Kofi Portuphy to talk to the supporters. But…

Karpowership Ghana Company Limited, for the second consecutive year, has offered scholarship to 102 brilliant but needy students in the Tema Manhean Community. The beneficiaries were selected across five different schools: Manhean Presbyterian Primary A and B schools, Manhean TMA JHS 1 and 2 schools, and the Manhean Community Primary School. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Sandra Amarquaye, Communication Specialist for Karpowership Ghana, said the act was carried out in consonance with Karpowership’s objective of addressing the educational needs of school children in its catchment area, while meeting the energy needs of the country. “At Karpowership, we have adopted the…

Source: 3news.com | Ghana

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has begun efforts to get a database of all its members. According to the party, it is doing away with the biometric register used for the election of their 2016 flagbearer. “We have decided as a party to scrap that [biometric] one,” said Greater Accra Region Chairman Joseph Ade Coker on TV3’s News @10 on Thursday. He said the imperfections with the expanded register contributed to the ignominious loss of the party in the 2016 elections. Mr Ade Coker pointed out that all efforts exerted to clean it up proved futile. The football administrator-turned-politician…

The Convention People’s Party (CPP) says it considers as unfortunate recent attempts by some forces to attempt to re-write the history of Ghana and, by so doing, water down the contribution of Kwame Nkrumah in the emancipation of the Black man as well as in Ghana’s independence struggle. Chairman and leader of the CPP Professor Edmund Delle says the late Dr Nkrumah is the pillar of Ghana and the leading pace setter for the emancipation of Africa. He made these remarks during the 108th birthday commemoration of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The commemoration was on the theme ‘Osagyefo Dr. Kwame…

Kenya’s new presidential election has been delayed to 26 October, after the country’s polls commission sought more time to reform voting processes. The re-run had originally been scheduled for 17 October. The move came as President Uhuru Kenyatta accused the country’s Supreme Court, which annulled the first vote, of staging a “coup” against the people. Observers fear Kenya’s political temperature is rising, reviving fears of political violence. Around 1,200 people died in clashes after a disputed 2007 presidential vote. “A coup in Kenya has just been done by the four people in the Supreme Court,” Mr Kenyatta said during a…

Ghana U-17 coach Paa Kwesi Fabin has named his strong final 21-man squad for the FIFA U17 World Cup to be held in India next month. The Black Starlets boss named his final squad on Thursday morning just hours after playing Mali in a pre-World Cup friendly at their training base in Abu Dhabi. The coach has strengthened his squad with seven new players who were not part of the squad that played at the U17 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Gabon. This means seven players who were part of the team for the tournament in Gabon have been…

Two people have committed suicide in separate communities in the Timonde electoral area in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region. Mbabun Azoogo, 41, and Amade Samuel Ayaaba, 26, both from Timonde electoral are but in different communities, were were said to have mental illness. Mbabun Azoogo from Timonde-Gorigo allegedly  drunk some poisonous substance and was rushed to the Zebilla Government Hospital for treatment. But she passed on upon arrival at the hospital, leaving behind two-week old twins. The police later discovered that Mrs Azoogo drunk Herbextra weedicide from a container. According to the matron of the Zebilla…