Author: Krobea

Comedian Amy Vreeke has based a show around her diagnosis of endometriosis, in a bid to challenge the taboos around the condition. Source: BBC

Black Stars’ Deputy Captain Andre Dede Ayew will spend the rest of the 2017/2018 English Premier League season at familiar club Swansea City. The 28-year-old on Transfer Deadline Day clinched a record deal to the Welsh club, where he first played in his professional career outside France. After protracted talks, Swansea City finally reached an agreement with West Ham United, who had secured the left-footed player in 2016 in a then record fee for the East London club. Ayew will reunite with junior brother, Jordan, for the first time in five years. The two had played together for Ligue 1…

The Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries, Archbishop, Nicholas Duncan Williams, has charged the international community and all humanity to ensure that, the atrocities committed against the Jews during the Second World War by the German Nazis (HOLOCAUST) is not repeated. Speaking at this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Archbishop Duncan Williams bemoaned the act and emphasized that as the world marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it should be a beacon call on all humanity to ensure that “good people do not sit and do nothing as evil triumphs over good … it is…

Three of Kenya’s biggest television stations will remain off-air until further notice because they had planned to broadcast the opposition leader’s unofficial “inauguration” in Nairobi. Interior Minister Fred Matiang’i told reporters they would stay closed until investigations were complete. Shortly after he spoke, opposition MP Tom Kajwang was arrested. Mr Kajwang played a prominent role in Tuesday’s ceremony naming Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”. The outspoken MP had donned a lawyer’s robe and wig, to the amusement of thousands of cheering opposition supporters in Uhuru park, in the capital Nairobi. It is unclear what charges he will face. The…

Arsenal have signed Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund in a club record £56m deal. The Gunners had two bids for the 28-year-old rejected by Dortmund before agreeing a fee that eclipses the £46.5m July purchase of Alexandre Lacazette. Dortmund agreed to complete the deal after striking a deal to sign Chelsea forward Michy Batshuayi on loan. Arsenal said the 2015 African Footballer of the Year had joined on “a long-term contract”. Aubameyang scored 141 goals in 213 games for Dortmund since 2013, including 21 in 24 matches this season. But he was suspended by the German club for…

The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram Constituency, Sam Nartey George, has threatened to throw the classified details of the deal on the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees in the open if the US Ambassador does not peddle the truth. According to him, the recent comments by Robert Porter Jackson that the American government was not aware of the granting of refugee statuses to the two Yemeni nationals are quite unfortunate. Mr Nartey George, a former presidential staffer, said the American government was kept in the know about the deal every step of the way through one intelligence officer Tim…

The Minority in Parliament says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo should dismiss the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, with immediate effect. According to the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, the report of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) clearly implicates Mr Ofori-Atta in the sale of the $2.25 billion bond. Mr Iddrisu said Mr Ofori-Atta should do the honourable by resigning his post. He made this demand on Wednesday while addressing journalists. Find his address below: MINORITY STATEMENT ON DAMNING FINDINGS AGAINST FINANCE MINISTER ON CHRAJ IN US$ 2.25 MILLION BOND INVESTIGATION INTRODUCTION. On 29th December, 2017, The…

The Bupei and Yapei bridges in the Northern Region will be closed on Thursday and Friday, the Ghana Highway Authority has announced. This is a temporary closure to enable asphalt overlay works on them, the Authority said in a statement on Wednesday. “The bridges will be closed intermittently from 7am to 1pm each day.” This comes barely a month after the bridges underwent a complete overhaul. They were closed to traffic in November, 2017 for works, a situation that caused uproar and the subsequent summon of the Minister of Roads and Highways by Parliament. But alternative arrangements have been made…

The Member of Parliament for Tempane Constituency, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, says work on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s ‘One-Village, One-Dam’ policy will begin latest by April, this year. He said he has seen documents to that effect and, so, he is saying that on authority. Mr Kpemka, who doubles as a Deputy Minister of Justice, said he can be taken on if the project does not begin in March/April, as stated. He gave this undertaking on TV3’s New Day on Wednesday while discussing the recent announcement by the Ghana Water Company Limited to embark on a water-rationing exercise. He said…

The two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees — Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby – do not hold any Ghanaian passport, the Deputy Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister has asserted. This is contrary to reports that the two are in possession of Ghanaian travelling documents. The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul Malik Kwaku Baako, over the weekend, alleged on Accra-based radio station Joy FM that the erstwhile John Mahama-led administration succeeded in changing the names of the two ex-convicts before issuing them with the passports, adding that the documents for the ex-Gitmo detainees were granted…