Author: Krobea

Egypt captain Mohamed Salah was on Thursday night crowned African Player of the Year 2017 by the Confederation of African Football (Caf). At an awards gala held in Accra, the leading goal scorer in the English Premier League beat competition from Liverpool club mate Sadio Mane and Dortmund goal poacher Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to emerge winner. This adds up to the 2017 BBC African Player of the Year award he won last month. Salah’s national team coach, Hector Cuper, was also named the Coach of the Year. The Pharaohs, who qualified to the 2018 World Cup at the expense of Ghana’s…

Liverpool team mates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah have touched down in Accra for the 26th Caf Awards. The two are the leading contenders for this year’s awards. The third shortlisted nominee is reigning king Pierrre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Dortmund. Addressing journalists in Accra, the Reds team mates quashed reports of rivalry between them. Top favourite Egyptian Salah says Mane, the Teranga Lions captain, has been of tremendous help to him since joining the Merseysiders from AS Roma. He said they get along so well. The winner will be announced Thursday night at a ceremony to be held at…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that Ghana supported a regime change at the top echelon of the Confederation of African Football (Caf). He said the staying in office of Issa Hayatou for almost three decades was “a long time”. That is why Ghana supported Dr Ahmad Ahmad during the elections in March, 2017, he hinted. Addressing a delegation from Caf on Wednesday at the Flagstaff House in Accra, President Akufo-Addo congratulated Dr Ahmad Ahmad for his election to the top job and pledged Ghana’s support for his administration. “As you know we supported very clearly your election,” he…

A thanksgiving service has been planned by government on Sunday to mark the Silver Jubilee of the Fourth Republic. The ceremony is scheduled to be held at the Independence Square at 3:30pm. Ghana’s Fourth Republic began on January 7, 1993 after the swearing in of Jerrry John Rawlings as winner of the 1992 presidential elections. He beat the late Professor Albert Adu Boahen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Mr Rawlings had, before then, served as the head of state of the country since December 31, 1981, when he ousted the Dr Hilla Limann government in a coup d’etat with…

Some concerned youth of Tarkwa are up in arms against Goldfields Ghana Limited’s Tarkwa mines in the Western Region over attempts to dismiss over 2,000 workers. According to the aggrieved youth, the development could bring untold hardships on workers of the Goldfields Ghana Limited and, by extension, on the people of Tarkwa and its environs, thereby damaging the reputation of Tarkwa as one of the oldest gold mining sites in Ghana. They made this know at a press conference on Thursday. The regent of Tarkwa Bankyim, Nana Kwesi Itu II, in a statement, said they are against contract mining, which…

A political analyst and Senior Lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Dr Ahmed Jinapor, has described as “not appropriate” the timing of the official launch of the candidacy of Ekwow Spio-Garbrah ahead of National Democratic Congress’s presidential primary. Despite commending the former Trades and Industry Minister for the bold step and seeming defiance of a party directive not to start campaigning, Dr Jinapor said his timing was wrong. “I would have wished that he would have waited a bit,” he told 3FM’s Kwakye Afreh Nuamah on Midday News on Thursday. Dr Spio-Garbrah on Wednesday launched what he called…

Assembly members of Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region have confirmed Agyemang Asiedu as the new Chief Executive. Members gave the new district chief executive (DCE) a resounding 20 out of 22 valid votes cast on Thursday to get a replacement for Daniel Appianin. Mr Appianin was suspended for comments he made after the lynching of Major Maxwell Adams Mahama at Denkyira Obuasi in May, 2017. He is said to have denied knowledge of the presence of an anti-galamsey military task force led by then Captain Mahama. He was suspended by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Add, who launched…

[PHOTO OF ACID VICTIM] Kodwo Allegay, a 29 year old driver and a father of three is currently receiving treatment at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital @onua951fm @3Newsgh pic.twitter.com/LBwE7ZnOe6 — connect 97.1fm (@Connect971fm) January 4, 2018 A taxi driver whose name has been given as Kodwo Allegay is battling for his life at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the Western Region, where he was rushed to on Thursday morning following an attack by some unknown assailants. The assailants are said to have poured a substance suspected to be acid on him. The incident happened at Agona Nkwanta in the…

Winter storms are sweeping across western Europe, causing three deaths and widespread disruption. Tens of thousands of people have been affected by power cuts, and air travel has been disrupted. Two people drowned on Spain’s northern Basque coast after being swept away by a huge wave and a skier was killed by a falling tree in the French Alps, For the first time, the Dutch authorities shut all five of its major sea barriers. Two later reopened. Gusts of more than 110km/h (68mph) were recorded at Amsterdam airport where hundreds of flights were cancelled. Winds of up to 147km/h were…

Employees join companies but leave managers. A Gallup poll of more 1 million employed U.S. workers concluded that the No. 1 reason people quit their jobs is a bad boss or immediate supervisor. 75% of workers who voluntarily left their jobs did so because of their bosses and not the position itself. In spite of how good a job may be, people will quit if the reporting relationship is not healthy. “People leave managers not companies…in the end, turnover is mostly a manager issue.” Here are the four types of bad bosses that make employees want to quit companies: 1)…