Author: Krobea

As a news editor, I keenly listen to speeches and addresses of newsmakers with the hope of reading in between the lines to convey the correct message to the eagerly awaiting public of news consumers. In fact, when the reading of the speeches are shown on television, my eye also does a good extra job by panning side-to-side to see if I could capture any details most people ordinarily would not see. Well, it turned out that I was hit by the many descriptions the president gave to some ministers he mentioned in his State of the Nation address to…

Ghana Premier League champions Aduana Stars went down to a first half Mahmoud goal at Egypt’s Petro Sport Stadium, where they played Libyan side Al-Tahaddy in the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League on Sunday. The match was played in Egypt as a result of the political tension in Libya. The Libyans hit the back of the net after 35 minutes from Moroccan referee Samir Guezzaz’s blast of the whistle for the start of the game. The Ghanaians tightened their defense to keep their opponents at bay. The game ended 1-0. The second leg is scheduled to be played…

Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia joined the congregation of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) in Abossey Okai, Accra to thank God for a successful medical leave in the UK. Dr Bawumia returned to Ghana on Thursday, February 1, having spent 12 days in London after being taken ill. He was flown to Europe on the advice of his doctors. On Sunday, when he attended church at ICGC’s Christ Temple, he said he was healed purely by the prayers of Ghanaians. “I believe that the hand of God healed me,” he told the gathering, among them some government functionaries…

Today, doing right almost seems wrong. As adults, it sometimes seems almost impossible to hold on to the same values we held in high esteem when we were younger. It’s great to have values but it is even greater when we dutifully stick to these values. Everyone needs a standard in their life… and these standards should be standard. They shouldn’t vary according to where we find ourselves. Our standards should be same whether in our closets or in public. Society’s standards fall when our standards fall. We all need a yardstick in our life that shouldn’t be lowered no…

Ghana Premier League side Asante Kotoko had to wait till injury time to score the only goal in their CAF Confederation Cup qualification game against Congo’s CARA Brazzaville on Sunday. The goal came from the fifth penalty of the game at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. Substitute Yakubu Mohammed converted to win back the hearts of the teeming fans, who had hitherto lost hope in the side for failure to convert three penalties. The match was the first leg encounter of the preliminary round of qualification. Saddick Adams, Amos Frimpong and Baba Mahama had missed all previous penalties that came…

Popular Ghanaian prophet Isaac Owusu Bempah has told Onua 95.1 FM that he had a revelation about Ebony’s death last year and asked her to inform him about all of her itinerary. But he said Ebony didn’t inform him about her recent deadly trip to the Brong Ahafo Region. Speaking to Christian Agyei Frimpong, the host of entertainment talk show Anigye Mmre, Rev Dr Owusu Bempah said he invited Ebony to his house after he had a revelation about her when he was listening to her being interviewed by radio presenter Abeiku Santana. “When I first met Ebony, I gave…

A Russian passenger plane has crashed after leaving Moscow’s Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Saratov Airlines jet vanished minutes after take-off and crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow. All those on board are thought to have died, officials told Russian media. The An-148 was en route to the city of Orsk in the Urals, near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. It crashed early in the afternoon local time. Pictures from the crash site appear to show pieces of wreckage in a snow-covered field. Flight-tracking site Flightradar24 tweets that the aircraft was…

Agriculture alone cannot be the game-changer for Ghana, Professor Cletus Dordonoo has argued. He said every sector plays a part in the growth of the economy. The Chief Executive Officer of ClayDord Consult was contributing to discussions on TV3’s New Day on Saturday. The discussions were on last Thursday’s State of the Nation address by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. President Akufo-Addo shared with members of Parliament results his policies on agriculture are yielding. “For generations, we have bemoaned Ghana’s reliance solely on rain-fed agriculture,” the president noted. “This means the slightest change in the rainfall pattern exposed our farmers…

The Member of Parliament for Jomoro, Paul Essien has cut sod for the construction of seven circuit bungalows for Circuit Supervisors. The gesture is part of efforts towards ensuring effective supervision by Circuit Supervisors to help reduce teacher absenteeism in the Jomoro District of the Western Region. According to the MP, the roles of Circuit Supervisors are often hampered, especially in the area, due to lack of accommodation. He said the supervisors are to serve as a mediator between parents, opinion leaders, teachers as well as pupils as enshrined in the education regulation. But the Jomoro MP said effective monitoring…

Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running out of drinking water. However, the plight of the drought-hit South African city is just one extreme example of a problem that experts have long been warning about – water scarcity. Despite covering about 70% of the Earth’s surface, water, especially drinking water, is not as plentiful as one might think. Only 3% of it is fresh. Over one billion people lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce for at least one month…