Author: Krobea

Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named the 2017 BBC African Footballer of the Year. He beat club mate Sadio Mane of Senegal to the prize, which was revealed live on radio and television on Monday. Five players including 2015 African Footballer of the Year Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon had been shortlisted for the award. But the Egyptian’s exploits for both the Pharaohs and the Reds – and previously for AS Roma – put him ahead of the rest. According to BBC, this year’s contest received the highest number of votes from fans across the world. Salah becomes…

A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music of the University of Ghana, Professor Edmund John Collins, says the generation of Ghanaian musicians who brought what was later referred to as ‘hiplife’ wanted to have nothing to do with the know Ghanaian genre of highlife. Professor Collins said the ‘hiplife’ generation was originally doing pure hiphop adopted from the West but later had to fuse in highlife when they realised they cannot do away with the traditional genre. The ‘hiplifers’ were doing hiphop only that it was in the local language, he said. The professor of music said what the…

The President of SIC Ladies Association (SICLA), Bernice Boachie, has challenged all corporate organizations, philanthropists, investors and well-meaning individuals in the country to rise up and adopt an orphanage to turn around lives of disadvantaged children in the society. According to her, the rich people in the country are weak in performance of their corporate social responsibilities especially when it comes to reaching out to unfortunate children in orphanages who are in dire need of support to live a life of dignity. Ms. Boachie made this known on the sidelines of a SICLA donations to support the inmates of Royal…

The Director of Public Affairs of the University of Ghana, Stella Amoa, says not only have students been affected by the weekend’s stabbing to death of a past student at the Commonwealth Hall but lecturers and parents have also suffered some panic. Ms Amoa told 3FM’s Kwakye Afreh Nuamah that the incident has sent some shocks across the student body,  whose members are preparing to go home for vacation. Speaking on Midday News on Monday, Ms Amoa said the authorities of the Hall, where the fatal incident happened, have been charged to present a report. On Saturday, two past students…

The draw for the knockout phase of the 2017/2018 UEFA Champions League was held on Monday at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw present football fans with some mouth-watering clashes. Defending champions Real Madrid will play French side Paris Saint-Germain while FC Barcelona get old foes Chelsea FC. English Premier League leaders Manchester City will travel to Switzerland to play FC Basel in the first leg on 13 February, 2018. Their city rivals, Manchester United, will be in Spain for the first leg with FC Sevilla. Below are the fixtures: Juventus (Italy) V Tottenham Hotspur (England) FC Basel…

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he expects European countries to follow the US in recognising Jerusalem as his country’s capital. He is in Brussels for talks – the first time an Israeli prime minister has visited the city in more than 20 years. But the EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini says the bloc’s stance on the matter is unchanged. Donald Trump’s move has left the US isolated on a highly sensitive issue between Israel and the Palestinians. Arriving in Brussels, Mr Netanyahu again welcomed the announcement, saying Jerusalem had been the capital of the Jewish people for 3,000 years…

The Ghana Education Service (GES) will soon have a director general for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), the Senior Minister has hinted. Yaw Osafo Mafo announced that this will be part of the new structure at the Service. The former Minister of Education and Sports gave this hint on Saturday, when he delivered a speech at the 60th Speech and Prize Giving Day of St Paul Technical School in Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region. He contended that a clear absence of a technical concept within the country’s education directorate has been costly to the nation. “The clear absence…

Contemporary highlife musician Dada KD says most of his colleagues have shunned away from collaborating with him. Though he couldn’t tell the reason why, he said it may be because “it is not the right time”. Speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise on Friday, the ‘Somu Gye’ hitmaker said he did not have formal training in music but he is proud of what he has achieved. He said his live performance skills cannot be underestimated when it comes to music in Ghana, taking a swipe at some of his fellow musicians who cannot sing their own songs on stage. “I am a…

About 60 per cent of school children in the Kassena Nankana West District of the Upper East Region have benefited from a World Vision International donation of bicycles as their schools are between three to six kilometers from their homes. A baseline survey conducted by the non-governmental organization in 2013 indicated that about 25 per cent of children in basic schools commute between 2-5 kilometers daily to school. The implication is that many children of school-going age in rural and hard-to-reach areas, who cannot commute for such long distance, drop out of school, and those who make it to school,…

A former student of Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana has been stabbed to death by a mate, following an argument between them, 3news.com can confirm. The two are said to be part of a group of former residents of the Hall – Old Vandals – who attended the funeral of another ‘fellow’. But on their way back, an argument ensued between the two, whose identities have not yet been disclosed. Police sources say the ‘killer’, in the heat of the argument, used a “broken bottle or a knife” to stab his fellow Vandal but realising the danger he…