Author: Krobea

Pastors of the Ashanti Region branch of Ghana Baptists were at Kumasi Academy Senior High School on Wednesday morning to lead students in fervent prayers in the wake of mysterious deaths in the school. The recent deaths were originally attributed to the outbreak of meningitis. However, tests conducted by health officials ruled out meningitis and pointed to a bacterial infection as the cause. But some students were convinced the deaths were spiritual. Eleven students have lost their lives since April. As a result of the students fears, the Baptist pastors stormed the school to pray for the students and anoint…

Twenty-two Russian athletes have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after being banned for doping offences at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The group includes 10 athletes who won 11 medals between them in Sochi. They were stripped of their medals, had results voided and were banned for life from any future Olympics by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC made the rulings after the 2016 McLaren Report outlined a state-sponsored doping programme in Russia. On Tuesday, the IOC banned Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Russian athletes who can prove they are clean will be allowed…

The Member of Parliament for Damongo Constituency in the Northern Region has blamed the mysterious deaths at Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) to overcrowding as a result of the Free Senior High School policy by the government. Mutawakilu Adam said the issue is a cause to worry because student population has increased leading to the spread of the illness and subsequent deaths. The Minister of Health, Kweku Agyemang Manu, is expected to brief Parliament on Friday on happenings at the school which have seen a total of 11 students die – since April – following a suspected outbreak of…

The US military has flown a B-1B bomber over South Korea as part of a massive joint aerial drill, in a move seen as a warning to the North. The B-1B Lancer plane simulated bombing a military field. The drill is taking place a week after Pyongyang fired what it claimed was a new intercontinental ballistic missile which could hit mainland US. The US has previously deployed bombers as a show of force after North Korean missile or nuclear tests. South Korea’s military said the US bomber took part in the simulation with US and South Korean fighter jets. It…

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded into police custody Haddad Rabih for allegedly raping his 19-year-old house help. It was the first time the Lebanese was appearing in court after his arrest by the East Legon District Police Command over the weekend. He is accused of raping his house help four times in a total of two separate encounters – all happening in the absence of his wife. Haddad Rabih got into the grips of the police on Sunday after he forcibly had sex with the victim on Saturday at his Airport Hills residence. READ: Lebanese allegedly rapes 19-year-old househelp…

#OneYearOn #NationalThanksgivingService pic.twitter.com/VQmTZSeydr — Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) December 5, 2017 A national thanksgiving service is scheduled to be held on Thursday, December 7 at the Accra International Conference Center. A poster tweeted by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday gave the time for the service as 7:30am with guests advised to get seated by 6:45am. The service will be themed: ‘Thanking the LORD who won the battle for Ghana’. Hashtagged #OneYearOn, the tweet insinuates that the service will be held exactly a year after the 2016 elections, which saw President Akufo-Addo – then candidate Akufo-Addo – beat six others…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s remarks at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron have left many praising him. Find below 12 of the statements he made at last Thursday’s meeting. “We can no longer continue to make policies for ourselves in our country, our region or our continent on the basis of whatever support the Western world, or France or the European Union can give us, it will not work” “It is not right for a country like Ghana, 60 years after independence to still have its health and education budget being financed on the basis of the generosity…

Russia has been banned from competing at next year’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee. But Russian athletes who can prove they are clean would be allowed to compete in South Korea under a neutral flag. It follows an investigation into allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Games hosted by Russia in Sochi. “This should draw a line under this damaging episode,” the IOC said. IOC president Thomas Bach and his board – who made the announcement in Lausanne on Tuesday – came to the decision after reading through the findings and recommendations of a 17-month…

Founder and leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) Hassan Ayariga says his respect for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has “reduced” due to an answer he gave to a question about homosexuality. In an Al Jazeera interview on Sunday, November 26, President Akufo-Addo expressed fears that activism on homosexuality will rise in Ghana just like it did in developed countries some years ago. “I think it is something that is bound to happen like elsewhere in the world,” he said on Talk To Al Jazeera. But he added that “it is not so far a matter which is on…