Author: Krobea

President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has charged a ten-member inter-ministerial committee to monitor effectively all illegal mining activities in the country and arrest same. Speaking at a ceremony to officially outdoor a new Secretariat of the Presidential Committee on Environment and Natural Resources located at the Office of the President Annex in Cantonments, Accra, President Akufo-Addo said the year 2018 will see increased government support for the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey in the country. The president added that the new secretariat ought to take full advantage of the support and ensure that illegal mining is dealt…

Black Stars lateral defender Daniel Opare may be on his way out of the German Bundes Liga as he has been linked with some English Premier League clubs this January. The Augsburg player has his contract running out in the summer. He has been named by BBC as among players to make a move when the winter transfer window opens. Four Premier League clubs are said to be chasing the former Real Madrid Castilla player. West Ham United, Stoke City, Everton and Swansea City have all been linked to moves of securing the signature of the 2009 FIFA U-20 World…

Five teenagers have been granted bail at a sum of GH¢10,000 with a surety each after appearing in court for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in Osu, a suburb of Accra. The boys appeared before the Accra Circuit Court on charges of indecent assault, child pornography and assault. They are said to have fondled the girl on Monday, August 21 and forced her to sleep with them at a dark spot near Osu Salem School in Accra. The oldest among the boys, a Senior High School student, 18, asked the rest, all in Junior High School, to lure the girl…

Republican Roy Moore, who lost a recent Alabama senate election to his Democrat rival Doug Jones, has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to challenge the result. The lawsuit was filed the day before officials were due to certify Mr Jones the winner – two weeks after the vote. Mr Moore was expected to win the election in the deeply conservative state, but his campaign was dogged by allegations of child sexual misconduct. He refused to concede to Mr Jones, who won narrowly by about 20,000 votes. Mr Moore’s lawsuit alleges that there were voting irregularities in 20 precincts and…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has congratulated Africa’s oldest liberation movement, the African National Congress (ANC), for recently electing Cyril Ramaphosa as its new leader. Mr Ramaphosa, the current Deputy President, beat ex-wife of President Jacob Zuma, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to emerge winner at the 54th Elective Conference of ANC in Johannesburg. In a statement to congratulate Mr Ramaphosa, Ghana’s ruling party said: “We are convinced that Ramaphosa has the wherewithal to transform the country’s economy and to deliver prosperity to the South African people”. The statement signed by Acting General Secretary John Boadu was released on Thursday. Find the statement…

The Miss America group is seeking the help of former pageant winners and directors, after a scandal over vulgar emails disparaging contestants. In the emails, published by the Huffington Post, pageant officials made degrading remarks about past winners’ appearance, intellect, and sex lives. Executive director Sam Haskell, president Josh Randle, and other board members resigned over the scandal. Now the group is reaching out to former Miss Americas to help find new leaders. Dan Meyers, the interim board chairman, said the group wanted former winners to recommend members for a search committee that would determine the group’s future leadership structure.…

Multiple award-winning songstress Mzbel has thrown her weight behind fellow female artiste Ebony Reigns in the face of public criticism over the latter’s appearance on stage. The composer of new hit Maame Hw3 has come under criticism for her dressing on stage. While those against her think her grooming is not fit to represent the cause of women, those on her side say she is in a business which requires her to attract attention however that comes. Mzbel, who was also a subject of female artistes’ dressing some years ago, says the Di Me Dwa hitmaker should be allowed to…

Member of Parliament for Takoradi Constituency Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah joined masqueraders on the streets of Takoradi as part of the Christmas festivities. The Deputy Minister of Aviation was dressed as one of the masqueraders and danced, much to the excitement of his constituents. Source: 3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

The four juveniles arrested over the gang-raping of a teenager in a widely circulated video have been remanded in juvenile cells. They are expected to re-appear in court on Wednesday, January 10, 2018. The four were picked up by the police after a search was mounted when the video went viral and stirred public outrage. A jury of four was constituted last Wednesday to begin hearing the case. At the second hearing in court on Wednesday, the prosecutor prayed for more time to gather evidence from ongoing investigations. Our correspondent, Ibrahim Abubakar, reported that relatives of the suspects trooped to…

Media General’s Wendy Laryea, a popular face on TV3, was at the Al-Banat Preparatory School in Maamobi, a suburb of Accra, last week to talk to school girls about menstrual hygiene. An ambassador of UNICEF’s Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM), Wendy Laryea delivered the talk as part of a campaign to get girls sanitary pads. The programme was under the auspices of the Young Women Leaders’ Achievers Network (YWLAN) founded by Hajar Diko Osman with Wendy Laryea speaking as the Founder of Inspire To Rise. The programme was on the topic ‘Share a Sanitary Pad with a girl Child’. It was…