Author: Krobea

The 22 students recently rusticated by authorities at University of Cape Coast (UCC) have secured an injunction on the decision. A Cape Coast High Court on Tuesday, May 23 placed the interim injunction on the several suspension of the students. Presided over by Justice William Boampong, the Court ordered the school not to restrain the students from writing their end-of-semester exams. University of Cape Coast rusticated the students as per the recommendation of an eight-member disciplinary committee chaired by the Pro-Vice Chancellor. The students, most of whom are executives of Atlantic Hall, where the violence took place, were rusticated between…

Convicted fraudster and former Nigerian state governor James Ibori has been awarded £1 ($1.30) for being unlawfully detained for 42 hours in the UK. Ibori was jailed in the UK for fraud totalling nearly £50m in 2012. He was due to be released on 20 December but instead was held in immigration detention. After he was released he launched his claim against the Home Secretary Amber Rudd for damages for false imprisonment and breach of his rights. On Monday Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said the home secretary had been “wrong throughout her dealings with Mr Ibori over the weeks leading to…

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has revealed that one of the impediments confronting the fight against illegal small-scale mining popularly called galamsey has been military protection the miners get. The Minister asserted that at some of the illegal mining sites, one will find out that the military are present in full operation, protecting the mining companies. On Onua 95.1 FM’s morning show Yensempa, Mr Amewu said on Monday when he and his team visited some of the sites, where two Ukrainian and two Russian nationals were arrested, both the military and the police were in…

Minister of Energy Boakye Agyarko has dismissed suggestions that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will be privatized under Compact II of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). He explained that the country’s major energy-distribution body will have its assets rather leased for 20 years under the Compact. Mr Agyarko made this known on Tuesday, May 23 at a bidders’ conference for ECG’s concession in Accra. The conference is aimed at selecting a final concessionaire for ECG. The Energy Minister insisted that government will continue to own 100 per cent of the assets of the Company. Government is under pressure to…

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Monday, May 22 addressed a session at the 52nd Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank held in Ahmedadab, India. Speaking on the theme: ‘Agriculture is Cool: Engaging Africa’s Youth’, Former President Mahama made a case for governments on the continent to transform the sector to attract the youth. He said his father was one of the early farmers to go into large-scale production in Ghana but he, like many others, would not have succeeded without support from governments. “There is a huge potential in agriculture both for providing food and providing jobs,” he…

Two men have been caned 83 times each in the Indonesian province of Aceh after being caught having sex. The men stood on stage in white gowns praying while a team of hooded men lashed their backs with a cane. The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found in bed together by vigilantes who entered their private accommodation in March. They have not been identified. Gay sex is not illegal in most of Indonesia but it is in Aceh, the only province which exercises Islamic law. It is the first time gay men have been caned under Sharia law in…

The US Ambassador, Robert Jackson, has launched the 2017 Primary School Insecticide-Treated Nets distribution campaign. The launch was on Monday, May 22 at the Southern LEKMA Cluster of Schools in Accra. Ambassador Jackson joined officials from the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health, representatives from the health and education sectors, and primary school teachers and children at the event, which celebrated the beginning of a US government-supported campaign to distribute 1.3 million nets to Grade 2 and Grade 6 students throughout Ghana. The US government has supported this campaign, in partnership with the Ghanaian government, since 2013. It is…

The Ashanti Region branch of the Ghana National Association of Small Scale Miners (GNASSM) says its intended demonstration against government on Tuesday, May 23 has been postponed to June 7. “Our decision comes on the back of fallouts from a meeting with the Honourable Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu on Friday, May 20, 2017 at Georgia Hotel in Kumasi,” a statement signed by Michael Kwadwo Peprah, the Region’s Secretary, said. www.3news.com had hinted of a reversal of the Association’s decision after the meeting with the Lands and Natural Resources Minister in Kumasi. READ: Small-scale miners pull…

Two suspects are in the grips of the Kasoa Divisional Police Command after assaulting and threatening residents in Gomoa Ojobi in the Central Region. The two suspects are part of five persons held by the police in a land dispute case. The dispute is between Madam Brakuaa, whose bidding was being done by the suspects, and Kow Egyiri. The dispute had been adjudicated by the Agona Swedru High Court and Madam Brakuaa was found guilty. But her children including self-styled Lance Corporal Rydbeck Afrifa are said to have forcefully ejected residents. According to the police, ‘Lance Corporal’ Afrifa and a…

Almost two months after 3FM 92.7’s Community Connect programme took up the issue of the non-existence of a place of convenience for the Kanda Estates Cluster of Schools, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly has woken up to its task and finishing a 12-seater facility that was left idle for over two years. The lack of the facility left pupils of the Schools and tutors numbering close to 1,000 at the mercy of nature, since they had to go and ease themselves in a nearby open gutter or bush, notwithstanding the dangers involved. Some of the pupils are as young as three…