Author: Krobea

The Israeli government has issued a notice for thousands of African migrants to leave the country or face imprisonment. The migrants will be given up to $3,500 (£2,600) for leaving within the next 90 days. They will be given the option of going to their home country or third countries. If they do not leave, the Israeli authorities have threatened that they will start jailing them from April. The UN refugee agency said the controversial plan violated international and Israeli laws. The Israeli government says their return will be humane and “voluntary”. The order exempts children, elderly people, and victims…

As part of winning the 2017 Ghana’s Most Beautiful reality show, Zeinab is set to travel to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The Northern Region representative will travel with 1st runner-up, Baaba, who represented the Central Region during the fun-packed contest. The queens get to visit the Dubai museum, the Desert Safari, among other places. The trip promises to be fun, exciting and educative. They are set to leave Ghana on Thursday, January 4 and return on Tuesday, January 9. The two had beat competition from beautiful ladies representing eight other regions of Ghana to emerge first and second. They…

General Secretary of the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia says he is happy the president has listened to his concerns and eventually assented to the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Law. The Law, which was promulgated by Parliament in November, 2017, was assented by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, January 2, together with four other bills. Prior to its passing, there were talks that the opposition, especially members of the previous government, feared being exposed of corrupt acts they might have engaged in. READ: PPP tags Office of Special Prosecutor ‘a trick’ But…

US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is “much bigger” and “more powerful” than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s. Mr Trump’s tweet is the latest contribution to the increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear launch button was “always on my table”. Unsurprisingly, Mr Trump’s unorthodox words sent social media into a frenzy. It ended a quickfire day of tweeting by Mr Trump that included taking credit for a lack of plane crashes, announcing awards for “corrupt media”, and threatening to pull aid from Palestinians who do not…

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) says there will be nothing new with the coming into force of the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Act, which was given presidential assent on Tuesday. According to the National Secretary of the party, Murtala Mohammed, the partiality of the Attorney General in doing the bidding of incumbent governments will be the same with the Special Prosecutor. Mr Mohammed said the Office can only work in the supreme interest of justice if the Attorney General’s Department is separated from the Ministry of Justice. The PPP National Secretary expressed these on 3FM’s Midday News on Tuesday.…

The early completion of most developmental projects qualified the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) to access the Universal Development Goal (UDG) supplementary fund in 2017. Chief Executive of the Assembly Osei Assibey Antwi says the grant of $445,787 was invested in schools and other infrastructural development projects. The supplementary UDG funds were invested in the furnishing of one community library and procurement of 2,300 dual desks, 1,200 sets of student tables and chairs and 130 sets of teacher tables and chairs, among others. The criteria for the qualification to access the fund included the early completion of projects, quality of work…

One of Ghana’s oldest charismatic churches, Ghana Believers Convention, will hold its annual convention in the Central Region at Agona Odoben precisely. Since its establishment in the 1960s, Ghana Believers Church can boast of countless branches dotted across the country. Affectionately called “Believers”, it is responsible for one of the greatest spiritual moves that swept across Ghana in the early 1980s. This charismatic wave, led by its founder, Prophet J.O. Amissah I, preceded the modern charismatic trend that has existed until today. Believers will hold the 2018 National Annual Peaceful Year Convention, which will see the convergence of all its…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assented to five bills including the much-talked about Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Bill. The bills were given the presidential assent at a brief ceremony at the Flagstaff House in Accra on Tuesday, January 2. Among the bills are those for the three development authorities promised by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the 2016 electioneering campaign. These are the Northern Development Authority Bill, the Middle Belt Development Authority Bill and the Coastal Development Authority Bill. The Zongo Development Fund Bill was also assented to. Speaking at the ceremony, President Akufo-Addo underscored the need…

Old students of Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) has put together a legal team to offer legal advice and strategy to the prosecutor handling the alleged shooting of a final year student to death – and injuring of two others – by a police detective. The move, they say, is to help ensure that justice is served. The old students also intend setting up a legal fund as they claim the nature of the case may require funding beyond the means of the family of the deceased. Costs such as transportation to interview witnesses, correspondence and other ancillary could be…

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says it is a matter of “respect” to allow Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane to go to an awards night in Ghana 24 hours before the FA Cup game against Everton. The attacking duo are on a three-man shortlist for the Confederation of African Football Player of the Year award which will be named on Thursday. “We sleep in a hotel, they sleep in a plane. That is all the difference,” said Klopp. “We have to show them respect.” The awards take place in Accra on Thursday evening with Liverpool kicking off against local rivals Everton…