Author: Krobea

Ghana midfielder Solomon Asante has left TP Mazembe for US Soccer League side Phoenix Rising FC. Asante is one of the 17 players signed by PRFC for the 2018 season. He will join the likes of Didier Drogba and Gladson Awako at the club. Asante is also expected to reunite with former TP Mazembe coach, Patrice Carteron, at the club. The former Berekum Chelsea player’s move is his first outside Africa, having been part of the Ghana force with the Congolese side since 2013. He helped TP Mazembe win three national titles, an Africa Super Cup title in 2016, a…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is seeking the support of parents to end rape, human trafficking and marriage among children. “We need the support of parents to stop child rape, human trafficking and child marriage.” The President was speaking at a Christmas party organised by government for school children at Kyebi in the East Akyem Municipality of the Eastern Region. He promised to invest in education but encouraged pupils to study hard and benefit from the Free Senior High School policy. About 2,000 pupils from basic schools across the municipality were part of the President’s Christmas party. Minister for Gender,…

A plane carrying 25 people came off the runway after landing, forcing the suspension of flights in and out of Bristol Airport. The Embraer 145 aircraft, from Frankfurt, left the runway as it taxied to the terminal just after 11:30 GMT. “No-one was hurt and passengers were disembarked and returned to the terminal by coach,” a spokesman said. Currently, 45 arriving flights and 28 departures have been cancelled or diverted to other airports. Bristol Airport is telling passengers via Twitter the runway is unlikely to reopen until at least 21:00 GMT. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) confirmed it was…

The United Nations Security Council has voted to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea in response to its recent ballistic missile tests. The US-drafted resolution includes measures to reduce the nation’s petrol imports by up to 90%. China, North Korea’s main trading partner, voted in favour of the resolution. The country is already subject to a raft of sanctions from the US, the UN and the EU. Washington has been imposing sanctions on Pyongyang since 2008, freezing the assets of individuals and companies linked to its nuclear programme and banning the exports of goods and services to the country. The…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has re-launched ‘Operation CALM LIFE’, which is aimed at combating criminal activity in all parts of the country. According to President Akufo-Addo, as dynamic a society as Ghana is, there are still security challenges to confront. “We have not been able to uproot the menace of armed robbery, nor that of vigilantism. Activities of land guards still remain, despite the robust efforts put up recently by the Police in dealing with them. It is for this reason that I, like many Ghanaians, welcome the re-launch of ‘Operation CALM LIFE’, especially, with additional logistical support being…

Liberia’s Supreme Court has thrown out a request by the governing Unity Party to halt the 26 December presidential run-off election between ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai. The party asked for a delay, arguing that the electoral commission had failed to implement an earlier order of the court to clean up the voters roll of irregularities such as the names of people appearing multiple times. The court ruled that the commission acted within the law to set a date for the run-off, and the commission should abide by its earlier ruling to clean up the roll and…

Leading global information and communications provider Huawei Technologies has presented five laptops and 40 pieces of 10-inch tablets to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA). The items worth about GH¢100,000 is to support the AMA to implement its goal of making Accra a smart city. Receiving the items on behalf of the Assembly on Friday, the Chief Executive Officer of AMA, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, thanked Huawei for the donation and promised that  the items would be put to good use. He said the AMA is working towards ensuring a smart Accra and was hopeful that the gesture would go a long…

On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, and Korea International Development Agency (KOICA) commissioned four Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds in the Volta Region. Chiefs, assembly members and community members joined USAID/Ghana Mission Director Sharon L. Cromer, USAID/Ghana Health Office Director Akua Kwateng-Addo, Ketu South Municipal District Chief Executive, the Honorable Edem Elliot Agbenorwu, Ghana Health Service Director of Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division Dr. Koku Awoonor-Williams, Volta Regional Health Directorate Deputy Director, Administration Edward Kaba, KOICA Deputy Country Director Seungmin Oh and USAID Systems for…

“Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton The political corruption in Ghana has been a major encumbrance declines in our central part of democratic mechanisms that has lead to economic meltdown and government failure since the era of Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Ghana has over the years witness a lot of tragic events since independent but efforts to establish a just and efficient administration have been frustrated by political corruption. Most recently during the 2016 electioneering period under the led Umbrella flag barrier,  NPP orchestrated allegations against most if not all ministries having involve in fraudulent cases and corruption.…

The Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) has served notice it will take “necessary steps to protect its corporate image” if some media firms do not desist from publishing “untruths” about it. According to them, the practice is “becoming rampant”. BOST in a statement on Thursday mentioned The Herald, The Informer, The Daily Post, The Ghana Palaver and The Republic as the newspapers to have published the “defamatory” publications. According to the statement, the first three newspapers mentioned above published the articles in their December 20 editions while The Ghana Palaver and The Republic published on Tuesday, December…