Author: Krobea

The Northern Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu, has described as illegal a meeting organized by the party’s National Women’s Organiser, Hafisah Otiko Djaba in Tamale. Daniel Bugri Naabu, who stormed the meeting, insisted the meeting be called off but Miss Djaba, who doubles as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, explained the meeting between her and constituency women organizers was to appreciate them for their efforts during the 2016 campaign that led to the victory of the party in the 2016 general election. The near chaotic meeting began with Miss Djaba walking…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Friday, May 5 decorated with the highest national award of Burkina Faso. The award, the Grand Croix de l’Ordre National, was conferred on Ghana’s president by Burkina Faso’s Roch Marc Christian Kabore at a brief ceremony. The ceremony preceded a joint communiqué issued at the end of President Akufo-Addo’s two-day official visit of Burkina Faso. The Ghanaian president is on a month-long visit of ten West African countries. In two phases, the visit began on Tuesday, May 2 with President Akufo-Addo storming Togo via Aflao. He was there for three days. He arrived…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo arrived in Ouagadougou, the capital of the Republic of Burkina Faso, on Thursday to begin his two-day tour of that country with his agenda being “to develop the initiatives that will bring prosperity to our people.” At a State Dinner held in his honour and in responding to the remarks made by Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, President of the Republic of Burkina Faso, President Akufo-Addo indicated that the most important of these initiatives “are the regional projects in the area of infrastructure, and especially transportation.” According to President Akufo-Addo, “it would be, for me, perhaps,…

The SOS Children’s Village in Tamale is making giant strides in improving child labor in the Northern Region following a community sensitization programme. This is in line with the organization’s Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) that supports children in the communities who stand the risk of losing parental care. The activity, which is an initiative of the FSP unit of the Village, constitutes one of FSP’s core components of engaging the local communities as a pre-emptive method to secure the future of these deprived children and prevent them from losing the care of their family. The community programme featured children who…

North Korea has accused US and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. A North Korean referred to only as “Kim” was paid to carry out an attack with biochemical substances, the ministry of state security said. The plot was foiled, it said, but gave no details on the fate of “Kim”. The CIA declined to comment and South Korea has issued no statement so far. The North’s claim comes amid continued high tension on the Korean peninsula. US President Donald Trump has promised to “solve” North Korea and stop it developing nuclear weapons. ‘Human…

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Minister of Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has pledged the support of her Ministry to work with GCNet to ensure the smooth implementation of Total Revenue Integrated Processing Systems (TRIPS) and Ghana’s business automation project as part of eGhana project with the support of the World Bank. Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful said the goal of her Ministry is to address all outstanding issues militating against the e-Ghana project to enhance transparency drive. She stressed on government’s commitment to use technology to facilitate government business to ensure Ghana improves its business competitiveness and the ease of doing business. She added that it was critical for…

Bologna and Ghana midfielder Godfred Donsah says he is “100%” willing to go on strike to show solidarity with Sulley Muntari. Pescara midfielder Muntari, 32, was given a one-game ban after he protested against racist abuse he received from the crowd at Cagliari on Sunday. The Serie A disciplinary committee said not enough fans took part in the abuse to trigger action against Cagliari. Donsah, 20, said racism is “killing the beauty of the game”. Former Ghana international Muntari was booked for dissent after asking the referee to stop Sunday’s match in the wake of the abuse. He then walked off the pitch in protest – for…

The bodies of female shop mannequins are “unrealistic”, a new study in the Journal of Eating Disorders suggests. Researchers looked at the displays in female fashion shops in two UK cities. They concluded that if people were the same size as the mannequins they would be “considered medically unhealthy”. “There is clear evidence showing that the ultra-thin ideal is contributing to the development of mental health problems and eating disorders,” writes Dr Eric Robinson, the study’s author. After being “perplexed by the dimensions of the mannequins” he saw while out on a shopping trip one day, Dr Robinson has told Newsbeat that he…

Zimbabwe is the most highly developed country in Africa after South Africa, President Robert Mugabe has said. He denied that the country was a fragile state. “We have over 14 universities and our literacy rate is over 90 [%] – the highest in Africa,” he said, adding that the economy was improving. Zimbabwe has been struggling to pay its civil servants recently and is ranked 24th on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for Africa. “We have more resources, perhaps more than the average country in the world.” Mr Mugabe said, during a panel discussion on fragile states at the World…