Author: Krobea

The Intelligent Lady, a lifestyle magazine and network for professional Christian women in business and leadership, has honoured Lady Rosa Whitaker Duncan Williams for her exceptional and exemplary leadership in business and diplomacy in Africa. Lady Rosa Whitaker Duncan Williams, the Chief Executive Officer of The Whitaker Group (TWG), an African investment consultancy which operates at the nexus of US-Africa economic policy, trade and business development, is one of the hands-on architects of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), America’s first comprehensive trade law with African countries. She also served as the first ever Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for…

An Accra District Court has rejected an application for the discharge of six of the accused persons standing trial for the murder of military officer Major Maxwell Mahama. The Court presided over by Worlanyo Kotoku on Tuesday maintained that the Attorney General, who acted in the absence of the lawyer for the accused, needed to come with a written application. The Attorney General had made an oral application for the discharge of the suspects due to inadequate evidence to charge the six. They are Yaw Annor,  Philip Badu, Kwame Adjei, Solomon Sackey, Vivian Asahene and Anthony Amoah. The accused are…

The EU’s foreign policy chief says there is “full EU unity” in support of Jerusalem becoming the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state. Federica Mogherini said the bloc’s member states would not recognise the city as Israel’s capital before a final status peace agreement. She spoke after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants the EU to follow the US in doing so. President Donald Trump’s move prompted widespread international criticism. Ms Mogherini, who was speaking at a news conference in Brussels alongside Mr Netanyahu, said the EU would continue to recognise the “international consensus” on…

Former South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been hurt in a prison brawl, less than two weeks after his sentence for the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was more than doubled. The disgraced paralympian was allegedly involved in a fight over the use of a public phone, a prison department spokesman told the BBC. Pistorius, jailed for 13 years and five months, sustained a bruise, he added. No other serious injuries were reported, the spokesman said. “It is alleged that he was involved in an altercation with another inmate over the use of a public phone in the special care…

Inflation rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that airfares and computer games contributed to the increase. The most recent data shows that average weekly wages are growing at just 2.2%. Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, will now have to write a letter to Chancellor Philip Hammond explaining how the Bank intends to bring inflation back to its 2% target. Mr Carney has to write a letter to the chancellor if the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate is…

The Member of Parliament for Tamale North Constituency in the Northern Region, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, says the impeachment process against the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) and two other commissioners is a threat to Ghana’s democracy. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP is therefore calling on civil society organizations, the international community, the Christian Council of Ghana, National Peace Council, and other well-meaning Ghanaians who have the interest of Ghana at heart to rise up against such move to remove the EC boss. The Chair of the EC, Charlotte Osei, has requested President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to…

Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named the 2017 BBC African Footballer of the Year. He beat club mate Sadio Mane of Senegal to the prize, which was revealed live on radio and television on Monday. Five players including 2015 African Footballer of the Year Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon had been shortlisted for the award. But the Egyptian’s exploits for both the Pharaohs and the Reds – and previously for AS Roma – put him ahead of the rest. According to BBC, this year’s contest received the highest number of votes from fans across the world. Salah becomes…

A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Music of the University of Ghana, Professor Edmund John Collins, says the generation of Ghanaian musicians who brought what was later referred to as ‘hiplife’ wanted to have nothing to do with the know Ghanaian genre of highlife. Professor Collins said the ‘hiplife’ generation was originally doing pure hiphop adopted from the West but later had to fuse in highlife when they realised they cannot do away with the traditional genre. The ‘hiplifers’ were doing hiphop only that it was in the local language, he said. The professor of music said what the…

The President of SIC Ladies Association (SICLA), Bernice Boachie, has challenged all corporate organizations, philanthropists, investors and well-meaning individuals in the country to rise up and adopt an orphanage to turn around lives of disadvantaged children in the society. According to her, the rich people in the country are weak in performance of their corporate social responsibilities especially when it comes to reaching out to unfortunate children in orphanages who are in dire need of support to live a life of dignity. Ms. Boachie made this known on the sidelines of a SICLA donations to support the inmates of Royal…

The Director of Public Affairs of the University of Ghana, Stella Amoa, says not only have students been affected by the weekend’s stabbing to death of a past student at the Commonwealth Hall but lecturers and parents have also suffered some panic. Ms Amoa told 3FM’s Kwakye Afreh Nuamah that the incident has sent some shocks across the student body,  whose members are preparing to go home for vacation. Speaking on Midday News on Monday, Ms Amoa said the authorities of the Hall, where the fatal incident happened, have been charged to present a report. On Saturday, two past students…