Author: Krobea

The state of Israel is fully behind Ghana in the resurgent fight against illegal small-scale mining, its envoy to Accra has said. Ami Mehl says his country is ready to support Ghana in any capacity “to recover from environmental degradation” caused by illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey. In a statement released on Wednesday, April 19, ambassador Mehl applauded government and Ghanaians for the “determination and resolve to tackle the issue”. Government’s resurgent fight against the canker has seen the issuance of a 21-day ultimatum to all illegal miners to leave sites. Civil society organisations and religious bodies have also…

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has directed that the recruitment of casual health workers should cease forthwith. At the 2017 Health Summit in Kumasi, Mr Agyemang Manu said all facilities and directorates have been requested to submit a list of all casuals on their staff being paid with internally generated funds to the Ministry by the end of April. The event was to enable the Ministry and stakeholders in the health sector to review their performance in the last year and plan for this year. They used the period to discuss their achievements and failures during the year…

Dancehall king Shatta Wale has called the office of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) as ‘Auntie Akosua bar’ after he visited American rapper, actor, businessman, and investor 50 Cent’s G-Unit office in New York, USA. Shatta Wale’s visit to America was an opportunity for him to meet 50 Cent and according to him “way back in Ghana, I heard 50 Cent said he wants to meet me because he enjoys my music but I didn’t believe it so well”. “His management knew I have my Shatta Movement management already. They came with brand idea, they told me the man…

The General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of Ghana has lauded the ‘Planting for Food and Job’ project by the ruling government. GAWU says such an initiative is “seeking to increase food production and it is a laudable project”. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday launched the government’s flagship agricultural programme, ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’. The project is expected to be rolled out in all 216 districts across the country and will involve the supply of farm resources such as high yielding and improved seedlings to participating farmers. The government has said that it intends to revolutionize agriculture…

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, launched the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ programme at Goaso, in the Brong Ahafo Region. According to President Akufo-Addo, the programme is the basis of the answer to the twin-problem of the migration of youth to city centres in search of non-existent jobs, as well as an end to the disgraceful spectacle of Ghana importing food stuffs from neighbouring countries. Planting for Food and Jobs, the President explained, will be anchored on the pillars that will transform Ghanaian agriculture: the provision of improved seeds, the supply…

100 days in every government’s life is not enough to judge the government. You can always do so when a government tells you, I will do this in 100 days and so when that is done, then you say, let me assess you by the promises that you made. Now, in this government, the only thing that I heard was Dr. Bawumia speaking on radio when he said that, they are going to restore teacher trainee allowance in 100 days. And so if teacher training allowance has been restored in a 100 days and a restoration not by word of…

Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government minister has said. The country’s education minister Lazarus Dokora told the pro-government Sunday Mail newspaper that schools will have to show flexibility when it comes to demanding tuition fees from parents, and that they should accept not only livestock, but also services and skills. “If there is a builder in the community, he/she must be given that opportunity to work as a form of payment of tuition fees,” the paper quoted him as saying. Some schools are already accepting livestock…

The galamsey menace has become a social canker which needs the attention of all well-meaning Ghanaians. It is therefore not surprising that most Ghanaians praised the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, when he gave a three-week ultimatum to illegal small scale miners to put a stop to their activities. Even before the three-week ultimatum expired there were media reports that some of these small scale miners had started evacuating from their sites, whilst others surrendered their excavators. This is a clear sign that these illegal miners have come to the terms with the fact that this…

Facebook’s annual developers’ event, held this year in San Jose, is the social network’s chance to bring together all of the people that work with the site to create the apps and other features used by the almost two billion people. The event is a launching pad for new features. After a busy first day, here’s my pick of the most interesting and significant. 1) AR Studio Augmented reality – that’s when digital images are placed over the real world – is the key battleground between Facebook and its bitter rival Snapchat. And AR Studio could be the differentiator. Facebook…

Millennials have found a new way to sabotage relationships. “Cushioning” is a newly coined dating term wherein a partner in a monogamous relationship still flirts with other people — so if their main relationship goes kaput, there’s a backup ready. “I was seeing someone for a few months and it was going well, but it felt like the dust had started to settle a bit,” Anna, a cushioner who didn’t want to disclose her full name for personal reasons, told the Tab. “I still liked him, but wasn’t entirely sure I wanted him to be my boyfriend and was in limbo.…