Author: Krobea

Bob Dylan has accepted his Nobel Prize for literature, more than three months after the awards ceremony, Swedish media report. He received his medal at a private event in Stockholm before a scheduled concert in the city. No further details were given. Swedish Academy officials previously said Dylan would not deliver his Nobel lecture, a traditional condition of receiving the 8m kroner ($900,000, £727,000) prize money, at the event. He is expected to deliver a taped version of the lecture later. If he does not deliver a lecture by June, he will have to forfeit the prize money. A member…

A huge South Korean cargo ship which had 24 people on board has gone missing in the South Atlantic. Officials in Seoul said efforts were under way to rescue two sailors found on a life raft, Yonhap news agency reports. On Friday, a crew member sent a text saying the Stellar Daisy freighter was taking on water. The Uruguayan navy alerted merchant ships in the area, which began a search. A navy spokesman said they had reported a strong smell of fuel. The ship, a Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) with a capacity of 260,000 tonnes, was being operated by…

As part of measures to improve  healthcare delivery in the country, Phoenix Resource Centre Global Aid Ghana (PRCGA), a Ghanaian-based non-governmental organization, has extended  its charity arm to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital with medical equipment worth GH¢15,000. It has also presented a cheque for GH¢1,000 to support the hospital to meet its daily needs. The items included 5 pieces of mattresses, 3 large boxes of medical equipment (syringes, needles, pen tips and vacuettes), 5 pairs of single walker, 2 pairs of 4 legged walker, 1 box of Compound lactate drips (20 pieces), 10 boxes of dust/nose mask (58 pieces), 5…

Anti-graft advocate Vitus Adaboo Azeem says it will be hypocritical on the part of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to further probe the bribery allegations against some members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee. “They would have no basis to go into it now,” he asserted. According to Mr Azeem, CHRAJ did Ghanaians disservice by not heeding to calls to investigate the issue when it first broke out in January. Mr Azeem, who is the immediate past Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, expressed these sentiments on Saturday, April 1 on TV3’s Hot Issues. His comments come…

Over the years, I have keenly observed the lives of successful people like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, Prince Kofi Amoabeng and Mike Agyekum Addo among others and nothing resonates more like their desire to follow their dreams and see it through. Recently I came across a quote from an unknown source that states that your salary is the bribe given you to forget about your dreams. I couldn’t help but wonder the path I was treading especially as a salaried worker. I realised that everything lay with a choice; a choice to invest and enrich myself, or a…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, of his commitment to ensuring that the rule of law works without fear or favour and without regard to any partisan, ethnic or religious considerations. According to President Akufo-Addo, “it will not be under my watch that people will take the law into their own hands, neither will it be under my watch that the laws of our land will not be enforced. That will never happen. The law will work without fear or favour.” The President made this known on Saturday, April 1, when he paid…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has advised African leaders not to overstay their welcome, especially after their constitutional tenures end. He said given the current development needs of Africa, leaders who can act with a sense of urgency are supposed to be at the helm of affairs. Ghana’s former president made these remarks at the 2017 Africa Development Conference held at the Harvard University, USA on Saturday, April 1. The two-day event, which began on Friday, is under the auspices of the Harvard African Student Organisations. Former President Mahama talked about the toll climate change is having on the continent…

Member of Parliament for Manhyia North Constituency Collins Owusu Amankwaa has expressed worry about the level of infrastructural deficit in his constituency. He has accused the past government of doing little to improve the living standards of the people in the constituency. Areas like Moshie Zongo, the largest Zongo community in the Ashanti Region, grapple with inadequate basic amenities like water, quality healthcare and school. Thuggery and other social vices inimical to socio-economic development are rife among the youth in the area. Yenyawoso, for instance, has poor drainage system with about 60 to 70 percent of the vicinity flooding at…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the US government’s Feed the Future Initiative and the National Seed Trade Association of Ghana (NASTAG), held the seventh annual Pre-season Planning and Networking Forum on March 30 in Ghana’s Northern Region. The event brought together 800 government officials, farmers, agribusinesses, processors, agro-input dealers, seed companies, and producers from across the country to build partnerships, establish market linkages, share lessons learned and coordinate planning for the upcoming planting season. The objective of the event is to create a platform for the agriculture sector to build more competitive businesses and enhance agricultural…

The report of the five-member ad hoc committee set up by Parliament to find out bribery allegations against leadership of the Appointments Committee has rather opened the legislative arm of government to public ridicule, a former Member of Parliament has asserted. The former MP for Ablekuma Central, Theophilus Tetteh Chaie, has therefore advised leadership of the House to work on repairing the public image of that arm of government. The report delivered by committee chair Joe Ghartey implicated Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga, who was asked to render an apology. Though he did, he raised questions about the processes that…