Author: Krobea

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for the Odododiodio Constituency of the Greater Accra Region has alluded that the constituency will never have peace if the current National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, continues as their Member of Parliament (MP). Raymond Tettey alleged that ever since Nii Lantey Vanderpuije was elected as the parliamentary candidate for the NDC in 2012, the constituency has never known peace and that was what triggered events over the weekend. Scores of people were wounded following a clash between supporters of the NPP and NDC at Jamestown in the Constituency…

Guinea’s President Alpha Condé has won a controversial third term in office, preliminary results show, amid violent protests across the country. The electoral commission said the 82-year-old had taken 59.5% of the vote. The victory still requires confirmation by the Constitutional Court. His opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo, said he would contest the result, alleging large-scale fraud. At least 30 people have died since the vote on Sunday, Guinean media report. Mr Diallo, 68, won 33.5% of the ballots, the electoral commission said. “We are still going to refer the matter to the constitutional court, without having too many expectations,” Mr…

Lead Medical Doctor of the forensic team that conducted DNA analysis on the skeletal remains of the four Takoradi Girls Superintendent Dr. Kofi Agyapong Afrifa has defended the conclusion of their report that there is a genetic relationship between the remains and parents of the victims. “Our DNA analysis concluded that the skeletal remains found are that of the four missing Takoradi Girls,” he insisted. He told the Justice Richard Adjei Frimpong court in Sekondi that the team used the Standard Tandem Repeat [STR] Method, which conforms to all standard DNA analysis protocols there are, to arrive at the conclusion…

The spillover of SARS protestants in Nigeria into Ghana will be a serious security breach which may affect Ghana’s peaceful ambience especially going into December 7 elections. This observation was made by the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) National Coordinator Albert Yelyang while speaking on Akoma FM’s morning Show GhanAkoma with Aduanaba Kofi Asante Ennin. “There’s a likelihood of serious security concerns if a section of the protestors spill into the country,” he said, further warning that Ghana’s borders must be strengthened to scrutinize foreigners who may be flooding into Ghana. Thousands of Nigerians have been marching in Lagos…

The US government has filed charges against Google, accusing the company of violating competition law to preserve its monopoly over internet searches and online advertising. The lawsuit marks the biggest challenge brought by US regulators against a major tech company in years. It follows more than a year of investigation and comes as the biggest tech firms face intense scrutiny of their practices at home and abroad. Google called the case “deeply flawed”. The company has maintained that its sector remains intensely competitive and that its practices put customers first. “People use Google because they choose to – not because…

New Vice Chancellor of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) at Tarkwa in the Western Region Professor Richard Kwesi Amankwah has made a request to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources that the university be given a piece of mineralised land for it to start the UMaT Small Scale Mines. “In UMaT, we do not only teach but we also practise what we preach. We are therefore making a request to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources to give us a piece of mineralised land for us to start the UMaT Small Scale Mine.” He assured the…

Mining giants AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) Ghana have launched their agrobusiness programme dubbed ‘Obuasi Goes Agro (OGA)’ in Adaase, a farming community in Obuasi. The OGA programme is in sync with government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme, which aims to promote food security and immediate availability of selected food crops on the market. The OGA programmme is one of the flagship socio-economic development interventions of AngloGold Ashanti which is part of their three-year Social Management Plan aimed towards the socio-economic development of Obuasi communities to contribute to the diversifying local economy through the design and implementation of innovative interventions…

Eastern Regional President of the Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists (GABMLS) has called for the arrest and prosecution of all politicians and their supporters in the country. Samuel Appiah said with the Imposition of Restrictions Act in Ghana to fight coronavirus and the current political health walks and rallies, all politicians and their supporters should be arrested and prosecuted. The President made the call in an interview with Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Monday while reacting to the President’s address on the virus on Sunday. Ghana introduced a range of measures in a bid to stop the spread of…

In the past few years, Whatsapp broadcasts and Facebook news feeds are channels I have employed in writing about women – especially their roles in the Church and in Ministry. Speak of the name-calling, the tags and labels; we have endured them all. Many needed to know the truth, and for a society where we had to be the lone wolves – advocating with passion and aggression amongst many of our like, enduring same cultural resistance but just couldn’t be bothered, we soldiered on. They called us “not-marriageable”, women whose marriages will not last, iron women, yet in all, we…

Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramini Mahama will from Monday, October 19 begin a five-day campaign tour of the Western Region. His tour will take him to all 17 constituencies in the Region. Western Region Communications Director of the party Richard Kirk Mensah told 3news.com ahead of the tour that John Dramani Mahama and his team will visit and interact with traditional authorities, opinion leaders, strategic groupings and party faithfuls. “The former president is expected to address key issues in the Region especially the abandoned infrastructural projects, locked-up funds, cocoa-related issues, fishing and small-scale mining challenges,”…