Author: Krobea

Paris and Los Angeles have been named as hosts of the 2024 and 2028 summer Games respectively by the International Olympic Committee. Both cities had wanted to host the 2024 event, before LA agreed to wait an extra four years after the IOC made guarantees on funding. The Paris Games, which had fallen short with bids for 2008 and 2012, will mark 100 years since it was last held in the French capital. Los Angeles hosted it in 1932 and 1984. Paris and Los Angeles had been the only two candidates for the 2024 Games after Hamburg, Rome and Budapest…

The Staff Union of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has come out hard against the Commission’s board, saying its members cannot be “cowed into submission”. The staff members maintained that the Executive Secretary, Samuel Kwadwo Sarpong, should be shown the exit and a new person appointed while same is done to the Emmanuel Annan-chaired board. “The Union solely wishes to draw attention to the plight of professional and hardworking members of staff after several attempts to correct the wrongs and injustices that have characterized Executive Secretary’s administration (October 2012 to date) and the current Board headed by Mr Emmanuel…

The President has appointed a nine-member Board of Directors for the Youth Employment Agency (YEA). The Board is set to be chaired by Sammi Awuku, the National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Prominent among members of the board is the veteran politician and founder of the Ghana’s School Feeding Programme, Dr Kwame Amoako Tuffour. The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Agency, Justin Kodua Frimpong, represents management on the Board. Lawyer Bright Wireko Brobbey, a Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Emmanuel Sin Nyet Asigri, the Acting CEO of the National Youth Authority, and a forensic…

This weekend is going to be very exciting as the much-talked-about Kobina Ansah play, TRIBELESS, finally gets to be premiered. Having hinted that this is his “best play yet”, Kobina Ansah has been preparing his team feverishly for it. “Indeed, we have been rehearsing since May and can’t wait to outdoor it. Something big is here. If you want to see something exciting, come see this play,” he urged. The musical play talks about having a dream and chasing after those dreams. It also touches on streetism and breast cancer awareness. Tagged ‘No Price, No Prize’, it is a one-stage…

Head of Shared Services at Global Media Alliance Broadcast Limited and an alumnus of University of Ghana, Legon, Timothy Karikari has advised students to deliberately develop attitudes desired by employers to succeed at the workplace or required for entrepreneurship. Speaking at the University of Ghana mentorship session held over the weekend, Mr. Karikari admonished students to pursue their career goals with diligence, hard work, commitment and humility. “These attitudes are for life and whether you are an employer or an employee, they are critical to your success and growth,” he said. Timothy Karikari bemoaned the current reports of alleged corruption…

Foundation of Orthopaedics and Complex Spine (FOCOS) on Tuesday announced its five years’ anniversary celebration of opening their 70-bed specialist orthopaedic hospital, FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, located in Pantang, Accra. The celebrations will start from September 16, 2016. Birthed out of a volunteer mission founded by renowned Spine Surgeon Prof Oheneba Boachie-Adjei in 1998, FOCOS initially conducted clinics at the Trust Hospital and rented operating rooms at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to conduct complex spine and joint replacement surgeries. Subsequently, the Foundation secured the “Watson House” in East Legon, where it offered specialist consultation as an Out-Patient-Department (OPD) Facility, in addition…

The three Premier League clubs in action as they face much stiffer competitions on Wednesday night in Day Two of the UEFA Champions League group stage. Two of the three begin their group stage at home with a third travelling to Rotterdam for a tough test at Feyenoord. Tottenham Hotspur drew the stiffest test in Europe with Group G’s gang Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund in addition to APOEL Nicosia. UEFA Champions League football returns to Anfield on Wednesday as Liverpool host Sevilla in one of the most eye-catching ties of Week 1. The Reds will be out to recover from Saturday’s 5-0 defeat at…

A National Treasurer hopeful for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has charged women not to be intimidated in their quests to contest in positions that are being occupied by men. Madam Mary Posch-Oduro said the National Treasurer position in the NPP is occupied by a male, Kwabena Abankwa Yeboah, but this will not deter her from also contesting because when it comes to monetary issues, people have more confidence in women than men. The National Treasurer aspirant made the call on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Tuesday while speaking from her base in Germany, where she celebrated her 60th birthday…

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has hinted of embarking on an indefinite strike in the face of administrative wrangling at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW). According to the country’s lecturers, what is happening at UEW is an attack on academic freedom and that “must be resisted”. Already, lecturers at the Central Region university are on strike. READ: UEW lecturers strike indefinitely after court ordered removal of VC, CFO A Winneba High Court in July ordered the reconstitution of the governing council of the University of Education, Winneba, calling the stay in office by the then Vice Chancellor…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday paid a brief visit to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Addressing a press conference after the visit, President Akufo-Addo noted that “all of us have been very anxious about his (President Buhari) well-being, and it was very good news to hear that he had returned. We are Africans, and it meant that I had to come and see things for myself.” President Akufo-Addo added that “I am very delighted to see that he has come back, and is very vigorous, and, as always, very engaged in the issues…