Author: Krobea

The Head Pastor of Deeper Life Church at Sefwi Asawinso in the Western Region has bemoaned the extent of destruction illegal small-scale mining has caused water bodies. According to him, water bodies have been muddied to the extent that new converts can no longer be baptised in them. “We therefore have to resort to baptizing church members in pans,” Samuel Kofi Owusu told Onua FM on Thursday, April 20. He said they preach alright but after winning souls, they have no clean water bodies in which to baptise them. Most of the new converts do not like being baptised in…

DNA tests on the carcass of a crocodile shot in Zimbabwe have confirmed that it contains the remains of a missing South African hunter, an investigator has told the BBC. Scott Van Zyl was killed last week on the banks of the Limpopo river, said Sakkie Louwrens, director of a South-African crime-fighting NGO. He said Mr Van Zyl disappeared during a hunting safari last week. His death is the latest in a series of fatal crocodile attacks in Zimbabwe. Mr Louwrens told the BBC that Mr Van Zyl had gone on a hunting trip on the Zimbabwe-South Africa border with…

Calm has returned to Nkonya in the Volta Region a day after renewed clashes led to the killing of two and the injuring of one, the regional minister has disclosed. Dr Archibald Yao Letsa noted that military and police personnel have been deployed to the area to maintain law and order. The deadly clashes on Wednesday followed the lessening of the dusk-to-dawn curfew in Nkonya and Alavanyo, the feuding towns. But after the latest clashes, government has imposed an 11:00pm-to-5:00pm curfew on the two towns. An emergency Regional Security Council (REGSEC) meeting was also held on Thursday to find a…

The Ministry of Finance has set up an office “to offer opportunity to the general public to seek redress and offer information that could lead to the prevention of loss of revenue or the retrieval of revenues from tax evaders”. The office, which will have dedicated officers, will be referred to as Solutions Service Unit. This was contained in a statement released on Thursday, April 20. “The Unit is to provide an additional channel for taxpayers to report their complaints and receive timely feedback and fair treatment.” The Unit will be located within the new block of the Ministry in…

Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling banning Jehovah’s Witnesses after the justice ministry called on it to dissolve the “extremist organisation”. Supreme Court judge Yury Ivanenko said Russia had decided to close down “the administrative centre of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the local organisations in its fold and turn their property over to the Russian Federation.” The decision comes after the ministry said it had found signs of “extremist activity” within the organisation and requested that it be banned. “They represent a threat to the rights of people, public order and public safety,” Russian news agencies quoted justice ministry…

The Chairman of the Spare Part Dealers Association at Abossey-Okai in Accra, Samuel Siaw Ampadu, says government officials “who wear suits and coats think because we are ‘dirty’ we do not know our rights”. He says due to this they are careful when dealing with “the technocrats” and that does not mean spare parts dealers, because their work involves dirt, do not know what to do in terms of their business. Mr. Siaw Ampadu made the observations on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene on Thursday. He was speaking on the implementation of the scrapped duty on imported spare parts which the…

The Ministry of Finance has responded to recent allegations by the Minority in Parliament that the April 3 bond issued by government was skewed in the favour of cronies and relatives of the Minister of Finance. At a press conference addressed on Tuesday, April 18 by former Deputy Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson, the Minority said the bond was issued in secrecy with Franklin Templeton Investment Limited’s Trevor G Trefgarne getting 95 per cent of the total. Mr Trefgarne, the Minority cited, is a friend of Ken Ofori-Atta’s. But in a release on Thursday, the Ministry said that conference was…

While most people think hemorrhoids are abnormal, the truth is everyone has them. They are clumps of blood vessels in the anus and lower rectum that help control bowel movements. But most people only learn about hemorrhoids when they enlarge and become problematic. Enlarged hemorrhoids, also called piles, have caused millions of people pain and irritation. Hemorrhoids are classified into two general categories – internal (originating in the rectum) and external (originating in the anus). Enlarged hemorrhoids can occur at any age, but the problem is more common in older people. They affect both men and women. Piles occur due…

Mugabe, 93, has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980 Two of Zimbabwe’s best known opposition figures have agreed to form an alliance against President Robert Mugabe. Long-time Mugabe critic Morgan Tsvangirai and former Vice-President Joice Mujuru say they will work together in next year’s election. However, it is not yet clear which of them will be the presidential candidate. Mr Mugabe, 93, has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980 and has said he will seek re-election. Source: BBC

The ever beautiful songwriter, singer and performer, Stephanie Benson, who sparked a lot of controversy with her see-through gown at the 2017 edition of the Ghana Music Honors has defended her choice of attire. Speaking during a special Easter edition of 3FM’s mid-morning show Urban Blend with Miriam Osei-Agyemang, the ‘Good Feeling’ hit maker apportioned blame to the cameraman, who took shots of her private part. She called it “unprofessional”. Asked whether she wore anything underneath her dress, she replied, “In that dress you cannot wear underwear; it doesn’t look good under there. I didn’t tell the cameraman to turn…