Author: Krobea

Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah received a rousing farewell by Al Khartoum Al Watani SC on Saturday after the side’s 3-0 win over Tirat Al Bija. Al Khartoum is currently 15th on 18-team log. Appiah, who has previously captained and coached the Black Stars, was reappointed by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Tuesday, April 4. He has lost only once in his last five league matches. Appiah could monitor his side’s midweek fixture against Merreikh Nyala after which he will prepare to officially take over as Stars’ coach on May 1. Appiah left the job he is returning to…

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has condemned last Thursday’s attack of the KMA Circuit Court by political vigilante group Delta Force. The group defied a judge’s order and set some of their members standing trial free, destroying property in the process. But in a statement issued on Monday, April 10, the Catholic bishops expressed dismay at “the disregard for the rule of law exhibited” by Delta Force, which is affiliated to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). “We, the Catholic Bishops, hereby condemn in no uncertain terms the incident of raiding the said court and will call on all and…

Cabin crew on a Turkish Airlines flight celebrated the arrival of an extra passenger at 42,000ft (12,800 metres) when a woman gave birth to a baby girl. Passengers also assisted at the birth, which took place soon after take-off on a flight from Guinea’s capital Conakry to Istanbul via Ouagadougou. The mother and baby, named Kadiju, were taken to hospital when the Boeing 737 landed in the Burkina Faso capital. Both are now reported to be tired but in good health. “The cabin crew noticed that a woman passenger named Nafi Diaby, [who was] 28 weeks into her pregnancy, was…

Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead. The measure allows authorities to make arrests without warrants and search people’s homes. It needs to be approved by parliament before it is implemented. So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the blasts in Tanta and Alexandria on Palm Sunday. The group has targeted Copts in Egypt recently and warns of more attacks. Mr Sisi made a defiant speech at the presidential palace after a meeting of the national defence council to discuss the explosions.…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has organised a four-day capacity building programme for 40 inspectors of theTimber Industry Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission (FC) in international quality inspection management standard for the inspection of wood export products and timber. The capacity building workshop is to equip the TIDD Inspectorate, which is currently being supported by UNIDO through the Trade Capacity Building (TCB) Programme for Ghana, to obtain an accreditation in ISO/IEC 17020:2012 and its operating processes in accordance with the ISO 17020 management system. The international quality management standard, ISO/IEC 17020:2012 specifies requirements for the competence…

Police in northern India are searching lists of missing children to try to identify a girl believed to have been living with monkeys. The little girl, aged between eight and 10, was found a few weeks ago in a forest in Uttar Pradesh. Doctors said she could not communicate and displayed “monkey-like” traits. A senior police official told BBC Hindi she had been playing with a pack of monkeys and imitating their behaviour when police went to rescue her. The little girl was spotted by villagers in the Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuary, on the Indian border with Nepal. The police official,…

First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Joseph Osei-Owusu and Minority Chief Whip Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak have been asked by the Speaker of Parliament to find a place in their hearts to forgive Member for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga. Mr Ayariga on Friday, April 7 read an apology letter over the bribery allegations he made against Mr Osei-Owusu, who is the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, and Alhaji Muntaka, who is a leader on that Committee. The Bawku Central MP’s allegation of receiving bribe from now Minister of Energy Boakye Agyarko through Committee leaders Mr Osei-Owusu and Alhaji Muntaka called for an…

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Speaker of Parliament Mike Aaron Oquaye on Friday, April 7 had to cajole Member of Parliament for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga to read a letter of apology written over the bribery allegation against the Appointments Committee. Mr Ayariga had failed to impress the Speaker on March 30 in the plenary after the five-member ad hoc committee found him guilty of contempt and asked that he apologized. “With magnanimity in mind, I gave Honourable Ayariga an opportunity to apologise again,” Speaker Oquaye said on Friday. He indicated that the former minister of state had written to him to render an unqualified…

All 275 members of Ghana’s Parliament have appended their signature to the Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP), a quasi-militant campaign against illegal small scale mining. The campaign, which calls on the MPs to “save our lands and water bodies”, gained a massive support on Friday, April 7 when members thronged to append their signatures to it. Recent media campaign against illegal mining, popularly referred to as galamsey, has been heightened with calls on security agencies to descend heavily on culprits. Pressure group OccupyGhana has already declared the month of April #RedMonth and rolled out a campaign to go red each…