Author: Krobea

The police administration has pledged support for the intention of the family of the late army captain, Maxwell Adam Mahama, to set up a foundation in his honour. Captain Mahama was lynched under bizarre circumstances on Monday, May 29 at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. Sympathies have poured in for the family since the sad incidence. The family has appealed to the state to erect a monument for their fallen son. On Friday, June 2, Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu disclosed that the late Captain’s father is nursing an intention to set up a foundation in honour of his…

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has assured of readiness to conduct this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The Examinations for final year junior high school (JHS) students will begin on Monday, June 5 and end on Friday, June 9. A total of 468, 053 candidates are sitting this year’s examinations across 1,702 examination centers. Speaking on 3FM’s Midday News on Friday, Mrs Agnes Teye Cudjoe, who is the Director of Public Affairs of the Council, said: “We have put in place all the security measures [ahead of the exams]”. She said invigilators and supervisors have been briefed on…

The Upper Denkyira West District Assembly wants President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to visit the area in the midst of efforts to unravel the cause of the lynching of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. The Assembly led by its Presiding Member, George Kakari, said it fully accepts a recent decision by the president to suspend the District Chief Executive, Daniel Appianin, following his remarks on the cause of death of the army captain. Addressing journalists at Diaso, the District’s capital, Mr Kakari summed up the pain the entire Denkyira including the assembly members is going through due to the gruesome murder.…

Family of the late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama has appealed to the state to erect a monument in any part of the country to serve as a reminder to the country of the death of its son. The family wants the monument to be a forestallment of lynching as a means of exacting justice. The family made this demand on Friday, June 2, when Speaker of Parliament Professor MikeAaron Oquaye and leadership of the House paid relatives of the fallen soldier a visit to commiserate with them. The Speaker assured the family that Parliament will support the erection of a…

Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has begun a series of rallies across the country in a bid to win the support of young people ahead of elections next year. A huge crowd has gathered for the rally in a stadium at Marondera, a small town east of the capital, Harare, the state-run Herald newspaper reports. It adds that the president is planning nine other similar rallies this year. Mr Mugabe has been in power since 1980 and is due to run again in 2018. The country has a youthful population with more than 70% under 35, according to the last…

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has directed all constituencies to organize conferences not later than Monday, June 26 ahead of a national edition in Cape Coast, Central Region. The party has scheduled to hold the 2017 National Delegates Conference from Friday, August 25 to Sunday, August 27. In a memo sighted by www.3news.com, constituency executives have been  directed to hold conferences as agreed at the National Council meeting on May 10. The executives are therefore “to furnish the National Party through the Regional Party with timelines of activities leading to the Conference by Monday, June 12, 2017”. The Conference in…

Children who have TVs in their bedrooms are more likely to be overweight than those who do not, a study by University College London scientists suggests. For girls in particular, they found the longer spent watching TV, the more likely children were to put on weight. Researchers say there is now an urgent need to see if similar patterns exist with laptops and mobile phones. Experts said high levels of screen time exposed children to a damaging combination of risks to health. ‘Watch and weight’ Published in the International Journal of Obesity, the study analysed data from more than 12,000…

A 12-year-old girl from California has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after a tense final in Washington. Ananya Vinay from Fresno correctly spelled the word marocain – a type of dress fabric – to defeat Rohan Rajeev, 14, from Oklahoma. The rivals had correctly spelled words including cheiropompholyx, durchkomponiert and tchefuncte as each waited for the other to slip up. But Rohan misspelled the word marram and Ananya got two words right to win. She said she felt “amazing” after her victory, adding: “It was just fun to see how far it would go.” Could you have spelled these?…

African Union Deputy Chairperson Thomas Kwesi Quartey and the UN Resident Coordinator for Ghana, Christine Evans-Klock, are confirmed as special guests of honour at the Africa-focused thought leadership conference ‘Africa Dialogues’. The event is slated for Saturday, June 3 at the Accra International Conference Center. The announcement is a strong indicator of support for Africa Dialogues by the African Union. Themed ‘Dreams We Dare Not’, the 2017 Africa Dialogues conference will feature powerful and change-making Africans drawn from diverse backgrounds who will speak on issues relevant to Africa’s achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and Africa Union’s Agenda…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with support from the Switzerland government through the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) has commissioned an ultra-modern laboratory at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) -Soil Research Institute (SRI) in Kumasi on Thursday. The upgrade of the CSIR- SRI laboratory by UNIDO through the Trade Capacity Building (TCB) Programme for Ghana is part of an ongoing strategy to strengthen the country’s testing laboratories to provide reliable and internationally accepted tests for sustainable value chains for exports. The laboratory refurbished with modern equipment and technical assistance from UNIDO now implement laboratory…