Author: Krobea

Former Cameroon international Rigobert Song has thanked the country’s fans and President for their support as he arrived back in Cameroon following six months of treatment in a Paris hospital. The former Liverpool player was taken ill in October 2016 when he suffered a brain aneurysm and was hospitalised in Yaounde where his condition stabilised before he was taken to Paris. Song returned to Yaoundé to a rapturous welcome on Saturday where he was met by dignitaries, friends and family. “I’m going to say thank you to the people, to God and President Paul Biya and his wife because he…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that nothing will hinder his electoral promises. Touting his eagerness to fulfilling all his promises with mantra ‘We go do’, the president urged Ghanaians to have confidence in the government. “Some people cast doubts about my promises,” he pointed out. “I assure you all of them will come to pass”. President Akufo-Addo gave this renewed assurance on Sunday while addressing the Moslem community at the Kumasi Central mosque as part of his three-day visit to the Ashanti Region. The president had earlier visited the St. Cyprian’s Anglican Church and the Ebenezer Methodist Church…

The Ashanti Regional Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) has asked parents of students of Kumasi Academy Senior High School to send the wards back to school. There was commotion at the School on Friday when students demonstrated over the deaths of some of their mates. 3news.com’s visit to KUMACA on Saturday morning saw parents on campus getting their wards home. READ: KUMACA shut down over mysterious deaths But a statement from regional directorate of GES on Sunday, April 2 said “the school has not been closed down as reported by some members of the public”. “Calm has been…

Ghana’s premier university, University of Ghana, seems to be losing its popularity on the African continent as it drops further on the University League table. Legon, as University of Ghana is popularly referred to, has been ranked 21st by uniRank in its latest ranking released this year. Behind Legon is Kwame Nkrumah Technology of Science and Technology (KNUST), which ranked 30th. The top half of the League is dominated by South African universities among which are University of South Africa and University of Johannesburg. The likes of Makere University in Uganda and University of Ibadan in Nigeria ranked higher than…

Bob Dylan has accepted his Nobel Prize for literature, more than three months after the awards ceremony, Swedish media report. He received his medal at a private event in Stockholm before a scheduled concert in the city. No further details were given. Swedish Academy officials previously said Dylan would not deliver his Nobel lecture, a traditional condition of receiving the 8m kroner ($900,000, £727,000) prize money, at the event. He is expected to deliver a taped version of the lecture later. If he does not deliver a lecture by June, he will have to forfeit the prize money. A member…

A huge South Korean cargo ship which had 24 people on board has gone missing in the South Atlantic. Officials in Seoul said efforts were under way to rescue two sailors found on a life raft, Yonhap news agency reports. On Friday, a crew member sent a text saying the Stellar Daisy freighter was taking on water. The Uruguayan navy alerted merchant ships in the area, which began a search. A navy spokesman said they had reported a strong smell of fuel. The ship, a Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) with a capacity of 260,000 tonnes, was being operated by…

As part of measures to improve  healthcare delivery in the country, Phoenix Resource Centre Global Aid Ghana (PRCGA), a Ghanaian-based non-governmental organization, has extended  its charity arm to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital with medical equipment worth GH¢15,000. It has also presented a cheque for GH¢1,000 to support the hospital to meet its daily needs. The items included 5 pieces of mattresses, 3 large boxes of medical equipment (syringes, needles, pen tips and vacuettes), 5 pairs of single walker, 2 pairs of 4 legged walker, 1 box of Compound lactate drips (20 pieces), 10 boxes of dust/nose mask (58 pieces), 5…

Anti-graft advocate Vitus Adaboo Azeem says it will be hypocritical on the part of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to further probe the bribery allegations against some members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee. “They would have no basis to go into it now,” he asserted. According to Mr Azeem, CHRAJ did Ghanaians disservice by not heeding to calls to investigate the issue when it first broke out in January. Mr Azeem, who is the immediate past Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative, expressed these sentiments on Saturday, April 1 on TV3’s Hot Issues. His comments come…

Over the years, I have keenly observed the lives of successful people like Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, Prince Kofi Amoabeng and Mike Agyekum Addo among others and nothing resonates more like their desire to follow their dreams and see it through. Recently I came across a quote from an unknown source that states that your salary is the bribe given you to forget about your dreams. I couldn’t help but wonder the path I was treading especially as a salaried worker. I realised that everything lay with a choice; a choice to invest and enrich myself, or a…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, of his commitment to ensuring that the rule of law works without fear or favour and without regard to any partisan, ethnic or religious considerations. According to President Akufo-Addo, “it will not be under my watch that people will take the law into their own hands, neither will it be under my watch that the laws of our land will not be enforced. That will never happen. The law will work without fear or favour.” The President made this known on Saturday, April 1, when he paid…