Author: Krobea

The eight accused members of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group Delta Force have been discharged by the Kumasi Circuit Court Two due to lack of evidence. Judge Patricia Amponsah freed the accused persons, following the Attorney General’s claim that it has no evidence to prosecute. In the last hearing on April 18, prosecutor ACP Okyere Darko upon the advised of the Attorney General prayed the Court for adjournment to enable the AG study the docket. That application was granted by Justice Amponsah, who set May 17 for hearing. The accused persons were standing trial over their alleged involvement in…

A Sharia court in Indonesia’s Aceh province has sentenced two men to be caned in public for having gay sex. The men were found guilty of violating strict Islamic laws in conservative Aceh and will receive 85 lashes each. The pair, aged 20 and 23, were found in bed together by vigilantes in March. They have not been identified. This is Indonesia’s first conviction for homosexuality, which is not illegal in the rest of the country. Aceh is the only province where Sharia is in force. The sentence is expected to be carried out next week. While the judges did…

Residents of seven communities in the Akosombo township have demonstrated against high tariffs in electricity bills. They suggest new metres introduced by the Volta River Authority (VRA) three years ago are the cause of the rise in bills. The residents are demanding management of VRA to give them a flat rate and withdraw their metres or face their wrath. Hundreds of them clad in red thronged VRA’s Technical Services Department on Tuesday morning to express their frustration after an hour-long mass procession from their various communities. The communities include Akosombo Combine, Kokonor, Tortibo, Poponi, Atimpoku, Mangoase and Torska. Some residents…

Black Stars coach James Kwesi Appiah has been tasked to win the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations to be held in Cameroon. By such a task he is expected to qualify the team to the tournament to be staged between January 12, 2019 and February 3, 2019. Ghana will battle Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and Kenya in Group F of qualification for the tournament. At his unveiling on Tuesday, May 16 at the Ghana Football Association (GFA) secretariat, Kwesi Appiah was asked to bring the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) trophy home. Ghana have four continental trophies after winning the…

The UK’s inflation rate rose last month to its highest since September 2013, official figures show. Inflation now stands at 2.7% – up from 2.3% in March – and above the Bank of England’s 2% target. The main reason was higher air fares, which rose because of the later date of Easter this year compared with 2016. Rising prices for clothing, vehicle excise duty and electricity also played a part, but a fall in the price of petrol and diesel slightly offset this. Last week, the Bank of England warned that inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI)…

Some members of the John Agyekum Kufour Foundation have revealed that non-inclusion of some traditional food products is among factors that militate against the fight against malnutrition and hunger. They emphasise that  the patronage of what they have termed adopted crops such as soya beans to the detriment of Ghanaian semi-wild  traditional crops like sorghum which has equal nutrient deepens the gap between malnutrition and end hunger. The World Food Programme projects a zero hunger regime by ending hunger in the world and increase food security by 2030 per the Sustainable Development Goal 2. This has called for the rolling out of several interventions…

A teenager in Mexico has invented a bra to detect breast cancer. But does it work? And if so, how? Julian Rios Cantu, 18, has made a bra that he says will be an early warning system for breast cancer symptoms. The Eva bra, made by him and three friends who formed a company together, is only at the prototype stage. But they have raised enough money to start tests and, this week, won the top prize at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. Their company, Higia Technologies, beat young entrepreneurs from around the world to win $20,000 (£15,500) to develop…

Former Member of Parliament for North Dayi Constituency in the Volta Region George Loh has chastised the Finance Minister’s apology over the wrongfully deletion of names of public sector workers from the government payroll. George Loh says “they could not generate revenue to pay the salaries so they did that to respite but it is good the minister has eaten his humble pie”. The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Monday admitted there were some names wrongfully expunged from government’s mechanized payroll as part of government’s bid to rid it of ghost names. “We did an exercise recently in which quite…

Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has filed a complaint with United State of America’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the $2.25 billion bond recently issued by the government of Ghana. Mr Ablakwa filed the complaint on behalf of the Minority in Parliament in his capacity as the Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee. The Minority had raised issues with the manner in which one company bought a majority of the bonds issued. Franklin Templeton purchased 95 per cent of the 15-year and 7-year bonds. The crux of the Minority’s concern was that Trevor…

A leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has downplayed media reports about the purported secret meeting by Former President John Dramani Mahama on his intention to contest again for the presidency. Lawyer George Loh said “former President Mahama can hold a meeting everywhere in the country even in space”. Media reports suggested that former President Mahama’s intention of contesting the presidency again on the ticket of the NDC in 2020 is gathering momentum, even though it is shrouded in secrecy. Reports say the ex-president went to the Ashanti Region capital, Kumasi, in a private jet last Sunday…