Author: Krobea

Australian Senator Larissa Waters has become the first politician to breastfeed in the nation’s parliament. Ms Waters, from the left-wing Greens party, fed two-month-old daughter Alia Joy during a vote on Tuesday. The lower house last year joined the Senate in allowing breastfeeding, but no MPs in either house had done so. It followed a backlash in 2015 when Kelly O’Dwyer, a government minister, was asked to consider expressing milk to avoid missing parliamentary duties. “We need more women and parents in Parliament,” Ms Waters said on Facebook. “And we need more family-friendly and flexible workplaces, and affordable child care,…

“Hundreds” of cases of alleged wrongdoing – some involving senior officials – were being looked into by Fifa’s ethics committee before its main investigator and judge were ousted, the two have claimed. Football’s world governing announced on Tuesday it will not reappoint investigator Cornel Borbely and ethics adjudicator Hans-Joachim Eckert. At a news conference on Wednesday, they said their removal was a “setback for the fight against corruption” with knowledge of the cases being lost. The pair had earlier said it “meant the de facto end of Fifa’s reform efforts”. Borbely believes his removal was politically motivated. “We investigated several…

Tuesday’s fire explosion at a factory near Olam Oil Depot on the Sekondi-Takoradi highway left several workers injured. The fire is believed to have been ignited by the discharge of gas at GHUMCO, a utensils-production factory. Aftermath of the explosion: Source: 3news.com|Ghana Credit: Henry Yankey|Connect FM|Takoradi Follow @3Newsgh

Squatters have turned the base of the bridge on the Densu River at Tetegu on the Mallam-Kasoa Highway into their place of abode. The bridge is what connects drivers to and from Kasoa and Accra. Concerned residents say the space under the bridge is big and that is why squatters turned it into their place of abode. There are mattresses, bed, mosquito nets, cooking utensils, tables, chairs and other items there. They sleep there and do all sort of things under the bridge, 3news.com learnt. A concerned resident, Samuel Siaw Ampadu, who has been observing these squatters while at the…

The Paramount Chief for the Oguaa Traditional Area, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, has charged the new Metropolitan Chief Executive of Cape Coast, Ernest Arthur, to be focused if he is to succeed in his new role. The task ahead, according to Osabarima, is a difficult one as the people of the town are difficult to please. He therefore urged the new MCE to exercise strong will in pursuing his vision for Cape Coast irrespective of the criticism that will be heaped on him. Speaking Tuesday morning at the Emintsimadze Palace, where the MCE paid a courtesy call on the Council,…

Construction of an onion factory is expected to begin in Bazua in the Binduri District of the Upper East Region under the ‘One District, One Factory’ policy of government. The factory will be set up by a Ghanaian-owned Northern Industrial Onion Processing Company in collaboration with a company in China. The factory when completed will reduce onion rots and also increase production from farmers in the three regions of the north. The Upper East Region produces 85 per cent of the total onion production in Ghana. The crop thrives in dry soil and low humidity. An estimated 75 per cent of…

A tweet from a teenager asking a US fast food chain for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets has become the most retweeted ever. Carter Wilkerson’s plea broke Ellen DeGeneres’ record when he passed 3,490,249 retweets on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Wendy’s said: “We didn’t expect Carter’s response, and we couldn’t anticipate the overwhelming support he has received.” The company has donated $100,000 (£78,000) to charity in his name. ‘Consider it done’ On 5 April, the 16-year-old from Reno, Nevada, tweeted Wendy’s asking how many retweets he would need to get a year’s free supply of chicken nuggets. The fast…

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s nominee for the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo -Abirem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region, Nana Appiah Korang, was on Monday confirmed as the Chief Executive. Mr Korang, who is the KEEA Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), secured an overwhelming endorsement by polling 42 out of 42 votes cast, representing 100 per cent, to be the DCE. In his acceptance speech, the new MCE expressed gratitude to the NPP as well as the KEEA Traditional Council and called for unity to build the municipality. Speaking to 3news.com’s Kwame Kakarba after his confirmation, Mr Korang said once the…

Tuesday’s explosion at a utensils-producing company in Sekondi/Takoradi in the Western Region has left over 150 persons hospitalized, 3news.com has learnt. The hospitalized are workers and residents who suffered various degrees of injury as a result of the explosion. The explosion, which resulted in fire, was near an oil depot, Olam Distributors. The fire has since been brought under control. Reporting on 3FM’s Midday News on Tuesday, May 9, Connect FM’s Henry Yankey said about 70 of the injured were admitted at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital. The rest were also admitted at the Takoradi Government Hospital as well as…

“Hello Kofi, when exactly is the date for this year’s Talented Kidz audition?” said Evans Tawiah known in showbiz as DJ Fuad, as he called me on phone one morning. It was exactly five days to the audition of the season 8 of TV3’s coveted kids’ reality show, Talented Kidz. “Massa, why?” I asked. “I’m training my small girl to contest as a disc jockey (DJ),” he replied. “Wo yɛ sure sɛ bͻkͻͻ deɛ? [to wit; are you sure you are thinking right?]” It was but a friendly fire between the two of us on the phone. I had said…