Author: Krobea

Favourites Senegal were knocked out from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations after star player Sadio Mané missed his penalty. The Teranga Lions could not score against Cameroon in full regulation time as well as after extra time, throwing the second quarter-final match of Gabon 2017 into penalty shootouts. Unfortunately, it was the continent’s current third best player, Mané, who missed his kick. Cameroon won the shootouts 5-4. The result sends the Indomitable Lions to the semi-final and will face the winner of the DR Congo-Ghana quarter-final clash. Earlier on Saturday, Burkina Faso secured a spot in the semi-finals, the…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has left Accra for Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, where he will be attending the 28th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU). The Session will be held on Monday, January 30 – 31 but will be preceded on Sunday by a retreat for heads of state. It will be held on the theme: “Harnessing the Democratic Dividend through Investment in the Youth”. President Akufo-Addo is attending the Session for the first time as President of the Republic of Ghana. He is expected to join other leaders from the continent to…

A major shake-up has hit the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, resulting in the reassignment of the Director General. Commissioner of Police (COP) Prosper Agblor, who has been head of the Department in the tenure of at least two Inspector Generals of Police, has been moved to the Special Duties Department in the same capacity he occupied at the CID. 3news.com gathers that his deputy, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dennis Ako-Dem, has also been moved. He is heading to the same department as his boss, to be his assistant. Director General of the Welfare Department…

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The 29 illegal miners arrested in the Atiwa Rain Forest Reserve on Thursday night have been arraigned before court. They have subsequently been remanded to appear on Tuesday, January 31, 3news.com’s Eastern Region reporter has said. The 29 were arrested by a Rapid Task Force made up of security personnel in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region. READ: Malians, Nigeriens among 29 illegal miners arrested in Atiwa Forest Officers of the Forestry Commission also helped in their arrest. Among the arrested on Thursday were Malians and Nigeriens aged between 17 and 45. The officers said they got hint that…

Ghanaian veteran actor Emmanuel Armah is currently on admission at the 37 Military Hospital receiving treatment. Information gathered by 3news.com indicates that Emmanuel Armah returned from the US a few weeks ago and has since been battling an unknown illness. The Minister-designate for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Abelema Afeku together with some actors visited Emmanuel Armah Thursday afternoon at the hospital. Actors who joined the trip included Fred Amugi, Oscar Provencal, Joseph Ofei, Sammy Forson, Irene Opare, Eunice Banini, Akorfa Edjeani Asiedu, Luckie Lawson, Maame Kakraba Smith of Efiewura fame among others. They donated an undisclosed amount to…

The entire squad of the senior national team has touched down in Gabonese northern city of Oyem for the quarter-final clash against DR Congo on Sunday. The team had cancelled a flight on Thursday due to undue delays. But it made it on Friday morning with captain Asamoah Gyan also cleared to join the team to train ahead of the clash. READ: Stars fail to travel to Oyem for Sunday’s quarter-finals with DR Congo Ghana plays DR Congo in a match that is likely to extend the West Africans’ record in the Africa Cup of Nations history. A win will…

The second batch of ministerial nominees of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to be vetted from Monday by Parliament’s Appointments Committee. In all, 12 nominees will be vetted from Monday, January 30 to Thursday, February 2. Minister-designate for Monitoring and Evaluation Dr Anthony Akoto Osei, who is also Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Tafo Constituency, has been penned down as the first to be vetted. He will be followed by Otiko Afisa Djaba, who has been nominated for the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. To cap the day on Monday will be MP for Okere,…

Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has returned to the team’s camp after travelling to the Gabonese capital, Libreville, for an MRI scan. Gyan had suffered an injury in Ghana’s 1-0 loss to Egypt, forcing him to be pulled off in the first half. He was replaced by Jordan Ayew in that final Group D game. A day after the game on Wednesday, January 25, Gyan was accompanied by team doctor Adam Baba to Libreville for the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. “Tests in the Gabonese capital of Libreville have shown that the injury is not as bad as initially feared,”…

Classrooms are noticeably more hi-tech these days – interactive boards, laptops and online learning plans proliferate, but has the curriculum actually changed or are children simply learning the same thing on different devices? Some argue that the education this generation of children is receiving is little different from that their parents or even their grandparents had. But, in a world where artificial intelligence and robots threaten jobs, the skills that this generation of children need to learn are likely to be radically different to the three Rs that have for so long been the mainstay of education. The BBC went…