Author: Krobea

A Ghana native who was arrested in April after telling his date that he was a terrorist and would blow up her University of Massachusetts dormitory pleaded guilty on Monday to a single charge of threatening to commit a crime. Abdul F. Ismail entered the plea in Eastern Hampshire Court, admitting to his role in the April 11 incident. He avoided any jail time as Judge Thomas Estes placed his conviction “on file” for the next 12 months, meaning no sentence will be imposed if he stays out of trouble over that time. However, Ismail was taken into custody by United State…

The Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku, has hinted of government’s plans to subsidise electricity bills for operators in the hospitality industry. The Minister was responding to concerns by some hotel operators about the exorbitant energy tariffs, which they say is gradually crippling their businesses. Koku Adjatey Odupey of Western Plus Hotel in Takoradi says “the energy cost for running a hotel is very high that something needs to be done about it”. “I’m suggesting to the minister that they need to come up with policies to support big hotels. If not it will collapse…and already in the…

After several meetings with the youth of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Savelugu Constituency, government has managed to get new Chief Executive of the Savelugu-Nanton Municipal Assembly Hajia Ayishetu Seidu accepted. There have been bloody protests in the municipality following the endorsement by the assembly members of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s nominee. But youth of the party claimed she bribed her way through and that they don’t see her as a true member of the party in the Constituency. Not even a government delegation led by Minister of State at the Presidency Bryan Acheampong would get them to budge…

The Member of Parliament for Cape Coast North Constituency and Deputy Minister for Education, Barbara Asher Ayisi, has donated food and other items worth over GH¢10,000 to the Cape Coast North Islamic community. The move was in support of the ongoing Ramadan fasting and prayers. The donation, which was done at the Kate Apartment in Cape Coast North, was received by Imam Mohammed Sharif Ali on behalf of the 28 mosques in the Cape Coast North Constituency. The donation was done on behalf of the MP and Deputy Minister by Mr George Ayisi, the MP’s husband. Speaking to Onua FM’s…

Manchester United manager José Mourinho has denied tax fraud in Spain, saying the government had ratified his tax affairs. Mr Mourinho was accused by prosecutors of defrauding Spain of €3.3m (£2.9m; $3.6m) in taxes while he was Real Madrid coach from 2011 to 2012. A prosecutor said Mr Mourinho, 54, did not declare income from image rights in order to get an “illicit benefit”. A statement released on his behalf said he “has not received any notification”. It added: “To this date, neither the Spanish tax authorities, nor the public prosecutor have contacted Jose Mourinho or his advisers who were…

A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The man posted a picture of himself holding the baby out of a window in a high-rise building with the caption: “1,000 likes or I will drop him.” It prompted other social media users to demand his arrest for child abuse. He was charged with endangering the baby’s safety following his arrest on Sunday, police said. The unnamed man dangled the child out of the 15th-floor window of an apartment block in…

Co-chair of the Ghana Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI) Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, who is also a member of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has said the inability of the country to properly sequence the governance frame work was the first mistake after the oil find in 2007. According to Dr Manteaw, the country didn’t do the national visioning, thus couldn’t translate the vision into policy objective. Speaking on Asem Nyi Dze Ka, a current affairs show on Takoradi-based Connect 97.1 FM, he asserted that: “As a country, we did not learn any lesson from the mistake…

The recommendations of the Kwesi Botchwey-led committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not be accepted until they are clearly established as findings of fact, General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia has stated. “There are times where you have a committee whose recommendations may not flow from the findings of fact,” he said, “so we will look at that one – whether the recommendations are flowing from the findings of fact.” The 13-member committee presented a 455-page report to the party on Monday after a five-month nationwide tour to find reasons why the party lost to the New Patriotic Party…

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for a global fight against snakebites and the need to reduce impact especially in the tropical areas. Mr. Annan explained that snakebite is a burden to the people living within the Amazon and therefore called on stakeholders to help reduce and bring concrete improvement to the health needs of the vulnerable people in these areas. He made this known as the Kofi Annan Foundation welcomed a World Health Organisation (WHO) decision to include snakebites in the neglected tropical diseases portfolio. It was contained in a tweet on Tuesday. We must continue to…

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts is set to launch a new project called SEE GHANA, EAT GHANA, WEAR GHANA. Expected to be launched in July, the project is intended to increase the sales and use of Made-in-Ghana goods and services and also identify ways of packaging them for the foreign market. The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Development Company,  Kwadwo Odame Antwi, made this known during a meeting with private sector players in the hospitality industry at Takoradi in the Western Region. Specifically, the project will concentrate on how to package and promote Ghanaian dishes, attire and…