Author: Krobea

Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang-Manu has discounted reports that he terminated the appointment of the Medical Director of the Ridge Hospital without recourse to due process. According to him, he only reassigned Dr Thomas Anaba to the University of Development Studies (UDS), where he he has been lecturing prior to his appointment on February 1, 2016. Dr Anaba has expressed disagreement with the termination of his appointment, heaping blame solely on the head of the Health Minister. ““I hold the minister responsible,” Dr Anaba declared on 3FM’s Sunrise on Tuesday, May 16. READ: Tension at Ridge Hospital as Medical Director…

Comfort Asante has gotten the nod to become the Chief Executive of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly after second round of voting. The 65-year-old was failed to get the two-thirds majority on Monday, May 15 at the first voting. She managed 62.8 per cent after poling 49 out of 78 votes. After a tense Wednesday morning of elections, Mrs Asante polled 77 YES votes, representing 98.71 per cent and 1 NO vote, representing 1.29 per cent. The University of Cape Coast lecturer in her acceptance speech said she was ready to work within the Assembly’s framework of structures to serve…

A Deputy Finance Minister, Kwaku Kwarteng, has charged the new board of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to be focused on revenue mobilization. The nine-member board was inaugurated by the Deputy Finance Minister. The board chaired by Harry Owusu also has GRA’s Commissioner-General Kofi Nti and a Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Millison Narh, as members. The board among other things is tasked with the duties of developing strategic and relevant means of mobilizing revenue for the country. Speaking at the inauguration, Deputy Finance Minister Kwaku Kwarteng says the board should be determined to carry out its duties…

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…