Author: Krobea

Ghana Rubber Estate Limited (GREL) as part of its corporate social responsibility has constructed a Health Center worth €200,000 for Abura Township and its adjoining communities in Ahanta West District of the Western Region. The health facility is to complement the old one, which was constructed several decades ago. The Abura Health Center operates out-patient services and only detains patients with critical conditions which are later referred to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Takoradi. Abura Health Center records about 15, 000 out-patients at the center with diverse health conditions yet the facility lacks a laboratory, other medical equipment and…

Members of the Asomakoma royal family of Wassa Fiase were on Tuesday morning clad in red in a demonstration to send a warning to a rival family over the planned installment of a paramount chief for the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area. According to the family, the Area already has a paramount chief from Benso but plans are underway to enstool another person as paramount chief without the knowledge of the queen mother and elders. The demonstration ended with a petition to the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs and the police. Some of the placards the demonstrating family members wielded…

The quest by the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to investigate business mogul Ibrahim Mahama over some financial dealings with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been described by the Communications Officer of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Solomon Nkansah as a diversionary tactics being engineered by the governing New Patriotic Party. Mr Nkansah, who made the statement on Onua FM’s morning show ‘Yen Nsem Pa’, likened EOCO to a debt collector that is being used to settle political scores. Mr Mahama, the Chief Executive Officer of Engineers and Planners (E&P), was invited by the state anti-graft agency for…

The Ministry of Youth and Sports says government will back former Black Stars captain Kwesi Appiah fully in his new role as Black Stars coach. Sector minister Isaac Asiamah told the press after a meeting with Appiah and GFA executives on Monday, April 24 that Appiah will get the necessary backing to thrive and work to achieve the laid-out expectations of him. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) and Appiah paid a courtesy call on the minister to introduce the latter to him as new Stars coach and also discuss plans to make his tenure a success. “You can be assured…

According to the Arizona Republic, news media, “it is the worst firefighting tragedy ever in Arizona [US], eclipsing the 1990 Dude Fire near Payson, which claimed six firefight­ers. “It was the worst wild-land firefight­ing tragedy in US history since 25 [people] were killed in the Griffith Park Fire in Los Angeles in 1933.” Indeed, the uncontrollable fire that caught up with the hamlet of about 500 homes had most of these homes reduced to billowing smokes. The town, on a hill, named Yarnell will forever mourn this day as the fire began early Friday evening, and by Sunday the fire…

Newcastle United secured an immediate return to the Premier League with a convincing home victory over Preston. Christian Atsu put the Magpies 2-1 up at half-time after Jordan Hugill had cancelled out an Ayoze Perez opener. On a tense evening at St James’ Park, Newcastle nerves were settled when Preston’s Paul Gallagher was sent off for handling on the line and Matt Ritchie scored the resulting penalty. Perez got his second from close range to send Newcastle up with Brighton. Rafael Benitez’s side had taken only one point from their previous three matches, but their late-season wobble was not punished…

Moderate physical exercise such as cycling or jogging can help boost brain power Doing moderate exercise several times a week is the best way to keep the mind sharp if you’re over 50, research suggests. Thinking and memory skills were most improved when people exercised the heart and muscles on a regular basis, a review of 39 studies found. This remained true in those who already showed signs of cognitive decline. Taking up exercise at any age was worthwhile for the mind and body, the Australian researchers said. Exercises such as T’ai Chi were recommended for people over the age…

EFCC Nigerians have been shocked and bemused after huge piles of cash have been unearthed in various parts of the country in recent months. Journalist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at what is going on. In February, $9.2m and £750,000 were discovered by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the EFCC, in a property belonging to Andrew Yakubu, a former director of the national oil company, NNPC. In March, large sacks containing bundles of “crispy” banknotes worth a total of $155,000 (£130,000) were found in Kaduna airport. In April, a stash containing $43.4m, £27,800 and 23.2m naira were recovered from a Lagos…

Barely 48 hours after TV3’s report on the invasion of cocoa farms by armyworms within the Ejisu-Juaben and Mampong municipalities of the Ashanti Region, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has intervened. The Cocoa Health Extension Division of COCOBOD has presented several boxes of insecticide to affected cocoa farmers to control the spread of the pests. Farmers in 25 cocoa-growing communities within the Ejisu-Juaben and Mampong municipalities have been thrown in frustration as they are on the verge of losing their investments to the invasion by the worms. The pests have within two days destroyed over 50 acres of cocoa farms…

Youth who fled Ekpu, a fishing community near Half Assini in the Jomoro District of the Western Region, for fear of being brutalized by police are yet to return to the town, according to the Assemblyman of the community. Peter Miezah explained that this situation has slowed down economic activity in the area especially since most of the youths are into fishing which is a major source of livelihood for the community. It would be recalled that Onua FM broke the story of how Police from the Western Regional Command numbering about 100 invaded the small fishing community in the…