Author: Krobea

A couple in the US state of Georgia have won their legal battle to give their baby daughter the surname Allah. The state had refused to issue a birth certificate for ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah on the grounds that neither parent has that last name. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the case, called the decision a victory for free expression. But the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US said the surname could be considered offensive. The Georgia Department of Health had initially said the one-year-old daughter of parents Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk should have either of…

At least seven people have died after an electric cable fell on fans watching a Manchester United match on TV in Nigeria, police say. The high-tension cable fell on a crowded shack showing the Europa League quarter-final against Anderlecht in the southern city of Calabar. At least 30 people were taken to hospital by local ambulances and police who arrived quickly at the scene. English football has a large and passionate following in Nigeria. Eyewitnesses describe hearing a loud explosion from an electrical transformer which caused the cable to fall. One man told local media that the venue had a…

Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has denied damning Ghana’s King of Comedy DKB as a boring comedian. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings in an interview with Christian Agyei Frimpong of Onua FM’s entertainment talk show Anigye Mmre on Friday, April  21 stated that she doesn’t even know who DKB is. “What I can say is that anytime we are having a comedy show, the comedian needs to sit and think over the jokes they want to share with the audience from the beginning of the show all the Gh[ana] comedians who performed the night used vulgar language throughout their performance. “Ghana…

Pressure is being mounted on the national executive of the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA) to step aside for an Interim Management Committee (IMC). Election of new officers initially scheduled for March 31 has been indefinitely postponed due to numerous petitions against the process. The Election and Arbitration Committee recommended the postponement of the polls. The current executive body headed by Dr Roland Affail Monney has had to apparently extend its mandate. Nonetheless, there have been numerous calls for the executives to make way for an IMC until elections are held. The latest to add to the pressure is Francis Kokutse,…

Some parts of the country’s capital city Accra were flooded on Thursday night after a downpour which lasted for almost an hour. www.3news.com gathers the Olusegun Obasanjo Highway was flooded with most road users unable to ply the stretch. Mallam Junction on the Accra-Cape Coast highway was also flooded though the road was slightly motorable. Portions of the Atomic Junction overhead on the Legon-Madina highway were also filled with water. Motorists travelling to Haatso/Dome found it difficult to ply the road as it was flooded. April marks the beginning of the rainy season in Ghana and meteorologists have predicted heavier…

The Head Pastor of Deeper Life Church at Sefwi Asawinso in the Western Region has bemoaned the extent of destruction illegal small-scale mining has caused water bodies. According to him, water bodies have been muddied to the extent that new converts can no longer be baptised in them. “We therefore have to resort to baptizing church members in pans,” Samuel Kofi Owusu told Onua FM on Thursday, April 20. He said they preach alright but after winning souls, they have no clean water bodies in which to baptise them. Most of the new converts do not like being baptised in…

DNA tests on the carcass of a crocodile shot in Zimbabwe have confirmed that it contains the remains of a missing South African hunter, an investigator has told the BBC. Scott Van Zyl was killed last week on the banks of the Limpopo river, said Sakkie Louwrens, director of a South-African crime-fighting NGO. He said Mr Van Zyl disappeared during a hunting safari last week. His death is the latest in a series of fatal crocodile attacks in Zimbabwe. Mr Louwrens told the BBC that Mr Van Zyl had gone on a hunting trip on the Zimbabwe-South Africa border with…

Calm has returned to Nkonya in the Volta Region a day after renewed clashes led to the killing of two and the injuring of one, the regional minister has disclosed. Dr Archibald Yao Letsa noted that military and police personnel have been deployed to the area to maintain law and order. The deadly clashes on Wednesday followed the lessening of the dusk-to-dawn curfew in Nkonya and Alavanyo, the feuding towns. But after the latest clashes, government has imposed an 11:00pm-to-5:00pm curfew on the two towns. An emergency Regional Security Council (REGSEC) meeting was also held on Thursday to find a…

The Ministry of Finance has set up an office “to offer opportunity to the general public to seek redress and offer information that could lead to the prevention of loss of revenue or the retrieval of revenues from tax evaders”. The office, which will have dedicated officers, will be referred to as Solutions Service Unit. This was contained in a statement released on Thursday, April 20. “The Unit is to provide an additional channel for taxpayers to report their complaints and receive timely feedback and fair treatment.” The Unit will be located within the new block of the Ministry in…

Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling banning Jehovah’s Witnesses after the justice ministry called on it to dissolve the “extremist organisation”. Supreme Court judge Yury Ivanenko said Russia had decided to close down “the administrative centre of Jehovah’s Witnesses and the local organisations in its fold and turn their property over to the Russian Federation.” The decision comes after the ministry said it had found signs of “extremist activity” within the organisation and requested that it be banned. “They represent a threat to the rights of people, public order and public safety,” Russian news agencies quoted justice ministry…