Author: Krobea

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is scheduled to pay a one-day working visit to Ghana on Monday, February 27. His visit said to further strengthen ties between FIFA and Ghana will see the Swiss-cum-Italian meet President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House in Accra. The former UEFA General Secretary is expected to visit the headquarters of the nation’s football governing body. There, he will meet the Ghana Football Association’s staff and officials including its President, Kwesi Nyantakyi. “This is an important milestone for football in Ghana with President Infantino coming to the country to share ideas of his vision…

One of the world’s biggest and most successful clubs, Barcelona, is launching a football academy in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub. The academy, in Africa’s biggest city, is the first of its kind on the continent. It is modelled on Barcelona’s flagship La Masia Academy in Spain which has produced stars such as Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Xavi. Officially known as FCBEscola Lagos, the school is temporarily located at the multi-sports Teslim Balogun Stadium Complex in the sprawling Surulere suburb. A bright banner of the Spanish midfielder Iniesta greets you as you enter the main gate. Inside an assortment of…

The cast and creators of Moonlight have warmed up for Sunday’s Oscars by winning the top prize at Saturday’s Independent Spirit Awards. The touching and beautifully-shot drama about growing up gay and black in Miami is seen as an outside bet to upset the La La Land bandwagon at the Oscars. It confirmed its status as the awards circuit’s second favourite film with six Independent Spirit Awards. La La Land wasn’t eligible for the awards, which reward low-budget films. Moonlight was made for $1.5m (£1.2m) over 25 days – but has now recouped $21.5m (£17.3m) at the North American box…

Nokia’s 3310 phone has been relaunched nearly 17 years after its debut. Many consider the original handset iconic because of its popularity and sturdiness. More than 126 million were produced before it was phased out in 2005. The revamped version will be sold under licence by the Finnish start-up HMD Global, which also unveiled several Nokia-branded Android smartphones. One expert said it was a “fantastic way” to relaunch Nokia’s phone brand. “The 3310 was the first mass-market mobile and there’s a massive amount of nostalgia and affection for it,” commented Ben Wood from the technology consultancy CCS Insight. “If HMD…

Ghana today, seems very focused on infrastructural development – building schools, hospitals, constructing roads and building industries – which is a laudable cause. But what happened to the Cement Factory in Tema, the Steel works in Tema, Coconut Fibre and Ceramic Processing at Saltpond, the Bamboo Processing in the Eastern region or the Gold refinery in the Western region, what of the Pwalugu Meat Factory in Bolgatanga, the Kumasi shoe factory, or the Atomic Energy in Kwabenya and many other collapsed factories established by Dr Kwame Nkrumah. When people focus on what is not theirs, they lose grip of what they…

The death of a first-year Chemical Engineering student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has left some students in fear as information trickle in over the cause of her death. Adwoa Agyarkowaa Anyimadu-Antwi, 18, was found hanged in her Independence Hall room on Friday, February 24. Though the cause of death is yet to be established, many suspect suicide. This stems from a note found in the room of the deceased, who was the daughter of Asante-Akyem Central Member of Parliament. The note read: ‘Sorry mummy and daddy for not been (sic) the girl you want…

The son of Brazil’s footballing legend, Pele, has handed himself in to complete his sentence for money laundering and drug trafficking. Edinho, a former professional goalkeeper, was first arrested in 2005 over the charges, but appealed. He remained free during the appeal but was sentenced in 2014 to 33 years. The court has reduced that sentence to 12 years and 10 months, but ruled that he must be imprisoned while he appeals. Edinho denies all the charges. As he arrived at a police station in the city of Santos, he said there was not a shred of evidence against him.…

“Our political class introduced something they call free education that is free indeed–free of knowledge. It is because they are so suspicious of those institutions that the typical African politicians will not dare take their children to those schools”―P.L.O. Lumumba The debate about the appropriate funding model for the much-marketed education policy, fee free education, continues even days after the Finance minister, Mr. Ken Ofori Atta, has come out that the government wouldn’t fund the policy with the Heritage Fund contrary to comments made by the senior minister, Yaw Osafo Mafo. Others like Nana Akomea thinks the chatty senior minister…

What good is political freedom without economic freedom. When the Ghanaian preference is fixed on what is not hers. What is freedom when the mind of the people is shackled with the desire to be anything but herself. Economic freedom can only be attained when that chained mindset is broken, when Ghanaians and Africa as a whole look inward rather than looking outward all the time. That high sense of self that does not clamor for foreign aids, which always come with conditions.   ‘This is how it’s done in the West, this is how it’s in Asia’, rather than discovering…

Ghana will in days celebrate 60 years of freedom, 60 years of absolute control over her resources, 60 years of economic growth and development, 60 years of enriched national identity, 60 years of independence. Or is Ghana about to celebrate 60 years of neocolonialism, 60 years of institutionalized corruption, 60 years of self hate that causes us to flee from our country to the West in search of ‘better living conditions’, 60 years of highly acquired foreign taste that leaves us continuously chained to the shackles of our slave masters? Ghana turns 60 in a few days, 60 years of…