Author: Krobea

The Minister for Trade and Industries Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen has commissioned a newly constructed Business Resource Centre (BRC) at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. The Business Resource Centre initiative is in line with the industrial transformation agenda of the Akufo-Addo government, and will provide a one-stop enterprise support center at the district level designed to provide a broad range of Business Development Services (BDS) to potential and existing entrepreneurs and enterprises. Currently, 67 BRCs are being constructed across the country, and are at various stages of completion. Thirty-seven of them have been completed with the other 30 at advanced stages…

Black Stars head coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor has named six new players in his 23-man squad for Ghana’s preparatory game against the Eagles of Mali in Turkey on Friday, October 9, 2020. Akonnor will be sliding into his first assignment since his appointment earlier this year, with the emergence of coronavirus disrupting the global football calendar. 3Sports takes a look at the 6 debutants including former Aduana Stars defender Yakubu Mohammed and Amiens midfielder Emmanuel Lomotey. Benson Anang – MK Zilina At age 18, Benson Anang joined MK Zilina in Slovakia from Ghanaian lower-tier side New Life Academy after a…

Afrobeat singer Kelyvn Boy is set to release his first ever album titled ‘Black Star’. The ‘Mea’ hitmaker said he has 12 songs on it and a feature with a Grammy nominee. He just released a single from the set-to-be-released album, ‘Mata’. Speaking on TV3’s Newday, Kelvyn Boy noted that he wasn’t disappointed that DopeNation won the Afrobeat Song of the Year award at this year’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs). “I wasn’t disappointed that I didn’t win the Afrobeat Song Award of the Year. “DopeNation deserved it as much I did.” He stated that even though DopeNation does Afrobeats,…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) will reopen the 2020 voter register for those who were unable to register during the registration exercise. The register will be reopened on Thursday, October 1 at the Commission’s district offices nationwide. It is currently undergoing exhibition for verification and correction of details by voters. In a statement issued on Thursday, September 24, the EC said the move is to “give opportunity to those who have attained the age of Eighteen (18) and Citizens who for one reason or the other were not able to register in the just ended Registration Exercise”. The registration will…

Beginning Thursday, October 1, 2020, a new cocoa producer price of GH¢10,560 per metric ton, equivalent to GH¢660 per bag will be paid for the coming 2020/21 crop year. This represents a hike of more than 28% over the price obtained in the outgoing crop year of 2019/2020. These were announced by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, September 24, on Day 1 of his 3-day tour of the Western North Region. He was launching the Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme in Sefwi Wiawso. The current 2019/20 producer price of GH¢8,240 per metric ton, translating to GH¢514 per bag, was an…

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama says his running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has also been caught in the web of anomalies that have characterized the ongoing voter exhibition exercise. “In the Central Region, glaring cases of duplication of card numbers were also recorded in 14 centers in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Constituency. “And one of such cases involved my running mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang,” Mr Mahama told journalists in Accra on Thursday, September 24. He explained that Prof Opoku-Agyemang was asked to get to the district office with her card to have it replaced. “Being…

The 2020-2021 season of the Ghana’s top-flight is scheduled to start on November 13, 2020. This follows the decision of government of Ghana to give green light for the resumption of contact sports on October 30, 2020. Football has been halted for over six months in Ghana since the outbreak Covid-19, which led to the cancellation of the 2019-2020 football season. The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has confirmed that the 2020-2021 season of the Ghana Premier League will commence on November 13. The Division One League will start on December 3, 2020. Commencement of the Women’s Premier League will follow…

One of the lecturers who redefined the teaching of Science in University of Ghana goes on retirement this year. J. P. Adjimani was until his retirement a Senior Lecturer at the Biochemistry Department of University of Ghana. He will be remembered as one of the few who broke the barrier between lecturers and students. A friend of all students, he lent a helping hand to most students, especially the weak ones. He can be credited as one of the lecturers whose office was open to all students at all times. Fondly called by his students as “Dr. Adji”, the academic…

The three siblings who died in a fatal road accident at Nyanteh near the Eastern University at Somanya have been laid to rest. The three, aged four to nine, are Marvin Oyanor, 4, Shannel Awudza, 4, and Kadmiel Kota, 9. Hundreds of mourners thronged the cemetery to pay their last respects to them and mourn with the family. The three were with their mother in a taxi cab returning from Accra before they met their untimely death in the fatal accident. Their mother, who suffered severe fracture, is currently at the St Joseph Hospital, Effiduase receiving treatment. Several lives have…

The government in partnership with waste management giants Zoomlion Ghana Limited has commenced disinfection of thousands of basic, junior and senior high schools across the country against coronavirus. The exercise being undertaken under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service, began from the Greater Accra, Central, Eastern and Western regions on Wednesday, September 23. It forms part of measures taken by the government to protect students and staff of the various schools who are to return to school from Monday, October 5 for resumption of academic work, which was halted in March this year on…