Author: Krobea

Boabab Market, a group of Civil Society Organizations in Northern Region, has called on the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to classify rosewood, Shea, dawadawa and cashew trees under the economic tree protection Act of 1979. The act has only cocoa as an economic tree. According to the group, enforcing the ban will strengthen the hands of local authorities and security agencies to fight the menace. The Boabab Market since its formation in 2017 has given significant amount of time and attention to the issue of rosewood depletion in the country. It will be recalled that in February 2020,…

The Ghana Association of Elected Assembly Members is seeking for a constitutional amendment for the welfare of all elected assembly members. Members argue the role of an assembly member is as crucial as that of a parliamentarian. Addressing a press conference in Damongo, the Vice Chairman of the Association in the Savannah Region, Sumani Thompson Abu, defused the impression that the association has a political connotation. He noted assembly members are the pivot of participatory democracy at the grassroots level. He called for the amendment of the constitution to consider remuneration of assembly members through the Consolidated Fund. “Our work…

Aviation Minister Joseph Kofi Adda says the slow pace at which Phase 2 of the Tamale Airport project is moving  has to do with the novel coronavirus disease. He revealed the situation is affecting the importation of most of the materials needed for the work. The Minister made these remarks when he inspected work on the project on Wednesday, August 20. The Minister upon arrival had a closed-door meeting with the contractors working on the second phase of the project. The contractors, QGMI, took the minister through the architectural drawings of the project. The team then moved to the project…

Rapper Sarkodie has finally broken his silence on the scuffle that ensued between his manager Angel Town and fellow rapper Stonebwoy.  On Monday, August 10, Stonebwoy was taken out of the Black Love virtual concert organized by Sarkodie due to his inability to record his part of the show after a confrontation between himself and the manager of Sarkodie. Sarkodie, who refused to speak on the issue until the show was done, opened up on the issue through a press conference on Wednesday, August 19. He stated: “Everyone has the right to be angry but no one has the right to assault.”…

The Minister of Education Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has set up a 10-member committee to advise on modalities for the reopening of schools in the pre-tertiary sector in Ghana. Schools were shut down in March as a result of the coronavirus pandemic but has since been reopened for final year students to compete their exit examinations. Final year tertiary students returned to school on Monday, June 15 to complete their academic work while final year senior high school (SHS) students returned on Monday, June 22 to prepare for the West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). They were joined by…

Ghana will resume their AFCON 2021 qualifiers in November 2020 after CAF, Africa’s football governing body, detailed plans for the resumption of the qualifiers for the AFCON and the group stage matches for the World Cup 2022. CAF say the participating teams will engage in double-headers from November 2020 through to November 2021 for spots in the AFCON tournament and the World Cup. The AFCON qualifiers restart on November 9-17 2020 while the final two ties will be played on March 22-30, 2021. The coronavirus pandemic had caused a disruption of football across the world for some months. But with football slowly returning in…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut sod for the construction of a 100-bed capacity District Hospital at Shama in the Western Region. The project costs €32 million and has a credit guarantee from Sinosure China and an insurance cover of €1,960,812.28. The 100-bed hospital will be a two-storey structure and will have an accommodation for staff, an accident and emergency unit; out-patient department with consulting rooms and a physiotherapy unit. It will also have a dental, ophtalmology and ear, nose and throat treatments unit, in-patient wards for males, females and paediatrics; maternity ward with a well-designed neo-natal intensive care…

Bayern Munich’s relentless march through this season’s Champions League continued as they brushed aside Lyon to book an 11th appearance in the final of the competition and a showdown with Paris St-Germain. The German champions have barely had a glove laid on them in Europe this season, with this their 10th straight Champions League win – equalling the record for winning streaks in the competition set by Real Madrid in 2015 and Bayern themselves in 2013 – as part of a 28-game unbeaten run stretching back to December. And Lyon simply did not have ability or approach over the 90…

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has initiated investigations into a list of examiners making rounds on social media. The list is said to be a version of an Examiners’ List for the 2020 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). It is unclear who is behind the publication of the list but WAEC accepts it is yet to be finalized, describing the development as “unfortunate” and “disturbing”. It has subsequently apologized to all examiners whose contact details were inadvertently published. “The Council has initiated investigations into this disturbing development and reported the matter to the Cyber Crime Department of…

Former Deputy Communications Minister Felix Kwakye Ofosu says there is no sector that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has done better in than the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He made this assertion following a presentation by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia on Tuesday, August 18 on government’s infrastructural achievements. Dr Bawumia, at a virtual townhall meeting at the Academy of Arts and Sciences, indicated that in the history of the Fourth Republic, no government has achieved as much in its first term of office in terms of infrastructure projects than Akufo-Addo-led government. “Our opponents are welcome to show us what…