Author: Krobea

The Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South, Alfred Okoe Vanderpujie, has called for the constitutional amendment to increase the tenure of the President to a “six- year one term” of office. According to him, a critical consideration must be given to the Article 66(1) and (2) which seeks to limit the term of office of government in Ghana to a term of four years unless “re-elected for a second term”. Speaking on the floor of parliament on Tuesday, March 7, the Ablekuma South legislator argued that every government in Ghana has four years in which to serve and achieve all…

Countries targeted under a new US travel ban passed by President Donald Trump have attacked the move, along with the United Nations. On Monday, President Trump signed a new executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations. The order was presented as a means to strengthen US national security against terror threats. On Tuesday however, two of the countries, Sudan and Somalia, said the move was unjustified. The directive, which includes a 120-day ban on all refugees, takes effect on 16 March. It follows a previous order, which was blocked by a federal court, that…

Frenchman Sebastien Migne has replaced compatriot Pierre Lechantre as coach of Congo Brazzaville. Migne, 44, has previously worked as Claude LeRoy’s assistant at both Congo and Togo. It is a swift return to the 1972 African champions for Migne, who worked as LeRoy’s assistant with the Red Devils until November 2015. Congo had been without a permanent coach since Lechantre was sacked in November 2016. Migne, who worked as Togo assistant coach during the 2017 African Cup of Nations, was on a four-man short-list which included Patrice Neveu, John Toshack and Paul Put, according to sports minister Léon-Alfred Opimbat. He…

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Residents of towns along the Kumasi-Yeji highway are complaining that the police are not doing their best to foil, or better still prevent, incessant robbery attacks on the stretch. On Monday, March 6, a prison officer was shot dead by highway robbers while one officer was left in critical condition. Residents say the attacks are becoming almost a daily occurrence on the stretch. They say fear has gripped them and if care is not taken the Yeji market will lose its glory of being one of the busiest trading hubs in the sub-region as the robbers attack mostly traders. According…

Four-time Olympic silver medallist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia has stepped down from a key role at athletics’ world governing body after corruption claims. IAAF council member Fredericks, also a member of the International Olympic Committee, has left a taskforce helping Russia as it tries to gain readmission to international competition. His decision comes after French paper Le Monde  claimed  the former sprinter received a payment days before voting on the 2016 Olympics host city – allegations he denies. The IOC says it  is investigating the allegations. I have decided to step aside from the taskforce so that the integrity of…

A former inmate of Guantanamo Bay has been killed by a US air strike in Yemen targeting al-Qaeda, the Pentagon said. “We can confirm the death of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Yasir al-Silmi,” Navy Captain Jeff Davis said. Yasir al-Silmi had been held in the controversial detention centre in Cuba between 2002 and 2009. He was killed in a strike on 2 March, the Pentagon said, in one of the dozens of air strikes on Yemen in the past week. The former Guantanamo prisoner – also known as Mohammed Tahar – was a Yemeni national whom the US Department…

Hello Mr Dramani Mahama, I have always wanted to pen down this letter right after you lost the December 7, 2016 elections but my numerous travels have always been a stumbling block. Luckily, I have had some hiatus as a result of the 60th independence celebration and exactly a day after the celebration marks your two-month service as a former president. I must say you stunned in the anniversary shirt at the Independence Square on Monday. Your ‘ex-presidency’ unlike Jerry John Rawlings’ and John Agyekum Kufuor’s is quite unusual as you have another chance to be president. I believe you…

It was not until 1954 that he joined the then West African Film School which was located at present day TV3, Kanda in Accra. His choice of joining the camera department, to study, panned out to be the best of decision he made. Having graduated with the knowledge in the handling of professional cameras, he saw the need to further broaden his studies. That, in 1960, again saw him graduating from the Film and Television school, Lodz, in Poland and also from the University of Sorbonne, Paris, France was post-graduate certificate in Film and TV Arts. Meet one of Ghana’s…

The Black Stars Square in Accra where Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, stood and proclaim the country’s independence, witnessed yet another  historic moment Monday when smartly dressed Ghanaians trooped there to mark 60 years of independence from Britain.  Typical of Ghana’s independence day celebration yearly, school children and men and women of the country’s security services performed a march past to salute the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who is also the Commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces. The occasion was attended by Ghana’s former presidents Jerry John Rawlings accompanied by his wife Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, John Agyekum Kufuor and John Dramani Mahama. Zimbabwe’s…