Author: Krobea

National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Henry Nana Boakye, has said former President John Dramana Mahama will collapse the Free Senior High School programme if given the opportunity to lead the country again. To that end, he said, a recent claim by Mr Mahama that he will strengthen the programme if elected to become the president should not be countenanced. In a statement issued on Sunday, August 9, Nana B said: “It would be recalled that on Saturday, 8th August, 2020, Mr. Mahama paid a courtesy call on the Overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na Abukari II, during which…

Highlife musician Lucky Mensah has expressed disappointment in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for electing former President john Mahama to lead the party in the 2020 elections. He explained that the NDC has so many quality and competent members who can rule Ghana better than John Mahama so why must they vote for someone who can only rule for just four years when given power. Speaking on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene hosted by Nana Yaw Opare, Lucky Mensah said on Sunday: “I was surprised NDC elected [John Dramani] Mahama again because he destroyed most of the things in Ghana.…

Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture development Elizabeth Afoley Quaye has noted that no government in the Fourth Republic has shown enough commitment to the fisheries sector than the Akufo-Addo administration. She said this while distributing outboard motors to fishing communities in the Greater Accra Region over the weekend. She said the fisheries sector plays an important role in the Ghanaian economy, hence the decision by the government to support the fisher folk with the outboard motors. Ms Afoley Quaye, who is also the Member of Parliament for Krowor Constituency, assured the fishermen that the present government will continue to address their…

Some applicants, who turned out to register as the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) was carrying out the mop-up exercise on Sunday, clashed with officials of the elections management body at some registration centres at Asokore Mampong in the Asawase Constituency of the Ashanti Region. This was after the participants were unable to provide basic information about themselves to enable the EC officials register them for their card. 3news.com’s Ashanti Region correspondent Evans William Nkoom reported on Sunday, August 9 that the situation resulted in heated exchanges between EC officials and the participants. However, the police stepped in to calm the…

Former President John Dramani Mahama, who is also the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has announced a $10 billion accelerated infrastructural plan, dubbed the Big Push, which he says will drive jobs and entrepreneurial agenda when elected in December 2020. “We are looking at what I call the BIG PUSH, injecting some $10 billion to dualise our roads, complete the remainder of the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools, finish all the hospital projects that have been left abandoned, and construct bridges to open up the country,” says Mr. Mahama. Speaking in an interview on TV XYZ on…

A Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Jonathan Asante Otchere, is calling for an urgent probe into the activities of the current Commissioners of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). Speaking on ‘Decision 2020’, a political show on 3FM on Sunday, the Senior Lecturer said there is no significant difference between the numbers the EC says it has registered so far and those in the old register. According to the EC, it has registered some 16.63 million Ghanaians as of Friday, August 7. It further said this is lower than the 20 million Ghanaians projected to be on…

In the year 1996 election, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) lost woefully with just 10.2% of the total vote cast in the Asuogyaman Constituency in the Eastern Region with the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) winning with a whopping 51.4%. The voting trend changed and so in the year 2000 elections, the NPP also humiliated the NDC, polling 44.7% while the NDC polled 19.2%. The opposition NDC continued its supremacy in the Constituency in the 2004 election with just 1.3% ahead of the NPP, with 52.9% while the NPP polled 51.6%. In the year 2008 election, which brought the…

Veteran highlife musician Lucky Mensah on Sunday released a new song on Onua FM’s Ghana Dadwene. The single track, dubbed ‘Shawele’ was given first-time airplay on political talk show after he appeared to talk about his new song for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the 2020 elections. Hit with emotions in the middle of the show, Lucky Mensah quickly brought a pen drive and ordered the presenter to retrieve the track to get it played first on the show. ‘Shawele’, coined from a Ga word meaning ‘Shake your waste’, is a blend of Ga and Twi lyrics…

Luck failed to smile on Savannah Region’s Abiba this time around as she came up for eviction for the third consecutive week. Unfortunately for her, she could not get saved by the judges this time. She was joined by Bono Region’s Afia as the latest casualties of the 2020 Ghana’s Most Beautiful reality show. The two were left together with Central Region’s Afriyie as the bottom-placed contestants on the night. As usual, the judges were given the power to save one and that lucky charm from veteran judge Linda Ampah fell on the Central Region representative, who had given a…

Despite a further reduction in Ghana’s Covid-19 active cases, nine persons have lost the battle to the disease. The number of deaths, therefore, has risen from 206 to 215. This was contained in the latest update released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Sunday, August 9. There were 470 new cases recorded, taking the country’s total cumulative cases to 41,003. The recoveries-cum-discharges are currently 38,330. This has seen the active cases reduce from 2,625 to 2,458. Regional breakdown Greater Accra – 20,491 Ashanti – 10,251 Western – 2,801 Eastern – 1,923 Central – 1,721 Bono East – 660 Volta…