Author: Krobea

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to initiate a process to ensure that Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe in the Oti Region are joined into a district. The four communities are currently a part of the Jasikan District but following the creation of the Oti Region, President Akufo-Addo wants them to have their own local government status. These were contained in a letter written by the sector minister, Hajia Alima Mahama, to the Oti Region Minister, Kwesi Owusu Yeboah, and copied his Volta Region counterpart, Dr Archibald Letsa. “I hereby give…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, to engage the Ghana Education Service (GES) to reconsider its decision to ban some 14 students from completing their final exams. The GES on Friday, August 7 announced the dismissal of these students, who were engaged in various violations including raining insults on the president of the republic. They were to also banned from the ongoing West African Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The students are from Sekondi College, whose PTA Chairman has apologised to the president, Tweneboa Kodua SHS, Battor SHS and Juaben SHS.…

The line-up for the Champions League ‘final eight’ tournament in Lisbon is complete after wins for Barcelona and Bayern Munich on Saturday. Manchester City are the only Premier League side left in the competition and they play Lyon on Saturday, 15 August. The opening game of the round sees Atalanta take on Paris St-Germain, before RB Leipzig face Atletico Madrid the following day. Barcelona and Bayern Munich meet for a place in the semi-finals next Friday. The remainder of the Champions League is being played in a single-leg format, with all games taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.…

Former President John Dramani Mahama says the deployment of the military in the just-ended voter registration exercise was deliberately to intimidate members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He said the army officers were absent in strongholds of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) but very visible in those of the NDC. “I have seen the military deployment,” he stated in an interview with TV XYZ on Sunday, August 9, 2020. “If you look at the deployment you can see that somebody was trying to achieve something. “Mainly in the strongholds of the NDC, the military was very visible and…

Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) Dr Emmanuel Akwetey has said he expects shortage of food items including rice and tomatoes because the country is no longer importing these commodities as it used to before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. He, however, suggested that to be able to deal with the possible shortage of the food items, the government will have to pay particular attention to the agricultural sector of the local economy to grow the sector. Speaking on Joy FM’s News File programme Saturday, August 8, in relation to the impact of the Covid-19 on…

Non-governmental organisation Child Rights International (CRI) has appealed to the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, to intervene in the dismissal of 14 candidates of the ongoing WASSCE by the Ghana Education Service (GES). CRI views the sanctions as “too harsh”. “CRI believes that any disciplinary measure that undermines the best interest and welfare of students, as provided for in the Children’s Act 560 should not be countenanced,” the organisation said in a statement issued by its Executive Director, Bright Kweku Appiah, on Saturday, August 8. GES on Friday dismissed all the students involved in scattered riots across four…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has pointed at the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as cause of the recent violence by some final-year students. He says when education is politicised, “the result is what we are seeing”. For him, to refer to the current final-years as ‘Akufo-Addo graduates’ was the beginning of the troubles being recorded currently. The unrests in some senior high schools including Ndewura Jakpa SHS and Tweneboa Kodua SHS has led to the Ghana Education Service (GES) meting out the heavy sanctions to students involved. Some of them recorded a video to cast aspersions at the president.…

International leaders will hold talks on Sunday to raise aid for Beirut after the massive explosion which devastated the Lebanese capital on Tuesday. The virtual conference – set up by France and the United Nations – will begin at 1400 Lebanon time (1100 GMT). US President Donald Trump has said he plans to join the call. Officials estimate the blast at the warehouse, which stored 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, caused up to $15 billion (£11.5bn) in damage. The explosion left at least 158 people dead, 5,000 injured and 300,000 homeless. On Saturday several thousand people took to the streets,…

The Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) has launched investigations into reports of some Ivorians registering for Ghana’s voter identity cards. The 66 Ivorians were intercepted at the Dorbor border in possession of the new voter ID cards. They had claimed one Yaw in Tempi in Ivory Coast contracted a Kia driver by name Kwame Krah to bus them to Banda Kabrono to register. In a statement issued by the EC on Saturday, August 8, serious consideration is being given the issue. “The Commission has launched a full scale investigation into the matter, and will not shield any staff (permanent or temporary)…

Telecommunication companies in Ghana have rejected claims by the Minister of Communications, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, that they under-declared taxes. The Minister made the claim in Parliament on Friday. She told the legislature that: “The introduction of the CP has uncovered that, prior to the introduction of the CP, ¢470 million in taxes was lost from potential under-declarations between 2015 to the first quarter of 2017. “An estimated amount of ¢300 million in taxes was saved between Q1 of 2017 to date as a result of the announcement of the implementation of the CP on March 8th, 2017 and its actual implementation…