The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) on Friday approved a $69 million grant to support Ghana’s efforts to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and mitigate its socio-economic impact on the nation. The grant from the ADF, the concessional arm of the African Development Bank, will provide fiscal budget support to finance the […]

A church volunteer has admitted starting a fire that devastated the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last week, his lawyer has said. The Rwandan refugee, who worked as a warden at the cathedral, was rearrested on Saturday night. No motive for the fire, which destroyed the cathedral’s 17th Century organ as well as […]

Ghana captain Andre Ayew was on target for his team, Swansea City, on Sunday, July 26 when they played Brentford in the first leg of the Championship play-offs. The Swans’ top scorer has scored three penalties since the lockdown but missed when he was given the opportunity to do so in the game. Swansea were […]

The 2019/2020 English Premier League ended with Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich bidding goodbye. Despite Bournemouth’s splendid final day performance, they could not salvage enough points to avoid relegation. Watford put up a woeful performance in their game on Sunday and lost 3-2 to Arsenal. Norwich City already knew their destiny way before the season ended […]

Ghana’s Covid-19 cases is now 32,969, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced on Sunday, July 26. He said though the figure would be initially alarming, a closer look shows that “we are steadily on the path towards limiting and containing the virus, and, ultimately, defeating it”. “The figure to look out for is the number […]