Ebusua Dwarfs have admitted to being nervy in their CAF Confederations Cup second round first leg tie at home to Petrol Atletico on Sunday. The home side won by two goals by zero from David Gomes and  Ricky Adjei but, according to their spokesperson, Adjetey Djanie, they lacked calmness in front of goal to put ...

Ghana are through to the second round of qualifying for the 2014 African Women’s Championship after back-to-back wins over Burkina Faso. The Black Queens reproduced another 3-0 victory against their opponents on Saturday at the Accra Stadium in the return leg of the first-round qualifier. The result handed Ghana a 6-0 aggregate victory over both ...

The past week Schalke have been thumped mercilessly, leaving Kevin-Prince despondent. On Saturday, Bayern beat them 5-1 in the Bundesliga, leaving the Royal Blue with eleven goals conceded in two games. This was after Real Madrid had destroyed them in the Champions league, 6-1 in midweek. “I don’t know why Bayern played so well, we ...

President John Mahama will perform a ground breaking ceremony in Nyanoa, near Adeiso in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern Region on Monday, 3rd March, for the start of work on the first batch of fifty (50) new Community Day Senior High Schools. This will be the first ever Senior High School constructed for ...

Cristiano Ronaldo struck a late equaliser as title rivals Real Madrid and Atletico shared a draw in a fiercely contested derby at the Vicente Calderon Stadium. Karim Benzema stabbed in early on to give Real the lead but Koke equalised with a low finish. Atletico captain Gabi then put the home side ahead just before ...

The National Executive Council of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), has called on the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to restore the annual salary increments. The association said the increment was frozen when the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) was implemented and called on the FWSC to ensure that all ...

All Jordan Ayew needed was two minutes to get his first goal in four months. After coming off the bench for the first time since joining struggling Sochaux, the Ghanaian scored to start a 2-0 home win over Bordeaux. A substitute role seemed to have made the difference for the talented 22-year-old hitman and he was ...

Manuel Pellegrini secured his first trophy as Manchester City manager as they staged a second-half revival to beat Sunderland and win the Capital One Cup at Wembley. Sunderland – seeking their first major trophy since the famous 1973 FA Cup win against Leeds United – deservedly led at half-time through Fabio Borini’s fine angled strike ...

The Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Mrs Matilda Baffour Awuah, has commissioned a transformational taskforce to help upgrade the Prisons system to conform to the United Nations standards. Headed by Reverend James Tetteh, Chief Superintendent of Prisons; the taskforce, which has drawn members from all the departments of the service, will among other ...

Financial analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford is advising the management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), to fix the problem of the unfolding missing baby saga “for human rights purposes and for professional, ethically correct policy.” 7 people have been processed for court for their suspected involvement in the circumstances under which the body of a ...

First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s best banking brand and one of West Africa’s largest lenders, has confirmed its pledge to transform its Ghanaian subsidiary, the International Commercial Bank (ICB Bank), into the bank of choice for Ghanaians with the inauguration of a seven-member Board of Directors. Chaired by the Honourable Joseph Yieleh Chireh, a ...

Satisfied patrons of this year’s Singles Mingle say the event should be done on a regular basis to equip them with critical guidelines on matters of love. This year’s Singles Mingle seminar took place on Saturday at the Sajuna beach club between Senchi and Atimpoku at Akosombo. This is the second time the event has ...

Ukraine has ordered a full military mobilisation in response to Russia’s build-up of its forces in Crimea. Prime Minster Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the country was “on the brink of disaster”. US President Barack Obama has called Russian troop deployments a “violation of Ukrainian sovereignty”. Nato is conducting emergency talks on the crisis. Its secretary-general has ...

The Upper East New Patriotic Party (NPP) regional Chairman, Alhaji Adam Mahama, has called for the need to deepen religious tolerance in the nation’s zongo communities. He said residents of zongo communities especially the youth should desist from acts that make society think they are violent people. According Alhaji Adam, zongo residents contribution to the ...

Rising star Lupita Nyong’o won an Independent Spirit award on Saturday for her debut movie role in 12 Years a Slave and told the audience: “Not a bad way to celebrate my birthday.” The Kenyan actress turned 31 a day before the Oscars where she is a front runner for best supporting actress. 12 Years ...

Head of the Linguistics Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Charles Marfo has predicted Ghana’s biggest opposition party; the NPP may lose its relevance in the political landscape if they continue with their soft stance on government policies. He expressed his disappointment in especially the minority NPP Members of ...

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has inaugurated about 10 committees to start preparations ahead of the party’s annual national delegates conference scheduled for April 12, 2014 in Tamale. The committees include that of food, transport, accommodation, security management and oversight as well as the grounds committee. Some members of the national election committee including ...

The Paramount Chief of the Essikado Traditional Area in the Western Region, Nana Kobina Nketsia V, has deplored the dominance of partisan politics in the Ghanaian media, and has urged media practitioners to ask themselves whose interest they serve. He said there were several social issues that the media must focus on but they preferred ...

The general overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Pastor Dr. Mensah Otabil has stated Ghana cannot solve the problems it tolerates and neither can it “excuse our inefficiencies light heartedly.” According to him, this is the time for Ghana and Africa to get serious because “we cannot joke our way to a better life.” ...