The Ghana Football Association has released a statement saying it cannot grant Sierra Leone access to the country for their qualifiers. Sierra Leone had asked for permission to play some of its African Cup qualifiers in Ghana because of the Ebola outbreak at home. The Confederation of African Football said in a statement on Tuesday ...
Ghanaian left-back Baba Abdul Rahman has signed for Bungesliga side Augsburg from Bundesliga 2 side Greuter Furth. Rahman, who is a former Kotoko player, completed the move on Wednesday after going through his medicals. Details of the move are undisclosed but the player will be wearing the number 12 jersey for Augsburg who finished 8th ...
Government is distributing free Liquefied Petroleum Gas cylinders, stoves and accessories to rural dwellers across the country. President John Dramani Mahama in his State of the Nation Address pledged to freely distribute 50,000 LPG cylinders and accessories to some selected rural communities. So far in the Northern Region, Central Gonja and Tolon districts have received ...
Government has postponed the reopening date for the 2014/2015 academic year of all tertiary institutions in the country for two weeks. According to a statement signed by the Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, ‘’acting on the advice of the Inter-Ministerial Team on the Ebola viral disease, government has decided that the commencement of ...
The National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party, Sammi Awuku has accused the Mahama-led administration of failing the Youth of Ghana. In a statement to mark the International Youth day on Tuesday, Sammy Awuku outlined, what he called the government’s “unconcerned attitude in addressing key issues†in youth unemployment as well as the education ...
The Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) is calling on the Bank of Ghana (BOG) to ensure that commercial banks in the country fully implement the latest revised forex rules. The Bank of Ghana in February introduced new and revised forex rules to save the cedi from further depreciation. In June it amended the rules it ...
The National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party, Sammi Awuku has described the yet-to-be-launched Youth Enterprise Support (YES) fund by the government as another  “avenue for people to loot†state funds. The President will, later on Tuesday, launch the Youth Enterprise Support initiative, which will seek  to provide more innovative jobs and opportunities to ...
Sierra Leone has asked for permission to play some of its African Cup qualifiers in Ghana because of the Ebola outbreak at home. The Confederation of African Football said in a statement on Tuesday that Sierra Leone indicated it wanted to move its home ties in the final qualifying round to Ghana. CAF said the ...
Citi Sports’ Nathan Quao gives his take on the imminent arrival of a technical adviser and where it leaves the Ghana Football Association After months of evasion and denial, the cat was let out of the bag (or sack) when the Ghana Football Association on Monday that a committee (made of Fred Crenstsil, Fred Pappoe and the GFA’s ...
Top South African politician and anti-apartheid activist Pallo Jordan has resigned as an MP after it was revealed his academic qualifications were fake. A former minister, he first served under ex-President Nelson Mandela and is generally referred to as Dr Jordan. But media reports said he had lied on his CV about having a doctorate. ...
The Transport ministry has directed that, the auctioning of bungalows belonging to the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL) by Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) for their nonpayment of workers contributions be put on hold. This directive comes after SSNIT secured a court order, to auction three bungalows belonging to the Ghana Railway Company ...
Authorities at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) are sensitizing all the workers at the facility on the deadly Ebola disease. There have been a number of suspected cases reported at the hospital, however tests conducted on the suspected patients have, so far,  been negative. The Head of Public Health Unit at the KATH, Dr ...
President Mahama has pledged to ensure that government’s 10 million youth fund is used to support start ups and empower young people to be employers. “The international youth fund will be used to support start ups for young people who have ideas and need support to breathe life into those ideas,†the President said. Government ...
The former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye has raised concerns about the appointment of the chairman of the Electoral Commission. In a paper delivered on his behalf by the former chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu at the forum organized by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) he ...
Four Nkrumahist political parties in Ghana are making efforts to merge. The parties are the  People’s National Convention(PNC), Ghana Consolidated People’s Party (GCPP), Convention People’s Party (CPP) and Progressive People’s Party (PPP). The PNC was led by Mr Hassan Ayariga, the GCPP by Dr Henry Lartey,  CPP by Dr Abu Sakara and PPP by Dr Papa Kwesi ...
The Police Anti- Human Trafficking Unit in collaboration with Challenging Heights, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has intercepted 33 children being trafficked to Yeji at Bunso Junction. Briefing the press at  Koforidua, the Eastern Regional Public Relations Officer of the Police Service, Assistant Superintendent  of Police( ASP)Yaw Nketia-Yeboah,  said  the children were in different vehicles when they were found. He ...
A large chunk of Ghana’s 25 million citizens would dearly want the current GFA administration to be brought down to earth because it is felt they are too powerful. If that is what the government want to do with the ongoing Commission of Inquiry, they would have lost from the very beginning. They would not ...
Government is to put a freeze on international conferences and public gatherings as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus into Ghana, the Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has hinted. According to him, the move was necessary to ensure that the disease does not spread into Ghana. In ...
An 18 year old student has committed suicide at Daboase in the Western Region. The student, Ishmael Kwesi Ayebi hanged himself at his father’s residence. The corpse has since been deposited at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital morgue for autopsy while police conducts investigation. Inspector Emmanuel Kofi Eyison, the Daboase Station Master, confirmed the incident to ...
The Mayor of Accra, Dr Okoe Vanderpuije has ordered the establishment of a five-member taskforce in all the electoral areas of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly to tackle the city’s poor sanitary conditions. The taskforce, he said would be headed by Assembly members, representatives from the District Cleansing Officers Unit, District Environmental Sanitation, NADMO and the ...
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