Citi Sports editor Nathan Quao examines the Black Stars’ 1-1 draw with Congo Brazzaville and believes Kwesi Appiah is vindicating his opposers. Everyone clearly remembers my opinions on the appointment of Kwesi Appiah as Black Stars Head Coach. However, I said I would back the coach and give him time to work and succeed. Four ...

Kosmos Energy has announced the three agric-focused enterprises as winners of the Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) AgriTech Challenge. After nine months of the competition, six business teams emerged with viable concepts worth supporting for development. Kosmos Energy will provide US$50,000 in seed funding to two of these businesses, as well as sponsor them through a ...

Lawyers for the embattled former head of Management Information Systems at Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), Caleb Afaglo, have described as illegal the decision to dismiss from his position. According to them, the members of the board of SSNIT failed to follow the laid down processes in removing their client from office. Speaking ...

The Black Stars’ hopes of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup were dealt a serious blow on Friday after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Congo in Kumasi. A mistake by Joseph Attamah Larweh in the first half was capitalised by the Congolese, who took the lead through Thievy Bifouma. The Black Stars found ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo is encouraging Muslim parents to ensure that their children, especially girls, are enrolled and made to stay in school. According to him, that will help address challenges such as poverty and disease in their communities. President Akufo-Addo made the comment in his speech at the national celebration of this year’s Eid-ul Adha ...

Houston’s recovery from Hurricane Harvey flooding will be a “multi-year project”, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said. “This is going to be a massive, massive clean-up process,” he told the ABC News programme Good Morning America. President Donald Trump is to propose an initial $5.9bn (£4.56bn) for recovery efforts, but the Texas authorities say the ...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has again criticised the Supreme Court judges for overturning the 8 August election, which the electoral commission had declared in his favour last month. He was addressing an impromptu rally of supporters at a popular market in the capital, Nairobi, which was broadcast live by the privately-owned NTV. “A few people have ...

Black Stars coach, Kwesi Appiah has named his starting line-up for the 2018 World Cup qualifying game against Congo at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. Captain Asamoah Gyan will lead the team as they fight to book a place for the global showpiece. The Ghana Football Association in a tweet revealed that Jordan Ayew and Asamoah ...

A US couple have filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Amazon, claiming they sustained eye injuries from solar eclipse glasses purchased on the site. Corey Payne and Kayla Harris said they experienced headaches and vision impairment after using the glasses to watch the US eclipse on 21 August. Amazon said it issued a recall ...

Kenya President, Uhuru Kenyatta says the Jubilee Coalition is ready to campaign again ahead of the presidential election re-run even though he does not agree with the Supreme Court ruling nullifying his election. In an address from Kenya’s State House, President Kenyatta, however, stated that he will respect the decision of the court and seek ...

A Catholic bishop in the Central African Republic (CAR) has given refuge to 2,000 Muslims who are living in fear of attacks from a mainly Christian militia. Juan José Aguirre Munoz says that the refugees cannot leave the seminary’s compound in the south-eastern city of Bangassou. He told the BBC that the refugees “risk death” ...

Over 36,000 Basic Certificate Examination School (BECE) students were not placed in schools of their choice because they failed in either English or Mathematics. The Ghana Education Service made the revelation in a statement detailing the 2017 Senior High School Computerised School Selection System Placements results for various schools across the country. “On 21st August ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has scheduled between September and November this year to hold its constituency elections across the country. Already, the notice of polls for some of the constituency elections are out and indications are that, the elections are going to be keenly contested. Throwing some light on the elections, the National Secretary ...

Controversial musician, A-Plus is set to meet the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday after he failed to honour an earlier invitation by the department. A-Plus who had made corruption allegations against some two presidential staffers failed to appear before the CID because his lawyers were not available to accompany him. According to him, although ...

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has condemned the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission and called for a probe after Kenya’s Supreme Court annulled the result of August’s presidential election. “We have no faith at all in the electoral commission, they have committed criminal acts. Most of them actually belong to jail and therefore we are ...

As the years tick by, more and more we find ourselves wishing we had our own personal time machine to wind back the years and the effects of them on our appearance. There’s a lot to be said about growing old gracefully, (after all, our lines and wrinkles are testament to the fun, chaotic, beautiful ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged the Muslim community to wholly embrace the free Senior High School educational policy which will take off in the upcoming academic year in September 2017. “…The prophet Mohammed is reported to have said that ‘knowledge is the last property of the believer, let him or her find it wherever he ...

Former England captain Wayne Rooney has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving near his £6million home in Cheshire. The 31-year-old striker was seen dancing on the tables and singing Oasis songs in the Bubble Room bar in Alderley Edge last night, according to the Metro. He posed for photographs with fans inside the venue ...

A Deputy Minister of Interior, Henry Quartey, has reiterated government’s commitment to provide the needed logistics and infrastructure to develop the Ghana Immigration Academy and  other Training Schools to transform it into an internationally acclaimed immigration training center of excellence within the sub region. He charged officers to help the government make this dream a ...

A total of 222 communities in the Volta region have been targeted for a three-month immunisation campaign under the Second Year of Life (2YL) project of the Health Promotion Department (HPD) of the Ghana Health Service. The project, themed: “Protecting Children from Vaccine Preventable Diseases by strengthening the 2YL Immunisation Platform in Ghana”, would be ...