Black Stars Head Coach Kwesi Appiah has called up twenty-three players for the final Russia 2018 World Cup qualifier with Egypt next month. The Black Stars will face the Pharaohs in Cape Coast on November 12, 2017, in a match which Kwesi Appiah is expected to use to further assess the development of the team, ...

Ghanaian comedian Derrick Kobina Bonney, popularly known as DKB, has mooted that it is high time Ghana adopted Sharia law for sexual offenses like rape. According to the ‘King of Comedy,’ Sharia Law would serve as a deterrent to people who forcefully have carnal knowledge of others. He made this comment on the back of ...

The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has stated that Police Commanders who fail to ensure arrests and prosecution in vigilante-related incidents will face sanctions. The government has been questioned about its commitment to ensuring security in the country, following a recent upsurge in the number of incidents involving political vigilantes across the country. Several groups of ...

The much-criticized pledge by Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, to prioritize the welfare of New Patriotic Party members before considering other Ghanaians, may have been taken out of context, the Acting National Chairman of the NPP, Freddy Blay has suggested. Mr. Ayisi Boateng’s resolve to put NPP members first came  to the fore ...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has rejected the results of the re-run presidential election that saw Uhuru Kenyatta gaining a second term. Mr Odinga called it “a sham” but made no mention of any legal challenge. Mr Kenyatta won 98% of the vote with turnout under 40% – less than half that recorded in August’s ...

Chris Ackumey, a private legal Practitioner and a member of the legal team of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has sued the National Communications Authority (NCA) over the recent sanctions meted out to radio stations for various offences. He wants the court to declare the sanctions illegal, and also compel the NCA to compensate the affected ...

The University for Development Studies (UDS), has extolled government’s one village-one dam initiative. According to the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Felix Abagale, the initiative deserves enough resources for its successful implementation. “For the government’s one village one dam initiative to succeed there is the need for sufficient financial resources to be allocated ...

The Danish Foreign Affairs Minister, Anders Samuelsen, has emphasized the importance of free trade in the eradication of poverty in developing countries like Ghana. According to him, great strides have already been made to reduce world poverty in recent years on the back of limited restriction of trade between nations. “Free trade is very important for small ...

The Deputy Minority leader, James Klutse Avedzi has insisted that President Akufo-Addo cannot dismiss under-pressure High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng over the latter’s recent perceived shameful, irresponsible and divisive comments. According to him, this is because Akufo-Addo has also demonstrated his commitment to prioritizing the needs of loyalists of his New Patriotic Party (NPP). ...