Manchester City have signed French defender Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Bilbao for a club record fee of £57m. The fee for Laporte, yet to win a cap for France, takes spending by Premier League clubs to £252m this month – a record for a January transfer window. And the 23-year-old’s arrival takes City’s spending on ... The post Man City sign Aymeric Laporte for club record

Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has declared himself the “people’s president” at a controversial “swearing-in” ceremony in the capital. Thousands of his supporters attended the event, despite a government warning that it amounted to treason. The authorities shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of the event. President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in ... The post Kenya’s

President Nana Akufo-Addo has extolled the credentials of the late South African jazz musician, Hugh Masakela, describing him as a unique and compelling individual. In a moving tribute to the late musician, President Nana Addo acknowledged Masakela’s significant role in fighting apartheid in South Africa. The President was in South Africa for the funeral of ... The post Hugh Masakela

Ghana’ U-17 female national team, the Black Maidens, have departed Accra for Djibouti  ahead of their FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifier on Saturday. The team flew out Tuesday afternoon ahead of the weekend’s game. Ghana defeated Gambia 7-1 on aggregate in the last round to book a place in the last round of qualifiers. Head Coach ... The post FIFA U-17 WWCQ:

Operators on the Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) Dr. Kwame Nkrumah have served notice the vessel will shut down. This is to allow for maintenance works on the vessel’s bearing at the Jubilee oilfields. This was announced by a Petroleum Engineer at the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Albert Longman Newman. The exercise will ... The post FPSO Kwame Nkrumah

Vice President of policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has said that if the controversial Legal Profession Regulations 2017 currently before Parliament is passed, it will place a restriction on legal education in the country. The LI, which is expected to be approved in February 2018 to regulate admissions into the Ghana School of Law ... The post Kofi Bentil

A 27-year old man, Prince Ferguson Essel, who was detained for impersonating as a military officer, will be arraigned later today. Essel was picked up by police in Nsawam after complaints from some people that he had taken large sums of money from them under the guise of ensuring that their wards are recruited into ... The post ‘Fake’ Nsawam soldier to appear before court appeared

Some armed robbers about two weeks ago stormed the Kwabenya Police Station, and freed seven suspects who were in lawful custody. In the process, they killed a police officer, Inspector Emmanuel Ashilevi, who was on duty as a monitoring officer. So far, 12 people including the suspected armed robbers, and some of the  fugitives who ... The post How Kwabenya fugitives were freed [Charge sheet]

More than 100 child health experts are urging Facebook to withdraw an app aimed at under-13s. In an open letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, they call Messenger Kids an “irresponsible” attempt to encourage young children to use Facebook. Young children are not ready to have social media accounts, they say. Facebook says the app was ... The post Experts urge

Actress Diane Keaton has voiced her support for director Woody Allen, saying she “continues to believe him”. Keaton won an Oscar for her role in his 1977 film Annie Hall, and her comments come after Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow repeated allegations of sexual assault against him. The 82-year-old director denies all the accusations. “Woody ... The post Diane

An eight-month-old baby girl has been raped, allegedly by her cousin, in the Indian capital Delhi. Police say she is in a critical condition after being admitted to hospital on Sunday. They have arrested the 28-year-old cousin. Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal, who visited the girl, described her injuries as “horrific”. The debate ... The post India outcry after

The US government says it has no interest whatsoever in what Ghana does with the two ex-Guantanamo detainees currently in the country. US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson, said Umar Bin Atef and Khalid Al-Dhuby, ceased to be the responsibilities of the US government effective January 6, 2018, when the original deal for their two-year stay ended. Ghana’s Foreign Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, last week announced that the ... The post ‘We

The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) appears to be helpless in regulating the operations of private water tanker businesses in the country. Residents of Adentan and other areas in Accra which have challenges with water supply usually patronize these private takers who sell water they obtain from mostly unknown sources. The situation has placed people ... The post We can’t regulate

The Chairman of the People’s National Convention [PNC], Bernard Mornah, has sued the Inspector General of Police [IGP], for allowing personnel of the Service to arrest him unlawfully, during a peaceful protest by the Ghana-Togo Solidarity movement in December 2017. About 19 persons, including Mr. Mornah, were arrested by the Nima Police on December 16, ... The post Mornah

An Accra Circuit Court has convicted two of the three suspects who escaped lawful custody  at the Kwabenya Police Station. The two, Prince Osei and Atta Kwadwo, pleaded guilty to charges of abetment to escape lawful custody, and escaping lawful custody. The third accused, Kofi Darko, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The three were ... The post Two Kwabenya police station escapees

An apparently unsolvable exam question on a Chinese maths paper has left both students and social media stumped. Primary school students at a school in the Chinese district of Shunqing were faced with this question on a paper: “If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats onboard, how old is the ship’s captain?” The ... The post ‘Unsolvable’ exam question

The Local Government Minister has ordered the Births and Deaths Registry to scrap its guidelines that prevent people from registering certain indigenous Ghanaian names. The Ministry says parents should be allowed to register any name they wish to give their children. The intervention follows growing public outcry after the registry said names such as Naa, ... The post Register

The Local Government Minister has ordered the Births and Deaths Registry to scrap its guidelines that prevent people from registering certain indigenous Ghanaian names. The Ministry says parents should be allowed to register any name they wish to give their children. The intervention follows growing public outcry after the registry said names such as Naa, ... The post Register

Managers of the VIP Jeoung Transport Company in Kumasi have indefinitely suspended the driver who left about 30 passengers stranded in the middle of their journey to Kumasi a fortnight ago. According to the passengers who spoke to Citi News, the driver reversed to chase a saloon car from which an object which broke the ... The post ‘Runaway’ VIP Bus driver

Some children in the Volta Region have appealed to the Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Letsa, to ensure the rehabilitation of their abandoned park. The Regional Children’s Park, located at Anlo Kordzi in Ho, was acquired in 1988 with the purpose of developing it into a multipurpose Recreational Centre for children in the region. It was ... The post Rehabilitate abandoned