Last Friday the country commemorated what has now come to be known as the May 9 Disaster. For many of my compatriots the day was a black Wednesday. For some it was the day that football turned deadly and bloody. For others too it was the day the continent recorded its worst sporting disaster. But […]

Nii Adjetey is only fifteen days old but he already owes over USD2000 (almost GH¢6000) imposed on him by a wrecker congress, including schoolboy ekominist deputy minister, without reck. Some USD750 million has been squandered, created, looted and shared as judgment debt payout into congress private pockets. Now mosquito the money gobbler has decided Nii […]

Kodjo Etonam Adjassou A Togo player Kodjo Etonam Adjassou died on the field last weekend when his side Bankstown City Lions clashed with Spirit FC at Jensen Park in the National Premier League. The 24-year-old collapsed 10 minutes into the game and could not be revived, forcing the match to be abandoned. A memorial service […]

STARS NEW SHIRT: Some of the old folks- Manso, Ablordey, Kwarkye and Ampeah in the new shirt pose with Hon Afriyie Ankrah Appiah. Black Stars’ new Puma jersey for the Brazil 2014 World Cup has been unveiled at the Puma shop in the Accra Shopping Mall. The white jersey, which is the home jersey, has […]

Kwasi Appiah, Black Stars Head Coach Ghana coach Kwasi Appiah will make his 30-man squad for the Brazil Summer World Cup public today at a press conference at the GFA Secretariat after subjecting the entire team to anxiety. It is not only the team that has been nervous about who makes it to South America […]

Embattled businessman, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, will today Monday May 12, 2014 appear in the financial division of the Accra Fast Track High Court to continue with his evidence in chief. Led by his Counsel, Sarfo Boabeng, the accused at the last court sitting opened his defense to prove that the Ghc51 million paid to him […]

Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom The 2012 Presidential candidate of the Progressive People’s Party, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has expressed the hope that good will come out of the Economic Forum. The government has set tomorrow for the first-ever National Economic aimed at achieving consensus on policies, strategies and measures to Ghana’s transition from a lower […]

Dede Ayew For Ayew reportS From France and Italy suggest napoli are in advanced negotiations with marseille for their Ghanaian midfielder andre ayew in a deal worth about $14m. The striker impressed in the Champions League against the Partenopei this season and had already been linked with a January move, but that collapsed due to […]

Richard Kingson Former Ghana midfielder Laryea Kingston has said his senior brother richard Kingson deserves to be at Brazil 2014 World Cup with the Black Stars. Kingson, the longest serving Black Stars goalkeeper, lost his place since the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Ahead of the naming of Ghana’s provisional […]

TWO OFGhana’s award winning artistes, Shatta Wale and Sarkodie, will this evening thrill music fans in Kumasi and its environs at a concert dubbed: ‘The Switch Back Concert’. The concert, being organised by Tigo, forms part of activities to climax the 15th anniversary celebration of the king of the Ashanti kingdom, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II […]

Keche OBUASI FOR the first time in history experienced a fun packed weekend, full of excitement and entertainment when O FM was officially launched. The event commenced with a colourful health walk in the early hours of Saturday with over two thousand participants walking through some principal streets of the town. Participants included the Divisional […]

ONE OF the world’s most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists of the contemporary jazz age, Peter White, and artiste Oli Silk will perform tonight at the Stanbic Ghana Jazz Festival scheduled to take place at the Omanye Hall, Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra. The festival which is a collaboration involving Stanbic Ghana, Smooth Jazz Ghana […]

VEHICULAR MOVEMENT in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, was restricted on Friday morning and experts believe the trend would continue throughout the weekend. There was an unusual traffic all over the city, especially Adum, the Central Business District (CBD), on Friday morning and this odd happening affected all activities in the city. A sizeable number […]

Lance Corporal Benjamin Terkutey GENERAL LANCE Corporal Benjamin Terkutey, a policeman, on Friday appeared at an Accra Circuit Court on the charges of conspiracy to commit crime and robbery. Benjamin was alleged to have conspired and robbed one Xiameng Shen, a Chinese and Engineer with the Chinese Embassy, of an amount of GH¢500.00, two mobile […]

TOP PEOPLE from across the globe, including former Nigeria President, Olusegun Obasanjo, will attend the grand durbar of chiefs and people to mark the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II’s 15 years anniversary at the Baba Yara stadium in Kumasi, on Sunday. The ex-Nigerian leader had confirmed his participation of the historic event and the Manhyia […]

Aisha Gangarey AISHA GANGAREY, a TV presenter and six others who are facing trial in an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly sending 3.7 kilograms of heroin to the United States of America through couriers, yesterday faced fresh charges in an Accra Magistrate Court. The suspects, Gangarey, Benjamin Boamah (alias Kweku), Derrick Boateng, Lawrence Aboagye, Alvin […]

EVEN as the World Economic Forum is ongoing in Abuja, Nigeria, the high profile diplomatic activity is being expectedly overshadowed by the abduction of the over 200 girls and the general sense of insecurity enveloping Africa’s most populous nation. The Boko Haram menace next-door, the source of the insecurity in Nigeria, has never attracted so […]

No one in his right senses can fault Nigeria for accepting assistance from the United States, Britain and possibly France, in its attempt to rescue the over 200 young female students who were cruelly abducted by the Boko Haram terrorist organisation in mid-April 2014. But that does not mean that it is not immensely regrettable […]

Ibrahim Mahama and Bernard Antwi-Boasiako aka Wontumi IB R A H I M MAHAMA, brother of President John Dramani Mahama, has sued the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bernard Antwi-Boasiako popularly known as ‘Charman Wontumi’ for defamation, demanding GH¢2million. According to Ibrahim Mahama, Chairman Wontumi defamed him, as he was quoted in […]