The Black Stars second team (Local Black Stars) will today play Premier League side Tema Youth in a friendly match as they continue preparation towards the African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers and the upcoming WAFU competition. The match is scheduled for 9am at the Ghanaman Soccer of Excellence in Prampram. The game forms part of coach Kwesi Appiah’s plans of [...] The post Local
The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS) would soon introduce Yoga exercise as part of Physical Education (PE) in first and second cycle schools, Isaac Asiamah, Minister of Youth and Sports has said. He said Yoga which has no relation was an exercise which stimulates all parts of the body for physical well-being. The minister said when he joined many [...] The post MoYS to introduce Yoga in schools
World Boxing Organisation (WBO) International super bantamweight champion, Isaac Dogboe, has set for himself an audacious objective of reclaiming the seemingly lost glory and pride of Ghana boxing by becoming the next world champion for Ghana. The journey to that big day will start on July 22 at the Bukom Boxing Arena where he stages a defense of his WBO [...] The post I’ll restore
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), will from this year, award scholarships to Ghanaian students to pursue oil and gas related programmes at tertiary institutions in the country. This, according to Dr Kofi Kodua Sarpong, chief executive of GNPC, was a change in the implementation of its Corporate Social Responsibility policy, which hitherto, was focused on sponsoring a few students [...] The post GNPC
The National Investment Bank Limited has won an appeal at the Supreme Court against the Standard Bank Offshore Trust Company Limited, over the payment of US$60 million judgement debt to Dominion Corporate Trustees Limited. The Court, presided by the Chief Justice, Ms Justice Sophia Akuffo, awarded GH¢500,000.00 cost against the two companies represented by the renowned Ghanaian Economist, and investment [...] The post NIB
Pupils of Brofoyedru D/A Junior High School in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region have appealed to the government to reconstruct a dilapidated toilet facility for the school. They feared that the abandoned structure could cave in if it was not given immediate attention. The pupils said life was uncomfortable for them because they joined long queues at [...] The post Pupils
The EKGS Culinary Institute has held its 37th Graduation Ceremony for 105 graduands who have finished undergoing training in cake-making and decorating (Sugar craft). Others also specialised in pastry art, cookery arts and floral décor for which they were all presented with certificates. Addressing the graduands, Mrs Efua Otuwaa Goode-Obeng Kyei, Director of the Institute said the culinary industry which [...] The post EKGS
Stakeholders in education at a policy dialogue forum organised in Bolgatanga have called for the institutionalisation of guidelines for government’s intervention on free school uniforms distribution. The forum, which was organised by SEND-Ghana and attracted various stakeholders in the education sector, including circuit supervisors, head teachers, school management committees, parent teacher association, traditional rulers and technocrats of the Municipal Assembly, [...] The post
Mr Martin Obeng, the Sunyani West District chief executive, on Tuesday said the government is on course and citizens would see remarkable improvement in their standards of living soon. He said the government had rolled out several poverty intervention strategies that would benefit especially the ordinary Ghanaian. Mr Obeng made the remark when he paid a courtesy call on Barima [...] The post The Govt is
Professor Joshua Alabi has praised the Kwesi Botchwey Committee, which was tasked to investigate the circumstances that led to the defeat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 general election. In a statement signed and issued in Accra, it stated that he joins all colleague comrades of the NDC, well-wishers of the party and lovers of multi-party democracy [...] The post Alabi praises Botchwey
A former Minister of State at the Presidency, Dr Rashid Pelpuo, has stated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) collation system broke down completely at the most critical moment of the 2016 elections. That, he explained, made it difficult for the party to have a full grasp of the turf when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had begun churning out [...] The post NDC collation
From Clement Adzei Boye, Takoradi A 55-year old man, Tawiah Amprofi is feared dead after a canoe he was in with eight other fishermen from Axim, capsized at sea at Ankobra, in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region on Tuesday. The crew was returning from a fishing expedition when the disaster occurred. A police source told The Ghanaian Times [...] The post One drown,
Throughout the world, the judiciary is revered because of its exceptional responsibility as a check on possible excesses of legislative and executive organs of government. The judiciary, which is the third arm of government, is also the guardian-protector of the constitution and fundamental rights of the citizenry, as well as the promoter of democracy, rule of law and good governance. [...] The post Congrats!
In a display of communal solidarity defying the sectarian violence of Islamist militants, Egyptian Christians in Cairo organise daily meals for Muslim neighbors who must fast from dawn to dusk during their holy month of Ramadan. Such intercommunal meals are held every year in Egypt, whose Copts are the largest Christian minority in the Middle East. But they took on [...] The post Egyptian
South Sudan is no longer classified as being in famine following an increase in aid, a UN-backed report says. However, the report warns that the situation remains desperate as the number of people at risk of starvation has increased in the last month. The famine, announced in February, was the first to be declared anywhere in the world since 2011. [...] The post South Sudan no longer in famine
Ms Francisca Oteng Mensah, the Member of Parliament for Kwabre East, is advocating a greater awareness creation and increased knowledge about sickle cell anaemia to control the disease. Sickle cell is a genetic condition which affects the red blood cells and causes it to break down with other accompanying diseases which include the damage of lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, eyes [...] The post MP
The Minority in Parliament is demanding that government halt the sale of fertiliser as was the case when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was in power. According to the NDC lawmakers, the Cocoa Fertilisation Programme (CFP) which was introduced during the Mahama-led administration, among other things was to increase cocoa production in the country. Under the CFP, the Minority caucus [...] The post Halt
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), on Monday announced that a total of 34,005 licenses are still sitting on their shelves due to the failure of respective owners to collect them. It said 653 of the number were issued as far back as 2007 with the majority 7,550 issued this year between January and May. According to the chief [...] The post LET’S CHANGE THE MODE
A National Security taskforce, tasked to retrieve missing government vehicles, yesterday uncovered vehicles including armoured and State Protocol Development (SPD) vehicles, alleged to be state stolen cars, at Oforikrom, Nsawam, in the Eastern Region The vehicles, numbering about 15, included a Toyota Land Cruiser with registration number GS6985-13, Pajero Mitsubishi, BMW X5, Ford Expedition and Ford Explorer, and a Grand [...] The post Security
Two suspected robbers, said to have been armed with AK 47 assault rifles, have been killed by the police, following a fierce gun battle between a gang and the police at Agyaagyekrom off Asuadee road at Manso Nkwanta, in the Ashanti Region. The deceased and three other accomplices, who are on the run, according to the police, were said to [...] The post Police kill 2 robbers in gun battle appeared
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