The Ghana Deaf Football Association (GDFA) will hold a special justifier tomorrow at the Kumasi Regional Police Station football pitch, Adum. Scheduled to start at 8 am, the aim of the justifier, according to head coach of the national deaf football team, the Black Wonders, Mr Winfred Chartey Annan, was to identify new players to beef up the national team [...] The post GDFA to hold justifier appeared first

Charles Kwabena Akonnor, former Ashantigold coach has warned, Mr Frederick Acheampong, Chief Executive of the club, to desist from telling lies about him after both parties parted ways. Mr Akonnor, who according to him parted ways mutually with Ashantigold, was not happy with the nature of the CEO’s interviews aimed at tarnishing and soiling his image. “My attention has been [...] The post Akonnor

Madam Gloria Commodore, Executive Director of the Women In Sports Association (WISA), Ghana on Tuesday called on the executive of the National Sports Authority (NSA) at the Accra Sports Stadium. The aim was to officially invite them for this year’s awards slated for September 2018. Madam Commodore and her team were met by the acting Director General of the NSA [...] The post WISA calls on NSA officials

Ghana’s AIBA 3-Star rated coach, Ofori Asare has returned from India where he conducted a 1-Star boxing course for coaches. The course was sanctioned by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and attracted 53 participants from the host nation. Held from June 16-23, the participants were taken through lessons like AIBA technical rules, physical preparation of boxers and endurance, strength and [...] The post Coach

Eni has started gas production during the past weekend from the Sankofa field in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) Integrated Oil and Gas Project, in Ghana, on schedule. A statement from the company said the field would provide 180 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d) for at least 15 years, enough to convert to gas half of Ghana’s [...] The post Eni starts gas production

Trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) opened the first week of July on a positive note as transactions were registered in 16 counters with three gainers and a loser. The benchmark GSE-Composite Index edged by 0.1 per cent to close at 2,881 points, Nordea Capital Investment Stock Expert monitoring of trading trend obtained by the Ghana News Agency in [...] The post Ghana Stock makes positive

The AGI Construction Sector and GIZ have recognised the need to deepen stakeholder engagements among practitioners, academia, and the regulatory bodies to grow the construction sector.   The two institutions also stressed the need to develop and certify the skills and capacity of artisans through a mentoring scheme.   Both of them agreed that currently, there is some consensus in [...] The post AGI

The Minister of Communication, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has tasked postal services across the West African region to take advantage of emerging technological innovations to engage in e-commerce for improved revenue streams. She said the inclusion of e-commerce as part of their activities would transform the postal sector which was currently at the crossroads due to evolving digital evolutions. Citing projections [...] The post African

A DEPUTY Minister of Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, has said that the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) was implementing a roadmap for the establishment of a Shea Development Board by the end of year 2024.   The roadmap, Mr Nyarko said, include graduating the Shea Unit at the COCOBOD into a subsidiary status by end of 2019 as a semi-autonomous [...] The post Govt to establish

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has assured the business and investor community of the government’s commitment to work towards maintaining fiscal discipline, even after exiting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Programme.   “Government is putting in place measures to ensure irreversibility of the macro-economic gains we have achieved so far. I understand that there are concerns in the investor community [...] The post We’ll

Work on the construction of a hostel facility at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) for caretakers of children with cancer has come to a halt and abandoned for about seven months  due to lack of funds. The KBTH in February 2017 provided a land for the construction of a hostel facility to facilitate the treatment of childhood cancer patients who [...] The post Lack

Ethiopia fired its prisons chief and took three opposition groups off its “terrorist” list on Thursday, the latest steps in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s bold push to shake the African giant from decades of security-obsessed rule. The sacking of the head of the prison service, along with four senior colleagues, came hours before a Human Rights Watch report that detailed [...] The post Ethiopia

A self-styled traditional healer in Nigeria has died after one of his clients tested his “bullet-proof” charms on him. Chinaka Adoezuwe, 26, was killed after instructing the man to shoot him as he was wearing the charms around his neck. Police in the country’s south-eastern Imo state say the client has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Charms are popular [...] The post Nigerian