The private sector participation (PSP) in the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is to take off fully by February, 2019, Boakye Agyarko, Minister of Energy, has said. “The processes being considered under the Electricity Company Ghana private sector participation has gone through and by February 2019 the PSP will take over ECG and start its operations,” he said. [...] The post Private
Government has handed executive powers to the Committee on Retail Trade to ensure that foreigners engaged in the sector fully complied with laws governing trade in the country as part of efforts to sanitise the industry. Mr Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, the Minister of Trade and Industry (MoTI) has thus been appointed to chair the committee to ensure it delivered on [...] The post Govt
The technical team of the national female football team, the Black Queens has been invited to 33 players to camp at the Ghanaman Soccer Center of Excellence for preparations ahead of the 2018 Africa Women’s Championship (AWC), slated for Ghana from November 17 to December 1, 2018. The list, which includes seven foreign based players, reported to camp yesterday, a [...] The post 33 invited for
The third edition of the annual Baboo Sports Tema Single’s Open tournament kicks off today in Tema. The event is scheduled for August 4 to September 1 and will feature over 100 tennis players across the country. Matches would be spread across the GHACEM, TDC, Regional Maritime and TOR tennis clubs. The tournament will be played in two major folds: [...] The post Tennis: Tema Single’s
The national deaf football team, Black Wonders, will leave today for neighbouring Togo for the week-long Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) football competition. The contingent will comprise of 20 players and a couple of management and technical team members. Players include goalkeepers Isaac Addo, Kwame Akwete and Sampson Amoako; Defenders are Evans Asare, Teddy, Eric Ashiatey, Adama Zulkifili [...] The post Black
Kumasi Asante Kotoko would play Tanzanian side, Simba FC in a friendly slated for the Uhuru Stadium on August 8, 2018. Mr. Obed Acheampong, Public Relations Officer of Asante Kotoko, who confirmed the scheduled friendly to the GNA Sports, said it was part of activities marking their Simba Day celebrations, an annual event celebrated by the Tanzanian champions. “We decided [...] The post Kotoko
ALGERIA have appointed former international Djamel Belmadi as their new national coach, the country’s football federation announced on Thursday. The former Manchester City midfielder will travel to Algiers to sign a contract replacing Rabah Madjer, who resigned in June, the Algerian Football Federation said. French-born Belmadi, 42, played for Algeria between 2000 and 2004, including a quarter-final place at the [...] The post Algeria
Alexande Lacazette scored a last-minute equaliser for Arsenal before seeing his side win on penalties in Dublin against Premier League rivals Chelsea. Antonio Rudiger scored the opener for Chelsea at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin before Petr Cech denied Alvaro Morata a confidence booster by saving his penalty. It proved costly as a low cross from Reiss Nelson found Lacazette, [...] The post Arsenal
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker will make his debut in Saturday’s friendly against Napoli, manager Jurgen Klopp has confirmed. Liverpool signed the 25-year-old Brazil international from Roma last month, smashing the world record for a goalkeeper in a deal worth £67m. Alisson started training with Liverpool earlier this week following a break after Brazil’s World Cup campaign. Klopp told Liverpool’s website: [...] The post Allison
Dozons of screaming fans welcomed Brazil star Neymar on Thursday as he flew in to China to rejoin Paris Saint-Germain after his disappointing World Cup. The world’s most expensive player, wearing a canary-yellow hoodie, posed for pictures with airport staff before his noisy welcome in the arrivals hall. Footage on Neymar’s Twitter account showed him signing Barcelona, Brazil and PSG [...] The post Neymar
Access Bank Ghana has met the new minimum capital requirement set by the Bank of Ghana (BOG) ahead of the stipulated December deadline. A statement issued by the bank in Accra yesterday said: “This makes Access Bank the first among banks to raise the new capital of GH?400million set by the Central Bank. The announcement comes after the bank completed [...] The post Access
The23rd joint General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P.) Church, Ghana and the Eglise Evangelique Presbyterienne du Togo (EEPT) opened in Kpalime in Togo on Monday with a renewed call on African leaders to act swiftly to adopt a common cross-border protocol to facilitate the free movement of people, across the continent. Apart from enhancing intra-continental trade and various services, such [...] The post EP
About 100 young entrepreneurs in the Northern Region have attended a business and exhibition fair in Tamale to network and exchange ideas for shared benefits and progress of their ventures. The event also served as a platform for the young entrepreneurs to engage state actors and policy makers on challenges they encountered as they worked to improve their business. Products [...] The post Young
The government says it is considering various structures through which it can provide financial support to help other indigenous banks meet the new minimum capital requirement of GH¢400 million by 31st December 2018. The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Attah in a statement issued in Accra on Wednesday in reaction to Bank of Ghana’s announcement of collapsing five banks into one bank [...] The post Capital
An annual conference and capacity building workshop for Methodist Heads, Chaplains of Second Cycle Institutions, and Regional Managers has been held at Abankro near Ejisu in the Ashanti Region. The five-day workshop which was organised under the auspices of the Education and Youth Development Directorate of the Methodist Church, Ghana, was under the theme, “Sustaining the Wesleyan educational gains through effective stewardship; [...] The post Be
The Right to Information Bill, when passed into law will bolster accountable and transparent governance for the benefit of the citizenry, Kwesi Boateng Assumeng, Programmes Officer, Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), has noted. “It is important that Parliament works assiduously in dealing promptly with the requisite clauses in the Bill that need consideration to facilitate its passage in order to further [...] The post ‘Passage
The Scholarship Secretariat has retrieved a sum of GH¢1.2m from school administrators, who double charged students on government scholarship from 2012/2013 to 2016/2017 academic years. He said a fiat was issued to all head teachers and bursars in the southern sector to refund all unutilised funds from the 2012/2013 to 2016/2017 academic years, and also find a solution to the [...] The post Government
National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Yunyoo, Joseph Bipoba Naabu, has called on the leadership of the Minority in Parliament to bring colleague MPs he describes as ‘Mahama Boys’ to order. He accuses the said MPs of using fraud and deceit to get other MPs to declare their support for former President John Mahama who is very [...] The post Naabu
Electorates in the Fanteakwa South District verbally assaulted the members of the assembly for rejecting the President’s nominee for the assembly. The President’s nominee, Kwabena Adjabeng Ntori, a retired educationist and former Fanteakwa Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), polled 10 votes as against 15 ‘no’ votes cast by the assembly members at a special meeting to confirm [...] The post Electorates
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has declared the campaign season for the party’s upcoming presidential primary opened with immediate effect. According to the party, opening the campaign window earlier than expected was to offer aspirants the ample time to interact with delegates so as to effectively sell their campaign messages to them. The party has also postponed the date for [...] The post NDC
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