The first edition of the Mr GH Flex Bodybuilding Championship is set to come off on Saturday, September 1, at the Multipurpose Court of the Accra Sports Stadium. It will form part of activities to mark this year’s Homowo festivities of the chiefs and people of Osu and assemble crack bodybuilders from across the country to compete for honours. Athletes [...] The post Bodybuilding:
Former Ghana striker Augustine Arhinful wants Ghanaians to allow government to take radical actions to save the ‘sorry state’ of football in the country. That, in his view, was the only way to see a smooth return of the game in a better form with fairness guaranteed to all clubs and the bad nuts weeded out. All football activities have [...] The post ‘Take radical decisions to save football’
Richard Commey (27-2, 24 KO’s), the number one contender for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight title, is likely to battle American boxer and old foe, Robert Easter Jr (21-1, 14 KO’s), in a rematch for the title after dropping Mexico’s Yardley Cruz last Saturday. This follows the decision of the current holder of the IBF lightweight title, Mikey Garcia [...] The post Commey,
The Lizzy and GreenGen football clubs on Tuesday returned home after a successful tour of Europe. Lizzy FC featured at the U-12 and U-16 levels whiles GreenGen FC featured at the U-19 level. The teams left Ghana on July 5 to participate in various youth tournaments across Europe. They featured in the Paris World Cup hosted in France as well [...] The post Lizzy FC, GreenGen FC end Euro tour
The Netherlands moved to within touching distance of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (WWC) France 2018 quarter-finals after earning a 4-0 win over Ghana to maintain their 100 per cent start in Group A. While the West Africans started brightly, it did not take long for the Netherlands to get into gear. Two spurned chances could have rocked their [...] The post Ghana out
A late header from Kim Kyong-Yong gave Korea DPR a much-needed 2-1 victory over Mexico in their second Group B encounter at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 yesterday. The win gave them a major boost ahead of the last group matches as all four teams stand a chance of qualification to the next stage of the championship. [...] The post Late Korea DPR earns valuable win over
A stoppage time strike from substitute Ariadina Borges earned Brazil a 1-1 draw with England in Group B at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018 on yesterday. It was the Young Lionesses that made a bright start at the Stade du Clos Gastel in Dinan-Lehon, taking the lead through a Georgia Stanway penalty on 11 minutes after Tainara [...] The post England, Brazil share points appeared first on
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday launched the National Public Sector Reform Strategy (NPSRS 2018-2023) aimed at reforming the country’s public sector to improve its service delivery to the public. At the launch, held in Accra, the President said the new strategy would lead to the creation of a new public service that was fit for purpose and would guarantee [...] The post President
Professor John Gatsi, the Head of Finance Department, University of Cape Coast, says the Bank of Ghana (BoG) failed to undertake broader stakeholder consultations before starting the indigenous banks’ recapitalisation exercise. He said the central bank should have engaged in transparent and active debate involving bankers, policy-makers, politicians and other key stakeholders in the banking industry to ensure an alternative [...] The post BoG
Farmers in Tamale and its surrounding communities in the Northern Region have complained of shortage of coupons for the acquisition of government subsidised fertiliser in the area. Reports reaching the Ghanaian Times also indicate that there are complaints of shortage of coupons from farmers in the Zabzugu district, Gushiegu and Nanumba North municipalities. However the Ministry of Food [...] The post Northern
ActionAid Ghana has trained a total of 2,000 out-of-school children in the Gushegu District in the Northern Region and prepared them to be enrolled in the formal school system. The children were trained under the ActionAid’s Complementary Basic Education (CBE) programme, which aimed at identifying and training out of school children in deprived communities to be enrolled in the formal [...] The post ActionAid
The lack of credible data on unemployment in the country poses a serious threat to efforts aimed at addressing the situation, the Pro Vice Chancellor of the Ho Technical University (HTU), Dr Ben Q. Honyenuga has said. He said despite reforms to re-orient the structure and the content of education based on careful assessment of changing conditions and needs of [...] The post Campaign
The District Chief Executive (DCE) of Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira in the Central Region, Emmanuel Nannah has accused Member of Parliament for the area, Bright Wireko Brobbey of masterminding attempts to get him out of office. He indicated that the legislator had always been against his appointment as DCE and is now capitalising on his ill health and absence [...] The post ‘MP masterminding my
The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), has called on the President to sanction all individuals who played various roles in the negotiation of the AMERI Novation Agreement. “IPPR believes that the former Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko could not have acted alone in this whole renegotiation deal with AMERI hence the call on President Nana Akufo-Addo not to use [...] The post IPPR
Former President John Mahama has disassociated himself from comments by a group calling itself Social Democratic Forum, which claims to be affiliated to him. It recently accused former President John Rawlings, Togbe Afede XIV and some top senior members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of conspiring to derail any attempt by Mr Mahama to lead the party as [...] The post Mahama:
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has engaged the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) on the implementation process of the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) on partisan basis. The engagement was to take the NCCE through the processes for them to know and seek their support to carry out their mandate in [...] The post Implementation
Apostle Dr. Stephen Ntow Amoani, Chairman of the Christ Apostolic Church International (CACI), has called on Ghanaians to embrace the government’s double track system to enable the free Senior High School (SHS) programme to succeed. He said though there were infrastructural challenges, the double track system should be embraced by all in order to admit the large number of students [...] The post Embrace
Cote d’Ivoire’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo was released from detention yesterday after being granted an amnesty for her part in a short civil war in 2011, according to a Reuters witness. The wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to accept electoral defeat triggered the war, walked out of Abidjan’s Ecole de Gendarmerie in which she had been [...] The post Simone
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila will not stand in December’s presidential election, a spokesman said yesterday. He announced that former Interior Minister Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary would be the ruling coalition’s candidate. The announcement by spokesman Lambert Mende at a news conference puts an end to years of speculation about whether Kabila would defy term limits to run [...] The post ‘Kabila
At a ceremony at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, a total of 1,300 businesses across the country received financial support with low interest from the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The beneficiaries are the first batch to receive the support under the Presidential Business Support Programme and expected to create 30,000 direct and indirect jobs in the economy. Strikingly, the [...] The post PRESIDENTIAL
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