Assistant coach of the Black Stars, Maxwell Konadu has praised sports betting outfit, Betway for their ongoing Talent Search initiative which will help discover talents for the Ghana league. According to the coach who was speaking at the Accra edition of the Betway Talent Search 2018 which came off on Saturday,the country has great talents and such programmes would ensure  [...] The post Maxwell

FIFA 2018 World Cup referee Janny Sikazwe has been appointed to officiate Ghana’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Kenya. The 39-year-old Zambian will be the centre man at the Moi International Sports Centre in Kasarani Sikazwe will be assisted on the lines by Oliver Gift Mweene and Kabwe Chansa. The professional teacher made his debut in the Belgium versus Panama [...] The post Zambian

Assistant Coach of the Black Stars, Maxwell Konadu has said the country must move beyond talent-hunt initiatives and build infrastructure for players to develop. He said despite the initiatives by the private sector players to discover talents, it was important for government to build more infrastructures to compliment the efforts of the private individuals. The Black Stars assistant trainer said [...] The post Konadu:

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said the Chinese government is fully backing his administration’s uncompromising stance towards illegal mining. Speaking at a meeting with the Ghanaian community in China as part of his visit to that country, President Akufo-Addo said he had been able to hold frank discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the matter.   “He [Xi Jinping] himself was the first [...] The post China

About 96 per cent of electrical products imported into the country failed a conformity test conducted by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA). The products also failed the labelling procedure as required by Legislative Instrument (LI) 1541. The Director General of the GSA Prof Alex Doodo who disclosed this at a press Conference yesterday, in Accra, stated that 94 of imported [...] The post Fake

The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR) will this week engage affected workers of collapsed banks to work towards addressing redundancy issues emerging out of the consolidation of the banks. Among other things, the meeting which would include leaders of the various labour unions, Bank of Ghana (BOG) and management of the Consolidated Bank of Ghana would seek to [...] The post Employment

A total of 525 babies have so far been delivered at the new ultra-modern maternity block constructed by MTN Ghana for the Tema General Hospital since it became operational in August.   Though the deliveries included more than 100 cases of caesarian sections no maternal death has been recorded.   A Senior Nursing Officer at the facility, Alice Amanor, disclosed [...] The post Tema

The Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) has expressed concern about the non-existence of a Legislative Instrument (LI) that will empower its members to challenge institutions for non-compliance with the disability law. It said although parliament passed the Persons with Disability (PWDs) Act, 2006, there was no LI to operationalise the Act. Mr Frederick Ofosu, Programme Manager for the GFD [...] The post GFD

The Sekyere-Kumawu District Assembly in Ashanti is developing the Temante Waterfalls in the District, to generate income for the development of the area. Located four kilometres away from Kumawu, the district capital, the Assembly is harnessing the tourist potential of the beautiful natural resource embedded in its pristine landscape environment, to attract both foreign and local tourists, as a means [...] The post Sekyere-Kumawu

Energy Commercial Bank says it will go ahead with its intended plan to launch its intended Initial Public Offering (IPO) once it receives approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Bank has therefore, refuted a recent media publication that the IPO process is facing challenges. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Christiana Olaoye in a statement issued in Accra [...] The post Energy

Fintech companies must play critical roles in the government’s digital economy agenda and efforts to improve  financial inclusion through innovative products, Director of Financial Sector Division of the Ministry of Finance, Sampson Akligo. He said the government was putting structures in place to promote a digital economy and promote financial inclusion among individuals who did not have access to financial [...] The post Fintech

Professor Eric Nyarko Sampson, Board Chairman of the National Teaching Council (NTC) has stated that political apprehensions and cacophony on the double track education system has created psychological uncertainty among students and parents. He said the increasing political colourisation, spinning, justifications and lack of coherent communication and understanding of the system had created anxiety and confusion in the minds of [...] The post Cacophony

Kweku Adeboli, a former trader convicted of fraud in 2012, is facing deportation to Ghana after being detained at Livingston police station. He served four years of a seven-year sentence for a £1.4bn fraud at Swiss bank UBS. He was released in 2015. Foreign nationals sentenced to more than four years are automatically considered for deportation. His spokesperson said he [...] The post Ex-USB

Migrants and asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean now face an even deadlier journey then they have in the past, the UN refugee agency has warned. In a report, the agency says that while the number of people arriving in Europe has fallen significantly, the number of deaths has risen sharply. Traffickers have to take greater risks as there is more [...] The post UNHCR: Mediterranean

The founding Director General of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, Madam Dorothy Gordon has bemoaned the importation of technology which includes the sharing of skills, knowledge and facilities by government for various sectors of the economy. Such imported technologies, she said which were unfit for the purposes they were intended for and had to be adjusted [...] The post Govt