SUBSTITUTE Eden Hazard scored a sensational solo goal as Chelsea roared back to beat Liverpool 2-1 in the Carabao Cup third round. Both sides made eight changes in preparation for Saturday’s Premier League rerun, and it was Chelsea’s fringe players who settled quickest. Alvaro Morata was hoping to add to his single league goal this season but was twice denied [...] The post Hazard
BARCELONA conceded twice in 68 seconds and Real Madrid were three down at halftime as La Liga’s two title favourites were each stunned by surprise defeats on Wednesday night. Barca’s 2-1 loss to relegation fighters Leganes was the greater shock but Madrid’s beating was more emphatic, blown away 3-0 by Sevilla after a torrid 39 minutes at the Ramon Sanchez [...] The post Barca,
ANTHONY Joshua’s growing worldwide popularity would be enhanced by another fight with Zhang Zhilei, his old rival believes. China’s Zhilei was floored and outpointed in the quarter-finals of the London 2012 Olympic Games by Joshua who went on to claim the gold medal. Six years later Zhilei is unbeaten in 19 fights as a professional and, based in New York [...] The post Chinese
BOXER Victor Ortiz has been arrested and charged on multiple accounts of sexual assault over a single alleged incident, police in Oxnard, California announced Tuesday. According to a police news release, a woman contacted police on March 19 reporting that she was sexually assaulted in an Oxnard residence. An ensuing investigation identified the suspect as the 31-year-old Ortiz. After several [...] The post Ex-welterweight
MADRID has been selected to host the first two revamped Davis Cup finals in 2019 and 2020, the premier international men’s team event organisers announced yesterday. The revised week-long, 18-team finals are scheduled to be held at La Caja Magica, the current venue for the Madrid Open, in November 2019, while the following edition will be held at either the [...] The post Madrid to host
In an effort to boost the government’s industrialisation agenda, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has held bilateral talks with Saint Vincent, Dominican Republican, Azerbaijan, and Serbia. The meetings were held respectively on the sidelines of the on-going 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York in the United States of America. It was meant to [...] The post Foreign
Menzgold has dragged the Bank of Ghana and the Securities and Exchange Commission to court accusing the two statutory institutions of hurting its business. The gold dealers in a suit filed, yesterday, a copy of which has been intercepted by Myjoyonline.com is asking the court to slap aggravated damages on the two institutions. The company insists the notices [...] The post Menzgold drags
Ex W.O.1 Henry Nii Sowah Otinkorang, head of the Nii Klu Din We has announced that a new chief of Teshie would hopefully be enstooled by the end of this year. He made the announcement at the weekend at a reconciliation meeting between two factions over who becomes the next Mankralo of Teshie. Ex W.O.1 Otinkorang said two persons, Elias [...] The post Teshie to enstool new Mankralo by
The toxins in the natural plants used in the preparation of herbal medicines have been identified as the cause of the increase in Chronic Kidney Diseases (CKD) among Ghanaians. Madam Evelyn Biriwaa Ofei, Deputy General Manager of Entrance Pharmaceutical and Research Centre, said the herbal medicines in the country contain unextracted components and toxins, which affect the kidney either by [...] The post Toxins
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Wednesday launched the 2018 Family Planning Week in Accra on the theme, “Family Planning, Everyone’s Responsibility #everydaything#”. This year’s celebration, sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is aimed at ensuring that family planning services are made accessible to Ghanaian adolescents, men and women. The Family Planning Week, which started on Tuesday, is [...] The post 2018
A six-member delegation from Zambia is in the country to study chieftaincy structure and governance system. Led by the Zambian Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, Lawrence J. Sichalwe, the delegation also sought to learn about the laws governing chieftaincy and autonomy of chiefs in the country. The delegation on Wednesday visited the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, [...] The post Zambian
The Krontihene of New Juaben Traditional Area, Baffour Nyantakyi Tutu Boateng has called for the review of the nation’s development policies to give the youth greater opportunities to help develop the country. According to the Krontihene, any development agenda that did not take into consideration the inputs, concerns and ambitions of the youth, was bound to suffer challenges, since the youth constitute [...] The post ‘Review
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) lacks personnel and logistics to do its work months after its establishment, Martin Amidu, Special Prosecutor, has said. He said seven months after taking office, there has been no requisite tools or personnel to do what the office was mandated to do, saying that, “time would tell whether the office succeed or [...] The post OSP lacks personnel,
THE Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi Ting Wang, has called on the Ghanaian authorities to help address what he said were the fraudulent means by which Ghanaians want to enter into China. Mr. Shi said Ghana, with a population of 27 million people outweighed the number of people who apply for Chinese visa in Nigeria, a country with more [...] The post ‘Help
The Office of the former president Jerry John Rawlings has debunked assertions that he had been “rushed” to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital as a result of a cardiac arrest. A statement issued by his office and copied to the Ghanaian Times yesterday assured that “the former President is in his usual state of good health and is able to meet [...] The post ‘Rawlings in good health’ appeared first
THE 2018/2019 edition of the annual Cocoa Freight Negotiation Conference has opened in Accra. The conference, first to be held in Ghana, is used to determine globally accepted charges for cocoa shipments. On the theme, “Re-positioning shipping in the cocoa supply chain to advance Ghana’s development agenda”, the three-day gathering brought together players in the global cocoa shipment industry from across [...] The post Confab
Heavy rains have caused River Tordze to submerge the only bridge which links the Agohokpo to Kpetoe, the district capital of Agotime-Ziope, thereby cutting it off from the rest of the district. About 800 people at Agohokpo, farming village, have been caught up in the awkward and scary situation. As at Wednesday, the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr D.D. Dzokpe [...] The post Rains
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), Anthony K.K Sam, has raised concern about the high rate of maternal mortality cases in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis. He said though there have been a decrease in neonatal cases in hospitals from 30.3 per cent to 26.9 per cent per 1000 admissions, deaths among children born less than one month [...] The post Maternal
The 2018 Ghana Garden and Flower Show (GGFS) ended in Accra on Thursday. Addressing the closing ceremony, the Head of Development Planning at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr Richard Oduro who stood in for the Metropolitan Chief Executive MCE), Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah call on Ghanaians to support the green Ghana agenda to promote a healthy and safe environment. [...] The post 2018 Ghana
The FIFA Normalisation Committee and the Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) will soon commence work towards the development of a football competition with the aim of getting footballers and its related staff busy. However, details of the competition regarding the format, clubs and which divisions it would stretch to cover are currently unknown but will soon be announced. The decision [...] The post Normalisation
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