Desperate to avoid Champions League elimination at the group stage for the second time in three years, Tottenham face a do-or-die clash against PSV Eindhoven today. Mauricio Pochettino’s side are third in Group B after taking just one point from their first three matches. Tottenham’s exit from Europe’s elite club competition would be confirmed if they lose to PSV at [...] The post Spurs
Lionel Messi has been included in Barcelona’s traveling squad to face Inter Milan in the Champions League on Wednesday. Messi broke his arm during Barca’s win over Sevilla on October 20, with the club predicting he would be out for three weeks. The striker has not yet been declared fit by Barcelona’s medical team but he will travel with the [...] The post Messi included in
FLOYD Mayweather has announced he will fight kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa on New Year’s Eve in Japan. Mayweather, 41, has signed with Japanese mixed martial arts promotions company RIZIN Fighting Federation and is now set to face 20-year-old Nasukawa. A world champion at five different weights in boxing, Mayweather has never fought in mixed martial arts and it has yet to [...] The post Mayweather
Samuel Acquah, a member of the Ghana Mountaineers Organisation (GMO) emerged winner of this year’s ‘Fun & Run 4 Street Children’ competition held over the weekend in Accra. He won the 10 km run organised by Chance for Children, a non-governmental organisation and German Swiss International School over the weekend in a time of 43.25 seconds. The event was [...] The post Acquah
KAREN Khachanov sprung one of the biggest upsets of the year by stunning four-time champion Novak Djokovic in the final of the Paris Masters. The 22-year-old Russian claimed his maiden ATP World Tour Masters 1000 crown in dramatic fashion by defeating the world number two 7-5 6-4. Khachanov produced a powerful performance on the indoor hard courts of Paris-Bercy on [...] The post Khachanov wins Paris
The Ghana Beach Soccer Association (GBSA) has fixed December 2 for the 2018 Beach Soccer Super Cup tournament to be staged at the Laboma Beach Soccer Arena in Accra. The one-day tournament which is to crown the champion of champions of Ghana beach soccer in the year under review will involve four teams from two zones. Speaking at [...] The post Beach soccer Super Cup match for
The second season of Ghana’s obstacle course competition, The Maltavator Challenge started at the Ajax Park at the University of Ghana, Legon with hundreds of people turning up for the competition. Participants engaged in about 10 events including thigh jump, scrabbling, hurdles, running and monkey jump to stand the chance of being selected for the next stage of the competition. At [...] The post 10
The World Food Programme (WFP) has urged smallholder farmers in Ghana to pool their resources together to raise the quality of their expertise in order to increase demand for their services. Speaking at a session on custom and contract farming during the 8th Pre-harvest Agribusiness Exhibition and Conference held at Tamale in Northern Region a fortnight ago , the Sustainable [...] The post Adopt
Small businesses in the country have been urged to prioritise market research to be able to produce goods and services that meet the needs of the citizenry. Mr Philip Okoro, Country Manager, Ipsos Ghana, a global market research and a consulting firm, who gave the advice, said identifying the demands of the market and offering the necessary solutions would [...] The post Identify
The Ambariya Muslim group in Tamale has donated large quantity of foodstuffs and assorted items to floods victims in the region. The items worth GH¢3.5 million are 505 bags of maize, 45 bags of rice, 10 bags of cassava, 10 cartons of cooking oil and six cartons of tomato paste. The rest are 83 bags of cement, 173 pieces of [...] The post Ambariya Muslim group gives to floods
The Ghana Blue Cross Society (GBCS), an anti-alcohol advocacy group within the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), has rolled out a project to sensitise school children to the dangers of alcohol and substance abuse as part of efforts to address the surge in the country. The “GBCS School Awareness Project” is expected to help students overcome negative influences and societal [...] The post Blue
An 11-member governing board of the Nurses and Midwifery Council (N&MC) has inaugurated in Accra. The board, which is chaired by Madam Veronica Mina Darko, is to see to the planning and programme, governance, policy and personnel management, and the public relations aspect of the council. Other members of the board are Mr Felix Nyante, Dr Kwaku Asante-Krobea, Mrs Netta [...] The post Nurses
A clean-up exercise dubbed, “Clean Accra Campaign”, has been held in Accra on Saturday. The exercise, which will be done fortnightly, was organised by the Accra Metropolitan Secretariat of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE). The clean-up took place at the Odawna market, Kaneshie station, Tiptoe lane, Obra spot, Adabraka market and its environs. A senior civic educator, Madam [...] The post NCCE
A National Private Sector Engagement forum has been held in Accra with a call for effective private sector involvement in sanitation service delivery. Held on the theme: “Creating an enabling environment for private sector participation in sanitation service delivery”, the event was organised by SNV Ghana, a non-governmental organisation under the Voice for Change, an evidence-based advocacy programme. The five-year [...] The post Forum
Ten persons have been confirmed dead in three gory accidents at Gomoa Mpota on the Accra-Winneba Highway, Berekum-Nsoatre Highway and Ofankor barrier, Accra, on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The six, who died at Gomoa Mpota, are three males and three females. They were pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Confirming the accident, the Central Regional Police Public Relations Officer, [...] The post 10
About 5,597 newly qualified nurses and midwives in the Southern Zone A sector of the country were inducted into the profession at a ceremony in Accra yesterday. The zone comprises of institutions in the Greater Accra, Eastern and Volta regions. The number was part of the total number of 22,000 expected to be inducted across the country by the end [...] The post 5,597 nurses, midwives inducted appeared
The Chairman of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Professor Robert Kingsford-Adaboh, has called for more financial commitments to enable institutions under CSIR deliver on their mandate. According to him, the pool of scientific talents at the CSIR could help transform the country from a consumer economy to a production led economy using science and technology. Prof. Kingsford-Adaboh [...] The post Give
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to launch the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCE) platform to commence operations today. The GCE is an electronic platform that would seek to harmonise and provide a one-stop market avenue for commodity buyers and sellers without going through the laborious process of searching for markets The Exchange, when operationalised is expected to regulate the [...] The post Ghana
The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles has appealed to Ghana to use its influence in Africa to lead a continental action against the devastating effects of climate change. He said the planet would become toxic for future generations if deliberate actions were not taken to address global warming and the indiscriminate pollution of the ocean with plastic waste. [...] The post Prince
PRESIDENT Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed deep concerns over the cold-hearted treatment of African migrants in Europe. When the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, called on him at the Presidency yesterday, President Akufo-Addo did not mince words when he criticised the inhumane and abusive treatment of African migrants in Europe. He said although the Europeans [...] The post President
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