TOTTENHAM Hotspur are sitting pretty in the Premier League but face a potentially season-defining match against Barcelona in the Champions League today. Mauricio Pochettino’s men have amassed 36 points from 16 Premier League matches, with 12 wins, leaving them in third place behind Liverpool and Manchester City. To have managed that despite playing in their temporary home of Wembley and [...] The post Make-or-break
JUAN Quintero’s stunning extra-time strike helped River Plate come from a goal down to record a historic victory over 10-man Boca Juniors in Madrid and win the Copa Libertadores. Quintero scored in the 109th minute of the second leg before team-mate Gonzalo Martinez wrapped up a 3-1 victory on the night for River – and a 5-3 win on aggregate. [...] The post Plate win Copa Libertadores appeared
Schalke v Lokomotiv Moscow Club Brugge v Atletico Madrid Barcelona v Tottenham Galatasaray v Porto Inter Milan v PSV Eindhoven RS Belgrade v Paris Saint Germain Monaco v Dortmund Liverpool v Napoli The post Today’s champions league fixtures appeared first on
MANCHESTER United and Arsenal are watching Hertha Berlin wonderkid Arne Maier. The 19-year-old has been labelled the ‘new Toni Kroos’ in the Bundesliga. Midfielder Maier has established himself in the first team at Hertha and is a Germany Under-21 international. But the star looks set to be named in the next full Germany squad, following in the footsteps of hero [...] The post Utd, Arsenal
Messrs Ebo Mends and Isaac Kissie were at the weekend crowned winners of the Men’s 70 years plus doubles event at the 16th edition of the Japan Motors Accra Senior Open Tennis Championship held at the Accra Lawn Tennis Club (ALTC). The duo defeated the pair of Saban Annan and Brigadier Gen. (Rtd) John Mantey Wadhwani in a fun-filled final in front of [...] The post Mends,
Sixty One (61) year old Meredith Mills from California in the USA shocked the younger female participants at Saturday’s ‘Women’s 5km Run’ with an amazing display to win the all women event sponsored by Marina Mall. The event which attracted almost 1,000 participants including girls from selected girls’ schools was organised by the Millennium Marathon Sports Limited. South African Jemine [...] The post American,
The Ghana Athletics association (GAA) will on December 15 hold its 3rd Quadrennial Elective Congress. The Congress, which would be held at the Modern City Hotel, Tamale in the Northern region, would have 33 delegates decide the future of the Association. Though the battle for the presidency would be the major highlight for the Congress, with three candidates vying for [...] The post GAA Congress on Saturday
The global cocoa market will see a supply surplus of 71,900 tonnes in the current 2018/19 year, on the back of last year’s smaller surplus, Connecticut-based brokerage JSG Commodities has said. That follows a surplus of 21,620 tonnes last year reported by the International Cocoa Organisation. World production is expected to be 4.81 million tonnes in the current crop year [...] The post World
Game, a retail chain officially opened two megastores at the West Hills and Achimota Retail Centre both in Accra. This brings to four the number of Game stores in Ghana. The first was launched at the Accra Mall in 2007, while the second game store opened in Kumasi last year. Opening the store at the West Hills, Game’s Africa Director [...] The post Game opens two megastores in Accra appeared
The chiefs and people of Kpalime Traditional Area have celebrated their annual Kpalikpakpa festival with a call on the government to complete all road networks in the area. The festival which is an annual event is celebrated to unite the people and raise funds towards development projects in the area. This year’s celebration is under the theme, “Education, a tool [...] The post Kpalime marks
Hundreds of people from all walks of life converged on the New Fadama football field on Saturday night to celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad. The ceremony was attended by Islamic scholars, Christians, chiefs, ministers of state, members of the diplomatic corps, Islamic students, Members of Parliament and residents. The annual event, organised by the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr [...] The post Birth
A two-day policy dialogue on petroleum up stream governance has ended at Apollo in the Effia Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region. It had the theme: ‘Main streaming resource governance at the sub-national level; Bridging the gap between maximising petroleum revenues and ensuring environmental sustainability.’ The dialogue was attended by participants from local government authorities, regulatory institutions, traditional leaders, [...] The post Policy
Household food security and improved nutritional status of women and children in Northern Ghana could receive major boost if smallholder women farmers are given fertile lands to farm, the traditional ruler of Arigu in the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region, Naa Mbah Jacob Kanoni IV, has observed. The traditional ruler made the observation during a stakeholder engagement forum [...] The post Arigu
The Riches Theological University College on Saturday, conferred on the Gbese Mantse Nii Ayi-Bonte II, an honorary doctorate degree in Divinity for his selfless service to the nation through football administration, boxing management, entrepreneurship, chieftaincy and philanthropy. Thus Nii Gbese, who is also the Adonten of the Ga state and a member of both the Ga Traditional Council and the [...] The post Nii
The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has congratulated Mr Yaw Boadu- Ayeboafoh, on his election as the Chairman of the National Media Commission. A statement signed by Dr Evans Aggrey-Darkoh, said the ministry was of the hope that “your education, experience and exposure would prove phenomenal in the execution of your mandate”. Mr Boadu-Ayeboafoh is a member of the Advisory Board [...] The post Ministry
The Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) says it has not entered into any agreement with any of the companies under the JOSPONG Group of Companies for the construction of compost plants in some regions of the country. Speaking to the media in Accra, an official of GIIF denied flatly any funding support for the proposed compost plants project had been [...] The post GIIF
The much anticipated passage of the Right To Information (RTI) Bill will not happen this year as speculated. According to the Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the Bill, which is presently under consideration by Parliament, will be passed during the early part of the next session of the House in 2019. “Government is aware of the persistent advocacy by [...] The post We’ll pass RTI bill 2019
Aggrieved customers of the Gold Coast Fund Management (GCFM) yesterday besieged the head office of the Groupe Nduom Companies in Accra to demand payments of their investment locked up in the last few months. The customers, said to have arrived in batches on Monday morning refused to leave the premises until their deposits were released. When the Ghanaian Times got [...] The post Aggrieved
The first All-African People Conference (AAPC), a platform created to set ambitious agenda to change the terms of the relationship between Africa and her colonialist has ended in Accra. The conference themed “Revisiting the 1958 All-African People’s Conference – The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation resolutions on Africa’s Transformation sought to find answers to issues confronting the youth of [...] The post
Anti-Semitism is getting worse and Jews are increasingly worried about the risk of harassment, according to a major survey of 12 European Union (EU) countries. Hundreds of Jews questioned by the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency said they had experienced a physical, anti-Semitic attack in the past year, while 28 per cent said they had been harassed. France is identified as [...] The post Anti-Semitism
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