ANDRES Iniesta hopes 2019 will see Barcelona win a sixth Champions League title, but the former Blaugrana midfielder knows they face stiff competition. Barca eased into the last 16 of the 2018-19 edition after collecting 14 points from their six group matches, winning four and drawing the other two to ensure they finished above Tottenham. They will meet Lyon in [...] The post Iniesta
BAYERN Munich have come back with an improved £30m bid for Chelsea wonderkid Callum Hudson-Odoi. The Blues rejected Bayern’s previous £20m offer for the teenage winger. But the German giants are determined to sign Hudson-Odoi, 18, and have returned with a package worth £30m including add-on clauses. Chelsea may find it hard to resist such a big fee for a [...] The post Bayern make £30m bid
REAL Madrid coach Santiago Solari expects out-of-favour attacking midfielder Isco to remain at the club and rediscover the form that made him one of the team’s most important players over the past two years. Isco has not started a league game since Solari succeeded Julen Lopetegui as Madrid coach at the end of October, but the team’s results have improved [...] The post Solari
ANDY Murray’s winning start to 2019 came to a halt at the Brisbane International after he was beaten 7-5 6-2 by Daniil Medvedev in their second-round meeting. Murray, who continues to be affected by a long-term hip injury, overcame James Duckworth in his opening match of the year on New Year’s Day but was comprehensively beaten by Medvedev. The 31-year-old [...] The post Murray
For the first time in the Western Region, an arm of the security agencies has donated relief items to the Sekondi Central Prisons. The items were 20 bags of rice, 10 cartons of frozen chicken, two bags of granulated sugar, five boxes of Frytol cooking oil, 10 cartons of carbolic soap and 10 buckets of washing powder, all valued at [...] The post Police present items to prison inmates appeared
The Eastern Regional Chapter of the KNUST Alumini (TECNOKRATS) has donated assorted food items worth about GH¢4, 000.00 to the Hour of Grace Children’s Home at Kwasideaka, a farming community near Huhunya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality. The items included assorted biscuits, soft drinks, bags of rice, a maxi bag of gari, gallons of assorted cooking oil, detergents, assorted soaps, [...] The post TECNOKRATS
The National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osman Nuhu Sharubutu has condemned attacks by some youths believed to be Muslims on the Glorious Word Power Ministries International over a prophecy, its leader disclosed concerning him. Prophet Owusu Bempah was purported to have disclosed during the church’s December 31, 2018 All-night service that some prominent politicians, religious and traditional leaders including the [...] The post Chief
The Prampram branch of the El-Kana Prayer Ministry has donated assorted items to the needy in Lower Prampram where the church operates. The items, worth about GH¢ 3, 500 and given a couple of days before the Christmas festivities, included food, used clothes, shoes, drinks, biscuits, toffees and pastries. In all, 500 beneficiaries, comprising 350 children and 150 adults, went [...] The post El-Kana
The Full Circle festival, presented by the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of Business Development and the Office of Diaspora Affairs, served as an opportunity for American and British Africans to gain a better connection to their roots. 2019 marks 400 years since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, the horrific voyage that transported Africans against their will to [...] The post Akwamufie
Most Reverend John Bonaventure Kwofie, the former Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi Diocese has been appointed the new Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Accra. He took over from Most Rev Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, who has been re-assigned to Cape Coast in the Central Region, as the Metropolitan Archbishop. The announcement was made by Rev Father Lazarus Anondee, the Secretary General of the [...] The post Most
TWENTY-SEVEN children have been baptised at the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), Fritz Ramseyer Memorial Church, Bubuashie in Accra during Christmas day. Made up of 13 boys and 14 girls, they were sprinkled with water to signify their acceptance into the Presbyterian fraternity. Reverend John Nii Yartey Dickson, minister in charge of the church, who baptised the children urged parents [...] The post 27
A number of returnees from ill-fated trips to Libya, Niger and Nigeria have taken to farming in the Bawku Municipality as a source of livelihoods. Appropriate farming technologies implemented by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) has attracted migrants from the Bawku Municipality into the venture. The CSIR-SARI in collaboration with the [...] The post Returnees
A total of 97,805 emergency calls were recorded by the Ghana Police Service, during the Christmas season, resulting in the foiling of six robberies. The calls, received from three emergency command centres in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale, were about fighting, drunkenness, road traffic crashes, traffic hold-ups and robberies. The Director-General of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, Assistant Commissioner of Police [...] The post 97,805
Two of Ghana’s WBO Africa boxing champions, Patrick Allotey and Richard Harrison, have set audacious tasks for themselves, vowing to become world champions by the end of 2019. Allotey and Harrison retained their respective WBO Africa super welterweight and heavyweight crowns on the eve of Christmas (December 24) against foreign opposition at the Bukom Boxing Arena. Allotey defeated Sheriff Kasongo [...] The post WBO
The Democratic Republic of Congo has blocked the signal of a TV station perceived as close to the opposition. Government spokesman, Lambert Mende, accused Canal Congo of announcing results of Sunday’s much-delayed presidential election before the official announcement, AFP reports. The blockage came days after the internet was shut down nationwide. Along with blocking Canal Congo, the authorities have also [...] The post DR
The Ga West Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) last Sunday erected a new district with a call on parents to invest in the education of their children. The Sakaman District, carved out of the Dansoman District becomes the 14th district to be erected since the creation of the new Ga West Presbytery. The district which has the [...] The post Ga
Six persons with disabilities have been given scholarships by the GAB Foundation, a charity organisation, to study at the Laweh Open University in Accra. Currently, three persons including James Bortey Samuelsome,James Ayaba and Joshua Ayiku, have already enrolled in the school and studying various courses while the other three would receive their scholarships in the coming days. This was disclosed [...] The post 6
The trial of 11 individuals over the murder of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, has begun in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, state media report. Prosecutors have asked for the death penalty for five of the defendants. Khashoggi, a prominent US-based critic of the Saudi government, was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on 2 October, last year. Prosecutors [...] The post Trial
The Ministry of the Interior has placed a total ban on the carrying of arms and ammunitions or other offensive weapons in Nakpachie and surrounding villages in the Yendi municipality of the Northern Region. A statement signed by the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Henry Quartey and copied to the Ghanaian Times yesterday warned that, “any person found with any [...] The post Govt bans carrying
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