BARCA have agreed a deal to sign Sassuolo forward Kevin-Prince Boateng on a six-month loan deal with an €8 million (£7m/$9m) option to buy. Goal understands the 31-year-old said his goodbyes to his team-mates on Monday and is now set to fly to Catalunya before completing his medical with the Liga champions. Barcelona will also pay a €2m loan fee [...] The post Kevin-Prince Boateng for Barca
CHELSEA defender David Luiz said he and his team-mates are with Maurizio Sarri amid growing pressure. Luiz insisted Chelsea trust Sarri following the head coach’s scathing criticism of the squad after their loss to London rivals Arsenal. Sarri accused his Chelsea players of failing to motivate themselves for Saturday’s Premier League derby, which the Blues lost 2-0 to Arsenal at [...] The post Chelsea
Solomon Baba Akumba has won the 2018/19 Malta Guinness Maltavator Challenge Season II which came off on Saturday at the Lizzy Sports Complex in Accra. The level 300 student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) stood tall among 40 finalists to complete three rounds of a difficult obstacle course competition to claim the GH?5000 cash prize [...] The post Akumba wins ‘Maltavator’
ROGER Federer says he plans to play the clay-court season after skipping it for two successive years, admitting he has “missed not doing it.” The Swiss 20-time Grand Slam champion has not played a clay tournament since the 2016 Italian Open. Federer, 37, was beaten by eventual champion Stan Wawrinka in his last appearance at the French Open in 2015. [...] The post Federer
The Western Regional Amateur Boxing Committee is planning the institution of an annual boxing competition with their Greater Accra regional counterpart as they bid to improve the sport in the region. Mr. Twintoh Walker, Chairman of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) Regional Outreach Committee who disclosed this to the Times Sports said the move was based on the success chalked [...] The post W/R plans
THE present form of the national Under-20 team, Black Satellites, ahead of their African Nations Cup campaign in Niger next month, remains disconcerting to Ghanaians. Alarmingly, the Satellites have slumped in all three of its preparatory games, the latest being a 1-2 loss to Accra Hearts of Oak at the Tema Sports Stadium last Friday. However, chief coach of the [...] The post Satellites
Asante Kotoko was handed a relatively kind fixtures in yesterday’s CAF Confederation Cup draw for the group stage held yesterday. Kotoko accounted for Kariobangi Sharks from Kenya and Coton Sport Garoua from Cameroon in their two previous outings to book a place in the league stage of the competition. In yesterday’s draw, Kotoko was paired with Al Hilal and the [...] The post Kind
The election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) will deepen the country’s democracy, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD), Hajia Alima Mahama has stated. She said Ghana’s democracy had witnessed significant progress at the national level and the “only deficit is the absence of a system to popularly elect MMDCEs on the Universal Adult Suffrage.” [...] The post Election
Fourteen abandoned vehicles at Nima “Gutter”, a suburb of Accra, were yesterday cleared from the roads during a decongestion exercise by the Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly in Accra. The exercise which started at 8:30 a.m. was aimed at ridding the area of abandoned vehicles and scrap metals to allow free flow of traffic. When the Ghanaian Times got to the [...] The post Ayawaso
As part of its commitment to deliver great experience to customers, mobile telecommunication company, Vodafone Ghana, has opened a new retail shop at the Kumasi City Mall, in the Ashanti Region. The new retail shop is expected to deliver great customer experience. Speaking at the launch, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Vodafone, Yolanda Cuba, said the new shop affirmed Vodafone’s [...] The post Vodafone
British Airways is injecting £600 million into catering services onboard and in lounges to drive customer satisfaction in the next five years. To achieve this, the airline has extended its partnership with Do&Co, an onboard dining service provider for all flights departing Heathrow. In Ghana, Newrest provides catering services for British Airways. This is part of the airline’s £6.5 billion [...] The post British
Ocean and Fisheries economist with the Fisheries Economics Research Unit of the University of British Columbia Of Canada, Professor Rashid Sumaila, has called for pooling of resources at both continental and regional level to tackle illegal and unreported fishing that fuel illicit trade. Annual catch loss in West Africa is estimated at 787.800 tonnes with gross revenue loss of more [...] The post ‘Pool
Dr Sam Asomaning, the Board Chairman of the Citizens Rural Bank, says the bank is strong and striving to build on the success chalked so far. He said the Efficiency Monitoring Unit of the ARB Apex Bank rated the bank “strong” at the end of 2017 out of the 141 rural and community banks. Dr Asomaning said this in his [...] The post Financial indicators of Citizens
The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet), says it will introduce an enhanced trade facilitation platform in March this year. New modules are being added to the platform while the already existing ones are being enhanced. Mr Emmanuel Darko, an Executive Director and Deputy General Manager of GCNet speaking to the media after the company held its annual thanksgiving service [...] The post GCNet
The newly reconstituted Economic Policy and Coordinating Committee of the Ministry of Finance (EPCC) on Wednesday held its maiden meeting in Accra. The committee reviewed recent developments in the economy, 2019 budget implementation strategies and the status of the IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Programme and the exit strategies for the fund programme, according to a release issued by the [...] The post EPCC
The Management of the Ghana Airports Company Limited has assured stakeholders of the company’s commitment towards positioning Ghana as an aviation hub. This comes amidst the removal from office of its Managing Director, Mr John Dekyem Attafuah. In a statement issued to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) and signed by the Board Chair, the company confirmed that Mr Attafuah had [...] The post GACL
Traditional rulers in the Upper East and the Northern Regions have appealed to the government and its development partners to consider up-scaling the Sustainable Land and Water Management Project (SLWMP) to boost food security and livelihoods. They made the call on Friday, when the Minister of Environment, Science and Innovation (MESTI) , Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, paid a three-day separate working [...] The post Environment
THE Minority in Parliament has called for the arrest of Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, over the murder of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a murdered undercover journalist with private investigation firm, Tiger Eye P.I. In the view of the Minority lawmakers, the decision by Mr Agyapong to splash the pictures of the slain investigative journalist on national television and call for [...] The post Minority
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) was demanding prompt and thorough investigations into the death of Ahmed Hussein Suale, an investigative journalist who was gunned down by unknown assassins as he was driving from his Madina residence last Wednesday in Accra. “We commiserate with the family of the late Ahmed Suale,” the MFWA said and called on the government [...] The post MFWA
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced plans by the government to increase its budget allocation to the development of science, technology and innovation (STI) to drive the Ghana beyond Aid agenda. According to the President, countries that had transitioned from under-development to development did so on the back of the application of science, and expressed the government’s commitment to [...] The post Govt
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