CHELSEA have rejected Callum Hudson-Odoi’s transfer request. The 18-year-old has been the subject of four bids from Bayern Munich, the last at £35m, and has turned down Chelsea’s latest £85,000-a-week contract offer. He admitted he did not know if he would play for Chelsea again after scoring in the 3-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup on Sunday, [...] The post Chelsea
THE coach of Italian Serie C team Lucchese has been given a five-month ban for head-butting a member of the opposing team’s staff and telling a player to break an opponent’s legs. Footage of the match showed the shaven-headed Giancarlo Favarin head-butting Gaetano Mancino, assistant coach of rivals Alessandria, during a brawl at the end of a 2-2 draw between [...] The post Italian
DEFENDING champions Chelsea will host Manchester United in the fifth round of the FA Cup, while fourth-division side Newport County could meet Manchester City. United defeated Arsenal in the fourth round last week to record an eighth straight victory under caretaker boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but face another tough tie after Monday’s draw paired them with Maurizio Sarri’s Chelsea. Welsh [...] The post Chelsea
CAF have rescheduled the dates of the 2019 AFCON tournament which will now start two weeks after the initial set plan. However, the continental football governing body did not give reasons for the AFCON diary change which will see the tournament start on June 21 and conclude on July 19. The tournament was initially scheduled to run from June 15 [...] The post CAF reschedules 2019 AFCON kick-off
MANCHESTER United caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said he will not be satisfied with a top-four finish in the Premier League as he targets success in two cup competitions in the second half of the season. Sixth-placed United have won all six league games since Solskjaer replaced Jose Mourinho to close the gap on fourth-placed Chelsea from 11 points to [...] The post Solskjaer
PEP Guardiola admits a decision is still to be made over Vincent Kompany’s Manchester City future. Kompany, City’s inspirational and long-serving captain, is out of contract at the end of the season. Were it down to playing ability alone there would be no issue with the 32-year-old – who is also a fine ambassador for the club off the field [...] The post Guardiola: Kompany
ANDY Murray has gone under the knife once more to solve his ongoing hip problems. The 31-year-old has been battling issues with this joint for over a year and initially underwent a hip operation last January. However, after a first-round exit at this year’s Australian Open he finally decided to have a second operation by having hip resurfacing surgery. An [...] The post Murray undergoes major
The government, in collaboration with the Hungary government, on Monday unveiled a 70-million-dollar General Electric (GE) turbines built in Hungary for the first stage of the 400-megawatt bridge power project in Tema. The bridge power is being developed by the Early Power Limited Consortium, made up of Sage, a Ghanaian energy firm, Endeavor Energy, a leading independent power development and [...] The post Govt
The National Sports Authority (NSA) has received two brand new Toyota Hillux Pickup vehicles from the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYs). The vehicles, presented on Monday, are expected to aid operations of the NSA. Receiving the cars, the Director General of the NSA, Professor Peter Twumasi thanked the MoYS and believed it will solve the dire transport situation facing [...] The post MoYS donates
Traders selling their wares on the shoulders of the Nima highway in Accra were yesterday evicted by officials of Ayawaso East Municipal Assembly in a decongestion exercise. The exercise which started at 8:30am and aimed at bringing sanity on the roads, also saw the removal of abandoned vehicles from the streets to allow traffic flow. When the Ghanaian Times got [...] The post Ayawaso
The new Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Professor Peter Twumasi, has urged sporting federations to find ways of resolving their internal wrangling, other than resorting to the law courts. Sports federations under the NSA, has over the years been affected by series of law suits and counter suits, a situation that has affected their progress and development. [...] The post Settle
The Forbes, a global media company focused on business, technology, leadership and entrepreneurship, has launched its new digital channel christened; “Forbes8” for entrepreneurs to take advantage of the platform and improve their businesses. The event was in partnership with Busy Internet, a local internet service provider. The platform would afford Ghanaians the opportunity to benefit from reliable and high-performance digital [...] The post Forbes
Policy analyst of Asante Kotoko, Yaw Amoh Sarpong has disclosed that management has tabled an improved per diem for the team ahead of their CAF Confederation Cup match against Al Hilal. The Porcupine Warriors are gearing up to open their Confederation Cup campaign against Sudanese side Al Hilal on Sunday, February 3. And as part of the motivation for the [...] The post Confed. Cup boost for Kotoko
The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) will this year honour journalists at the 44th edition of the MTN SWAG Awards Night scheduled for the Accra International Conference Center on May 11. This would be the first time in the history of the association’s awards ceremony in recognition of the work of the sports journalists. SWAG believes the [...] The post ‘SWAG President’s
The Hi Limit Group, developers of government’s one village one dam programme has signed a purchase agreement to revive the defunct Komenda Sugar Factory Under the agreement, the Hi Limit Group will produce 375,000 metric tonnes of sugar cane annually to feed the sugar factory. The agreement signed under the auspices of the Ministry of Trade and Industry follows an [...] The post Komenda Sugar
MODEC Production Services Ghana JV Ltd has indicated it will use Ghana as its base to expand to other West African countries. Takashi Nishino, MODEC Global Operations head who disclosed this said the company was excited about its operations in Ghana and would like to contribute its quota to the development of the country’s oil and gas industry. He was [...] The post MODEC
Faced with public backlash for allegedly ‘cloning’ the Ghana National Single Window, the company has pulled down the online platform, as the existing service providers gear up for a court action to protect their intellectual property. The checks by the Ghanaian Times has revealed that the alleged plagiarised system, which was expected to come into operation on January 1, 2019, [...] The post Proposed
All is set for the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election to be held tomorrow, January 31, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Deputy Chair of the Electoral Commission )(EC), in charge of Operations, Mr Samuel Tettey, has assured. According to him, biometric verification devices, indelible inks and other logistics as well as personnel required for the smooth execution of the elections had [...] The post ALL
The Director-General of the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Ms Audrey Azoulay, is expected in the country today during which she will hold a bilateral meeting with the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. She will also participate in a high-level conference on girls’ education, with ministers of education and health and senior officials from 17 sub-Saharan African countries. [...] The post UNESCO
In its quest to support health care delivery in Ghana, Svani Group Limited, a leading automobile and logistics company, has donated a 33-seater bus to the FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital at Pantang in Accra. The donation is expected to significantly address the transportation challenges facing the hospital and its staff. Presenting the Volvo Eicher bus last Friday, Thomas Svanikier, Executive Chairman [...] The post Svani
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