The Ghana Premier League has dropped from being the sixth Strongest National League in Africa to 10th position in the last 12 months, that’s according to the latest rankings by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics

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Malcom Furber, the Global President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, has called on Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) members in the country to mentor young professionals in order to ensure a succession of well-groomed business leaders. “It is important for CIMA professionals in the country to mentor young professionals. Professionals must also make use of the network of CIMA members to continually upgrade their skills and to share knowledge on best practices,” he said. “One of the areas that we have picked up in our research is that there is shortage of skills. We are talking about the harder skills like finance, banking and engineering. People tend to take the easy way out in the social science and others.” Mr. Furber was speaking to the B&FT after conferring with management of McOttley Capital, an investment firm based in Accra, during an official visit to Ghana. He assured of more continuous support for members on the continent and in particular Ghana. ”I was here five years ago and saw the potential here. We then decided to open an office here. We will put more resources here and build the skills of professionals.” Mr. Kwesi Livingstone, Chief Executive Officer of McOttley Capital said it is important for accounting professionals to add value to their organisations by blending the accounting practice with entrepreneurial, customers service, marketing and strategic planning skills. “Mentoring young professionals and students is important and McOttley Capital has made it an integral part of the company’s policy to mentor young Ghanaians,” Mr. Livingstone said. CIMA is the world’s largest and leading professional body of management accountants. The organisation has more than 218,000 members and students operating in 177 countries. Members work at the heart of business in industry, commerce and not for profit organisations.     By Dominick Andoh

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The medical charity MSF says 240 of its staff have been forced to flee into the bush in South Sudan to try to escape fighting.

Parts of Accra have been utterly flooded by this afternoon’s less than one hour rainfall. Some of the areas hardest hit include Kaneshie, UTC and the Kwame Nkrumah Circle

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Former Ghana youth international Abeiku Quansah has signed a two-year contract with Egyptian Premier League side El Gouna, GHANASoccernet.com can exclusively reveal.

The revelation that Tanzanian MPs voted themselves a $98,000 (£60,000) package each to be paid at the end of their parliamentary term leads to shock.

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The Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly lost out on the Urban Development Grant (UDG under the District Development Facility (DDF) due to internal wrangling

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  The Presiding Judge of the Odumase-Krobo Circuit Court, Mr Asamah Akwasi Asiedu, has remanded a Beninios citizen in custody for allegedly raping a woman. Mahamadu Balik’s plea was not taken and he is to reappear in court later. Chief Inspector Monica Anku, the prosecutor said the victim is a native of Lolonya, a town near Ada in the Dangme East District, while Balik comes from Benin. She said the incident happened on December 27, 2013, when the victim was returning from Ada to Gemeni, where she worked. According to the prosecutor, on reaching Kpong, the victim realised that it was too late for her to continue the journey and therefore decided to pass the night at the Kpong lorry station. Chief Inspector Anku said at about 2:30 a.m., whilst sleeping, Balik, who was also passing the night at the lorry station, pounced on the victim and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her. The victim, according to the prosecutor, raised an alarm and that attracted some people to the scene who helped in arresting Balik and sent him to the Kpong police station. The victim was issued with a medical form to report for further action, while Balik was later transferred to the Domestic Violence Victims’’ Support Unit  (DOVVSU ) at Akuse. Balik, according to the prosecutor, disputed the allegation and claimed in his caution statement that he was only passing the night at Kpong to enable him continue his journey the following day only to be arrested for raping the victim. According to the prosecutor, the police is waiting for the victim to submit the medical report to enable them prepare the docket.  

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Ghana goalkeeper Razak Brimah suffered racial abuse during a Spanish Segunda II match last week for his side Cordoba.

A Somali diplomat detained in Kenya is being denied immunity amid a security crackdown in Nairobi, Somalia's ambassador to Kenya tells the BBC.

  Activities of illegal stone, sand and gravel winners in the Kpone Katamanso District in the Greater Accra Region have been identified as a major security threat in the area. As a result, the assembly has placed a ban on the activities of all contractors engaged in the business in the area. The District Chief Executive (DCE), Alhaji Antiye Tetteh, disclosed this at a workshop on streamlining operations of sand, gravel and stone winners in the area organised jointly by the Minerals Commission and the assembly at Kpone. He said since the ban was imposed, the situation had stabilised and helped to reduce the tension, but admitted that some persons had gone underground and were operating illegally, and warned that the security agencies would deal with anyone caught flouting the ban. The workshop brought together officials from the Minerals Commission, chiefs, contractors, assembly members and members of the District Security Committee to deliberate on the various laws supporting mining operations and how to streamline the act. Alhaji Tetteh said though the assembly was aware of the repercussion of the ban on the economy of the district and, by extension, the survival of the operators in the industry and the residents, the assembly had also considered the lives and security of the people as superseding whatever gains were accrued from the industry. A senior mines inspector at the Minerals Commission, Mr Joseph Frimpong, in a presentation, enumerated the various laws governing mining, and urged the chiefs and contractors to arm themselves with the regulations in order to protect the environment. He maintained that acquiring mineral rights and licence was simple and appealed to all stakeholders to get involved to eliminate illegalities in the small-scale mining industry for a safe, judicious, sustainable and friendly green environmental mineral mining in the country. Mr Frimpong advised the Kpone Katamanso District Assembly to set up a mining desk as a first step to co-ordinating mining activities in the district and also called for the cessation of the collection of taxes from contractors who engaged in illegalities. A member of the Council of State, Mr Emmanuel A. Annang, said the non-enforcement of laws governing mining and the ease with which persons in authority compromised their position played a major role in the wanton destruction of the environment. The Chief of Oyibi, Nii Borlabi Kukubi Okanshan VI, commended the district assembly for bringing all the stakeholders together to discuss the menace and agree on the role each of them had to play to preserve the peace of the area. The first National Vice Chairman of the Association of Sand, Stone and Gravel Tipper Truck Users, Mr Frank Ashidan,  bemoaned the ban imposed on the extraction of the products in the district, and said it had affected the livelihood of the members. He expressed the hope that the assembly, after such an elaborate sensitisation, would open itself up for dialogue and have the ban lifted. Writer's email: [email protected]  

Capt Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey (rtd), aspiring New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary, has described the newly elected regional executives of the party as a hurricane which would lead the party to victory in 2016