Ghana’s Nadia Eke failed to make it to the final of the women’s triple jump at the ongoing IAAF World Athletics Championships in London. Her longest jump of 13.54m on Saturday after a red-flagged first attempt and a 13.25m jump in her second attempt in Group B was not enough to get her a place in the final. Her jump [...] The post Eke fails in triple jump bid appeared first on

The Black Princesses camping scheduled for the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram from today has been called off due to lack of funds. The Ghana FA announced a provisional list of 30 players to start camping but GHANAsoccernet has reported that the camping has been called off. Some of the ladies were informed of the decision on Friday [...] The post Princesses camp called off? appeared

Ghana midfielder, Sulley Muntari says the Black Stars can still qualify for the 2018 World Cup despite their poor start in the qualifiers. The Black Stars trail group leaders Egypt by five points after two rounds of the matches in the qualifiers for the competition to be held in Russia next year. With four matches remaining fans of the Black [...] The post Ghana can qualify for Russia

The Ghana Malaria Foundation (GMF), last Wednesday launched a five-year fundraising campaign to sustain and support malaria prevention and control initiatives. Funding for malaria prevention in Ghana had been dwindling largely because the country heavily dependend on international donors who are now requesting for counterpart funds as Ghana earns the status of lower middle income. The fundraising campaign which is [...] The post Five-year

The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has launched an anti-flooding campaign in the Northern Region, known as ‘Operation Thunderbolt’, to prevent disasters during floods in the region. The campaign, which is aimed at sensitising the people living within flood-prone areas on the dangers of building in waterways, is part of NADMO’s efforts to prevent the recurrence of floods in the [...] The post NADMO

Two police officers who were on duty at the Ofankor Police Station when five suspects escaped from the cells have been given a 10-day ultimatum to produce the escapees or face sanctions. Failure by the two officers to apprehend the suspects would trigger disciplinary action, which includes interdiction. A source at the Accra Regional Police Command, told the Ghanaian Times [...] The post Two

The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), wants government to adopt a more comprehensive approach in dealing with the crisis at the Electoral Commission (EC). The call comes despite the President’s referral of the petitions for the removal of the EC Chairperson and her deputies to the Chief Justice. Senior Research Fellow at the CDD, Dr Kwadwo Asante noted that [...] The post Tackle

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, says it would be advisable if government will educate motorists on the controversial towing levy policy. To him, the idea for the levy is laudable since that will curb unfortunate accidents on our highways. He was emphatic that if motorists are made to [...] The post Educate

The Convention Peoples Party [CPP] has maintained that they are relevant in the current democratic dispensation of Ghana. The Director of Elections of the party Kadril Abdul Rauf said despite the inability of the CPP to make much political gains to win power, the party still remains important to the development of democracy in the country. Speaker of Parliament Professor [...] The post We are

A convoy of pick-up trucks wrapped in shiny touched-up photos of candidates and mounted with huge speakers drive slowly in front of Anne Wanjiru Kamau’s food stall in Nairobi’s Pangani area, blasting campaign speeches by politicians from Kenya’s opposition coalition. On August 8, Kamau and millions of Kenyan voters will cast their ballots in the country’s general election, but today, Kamau [...] The post Kenyan

More than 50 people have been killed in clashes between ethnic groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, three local aid workers said on Sunday, the largest death toll in fighting between the two groups for months. Violence has raged across much of Congo this year, killing hundreds and displacing millions amid a political crisis caused by President Joseph Kabila’s [...] The post Dozens

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has won a third term in office with a landslide, the country’s electoral commission has announced. A final tally of votes gave him 98.63% of the votes, it said. Mr Kagame’s supporters, who say that he has brought stability and economic development after the horrors of the 1994 genocide, began celebrating before the announcement. Critics [...] The post Kagame

Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, has urged the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to free itself from the shackles of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), if it wants to reclaim its image as a dominant force in Ghana’s politics. According to the Speaker, the CPP, founded by Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was once a powerful political party in [...] The post Free

Mr. Peter Mac Manu, Campaign Manager of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the 2016 general election, who was leading a team of Democratic Union of Africa (DUA) International Observers to Kenya’s general elections, has been denied entry into that country. Mr. Mac Manu, who has since returned to Ghana, was among a number of foreigners deported on arrival [...] The post Mac Manu refused entry

A forthnight ago, a significant event took place in the country, but very little attention was paid to it. A very important fundraising campaign was launched by the Ghana Malaria Foundation (GMF), to raise $510 million over a five-year period to support the prevention and control malaria in the country. The campaign which is being supported by the National Malaria [...] The post LET’S

The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has arrested three people for using Ghana as a transit point to export Pangolin scales to Malaysia. They are Prosper Kumako, Prince Anim, both export agents, and Robert Konu, an exporter. Pangolin is an endangered scaly mammal species, and its scale contains narcotic drug and medicinal component, found mostly in Africa and Asian forests. Some [...] The post NACOB