It was a day of sub-plots at White Hart Lane, perhaps the most interesting Harry Redknapp and Glenn Hoddle’s return to Tottenham. But there was no fairy-tale ending for the Queens Park Rangers duo, only misery, as they watched their team – and new 3-5-2 formation – decimated by Mauricio Pochettino’s slick new look Spurs. ...

Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of United Nations (UN), has called on the country’s leadership to adhere to the tenets of peace and security, respect for human rights and rule of law to promote development. He said no nation could develop without obeying these values and urged the country’s authorities to engage citizens in the ...

Botswana’s High Court has ordered the government to provide treatment to HIV-positive foreign prisoners at the state’s expense. Justice Bengbame Sechele ruled on Friday that the denial of anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to foreign inmates violated their rights. Dickson Tapela and Mbuso Piye, two Zimbabwean prisoners had sued the government for refusing to provide them with free ARVs, ...

Many comtemporary artistes in Ghana have always depended on great beats and instrumentals to produce hit songs but hiplife artiste, Choirmaster, believes that Ghanaian artistes should also invest in developing their writing skills. He said that was one of the surest ways to rub shoulders with other artistes on the international music scene as the ...

The Minister for Youth and Sports and Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has called for peace in Bawku following sporadic shooting in the area last week which claimed two lives. He has also called on the security agencies to intensify their search aimed at retrieving light weapons and rifles to ensure ...

A charitable Non-Governmental Organization called Mawuenam Foundation Ministry has presented two big poly tanks and other items worth thousands of cedis to the premier Nyohini Children’s Home in Tamale. With a population of 25 needy children, the orphanage is bedevilled with numerous challenges and water scarcity is the major one. Management of the orphanage have ...

At least 35 Nigerian police officers deployed to a training academy in the northeast region have gone missing after Boko Haram attack on the facility, a government spokesman has said. The government admitted that the armed group attacked the academy just outside the town of Gwoza in Borno state earlier this week, Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh, ...

Economist, and Head of Finance Department, Ghana Business School, Godfred Bokpin has backed Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s claims that exchange rates and inflation figures are not credible. He asserted that there was a 23% variation in the figures published by the Bank of Ghana (BoG). “From January to May, there wasn’t so much of a wide variation, ...

Suddenly, easy seems hard. When the much-feared Fixture Computer gave Manchester United an opening run of Swansea, Sunderland, Burnley, QPR, Leicester and West Ham, fans and pundits rubbed their hands and declared it a dolly of a start for Louis van Gaal – especially compared to Davie Moyes’s initial tasklist last season, which included Chelsea, Liverpool ...

When Harry Redknapp trudges out of the White Hart Lane tunnel on Sunday for the first time since leaving Tottenham two years ago, he may well wonder where it all went wrong. The last six months of the 67-year-old’s Spurs tenure were thoroughly miserable; he was helpless to avoid the north Londoners blowing effectively a 16-point ...

The fine line between success and failure in the Premier League was clearly demonstrated by these two teams on the opening day of the season. Hull came out on top of a 1-0 scoreline in the battle of the 3-5-2s at Loftus Road, despite being dominated for long periods by QPR and only threatening occasionally themselves. ...

The Christian Council of Ghana has stated that although the emergence of several churches in Ghana is good, the “excesses” of some of those churches are worrying. Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana said a number of churches are extorting money from the people through “prophecies and miracles” rather ...

An aspiring executive member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Greater Accra Region, Bossman Oduro-Fosu, has initiated a court action against the party, asking it to place a perpetual injunction on the election of regional committee members of the party until the revocation of paragraph 6 (c) vi of the party’s constitution. The ...

Rlg Institute of Technology has deepened its collaboration with government to widen the teaching and learning of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in basic schools across the country. With emphasis on rural schools, Rlg is training and providing free laptops to teachers in deprived communities. In the Northern Region, Rlg provided 3,609 laptops to the ...

An aspiring New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku has dismissed rumours suggesting he had withdrawn from the party’s presidential candidate race. Dr. Apraku was alleged to have withdrawn from the contesting flagbearership position of the party after complaining of bias and unfair treatment against him by some elders within the NPP ...

Premier League, Stamford Bridge – Chelsea 2 (Diego Costa 63, Hazard 77) Leicester City 0 Diego Costa scored his second league goal in two games as Chelsea’s class eventually shone through in a 2-0 win over Leicester City at Stamford Bridge. The Spain striker bundled the ball into the visiting net on his competitive home debut on ...

They have their own style of music which has endeared them to many of their followers and tonight, young artistes, Joey B and MzVee, will team up to serve patrons with exciting performances at the maiden edition of the 4Syte Teen Choice Awards at the National Theatre. Apart from the music that they are expected ...

Egypt has called on Israel and the Palestinians to accept an indefinite ceasefire and resume indirect talks in Cairo to end the Gaza crisis, Egypt’s foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry on Saturday called for “concerned parties to accept a ceasefire of unlimited duration and to resume indirect negotiations in Cairo”. Earlier, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has been ordered to refrain from dumping untreated liquid sewerage at the Korle Gonno Beach, popularly called the Lavender Hill. The Accra High Court which gave the order also asked the assembly to comply with the enforcement notice issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to build digesters to treat ...

Ten-man Newcastle registered their first point of the new Barclays Premier League season after fighting out a disappointing 0-0 draw with Aston Villa. The game at Villa Park was one of few real chances, particularly in the first half, with Magpies midfielder Remy Cabella sending one wide when he might have done better. The visitors ...