Kenya’s Supreme Court is to hold a last-minute hearing to decide whether the re-run of the presidential election can go ahead. The court will hear an urgent petition by human rights activists arguing Kenya is not ready for the vote. The election is due to take place on Thursday. The Supreme Court in September took ...

The Confederation of African Football (Caf) says it has yet to receive any official letter confirming Egypt’s intended withdrawal from the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN). Earlier this week, Egyptian officials said they were pulling out of the tournament for African players based in their domestic leagues because of a timing clash. “We sent an ...

The proliferation of petrol and gas filling stations across the country has raised safety concerns amidst the less than satisfactory compliance with minimum environmental safety requirement in the operations of these facilities. Available statistics indicate that between 2014 and 2017, Ghana has witnessed eight major gas explosions – the Kwame Nkrumah Circle (3rd June 2015), ...

Former President John Mahama appears to be amused at recent discussions over a document supposed to be the final report of the Prof. Kwesi Botchwey led committee on the cause of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) defeat in the December 2016 presidential elections. John Mahama in a sniggery comment on his twitter account on Tuesday night, ...

All medical practitioners will be mandated to carry a practitioner’s stamp bearing their name and number from January 2018, following a directive by the Medical and Dental Council. The Council had said back in May 2016 that, it would introduce practitioners’ stamps in July of that year, but more than a year following the announcement, the plans ...

A Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, has defended his outfit’s decision to sole-source a contract worth GHc 9 million for the purchase of chemicals to fight armyworms without full approval from the Public Procurement Authority. The contracts were eventually approved retroactively by the Authority. He said the threat of the armyworms required that the Ministry had to ...

Note: For the avoidance of doubt, I would like to point out that the @Ghpllive account on twitter is owned by a group of individuals covering the league. It is not owned by the Ghana Premier League or the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Last week, I watched in amazement as a Manchester United fan passionately ...

Leadership of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) chapter of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG), has bemoaned the increasingly partisan politics in the affairs of student unions in the country. The developments according to GRASSAG affects their activities. KNUST-chapter President of the Association, Kizito Osei Fosu, expressed the concerns at the 2017 ...

Telecommunications company, MTN, has insisted that its employees are not involved in mobile money fraud. A recent internal inquiry by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) had revealed that in some of the cases, some employees of telecommunication companies, were found to be complicit in the act. Telco staff are reported to without authorization, access the ...