A steely determined Ugandan side picked a vital point against the  Black Stars of Ghana in a Nations Cup qualifier played at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium. The Stars needed a controversial penalty in the second half to pull even after the Cranes had taken a lead on the stroke of half time. For a […]

Joseph Ade Coker The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has warned Michael Teye Nyaunu to refrain from discussing matters relating to the party. Joseph Ade Coker told Citi News, the former Lower Manya Krobo legislator is no longer a member of the NDC therefore; he has no locus to call on […]

Captain Asamoah Gyan with senior brother  Baffour Gyan Baffour Gyan, the elder brother of Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has been arrested after he turned himself in following allegations that he led an assault on a correspondent of the Daily Graphic newspaper, Mr. Daniel Kenu. Baffuor turned himself in after the police declared him wanted […]

Ghanaian actor Chris Attoh and Nollywood actress Damilola Adegbite have welcomed a baby boy Friday night. It is unclear where the baby was delivered but the actor took to photo sharing site, Instagram, to announce the delivery with a picture. He captioned the photo: ” Someone should have told us this is how amazing it […]

Asamoah Gyan A Door of opportunity has opened for the Black stars to impress when they take on their Ugandan counterparts today, after a poor showing at this year’s World Cup in Brazil. The Brazil fiasco has had a telling effect on the Ghana team, even to the extent of affecting the build up to […]

WE ARE fighting a disease we don’t have a medicine or a vaccine for, all we have are the preventive measures,” said Dr Luis Sambo, head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) regional office for Africa, at the just ended ECOWAS Ministerial Meeting on Ebola. The battle against the Ebola disease seems to be taking […]

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and Prof Kwaku Danso- Boafo GHANA’S FORMER High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Prof Kwaku Danso- Boafo, has said he neither attacked the personality of former President Jerry John Rawlings nor published anything untoward about him in his book, “JJ Rawlings and the Democratic Transition in Ghana.” The former President has […]

Daniel Opare Portuguese giants FC Porto have submitted their initial squad for the Uefa Champions League without Ghana defender Daniel Opare, according to ghanasoccernet.com. The 23-year-old full-back, Jose Angel and José Otávio, have all been axed from the squad for various reasons. Opare has not found his rhythm due to injuries since arriving at the […]

Rev Dr. Seth O. Lartey “African leaders and followers must stop the too much talk and rather look for better ways to resolve the poor management of their economies,” Right Reverend dr. Seth O. Lartey, Presiding Prelate of the Western West Africa episcopal district of the A.M.E. Zion Church, has advised. “In Africa we do […]

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has been in action for the past few days, pulling down structures occupied by those Frantz Fannon described as The Wretched of The earth. It is one of the latest in a series of bids to exonerate the wobbling assembly from possible culpability in the cholera outbreak that has hit […]

Whoever first said that you discover the full measure of a person or organisation when a crisis occurs, was absolutely spot on. in the current ebola crisis facing the world, an organisation called Médecins sans frontières (Msf in short or Doctors Without Borders) has taken over the leadership role in the battle against ebola that should properly belong to the World health organisation (Who). it […]

A bulldozer at a scene of the demolition. Inset: Agitating residents THE ACCRA Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has pulled down hundreds of illegal structures at Mensah Guinea, an Accra suburb. These structures are mostly occupied by squatters coming to the capital city from all over the country. According to Joy FM report, at about 9:30 am yesterday, […]

Ade Coker A group calling itself grassroots supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Greater Accra region, has registered its displeasure over alleged fraudulent disqualification of some members of the party in the constituency who are vying for various regional executive positions ahead of the party’s greater Accra regional executive elections scheduled for […]

Mike Ocquaye THE NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) has filed an application to completely strike out the action by David Hoezame, whose attempt to stop the party’s Special Delegates’ Congress from taking place last Sunday failed. The matter is before the Accra Fast Track High Court that dismissed Hoezame’s application to place an injunction on the […]

Kennedy Agyapong and Alan Kyerematen NEW PATRIOTIC Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has taken exception to suggestions that NPP presidential hopeful, Alan Kyerematen, should be begged to step down from the presidential race. According to him, Mr Kyerematen managed just eight per cent of valid votes cast during the party’s […]

The two gun manufacturers TWO PEOPLE, Kwasi David and Kwabena Acheampong, aka IK, have been apprehended by the police for allegedly manufacturing guns. They are said to be supplying guns to hardened criminals who use them to rob innocent people of their valuables. The police retrieved items that the suspects use in manufacturing the offensive […]

The burning fuel tanker A FUEL tanker with registration number AS 92-12, which was travelling from Cape Coast towards Kumasi, caught fire when it exploded yesterday at Assin Foso in the Assin North Municipality of the Central Region. The incident occurred when an articulator truck with registration number GT 9938-09, was reversing onto the main […]

Justice Apau GOVERNMENT’S PAYMENT of a whopping Gh¢3.4million (¢34 billion) to a beneficiary, whose two wood processing companies were purportedly confiscated in the heat of the revolution in the 1980s, still remains a mystery. This is because all the relevant institutions that handled the payment process claim they do not have detailed information on the […]

Two-time presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo, says Ghanaians should put the 2014 FIFA World Cup fiasco and disappointment behind them, and support the country’s senior national football team and the head coach, as they clash with the Cranes of Uganda in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.“I urge Ghanaians […]