Ghana Under-17 coach Paa Kwesi Fabin has picked his 18-man squad to face South Africa on Saturday in the CAF U17 final round qualifier first leg tie. The squad includes five players from the renowned Gomoa Fetteh Feyenoord Academy and other from Red Bull and Right To Dream Academies. Tema Youth midfielder Moses Ojer is the only player with Premier League experience to have made the list. Defender-cum-midfielder Yakubu Mohammed has returned from trials with Ukranian side FC Dnipro and ... Read More
The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church, Dr. Mensa Otabil yesterday took a swipe at political operatives who are manipulating his sermons to suit their parochial interest, describing their activities as ?evil and mischief?. He explained that ?when political operatives hijack a pastor?s words, sample, splice, edit and manipulate it to mean something other than what was intended, and then go ahead to lift those words from their proper context and place them within a ... Read More
Printing of ballot papers for the Presidential and Parliamentary polls started on Wednesday, November 7th amidst tight security as the Electoral Commission (EC) stepped up preparations for the elections, Ghana News Agency investigation established at the weekend. GNA information indicated the various publishing houses engaged for the printing have already completed printing the ?Election 2012 Notice of Polls?. On security of the ballot papers and officials involved in the printing, an EC ... Read More
THE Board of Directors of New Times Corporation (NTC) has approved the appointment of Mr. David Agbenu as the Editor of The Ghanaian Times. It has also confirmed Mrs. Tina Aforo-Yeboah as Editor of The Spectator. Both appointments took effect from November ... Read More
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Daniel Sylvanus Mensah Torto was on Sunday enthroned as the 9th Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Accra. He succeeds the Very Rev. Dr. Justice Ofei Akrofi who retired last month after 16 years of service as the Anglican Bishop of Accra and the eighth Archbishop and Primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa. The enthronement ceremony held at the Holy Trinity Anlgican Cathedral was characterised by pomp and pageantry amidst praise singing and throbbing of ... Read More
The Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has returned home from Abuja, Nigeria, after attending an extra-ordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that discussed the crisis situation in Mali. The summit, which also discussed the situation in Guinea Bissau, brainstormed on modalities for military intervention to address the rebellion that has taken over the northern part of Mali. Briefing journalists upon arrival at the airport on Sunday night, Vice President ... Read More
The first thing that marked the week as distinctive for me was that President Barack Obama obliged me, by winning ? and winning handsomely at that. Well, how did that oblige me? I did what journalists are enjoined never to do ? I forecast the result of the US election! Yes. Unfortunately, however, if you are a reader of the print edition of the Ghanaian Times, you wouldn?t have seen my article (which I am not swollen-headed enough to dare describe as ?prescient?, you see (!) entitled ... Read More
The Director-General of Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, Air Cdre Kwame Mamphey (rtd), has called on all relevant aviation authorities to put in place measures that will make patrons of air transport feel secure and guaranteed of their safety, even in the event of a mishap. He said this at the opening of an Aviation Search and Rescue Seminar in Accra yesterday. Air Cdre Mamphey said the measures would ensure that the country, met the International Civil Aviation Organisation?s (ICAO) ... Read More
Local contractors are to benefit from forty per cent of the government?s road and housing contracts, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Hannah Tetteh has announced. She said, the contracts would be awarded to contractors who do their work diligently. Speaking at the African Construction Development Conference in Accra, yesterday she said ?government is willing to award more contracts if good services and timeliness are provided?. ?The issue of shoddy work, low technical capacity, ... Read More
The Standard Bank of Africa has launched an initiative that provides innovative financing partnerships that will accelerate food production and raise the incomes of thousands of farmers in four African countries including Ghana. The other beneficiary countries are Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. According to a research done by the World Bank, global food production will need to double in the next 30 years to sustain population growth. With over 70 per cent of potentially arable land ... Read More
The Ghana Insurers? Association (GIA) has appealed to government to enact a law to make it compulsory for workers to be insured by their employees. ?This would ensure adequate compensation for workers who get injured or lost their lives during accidents while they are on duty,? President of GIA , Mr Kwame-Gazo Agbenyadzie, said at the opening of the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA) Educational Conference in Accra yesterday. The three-day Sub-Regional educational ... Read More
An Accra High court has slapped a 10 year jail term on a 20-year-old school dropout for robbing a student of her personal effects. The convict, Bright Darko, alias Opete, is said to have collected a hand bag containing GH¢2000, a Samsung mobile phone, and student identification card belonging to Rosemary Graham, a student and frightened her at cutlass point. Bright was arrested following identification by the complainant who earlier made a formal complaint to the Kwashieman Police. He ... Read More
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