Benjamin Fumi successfully defended the National Ranking Tour title after beating Johnson Acquah 6-3, 6-2 at the Accra Sports Stadium Tennis Court on Saturday. The game which lasted for one hour and 28 minutes saw the Akosombo-based Fumi overpower Acquah in both sets to win the trophy for the second time in two years. Fumi won the 2017 edition of [...] The post Fumi retains Nat’l Ranking Tour
A 32-member Ghana youth team left the country on Sunday to participate in the third African Youth Games (AYG) in Algeria slated for July 17-28. The team was made up of 22 athletes. They will compete in four disciplines including beach volleyball, swimming, athletics and hockey. They were accompanied by coaches and officials from the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC). They [...] The post Ghana’s
Former Black Stars winger Yaw Preko has debunked reports that he will join Kenichi Yatsuhashi at Aduana Stars. The Japanese tactician joined CAF Confederation Cup campaigners Aduana Stars just days after leaving Inter Allies. The 43-year-old coach refuted the reports and reaffirmed his commitment to continue with Inter Allies. “I won’t join Kenichi at Aduana stars because I am [...] The post Preko
BLACK Satellites chief trainer, Jimmy Cobblah, is battling with time to put his charges in fine fettle ahead of the team’s Africa Under-20 Nations Cup final qualifier against Benin. The Satellites take on the Young Squirrels of Benin in the first leg final qualifier of the campaign slated for the Cape Coast Sports Stadium on Saturday August 4, hoping to [...] The post Satellites
JORGE Sampaoli has left his position as Argentina coach after a disappointing World Cup in which the South Americans were eliminated in the last 16 by eventual champions France, the Argentine Football Association (AFA) said on Sunday. “The Argentine Football Association and the ex-coach of the national team Jorge Sampaoli today reached a mutual agreement to rescind his contract,” the [...] The post Sampaoli
FORMER Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher says the decision to give France a penalty against Croatia in Sunday’s World Cup final in Moscow was “100 per cent” wrong. Croatia’s Ivan Perisic, whose visibility was blocked by Blaise Matuidi, was penalised in the 38th minute after Antoine Griezmann’s delivery from a corner struck his arm, which was by his side. Referee [...] The post ‘France
GIANNI Infantino believes that the 2018 World Cup has wrought a sea change in international opinion about host nation Russia. The president of world football federation FIFA told a media briefing that Russia itself, a nation of 144m people in a landmass of 17m sq.km, had been changed by the World Cup. He said: “Russia has become a real football [...] The post World Cup has changed Russia
Africa’s infrastructure in its impressive growth rates in the last decade in most countries. The African Development needs to remain huge with unmet financing gap between US$130 and US$170 billion annually, despite the Bank (AfDB) seeking to partner with leading global development finance institutions to establish a mutualised co-guarantee platform to de-risk investments and facilitate projects that have the capacity [...] The post AIF
Newmont Ghana generated $536 million of economic value distributed throughout the Ghanaian economy last year. Out of the amount, $89.7 million was paid in employee wages and benefits, $62.3 million in taxes, $35.1 million in government royalties, and five million dollars in voluntary community investments. This was contained in the company’s 2017 sustainability report, known as Beyond the Mine. According [...] The post Newmont
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has annulled the acquisition of all shares held by four institutions in the ADB Bank Limited (ADB). The institutions are Belstar Capital Limited, Starmount Development Company Limited, SIC-Financial Services Limited and EDC Investment. A statement from the BoG said the order, which takes immediate effect, was made pursuant to section 55 of the Banks and [...] The post BoG
The Ga Rural Bank, has assured customers that the bank will meet the Bank of Ghana’s (BoG) new regulatory minimum capital requirements of GH?1 million for all rural and community banks. Additionally, the bank has maintained adequate liquidity reserve as required by the BoG to be able to continue to be a net lender to customers and operate effectively in [...] The post Ga
A Former Tema Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner Of Police, (DCOP) Retired Mr. Augustine Gyenning has charged police personnel to work harder at protecting citizens and themselves. He said it is important for the personnel to always remember that they could only protect the citizenry if they are able to stay away from danger to be alive. Addressing [...] The post Tema
THE sound of wardrums and battlefield songs filled the precinct of the Asogli Palace at Ho-Bankoe yesterday morning as the youth demonstrated their anger over the recent response by the NPP National Chairman, Mr. Freddie Blay’s to the address of President of the National House of Chiefs, Togbe Afede XIV on the 275 buses saga. At a media briefing at [...] The post Asogli youth demo against
Former President, John Dramani Mahama, is to lead a 24-member Commonwealth delegation to observe Zimbabwe’s general elections on July 30. His appointment follows a similar role he played in the Sierra Leone and Kenya general elections last year. The elections, which has 23 presidential candidates, while the 270-seat House of Assembly is composed of 210 members elected from [...] The post Ex-President
Policy think tank, IMANI, has kicked against the speculated tax increment in the upcoming mid-year budget review. According to Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, the wastage in the system could be saved to fund programmes instead of increasing the burden on Ghanaians. Interacting with journalists on the sidelines of IMANI’s Audit of Ghana’s Economic [...] The post We
The government has been urged to adopt a multi-track educational system in the country to ensure the enrollment of the large number of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates who sit for the examination annually. Under the multi-track system, while one track of students are in school, another track of students will be on holidays and when those in [...] The post Adopt double
As part of efforts to educate the public on the need to protect the environment from further degradation, O’reilly Senior High School in Accra has launched an environmental club for students. Spearheaded by the school’s Agricultural Department, the club was also to monitor how the school’s immediate environment was being managed and devise means and strategies to maintain a sound [...] The post O’reilly
Happy Kids School as part of its 25th anniversary has inaugurated a modern science laboratory to enhance the teaching and learning of science in the school. The facility furnished with the equipment such as thermometer, first aid kit, safety floor, chemicals, conical flask, G-clamp, bean balance and students’ microscope is to afford students from primary four to Junior High School [...] The post Happy
The Executive Director of 4H Ghana, a non-governmental organisation, which focuses on youth leadership development, Mr Kweku Boateng Appiah has called for a close collaboration between his organisation and the Ghana Education Service (GES). He said such collaboration would help identify and train the future leaders of the country, adding that, currently, 4H Ghana has about 62,000 members across six regions [...] The post 4H
A tree per child programme which aims at addressing ecological shortcoming has been launched at the Thomas Aquinas Senior High School (SHS) in the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA). With funding from the assembly, students are expected to plant 250 coconut trees under the programme this year in their respective schools and homes in the municipality. Launching the programme, Mr [...] The post A
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