The Executive Director of Women In Sports Association (WISA), Madam Gloria Commodore, says preparations are far advanced for the second edition of its Achievers Awards on September 29 at the Accra Sports Stadium. She told the Times Sports over the weekend that almost everything needed had been put in place and was waiting patiently for the day set for the [...] The post Preparation
Last year’s UEFA Champions League runners-up Liverpool will begin their European campaign by facing French champions, Paris Saint-Germain at Anfield today. The Reds have made a perfect start to the Premier League season but now face a difficult period of fixtures with PSG, Chelsea twice, Manchester City and Napoli all within next six matches. Les Parisiens have also enjoyed a [...] The post Neymar
Real Madrid’s new star Gareth Bale has no problem acknowledging that the European champions have become more of a team following Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus exit. “Obviously, it’s going to be a little different from having such a big player there,” Bale said in an interview with the Daily Mail. “It’s maybe a bit more relaxed, yes. I suppose there is [...] The post Madrid,
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record by clocking a time of two hours one minute 39 seconds in Berlin. The 33-year-old took nearly one minute 20 seconds off the previous best, which was set by compatriot Dennis Kimetto when he ran 2:02:57 in Berlin in 2014. “I lack words to describe this day,” said Kipchoge. “I am really [...] The post Kipchoge sets new
Renowned weightlifting coach and fitness expert, Kyle Pierce from the United States arrived in the country on Sunday, to take part in the upcoming Physical Activity and Sport for Health Development in Africa (PASHDA) conference at the University of Ghana, Legon. Pierce would be speaking on the topic, “Strengthening and Conditioning” and also take part in other activities for the [...] The post Weightlifting
Communications Director of Asante Kotoko Mr Sarfo Duku has confirmed that his outfit and Paa Kwesi Fabin have mutually parted ways following a meeting with the club’s head, Dr Kwame Kyei. Coach Fabin tendered in his resignation letter last Thursday after seven months in the dug-out of the club. However, media reports suggest that the 50-year-old gaffer resigned over [...] The post Kotoko
The government has welcomed Standards and Poor’s (S&P) rating of the country, describing it as an affirmation of its hard work within the last 21 months of power. “We consider it as feedback and affirmation of our submission that the economy of Ghana and its fundamentals are gradually getting better,” the Minister of Information-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said yesterday at [...] The post S&P
CROSS network mobile money transactions, by the end of August, has hit 798,999 since the Mobile Money Interoperability was introduced in May, the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) has said. In its first month of introduction, less than 100,000 transactions took place on the platform and inched up to a little over 190,000 in the month of June. [...] The post Mobile
The second Homowo festival of the chiefs and people of the Adentan Municipality in the Greater Accra Region was on Saturday celebrated with a call on the chiefs to mobilise the people towards the national development agenda of the country. According to Madam Elizabeth Sackey, Deputy Greater Accra Regional Minister, the government had created the right conditions for grassroots participation [...] The post Chiefs
The Shalom Indigenous Foundation (SIF), a charitable wing of the Bible Baptist Church in Madina, at the weekend presented assorted items worth over GH¢2,000 and cash to Nectar Foundation, an orphanage at Nuaso, a suburb of Odumase Krobo in the Eastern Region. The items include bales of used clothing, Biblical literatures, two mini-sized bags of organic rice, loaves of [...] The post Shalom
A delegation from the Mountcrest University College on Friday visited the family of the late former Supreme Court Judge, Professor Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, to commiserate with them. The delegation, led by the college’s Rector, Mr Kweku Ansa-Asare, presented assorted drinks and water to support the funeral of the renowned statesman, who, until his demise, was a lecturer [...] The post Proofed
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has begun processes towards licensing tour guides across the country as part of efforts to improve standards in the tourism industry. It has thus begun a nationwide registration and training of tour guides to streamline their activities and flush out ‘charlatans’ in the sector. At a closing ceremony of a three-day refresher course for tour [...] The post GTA
The third batch of 120 Christians pilgrims last Saturday left Ghana to Israel for a seven-day visit to some religious and historical sites. They left in the company of the Security Advisor to the President, Brigadier General Emmanuel Okyere, and the Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Samuel Kofi Dzamesi. The event was facilitated by the Ministry of Chieftaincy and [...] The post 3rd
Ghana and Mexico have exchanged proposals for signing of an Air Services Agreement between them. The proposals follow earlier discussions between the former Minister of Aviation, Cecilia Dapaah and the Mexican Ambassador, Maria de los Angeles Arriola Aguirre, on a strategy that would allow a direct flight arrangement to and from both countries. At a meeting in Accra on Thursday [...] The post Ghana,
The Vice-Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS) Prof. Gabriel Ayum Teye, has called on the Forestry Commission and assemblies to institute measures to protect shea trees from being felled indiscriminately. He stated that shea trees had the potential to boost the country’s export hence the need for all stakeholders to help protect it. Prof. Teye made this [...] The post Protect
A 40-year-old physically challenged person, Ms Comfort Dorgbefu, says stigmatisation by the public is a major reason some of her colleagues would prefer to stay indoors than work. She said some of them were talented and capable of contributing their quota to the development of the society. The bead maker and petty trader recalled a motor accident 19 years ago [...] The post Stigma keeps
Work on the $84 million Pokuase Interchange at the ACP Junction in the Ga West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, to facilitate vehicular movement on the Accra-Nsawam road is progressing steadily. Currently, drillings for 68 holes to help collate geo-technical information for the erection of columns (piers) for the interchange had been completed. In addition, about 2.48 kilometres of [...] The post Work
The Korean International Co-operation Agency (KOICA) has presented 80 motorcycle (Motor King) ambulances to the Upper East Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service to improve healthcare delivery services at the local community level. The motor cycle ambulances are to be distributed to Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds across all the 15 municipal and district assemblies (MDAs) in [...] The post U/E
Head Coach of the national U-17 team, the Black Starlets, Karim Zito has criticised the current qualification format for the Africa U-17 championship after Ghana lost to Nigeria in the WAFU Zone B tournament. Ghana will not make an appearance at the Africa U-17 championship in Tanzania next year and the FIFA U-17 World Cup subsequently after failing to [...] The post Zito slams U-17 qualifying
Ghanaian boxer Duke Micah has launched a verbal attack against his former trainer Lawrence Carl Lokko. In a circulating audio, Micah accused his former trainer of character assassination because of his decision to stop working with him. Coach Lokko who earlier this year also severed ties with Richard Commey cited personal reasons for his decision to stop working with [...] The post Duke
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