FIFA President Gianni Infantino says the 2022 World Cup must be played in just 28 days even if it is expanded to 48 teams. That would likely require six games to be played on some days in order to fit the full 80-game format during the tighter schedule brought on by switching the tournament to November 21-December 18 in Qatar. [...] The post ‘Qatar 2022 World Cup expansion problematic’

ANTONIO Conte has refused to meet with Chelsea and is insisting on taking them to court for the rest of his salary. The Italian, who recently turned down the Real Madrid job, feels he should be paid what he is contractually owed out of respect, following his sacking earlier this year. Conte’s lawyers have been working on two separate cases [...] The post Conte to drag Chelsea

EGYPT’S Al Ahly are clear favourites to extend their record streak of African club competition titles when they take a 3-1 lead over Esperance into their Champions League final second leg in Tunisia today after a drama-filled build-up. Al Ahly have won an unprecedented eight Champions League titles and long been regarded as the continent’s best team, while Esperance have [...] The post Ahly

FLOYD Mayweather has performed an embarrassing U-turn and will not be fighting Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa. The retired American boxing legend declared himself ‘blindsided’ by the original announcement, apologising to fans for the misleading information regarding the New Year’s Eve fight. He explained himself in a lengthy Instagram statement: “Now that I am back on U.S. soil after a long [...] The post Mayweather:

MANCHESTER United produced a stunning late comeback to beat Juventus 2-1 on Wednesday in what could be a turning point in their Champions League campaign, while a Gabriel Jesus hat-trick helped Manchester City all but secure a last-16 berth. Pep Guardiola’s City crushed Shakhtar Donetsk 6-0 on a night which saw Real Madrid also win big, as Bayern Munich closed [...] The post Man

LEICESTER City players will wear shirts with club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s name embroidered on them when they play their first home match since the Thai tycoon was killed in a helicopter crash, the Premier League club said. Vichai was one of five killed in the crash near the King Power Stadium after Leicester’s last home league match on October 27. [...] The post Leicester

AC Milan defender Andrea Conti’s comeback from a year-long injury layoff ended with a three-match ban after he punched the referee’s door and insulted the match official at the end of a youth team game. Meanwhile, club director Paolo Maldini, who spent his 25-year playing career with Milan, was banned for a week for also insulting the official, following the [...] The post Milan player banned

Ghana’s 2019 budget would scale up infrastructure projects, especially in the areas of roads and rails, to help open up the country for rapid economic growth, Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, has assured.   This, he said, was in line with the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) principle of “Leaving no one behind”, as the government worked assiduously to [...] The post 2019

The Ga Traditional Council has inducted Nii Adote Otintor, Sempe Mantse, as a member of the Judicial Committee of the Council. The short ceremony was performed by Kwame Amoako, a judge of the Circuit Court in Accra who administered the oaths of office, secrecy and allegiance to the new member of the committee. In a brief message at the filled-to-capacity [...] The post Sempe Mantse inducted appeared first

A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and Afrobus Ghana Limited (AGL), an automobile assembling company from Turkey, to build and operate a bus assembling plant in the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast.   The move formed part of the numerous interventions by the government to seek strategic investors to expand location economies [...] The post Afrobus

ABOUT 112 Ghanaian health professionals in the United Kingdom have attended a conference in Liverpool to address the challenges they face in offering their services back home. The participants included doctors, dentists, physician associates and nurses. The event was organised by Dr Sefaakor Ahiaku, a renowned Ghanaian dentist based in Liverpool. The conference was graced by the High Commissioner to [...] The post Ghanaian

Junior Achievement (JA) Africa, a non-profit organisation dedicated to building the entrepreneurship skills of the youth, has launched its Company of the Year (COY) competition to showcase the business ideas of the youth in Africa. The competition under the entrepreneurship programme of the organisation, slated for December 5-7 this year in Accra, is on the theme, “Tech the Future by [...] The post JA

Mr Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, Executive Director of Crime Check Foundation has added his voice to calls on parliament to pass the Non-custodial Sentencing Bill into law. He said that such a law would ensure persons who are convicted for misdemeanors (minor offences) are made to undertake community services such as cleaning and desilting of gutters. Addressing a press conference in [...] The post Pass

A programme aimed at improving sanitation in Tema Manhean has been launched by the Tema Traditional Council (TTC) in collaboration with the Patriotic Citizens Association of Tema.   The initiative also seeks to change the attitude of residents towards waste management and outlaw indiscriminate littering in order to prevent the spread of diseases such as cholera and typhoid.   In [...] The post Tema

THE free SHS Policy does not prevent parents from sending their children to private schools, Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, Deputy Minister of Information has stated. He said at a town hall meeting in Ho on Wednesday that the policy was meant to make second cycle education accessible to all and sundry without stressing out the pockets of parents and guardians. [...] The post Ho holds town hall meeting appeared

A FORMER Chairperson of the Affirmation Action Bill Drafting Committee, Mrs Joana A. Opare, has dismissed the old saying that, “women are their own enemies.”   The decades old adage suggests that women do not support themselves and are envious of their own who tries to make progress in life.   But addressing the parliamentary press corps at a capacity [...] The post W/shop

Residents of Adenta, a suburb in Accra, went berserk yesterday after another speeding vehicle knocked and killed a young lady on the stretch. The lady, assumed to be around 22 years, was believed to be returning from the West African Secondary School (WASS) where she had completed a registration exercise for the gold track system. Residents in anger blocked the [...] The post Riot

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), a think tank, has called on the government to prune down its numerous social and economic intervention programmes aimed at promoting strong broad-based economic growth and reducing unemployment. According to the IFS government’s initiatives such as the Free Senior High School Programme, National Builders Corps,  Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme, One District One Factory, [...] The post Prune

The Special Revenue Taskforce of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday, impounded an articulated truck hired by Twellein Industries for flouting the tax stamp law, at its warehouse at Apowa, in the Ahanta West municipality of the Western Region. The team impounded the SHACMAN articulated truck with the registration number GS 5899-18, after  it  had  carted  Rasta ChocoMalt, product [...] The post GRA

INTERIOR Minister, Ambrose Dery, has said his outfit was working on a Cabinet memorandum for the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty.   Signed in 2015, the Arms Trade Treaty is a multi-lateral legally binding treaty which is expected to create common standards for exports, imports, transit, teams-shipment and brokering referred to as transfer.   It is meant to regulate [...] The post Arms