Ticket prices for ?the United States’ highly anticipated round of 16 game against ?Belgium on ?Monday plunged by more than 30 percent before rebounding slightly early Saturday evening. The get-in price for the final 2026 World ?Cup match in Seattle hit nearly $4,000 on June 1, according to ticket-tracking service TicketData.com. After dipping to as low as […] The post Ticket

France needed a second-half Kylian Mbappe penalty to break down a stubborn Paraguay side, winning a niggly World Cup last-16 clash 1-0 to set up a quarterfinal showdown with Morocco. Paraguay’s efforts to get under the skin of France’s superstars worked for three-quarters of a game played in front of 68,324 fans in Philadelphia in […] The post Mbappe draws level with Messi as France beat

USA‘s bid to reach the quarter-finals of a World Cup for the first time since 2002 will take place on Monday with a clash against Belgium at Lumen Field in Seattle. 2026 World Cup co-hosts USA recorded a 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the last round of the competition, while Belgium recorded a 3-2 victory over Senegal. […] The post USA, Belgium clash as they bid to reach quarter-finals

Iberian adversaries go head-to-head in the standout fixture of the World Cup 2026 last 16, as Portugal and Spain scrap it out at the AT&T Stadium on Monday. Roberto Martinez‘s troops survived a mammoth scare to defeat Croatia 2-1 in their opening knockout game, while Luis de la Fuente‘s men enjoyed a simpler 3-0 stroll against Austria in the last […] The post Portugal, Spain

Outgoing Black Stars Head Coach Carlos Queiroz has expressed gratitude to the Ghana Football Association (GFA), his players, technical staff and Ghanaians, saying the country’s football future depends as much on developments off the pitch as performances on it. In a farewell message posted on his official Facebook page, Queiroz reflected on his time with […] The post Queiroz

The leader of the All People’s Congress (APC), Alhaji Hassan Ayariga, has called for a complete reset of the Senior National Team, the Black Stars, following a poor outing that saw the team crash out of the 2026 World Cup. Ayariga’s call comes on the heels of a painful 1–0 defeat the Stars suffered at […] The post Ayariga urges reset of Black Stars after poor show against

Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Buffer Stock Company, Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, has been arrested by law enforcement officers at the Accra International Airport. Mr. Aludiba, who is currently standing trial before the High Court on charges of stealing and causing financial loss to the Republic, was reportedly arrested while attempting to travel to […] The post Former National

The Sakumono District Police Command has recovered GH¢140,000.00 in cash and an AK-47 assault rifle following a robbery attack on a mobile money vendor at Lashibi on 3rd July 2026, the Ghana Police Service has said. In a statement issued by the Service, preliminary investigations established that the victim was attacked by two armed men […] The post Police Retrieve GH¢140,000,

The Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) programme has identified a filling station in Oyarifa sitting “directly on the water body”, describing the development as one of the human activities contributing to the recurrent flooding in parts of the Greater Accra Region. The disclosure was made by the National Coordinator of GARID, Dr. Kwadwo […] The post GARID

The Ghana Armed Forces has appealed to residents in flood-hit areas to cooperate fully with security personnel and engineering teams as a nationwide cleanup and demobilisation exercise gets underway, following floods that killed dozens of people in Accra on June 28, 2026. Briefing journalists at the Jubilee House, Brigadier General Okae-Yeboah, Director General of Joint […] The post Military Appeals for Public Coorperation As Nationwide

More than 10,000 structures have sprung up within the 25-metre statutory buffer zones of major watercourses across just 16 assemblies studied, a survey by the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) programme has found — a key driver, officials say, behind the flooding that has devastated seven regions of the country. Speaking at a […] The post Flood Conundrum: Over

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has released GH¢2.6 billion to Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) to facilitate the payment of cocoa farmers across all cocoa-growing regions of the country. The Board announced yesterday that the latest disbursement is intended to ensure that farmers receive payments for cocoa supplied during the ongoing 2025/26 crop season, while also […] The post COCOBOD

An investigator with the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), Frank Marshall Cromwell, has told the High Court that investigations revealed that the wealth allegedly acquired by former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General, Kwabena Adu Boahene, could not be reconciled with his known income. Cromwell, the fourth prosecution witness (PW4) in the ongoing GHS49.1 million […] The post EOCO

Residents of Samreboi in the Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region are bracing themselves for another anxious weekend following a weather forecast by the Ghana Meteorological Agency predicting rainfall from Thursday through Sunday. For a community still struggling to recover from one of the worst flood disasters in its history, the forecast has more […] The post Fresh Rain Forecast

A 40-year-old Ghanaian national has become the latest fatality in South Africa’s escalating xenophobic crisis, prompting Accra to lodge a formal diplomatic protest and demand a swift criminal investigation. Bashiru Isak was shot dead in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, on Monday during demonstrations tied to the nationwide anti-immigrant campaign that came to a head on June […] The post Ghana

President John Dramani Mahama has urged Ghanaians to remain grateful to God, despite the recent devastating floods that claimed lives and destroyed property, saying faith and thanksgiving should remain the nation’s anchor even in moments of adversity. Addressing the National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving in Accra on Tuesday, the President acknowledged the pain and […] The post Flood

The Ranking Member on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee and Member of Parliament for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has criticised the Mahama administration’s handling of Ghana’s recurring flood disasters, arguing that no level of fiscal discipline can justify the loss of lives caused by delays in implementing critical flood-control projects. Reacting to recent government explanations […] The post Government

The Ga Mantse and President of the Ga Traditional Council, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, has called for a united national effort to address Accra’s recurring flooding, stressing that the challenge goes beyond engineering solutions and requires collective responsibility, discipline and strict adherence to environmental regulations. In a statement issued on Tuesday, on behalf of the Ga […] The post Ga

The Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) has called for an urgent overhaul of the country’s stormwater management policies, warning that Ghana’s drainage systems are no longer fit for purpose in the face of rapid urbanisation, climate variability and worsening flood risk. In a policy brief released, the Institution said conventional drainage infrastructure designed primarily to […] The post Accra

The devastating floods that swept through parts of Greater Accra and other communities in southern Ghana after Monday’s torrential rains have left a trail of destruction, claiming at least 12 lives, displacing 38,802 people and leaving seven others missing. Briefing Parliament on Tuesday, 30 June, 2026 the Minister for the Interior, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, disclosed […] The post Editorial: