SCENES recorded at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on Sunday depicted the mood in the camp of the Porcupine Warriors, Kumasi Asante Kotoko. After failing to get a win in the first three matches of the Glo Premier League which they seek to defend, the fans have become impatient and that desperation, frustration and anger was advertised when they held match officials hostage and pelted various items at them for awarding a penalty against them. Today at the Agyeman Badu Park where they play as ... Read More

Two finalists of this year?s Miss Ghana beauty pageant have left the competition on personal grounds. The two, Emelia Ainooson a 20-year-old student of the Ghana Institute of Journalism and Dzifa Delloh of the University of Ghana, Legon will therefore not be part of the grand finale of the pageant on November 10. Emelia Ainooson represented the Ashanti Region while Dzifa Dellor represented the Volta Region. Sources who spoke to Hitz Entertainment News said the two, who were part of the ... Read More

A Customs officer has appealed to importers to make use of government warehouses in the event that they are unable to or they do not have the means to clear their goods from the ports. This is to save money or sometimes the loss of goods and services due to smuggling. Mr. Felix Mante-Kodjo, Chief Collector out-door of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, said this at a forum on ?Suspense Regime? for clearing agents, freight forwarders, stevedores and importers at Takoradi on ... Read More

About 30 tutors and non-teaching staff of the nation?s premier School of Hygiene located at Korle-Bu in Accra, are currently sharing the same hostel facilities with the over 150 students of the school. Until recently, even the principal of the diploma-awarding institution was also staying at the students? hostel because of the acute accommodation problems fronting the staff of the school. Speaking to the Times in an exclusive interview at the school last Thursday, the Vice Principal, Mr. ... Read More

An Accra Magistrate Court yesterday ordered three out of 15 persons suspected to have had a hand in the murder of the chief of Oblogo, Nii Kwaku Bibini III, to be remanded into prison custody.      The three on remand are Ibrahim Tetteh alias Hotcake, Moses Attoh and Abdul Rauf.       The remaining 12 who are on bail are Kofi Kpoh, Agenyega Amedeka, Comfort Aryeek, Samuel Kponmegbe, Otokunnor Sackey, Samuel Tetteh, Gabriel Aheto, Mr Prince Sackey, Enoch Kofi, Joshua Tetteh, Joseph Laryea ... Read More

Dangerous Reptiles, particularly pythons and other snakes have been invading the Agona Akoroma ADA Primary School, threatening the lives of pupils and teachers of the school. The reptiles who have become frequent visitors to the school from a nearby forest reserve, appear sometimes during class hours, sending both teachers and pupils running for cover. One such reptile, anaconda snake, who visited the school during class hours on Monday, was pursued to its hide out where it was ... Read More

The sale of human to women desirous of having children is now brisk business at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, the Ghanaian Times investigations have revealed. The Times gathered that more than 60 women, including patrons from Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon visit the hospital every month to purchase the sperm for fertilization. A source at the hospital who spoke to the ?Times? on condition of anonymity, said increasing number of women call at the hospital daily to enquire ... Read More

The headless body of a man was yesterday found at the Glefe Akweteiman shore at Dansoman in Accra. The unidentified body which was in an advanced state of decomposition, which parts of the skeleton showing. It was also believed to have been in the sea for days before it was washed ashore. Shocked residents have crowded the beach when the Times got to the scene at about 1.30 pm. Some of them were seen discussing the issue while other?s wept. The police personnel from the Homicide Unit ... Read More

The names of 6,000 Ghanaians who dabbled in multiple Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) will be expunged from the final list of the Electoral Commission, (EC). This action would debar the culprits from exercising their franchise in the December 7, general electons. They have, therefore, been warned against making any attempt to cast their ballot on the polls day because the security personnel would be on the look out to effect their arrest as the verification machine could expose ... Read More

Female footballers have been advised to divert into other aspects of their chosen profession as age would soon catch up with them and they can no longer kick the ball. They were urged to divert into coaching, technical directing, refereeing or other areas of the game that would be beneficial to their lives. The first chairperson of Greater Accra Women Soccer (GAWSOC), Mrs. Sophia Okuley, gave this counsel when she was addressing the audience at the 20th anniversary celebration of the ... Read More

The Nunu Sports Festival train left positive impressions on the minds of the youth in Wa and Bolgatanga when the train stopped on separate dates for the talent hunt competition. Last Thursday, the people of Bolga and its environs had their turn of the competition which drew a little over 60 schools (9,200 pupils) to the Bolgatanga Stadium. It was Gambibgo Primary School that emerged winners in the primary school category with TI Ahmadyya following. Bukere Primaray?s Abdulai Ibrahim was ... Read More