Spanish champions Barcelona’s title hopes are out of their own hands after a shock defeat at Real Valladolid. Valladolid, who started the day in the relegation zone, took the lead in the 17th minute through Fausto Rossi, who fired home after he and Javi Guerra had shots blocked. Lionel Messi, who had a chance saved ...

A policeman on duty at the Derby Avenue branch of Cal bank in Accra has reportedly shot and injured two persons out of anger. The policeman who was on duty on Saturday afternoon opened fire on customers in the banking hall and injured some persons. Narrating the incident to Citi News, one of the victims, ...

Planes and ships from south-east Asian states have joined forces to search the South China Sea for a Malaysia Airlines jet, missing with 239 people on board. Flight MH370 vanished at 18:40 GMT Friday (02:40 local time Saturday) after leaving Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, where it was expected at 22:30 GMT. The aerial search has ...

The Gas Processing Plant at Atuabo which started in the last quarter of 2011, is to be completed by March 31, this year, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Minister of Energy and Petroleum, said on Friday. He was speaking to the media after a meeting of the Task Force set up to see to the early ...

Manchester United kept their slim hopes of a top four league place alive as they beat struggling West Brom. A Rafael header was tipped on to the crossbar before United took the lead when Phil Jones powered in a header. The Baggies exerted some pressure in search of an equaliser and striker Victor Anichebe angled ...

Arsenal stayed on course to end a trophy drought stretching back to 2005 as they secured a place in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley with victory over Everton at Emirates Stadium. In a quarter-final that was closer than the emphatic final scoreline suggests, Mesut Ozil gave Arsenal an early lead but Romelu Lukaku tapped ...

A section of Ghanaians are calling on government to adopt new and modern ways to celebrate  Ghana’s Independence Day which will create excitement and involve all citizens. The call comes after Ghana’s 57th Independence Day parade on Thursday was nearly ruined by  heavy downpour. The day is usually marked with a grand parade and a ...

Why Has Ghana’s Cedi Plunged? Some Look to the Devil, or Mythical Dwarves A rising U.S. dollar has stirred many pastors here into nightly prayers for their fallen currency to rise again. “I command the resurrection of the cedi! In the name of Jesus!” preached evangelist Nicholas Duncan-Williams of a megachurch called Action Chapel, recently. ...

She’s bold, beautiful and a bombastic specimen who has never ceased to either over-awe or confound people’s imagination. Controversial Nigerian singer, who is well known for her x-rated photographs, Caroline Sam, popularly known as Maheeda, has admitted that her seeming obsession with sex is not just only a ploy to drive attention to her music ...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that he and his cabinet will take a pay cut to help bring down the government’s wage bill. President Kenyatta said that he and his deputy William Ruto would take a 20% cut while other ministers would have their pay reduced by 10%. Foreign trips, he said, would be ...

Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah says Milovan Rajevac is one of at least five coaches he is considering for an advisory role at the 2014 world cup but insist he has not made a definite decision yet. Appiah told AllSports.com.gh exclusively, however that he is yet to make a firm decision on which of those five ...

On this day 8th March, 2012 ’Controversial’ player, Bernard Dong-Bortey was handed a 12-month ban by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) for assaulting a match official. The Aduana Stars midfielder, who is surrounded by a lot of controversies was handed a 12-month ban following a hearing into the case after the FA ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Assin-Central in the Central region, Kennedy Agyapong has said the President’s call on Ghanaians to patronise Ghana and made in Ghana goods can only be realised when local companies are given concessions like the foreign companies. President John Mahama in his speech to mark Ghana’s 57th independence anniversary said ...

Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp has been opposed by privacy groups. Mark Zuckerberg’s firm is planning to buy the company for around £11bn. Opponents want US regulators to stop the deal until Facebook provides more information on what it plans to do with the personal data of WhatsApp’s users. But Facebook said it ...

A movie-making scene turned bloody last week when a 19-year-old lad was shot and injured by a passerby who mistook the scene for a real-life incident. The man who delivered the shot, a driver of a saloon car, had heard people shouting ‘dzulor’, ‘dzulor’ (the Ga word for thief) and fired a gun from his ...

MTN Ghana in 2013 recorded revenue of GHC 1.753 billion. This represented a 13 percent growth of 2012’s where GHS1.552billion was recorded. Data revenue grew by an outstanding 81.6 percent and accounted for 9.7 percent of total revenue. This does not come as surprising as data users increased by 20.9percent to 4.9 million users. Outgoing ...

The Petroleum Commission has directed MODEC to with immediate effect, formalize contracts with Seaweld Engineering Limited after their operations on the Kwame Nkrumah FPSO vessel were terminated. According to the Commission, it is unacceptable that after three years of providing man power services on the vessel, there is no formal agreement between MODEC who are mangers of ...

An Accra Circuit Court on Friday fixed April 11 to commence hearing into the case of three persons, including a court official of the Judicial Service who were nabbed over fake Judicial Certificate of Divorce. This was after it had granted bail to Akwasi Asare Junior, a Clerk with the AMA, Charlotte Ofori, a typist ...

Energy drinks can lead to mental health problems and drug and alcohol abuse in teenagers, researchers have warned. Their findings have been published just a day after it emerged a teenager’s heart stopped three times after downing 10 Jagerbombs mixed with Red Bull. Jayde Dinsdale, 18, was drinking the Jagermeister spirit and energy drink shooter, ...

The Executive Director of Childs’ Right International, Mr. Bright Appiah has dismissed calls for an immediate exclusion of school pupils from Independence Day parades, saying such events are critical to their “patriotism and development.” “I believe that one of the ways that we can build the patriotism of children is for them to participate in ...