Nigeria have met Fifa’s conditions to lift its ban on the country after a regional high court quashed an order restraining the board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) from office. Fifa punished Nigeria for government interference after the NFF board was replaced by a sole administrator. A 17 July deadline was given to reverse ...
A seven member local content committee of the Petroleum Commission has been inaugurated to implement and monitor local content targets for the oil and gas sector. The local content law which took effect in February this year seeks to put Ghanaians at the forefront of all petroleum activities, while ensuring foreign oil companies also get ...
President John Mahama is lamenting the posture of development partners to Ghana’s home grown fiscal stabilization policy. This comes a day after the minister of finance Seth Terkper asked parliament to approve over 3 billion dollars as Supplementary Budget Estimate for the year. According to government, global and domestic economic environment have necessitated the revision ...
Satya Nadella is putting his stamp on Microsoft , and for thousands of employees that means a pink slip. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said Thursday it will eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year, more than half of which will come in theNokia business it acquired in April. The cuts will result in a restructuring ...
A six-year-old schoolgirl has allegedly been raped by two staff members at a prominent school in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, police say. The alleged assault happened on 2 July but her parents discovered it only a few days ago after she complained of stomach ache and was taken to hospital. Meanwhile, hundreds of ...
Finance Minister, Seth Terkper has said government is imperfect and will make mistakes in the process of reviving the ailing economy. “Government is not perfect and government will not get it right so government makes mistakes and when we make mistakes, I think we have to correct them,†he said. Citing the Forex rules instituted by the Bank ...
Teenage pregnancy figures for the past four years have not seen much of a significant reduction. The figures are even more frightening in rural communities questioning the future of most teenage girls in the country. In this hold my documentary “MOTHERHOOD IN CHILDHOOD the reporter explores the causes and consequences of teenage pregnancy in a ...
Nana Osarfo Nintin XVIII, chief of Gomoa Akoti in the Central Region has revealed his dislike for sex education in schools in his area. According to the chief sex education only makes children more interested and curious about sex. Teenage pregnancy is high among teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19-years. The Central Region has been ...
The National House of Chiefs is appealing to government to resolve the concerns of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) with urgency. The President of the National House of Chiefs, Naa Professor John Nabila made this plea on behalf of the umbrella body of all chiefs in the country when the President called on them ...
He suffered greatly in his final months, but Nelson Mandela’s last breaths were peaceful, says his eldest daughter, Maki Mandela. She describes the end as a “beautiful passing on” but says his death and burial came as a relief to her after his long health struggles. “There were times I was telling the doctors I ...
A French judge has ruled against a blogger because her scathing restaurant review was too prominent in Google search results. The judge ordered that the post’s title be amended and told the blogger Caroline Doudet to pay damages. Ms Doudet said the decision made it a crime to be highly ranked on search engines. The ...
John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic both found the net as Chelsea kicked off their pre-season preparations with a comfortable victory over Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park. With the exception of veteran Mark Schwarzer in goal, Jose Mourinho fielded a young starting XI for the friendly, with midfielder Marco Van Ginkel back in the side after ...
Liverpool began their pre-season campaign with a 2-1 loss against Danish side Brondby, with Ferhan Hasani netting a stoppage-time winner for the hosts. Substitute Hasani had already served warning of his goal threat with a superb free-kick that crashed against Brad Jones’ crossbar. And the Macedonia international’s slaloming run and classy finish in the 91st minute ...
At least 14 Tunisian soldiers have been killed in a militant attack near the Algerian border with at least 20 others wounded, the defence ministry says. They say gunmen, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles, raided two checkpoints near Mount Chaambi. It is reportedly the heaviest death toll registered by the army since independence in ...
Ace lawyer Dr. Maurice Ampaw has called on the police service to arrest Asamoah Gyan, the skipper of the Black Stars in connection with the disappearance of popular musician Theophilus Tagoe, affectionately called ‘Castro the Destroyer’ The hiplife star was last seen on the Volta estuary when he and Janet Bandu  went jet skiing in ...
Finance minister Seth Tekper has defended the airlifting of 3 million dollars to the black stars in Brazil during the World Cup. The money was used to pay the appearance fees of the black stars players after they threatened to boycott Ghana’s final group game against Portugal. The players were reportedly paid 100 thousand dollars ...
The Black Stars of Ghana are still counting the costs of a disastrous World Cup campaign after the latest FIFA ranking saw them slip to 38 in the world and drop out of Africa’s top four countries for the first time in almost six years. Ghana gained only one point in Brazil amid bickering over ...
Bayern Munich midfielder Toni Kroos has joined Real Madrid for an undisclosed fee on a six-year deal. Kroos, 24, was a key player in the Germany side which beat Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup and scored two goals during the competition in Brazil. He will be presented to the Real Madrid fans at ...
Julius Debrah, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, on Wednesday held a meeting with the Executives of the Plastic Waste Management Programme, Ghana, to deliberate on how to expand plastic waste recycling plants. The meeting also touched on how the companies in the plastic waste industry could access the Plastic Waste Recycling Fund collected ...
Samini has just launched the “Samini Light A Million Livesâ€Â, an ambitious project to distribute One Million solar lanterns across the length and breadth of Ghana, as part of his 10 years in music. As part of the project, the multiple award-winning musician will distribute one million pieces of solar powered lanterns in deprived communities ...
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