Ghana’s Abeiku Jackson and Kweku Addo came first and second respectively in the second heat of the Men’s 50 metre Butterfly at the Tollcross Swimming Centre at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Scotland. The two were in lanes 3 and 5 and they topped the field that had seven athletes. However, both athletes will not ...
The University of Ghana (UG) has won a new grant of USD650,000 to support PhD training. The UG Accelerated PhD Training (UG-ATP) is a project which seeks to ensure that the University of Ghana becomes a hub for an African regional doctoral training, drawing on its diaspora partnerships to enhance its PhD programmes, thereby attracting ...
Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale believes La Liga is superior to the Premier League as James Rodriguez becomes the latest big-name player to arrive in Spain. The Welshman helped Real secure the Champions League last season and will link up with Rodriguez, who completed a £63m move to the Bernabeu this week after some impressive displays ...
The Dutch soccer association (KNVB) wants to postpone discussion over their participation in the next World Cup in Russia, as an angry country on Wednesday mourned victims of the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine by Russian-backed separatists on a flight from Amsterdam last week. The KNVB said in a statement it had received many ...
Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso. Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline is quoted by Algeria’s state news agency as saying. The passenger airliner, last seen at 01:55 GMT, was bound for the Algerian capital Algiers, ...
It wasn’t long ago that Facebook was widely seen as having a “mobile problem.” Those days are gone. Facebook reported Wednesday that mobile ads accounted for about 62% of its ad revenue in the second quarter, up a from just 41% a year prior. The social network’s shares are up more than 30% this year, ...
Leading youth entertainment television brand, 4syte TV recently reached a milestone on social media, chalking its 100,000th follower on Twitter. To show appreciation for fans and supporters, CEO of 4syte Studios, Ignace Hego decided to throw in a prize for 4syteTV’s 100,000th Twitter follower. The winner, will receive a brand new Nokia phone, 4syte TV ...
Poverty alleviation fund Managers, SEND-Ghana has begun disbursing a 700,000 Canadian Dollar package as loans to small holder farmers in the eastern corridor of the Northern Region. So far, a sum of GHC 454,950 has been disbursed to 800 small holder farmers comprising 449 men and 351 women in the Kpandai, Nanumba North and East ...
Underscoring the importance of literal, trendy, wedding dates, 20,000 American couples are already planning to get married on 12/13/14, according to a David’s Bridal poll. The New York Post reports the weekend, which had only 7,200 weddings last year, is booking fast. “We’ve had to turn a lot of people away,” Julie Miller, a production ...
Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah has withdrawn from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after failing to recover from a recent illness. Farah, 31, won the 5,000m and 10,000m at London 2012 and was set to run both distances in Scotland. However, he has decided to stay in his training camp to be fit for ...
Manchester United’s new manager Louis van Gaal made a winning start as Wayne Rooney scored twice in a 7-0 defeat of LA Galaxy in front of a crowd of 86,432 at the Rose Bowl in California. Winger Ashley Young and debutant defender Reece James, 20, also scored two goals each after striker Danny Welbeck had ...
Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation. Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department, told the BBC. The teenager had been suffering for 18 months and travelled to the ...
The much anticipated nationwide demonstration declared by Organised Labour is underway right now. Citi News’ reporter Fred Djabanor who is stationed at the converging point at the Obra Spot, Kwame Nkrumah Circle said about 250 people are currently present chanting and sing ‘’war songs’’. According to him some of the demonstrators are holding placards with ...
The Ahamansu Circuit, an educational supervising authority in Kejebi in the Volta region has made an urgent appeal to government to come to the aid of the Ahamansu EP Junior High School, which was gutted by fire last weekend. The fire is believed to have been caused by piles of charcoal left in various classrooms ...
A 34-year-old unemployed man Mohammed Ussif Kantoosi, who pretended to be Dr Raymond Atuguba, Executive Secretary of President John Mahama and succeeded in defrauding the Chief Director of the Ministry of Finance, Ambassador Leslie Kojo Christian to the tune of GH¢14,000 has been arraigned. He was put before an Accra Circuit Court presided over by ...
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