Ghanaian forward Jordan Ayew is Ligue 1 side FC Lorient’s latest acquisition after he signed a four-year deal with the team on Monday having completed his medicals. Despite being loaned to Sochaux for the second part of last season, the player was considered as not being a part of new manager Marcelo Bielsa’s plans for ...
Most border crossings in Liberia have been closed and communities hit by an Ebola outbreak face quarantine to try to halt the spread of the virus. Screening centres are also being set up at the few major entry points that will remain open, such as the main airport. Meanwhile, Nigeria largest’s airline, Arik Air, has ...
FIFA can today confirm the extension of sanctions imposed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)and the Italian Football Association (FIGC) in relation to match manipulation. On 28 May 2014, CAS banned Maltese player Kevin Sammut from all football-related activities for a period of ten years following proceedings conducted by UEFA disciplinary bodies in relation to the manipulation of a qualifying match ...
The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has denied claims that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is “up for sale” in fulfillment of conditions attached to the second Millennium Challenge Compact. Some media reports indicate that government had resolved to privatize the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as part of a condition to access the second ...
The use of vehicles in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state has been banned during Eid, the three-day festival that ends Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month. Eid started on Sunday in Nigeria, and authorities say they have intelligence that Islamist group Boko Haram is planning to carry out car bomb attacks. Meanwhile, police say a bomb has ...
A young man who hurled stones at the vehicle of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa South in the Eastern Region, Samuel Atta Akyea, has been arrested and handed over to the Police. The incident occurred when the MP went to Bunso to join in the Muslim celebration and also donate some items. The ...
Team Ghana’s bid in athletics has so far not been too successful after the initial heats in a number of events at the Hampden Park in Glasgow. Kwadwo Acheampong could not go far in the Men’s 400m as he finished 5th in Heat 2 with a time of 47.72 seconds and the same fate befell ...
President Barack Obama is expected to meet five hundred young Africans from across the continent under one of his initiatives the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). Among these five hundred Africans are 15 Ghanaians drawn from the 10 regions of Ghana. They are Paul Abiwu a clinician working with the Ministry of Health, Harriet Yayra ...
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has expressed worry over the readiness of the country to deal with the Ebola epidemic. According to the GMA, the health system in the country does not have the requisite logistics and practical measures to deal with the disease especially at the facility level. Speaking to Citi News, the General ...
The Advertising Association of Ghana (AAG) last Saturday inducted a 16-member Executive Council into office with a two-year mandate. The new council is headed by the Chief Executive of Innova DDB Ghana, Joel Edmund Nettey as its president, Mansah Anowa, Vice-President and Martin Osei, Treasurer. Ten other individuals and companies elected as members into the Executive ...
President John Dramani Mahama has revealed that the Ghana Pilgrimage Office and the Hajj Committee are working ahead of schedule to make this 2014 Hajj pilgrimage a “better organized one than last year.†According to the President, though “last year’s Hajj was well executed,†Ghana “would see an even better one this year†because of ...
A former President of the Association of Ghana Industries, Tony Oteng-Gyasi, has called on the government to implement policies that will help local industries to grow and compete favourably with their foreign counterparts. He said in countries such as South Africa, Brazil and China, the government supported local industries in many ways, including their exports, ...
This is to congratulate all Muslims across the country for a successful completion of the month long Ramadan fast. On behalf of my wife Rebecca and myself, I send you best wishes, and by extension all Muslims across the world, as you celebrate the annual Eid ul-Fitr festival on Monday, August 28. The Eid ul-Fitr ...
Nana and I extend our best wishes to all Muslims in Ghana and beyond on the occasion of Eid ul Fitr which falls today. Your celebration today is the conclusion of a month-long sacrifice of fasting aimed at seeking Allah’s strength and guidance in our daily affairs. As you break your fast and congregate today to offer ...
The Executive Director of Salt and Light Ministries, Dr Joyce Aryee has stated that great leaders must not use their followers as a means to an end. According to her, great leaders “care about the wellbeing of those in their charge. They do not use people simply as a means to an end. They genuinely ...
A failed vice chairman aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Michael Omari Wadie has threatened to file an application for joinder if former constituency Chairman for Central Tongu, David Hoezame carries on with his suit. He has warned that he will seek an annulment of the entire elections which elected current national executives in Tamale ...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is wishing all Muslims in the country a happy Eid-Ul-Fitr as they join more than a billion others around the globe to mark the end of Ramadan. Ramadan is one of the major religious obligations that every Muslim must observe; it is a period of deep supplication and renewal with ...
At least 36 people were killed in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, many of them civilians, in clashes between Libyan Special Forces and Islamist militants on Saturday night and Sunday morning, medical and security sources said. Another 23 people, all Egyptian workers, were killed in the capital Tripoli when a rocket hit their home on ...
As Muslims celebrate Eid-Ul-Fitr, to mark the end of the month-long period of Ramadan fasting, prayers and devotion, President John Dramani Mahama is urging all Muslims, and indeed all Ghanaians, to deepen their spiritual beliefs, strengthen moral values and re-commit their hearts and minds to activities and actions that demonstrate the true benefits of their ...
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