Louis van Gaal admits he faces a “difficult challenge” but insists he will do his utmost to restore glory to Manchester United. As the club’s new manager faced the media for the first time at Old Trafford, Van Gaal said he has realised within two days the magnitude of the club and the size of ...

Louis van Gaal admits he faces a “difficult challenge” but insists he will do his utmost to restore glory to Manchester United. As the club’s new manager faced the media for the first time at Old Trafford, Van Gaal said he has realised within two days the magnitude of the club and the size of ...

Organised Labour is expected to demonstrate on Wednesday to register their displeasure over their Second Tier Occupational Pension Scheme. Government in a letter dated June 20  informed Organised Labour of a board set up to manage the pension scheme. But Organised Labour is insisting the sub unions under them manage their own pension scheme with the required ...

Finance minister Seth Tekper has confirmed Cocobod will seek additional funding for this year’s syndicated loan. Cocobod had earlier announced it will seek 1.8 billion dollars this year for its syndicated loan. However finance minister Seth Tekper has announced this figure will be increased to 2 billion dollars. Last year Cocobod signed a $1.2 billion ...

Israel will not be allowed to host Champions League or Europa League games because of the conflict in the country. Maccabi Tel Aviv, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Be’er Sheva will have to propose alternative home venues “until further notice” to Uefa, European football’s governing body. Uefa has also ruled that Russian and Ukrainian teams ...

Finance minister Seth Tekper has admitted that certain decisions taken by government are to be blamed for the country’s current economic challenges. According to Seth Tekper poor estimation on the part of government in taking certain decisions among others may have led to country’s current woes. ‘‘What did we do wrong, if you take the ...

The General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC),  Bernard Monah has advised government to find other options to finance projects earmarked under the $3 billion China Development Bank(CDB) loan facility. Speaking to Citi News, Mr. Monah advised government to “look at other sources of raising money to be able to cover the kind of ...

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 ...