Former top football official Chuck Blazer has died at the age of 72, his lawyers say. Blazer, whose evidence to US investigators helped trigger the Fifa corruption scandal, had been suffering from cancer. He was a larger-than-life character, and formerly the general secretary of Concacaf, the governing body of North and Central American football. In 2013 ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is “recuperating fast” and will return home “very soon”, says Nigeria’s acting head of state Yemi Osinbajo. He made the announcement at a press conference on Wednesday morning, after visiting Mr Buhari at the London hospital where he is being treated for an unspecified illness. Mr Osinbajo, now back in Nigeria, said ...

Students of Ziope Secondary School in the Agortime-Ziope District of the Volta Region are compelled to sleep in the school’s laboratory and parts of the classroom blocks which authorities have turned into dormitories. Although the school is yet to fully operate a boarding system, the arrangement according to school authorities is to improve academic performance ...

Moscow-based security company Kaspersky Lab has denied working with Russian intelligence agencies, following US media and government suspicion. News website Bloomberg said it had seen emails showing Kaspersky had developed tools for Russia’s intelligence agency. And, on Tuesday, the US government’s General Services Administration removed Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved vendors. But the ...

Somali authorities have arrested seven head teachers who they accuse of meeting al-Shabab militants. They are said to have discussed changing the curriculum at private schools to favour the Islamist group’s ideology. Each of the principals is responsible for around 1,000 students, ranging in age from seven to 15. Al-Shabab has been waging a war ...

A group of Afghan school girls taking part in a robotics competition in the US have been granted visas to attend it, after their initial applications were denied, US media said. US President Donald Trump had urged authorities to rethink their decision, AP news agency said. A US travel ban is in place for six Muslim-majority countries, ...

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), is on a nationwide campaign against political vigilantism which is gaining notoriety in Ghana’s political environment. CODEO and other like-minded civil society organizations after the 2016 general elections, advocated the need for total disbandment of identified political vigilante groups. These groups are affiliated to the two major political ...

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has launched investigations into reports that one of its officers, Corporal Ebenezer Kofi Otchere, committed suicide. The 33-year-old police officer is said to have shot himself dead in the early hours of  Wednesday, July 12, at Old Tafo, in the Ashanti Region. The Regional Police PRO, ASP Juliana Obeng, addressing ...

The Lands and Natural Resources Ministry has said it will deploy a combined team of military and police personnel to illegal mining areas to stop galamsey. This forms part of efforts to sustain the campaign against illegal mining which has affected major river bodies and left acres of farmlands destroyed. The deployment, according to the ...

Relevant radio brand, Citi FM, has been nominated for an award for its annual competition the “Write Away Contest.” The Contest was nominated for the Media Contribution to Education Award category in the Education Community Awards (EDUCOM) 2017. The 2nd annual EDUCOM award is scheduled for Saturday August 19, 2017, at the Holiday Inn Hotel in ...

Nurses at Nyonkoko Community-Based  Health  Planning and Services (CHPS)  in Sherigu, a suburb of Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region, have resorted to abandoning night work, leaving patients to their fate due to lack of electricity. The health workers, numbering about four, who man the facility say they have no option, but to vacate post ...

The Coalition of ECG Concession Arrangement (COSECA), is calling for further negotiations on government’s decision to partly privatize the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). The proposed deal will see the ECG being ceded to a private investor for some 20 years. But speaking on Eyewitness News, the Convener of the Group, Richard Nyamah, argued that ...

Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s team bus has been involved in what appears to be a fatal accident on a return journey to Kumasi after game week 22 fixture against Inter Allies. The bus had about 35 occupants made up of players and team officials. Details of how the Wednesday night accident occurred are sketchy, but the ...