By Joyce Danso, GNAAccra, Aug. 21, GNA – A Circuit Court on Monday sentenced a 47-year-old farmer to 15 years imprisonment for having sex with his 12 year old daughter at Manhia, near Amasaman.James Debrah, who was facing charges of defile

By Joyce Danso,GNAAccra, Aug.21, GNA - Paa Kwesi Antwi, a 48-year old unemployed man who defiled a 14-year old girl continuously at Taifa Burkina, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court.Charged with defilement,

By Edna A. Quansah, GNAAccra, Aug. 21, GNA - Ghana picked three silver and three bronze medals at the maiden Ghana Open International Taekwondo Championship, which ended over the weekend at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium.

Accra, Aug. 21, GNA - Nii Ayi Aryeetey, President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana, has called on Ghanaians to honour their tax obligations to enable the government to generate more revenue for national development.He said some countries were making great progresses due to taxes generated from the citizens.

By Stephen Asante, GNAKumasi, Aug. 21, GNA - The Head Coach of Ghana’s Black Stars Team ‘B’, Maxwell Konadu, says he has no intention of quitting the job despite mounting pressure over the team’s inability to qualify for next year’s African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Kenya.

By Edward Gyasi Accra, Aug. 21, GNA - The countdown to the 2018 Total African Championships (CHAN) would begin after Guinea hosts Senegal on Tuesday. Senegal goes into the second leg encounter in Conakry with 3-1 advantage.

By Edward Gyasi, GNAAccra, Aug. 21, GNA - Drissa Traore, Burkina Faso national team B head coach has said that he was optimistic of overcoming the Black Star B at the Baba Yara Sports stadium on Sunday.Burkina Faso defeated Ghana 2-1 in Kuma

Rome, Aug. 21 (GNA/dpa) – Croatia international Nikola Kalinic is close to moving from Fiorentina to AC Milan, and reportedly at a Milanese clinic to undergo medical tests Monday.The transfer of the 29-year-old striker, after two seasons in Florence, was expected since he did not show up for the last training sessions at the Fioren

London, Aug. 21, (GNA/dpa) – Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri joined Turkish side Antalyaspor on a two-year contract, the two clubs announced on Monday. The 30-year-old moved to City from Arsenal in 2011 and helped the club win two Premier League titles and two league cups.

Munich, Aug. 21, (GNA/dpa) - Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness believes the new youth training campus of the German record champions can help the club in a time of spiralling transfer fees and wages."Perhaps this is the answer of Bayern to the transfer madness and wage explosion," Hoeness said Monday at the opening of the 70-m

Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 21, (GNA/dpa) - Garbine Muguruza denied a number-one ranking to Simona Halep with a steamrolling 6-1, 6-0 victory over the Romanian to win the title at the Cincinnati Masters on Sunday.Nick Kyrgios was facing Grigor Dimitrov later for the men's trophy at the joint ATP-WTA event, the last major tune-up prior to

Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 21, (GNA/dpa) - An accident involving two buses transporting squash teams from Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines at the Southeast Asia (SEA) Games caused matches to be postponed on Monday.The case will be investigated for reckless and dangerous driving, a local report said.

Agona-Bobikuma (C/R), Aug. 21, GNA - Health Insurance card bearers and the public have been advised to use environmental cleanliness as a tool to promote the aims and objectives of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This is because sound domestic and environmental hygiene could help protect them against diseases, thus makin

By Dorothy Frances Ward, GNA    Asamang (Ash), Aug 21, GNA – The Asamang Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Hospital in the Sekyere South District has been presented with flat screen television sets.These were a donation from the S

By Edmund Quaynor, GNAKoforidua, Aug 21, GNA - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has organized a massive clean-up exercise in Koforidua as part of a drive to free the municipality of filth.For more than four hours, its members

By A.B. Kafui Kanyi/ Sumaiya Salifu Saeed, GNAHo, Aug 21, GNA - Mr Harrison Kofi Belley, a Governance Studies Lecturer, Evangelical Presbyterian University College (EPUC) in Ho, has called on international Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to quickly move to Togo to prevent the escalation of political tension caused by street

By Boakye-Baafi, GNAKumasi, Aug 21, GNA – A student of the Kumasi Technical University and one other person have run into trouble with the law for trading in smuggled tobacco.Abdul Rahman Karikari (the student) and Ali Halidu were caught w

By Nana Osei Kyeretwie, GNAAbesim (B/A), Aug. 20, GNA – The Conference of Directors of Education (CODE) has affirmed its support for the licensing of Teachers by the National Teaching Council to improve on the professional competency of teachers.

Accra, Aug. 21, GNA - The Okasa Heyeli Association and Image Care, both Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), have awarded scholarship to 10 pupils at Pabieman, near Kofi Kwei in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region for exemplary performance.The children were awarded after a Bible quiz, which saw the best three rece

Accra, Aug. 21, GNA - Mrs Elizabeth Sackey, the Deputy Greater Accra Regional Minister, has called on chiefs in the Region to take advantage of Government’s policy on the One District One Factory to create job opportunities for the people.She said the pockets of conflicts in some Ga communities did not augur well for development an