Asante Kotoko Head Coach, Kjetil Zachariassen, has admitted that his team lacked the requisite know-how to handle their second leg of the CAF Champions League qualifier against Etoile du Sahel on Sunday. Kotoko held a 2-0 lead from the first leg and they needed to avoid losing heavily to stay in the competition.
A multipurpose sports complex, to be known as the Emirate Arena constructed by Afro Arab Group of Companies was inaugurated on Saturday at Nima, a suburb of Accra, as part of efforts to promote sports in the area. The 600-seater capacity stadium, according to the Chief Executive Officer of Afro Arab, Alhaji Abdul Salam
TRIPLE jumper Fabrice Zango has won Burkina Faso the country’s first ever medal at the World Athletics Championships. The African champion won bronze setting an African record of 17.66m in Doha, Qatar. American Christian Taylor won gold, with his compatriot Will Claye
BRITAIN’S Dina Asher-Smith smashed her own national record to take a superb silver medal behind Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the women’s 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Doha. The 23-year-old clocked 10.83 seconds, but could not match Fraser-Pryce, who stormed to her eighth world title
TOTTENHAM Hotspur will face Bayern Munich for the first time in the Champions League tonight as the German giants make the trip to the English capital. Indeed, these two teams have not locked horns since the third round of the UEFA Cup in 1983. Bayern currently lead Group B with three points – two points … The
The government will from Friday, October 4 this year roll out series of interventions aimed at promoting a climate smart cocoa regime in Ghana, the Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has announced. The sector minister disclosed this during an interaction with the media in the Upper East Region
The Paramount Chief of the Tongo Traditional area, Tongraan Kugbilsong Nanlebegtang, has appealed to the government to adopt accelerated approach to work on the poor road networks in the Upper East Region particularly the township roads. The paramount chief who is a Member of the Council of State made the call at the
Francis Xavier Sosu, the parliamentary candidate-elect for Madina Constituency in the Greater Accra Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has observed that persons who are elected into parliament must be competent and have professional minds. He explained that “because
Professor Ransford Gyampo, a lecture at the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana, has observed that politics ought to be characterized not by mere tolerance, but also by accommodation between different parties. According to him, “mere
The Busia Institute for Rural and Democratic Development(BIRRD), has reminded Ghanaians on the need to promote national cohesion and progress, a conception that Dr Busia couched as ‘be your brother’s keeper.’ “As a respected academic who valued the tenets of democracy and the rule of law, his leadership
The Deputy Commissioner of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Richard Quayson, has urged traditional authorities to create an ethical environment that will help minimise opportunities and incentives for corruption. “Our traditional authorities should also serve as role models for honesty, integrity and accountability, while leading the crusade against corruption, indiscipline and lawlessness in our … The post Create
Elisha Debrah Odoom, the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) defeated aspiring candidate for the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam in the Central Region, has stated that he had no intentions of giving out cars to constituents for free. He had transported the saloon
THE Shai Osudoku District Assembly on behalf of government yesterday presented assorted items to the Osudoku Traditional Council towards the celebration of this year’s Adegbon festival which comes off on Saturday September, 28. The items included a bull,
HEAP (Help Eradicate All Pollution) Foundation, an initiative that seeks to inspire the youth to separate waste to improve waste management in the Tema metropolis, has been launched under the theme: “Catch Them Young.” Speaking at the ceremony,
Six hundred thousand oil palm seedlings have been developed at Akwatiakwa in the Akuapem North District in the Eastern Region to be distributed to farmers for the 2019 planting season. The production of the seedlings, which is undertaken by Richie Plantations Limited,
A special general assembly meeting for the approval of the 2020 composite budget proposals, fee fixing resolution and the annual composite action plan of the Shama District in the Western Region has been held at Shama in the Western Region. Dominating the discussion was
China’s extraordinary rise was a defining story of the 20th Century, but as it prepares to mark its 70th anniversary, the BBC’s John Sudworth in Beijing asks who has really won under the Communist Party’s rule. Sitting at his desk in the Chinese city of Tianjin, Zhao Jingjia’s knife is tracing the contours of a … The post ?The deep cuts behind
The lawyers for a whistleblower whose complaint triggered a US presidential impeachment inquiry say Donald Trump’s words are endangering their client. Since the transcript of his call with the president of Ukraine was revealed,
The bodyguard of Saudi King Salman has been killed by one of his friends after a “personal dispute”, authorities say. Gen Abdel Aziz al-Fagham was visiting a friend when he had a row with Mamdouh bin Meshaal Al Ali on Saturday night. A police statement said Ali left the house in Jeddah to
Nigerian police have freed 19 pregnant women from properties in Lagos, which they describe as “baby factories”. Most of the women had been abducted “for the purpose of getting them pregnant and selling the babies”, a police statement said. Two women who operated as untrained nurses have been arrested but the main suspect is on … The post Pregnant women
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