MANCHESTER City’s Premier League title challenge was rocked by a stunning 2-1 defeat at Newcastle, while Manchester United’s late escape preserved Ole Gunner Solskjaer’s unbeaten start in a dramatic 2-2 draw with Burnley on Tuesday. City needed a win at St James’ Park to close the gap on leaders Liverpool to one point ahead of the Reds’ clash with Leicester [...] The post Newcastle

CHELSEA head coach Maurizio Sarri says Callum Hudson-Odoi must remain loyal to the club who have nurtured him to become one of the best young players in European football. Chelsea have no intention of selling Hudson-Odoi now or in the summer, with Sarri telling the 18-year-old winger to commit to the club, “his home.” Sarri, though, refused to guarantee game [...] The post Sarri

Conor McGregor has broken his silence for the first time since being handed a ban by the UFC. The Notorious said he is “thankful” to the Nevada Athletic Commission after they banned him for six months and fined him $50,000 for his part in the brawl following his loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov. The decision comes after the Crumlin man was [...] The post McGregor breaks silence after ban

The Ga East Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Madam Janet T. Mensah has endorsed the Frindosoccer Board, an indoor soccer game for families, school children and soccer fans worldwide. The game was invented by Mr John Frimpong Manso. After a few demonstrations, the MCE pledged her support for the product which he recommended to football lovers. She urged the inventor of [...] The post Ga

THE Parish Youth Council (PYC) of the St Anthony Catholic Church, Nungua, displayed some champagne football to lift the giant trophy at stake in a special anniversary Cup tournament in La. Played to mark the 80th milestone of the St Maurice Catholic Church, the Nungua lads’ Ransford Mensah cracked home the only goal to dispatch their counterparts from St Peters [...] The post Nungua PYC wins anniversary

The US leadership continues to comment on itsdecisionto withdraw American troops from Syria.This decision affects not only the US position.In fact, the United Statesbetrayed its closest allies in Syria – the Kurds.What fate does await the Syrian Kurds?What concessions will they have to make to Damascus? The Arab newspaper Ash-Sharq al-Awsat reports that the Kurds had offered a settlement plan [...] The post THE

Forgiving others is essential for spiritual growth.  Your experience of someone who has hurt you, while painful, is now nothing more than a thought or feeling that you carry around. These thoughts of resentment, anger, and hatred represent slow, debilitating energies, according to Dr Wayne Dyer, that will disempower you if you continue to let these thoughts occupy space in [...] The post FORGIVE FOR A BETTER

The Minister of Inner Cities and Zongo Development, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has condemned the recurring discrimination against Muslim females who wear hijab to work. A hijab is a veil worn by some Muslim women usually covering the head and chest to conform to Islamic standards of modesty. According to the minister the ordering of the nurses, in particular, to remove [...] The post Zongo

President Donald Trump has called US intelligence agencies “naive” on Iran and also dismissed their assessment of the threat posed by North Korea. “Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!” Mr Trump tweeted. The testy response came after a US intelligence report said Iran was not making nuclear weapons. It also said that North Korea remained “unlikely [...] The post Go

The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier says the Irish backstop is “part and parcel” of the UK’s Brexit deal and will not be renegotiated. Speaking at the European Parliament, Mr Barnier said it was a “realistic solution” to preventing a hard border. British MPs voted earlier this month against the deal agreed by the UK and EU during 18 months [...] The post EU

A Turkish court has convicted an employee of a United States consulate for “aiding a terrorist organisation”, but released him because of the time served, Turkish state-run media reported. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency said the court in the southeastern province of Mardin sentenced Turkish national Hamza Ulucay to four years and six months in prison on Wednesday. Ulucay, who worked for the US [...] The post Turkey

The multiplicity of land ownership in the Greater Accra Region is making it difficult for the Land Commission to reduce the turnaround time in land title registration. The Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission, Alhaji Sulemana Mahama, said while registration period had been fairly reduced in some other regions to between 15 and 25 days or few months, same could [...] The post Modalities

A project dubbed, “50 Million Women Speak Project” (50MWSP) was yesterday launched in Accra with a call on women to venture into entrepreneurship and e- business. The project seeks to facilitate women’s empowerment through creation of virtual platform to foster networking, sharing and access to financial and non-financial information. It was organised by the Ministry of Gender Children and Social [...] The post Project

Former Ghana FA vice president, George Afriyie says he would not consider his former boss Kwesi Nyantakyi as a friend and labeled him as autocratic. The former Liberty Professionals director lamented how he had little out-of-the-office interactions with the former CAF 1st vice president. Afriyie revealed he did not visit Nyantakyi’s home for more than four times during the 13 [...] The post Afriyie:

Government is set to pump an amount of US$150,000 into Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s campaign in the CAF Confederation Cup competition. This was contained in a press statement issued by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Accra on Tuesday. It follows Kotoko’s qualification to the league stage of the competition which they started with a walkover before accounting for Kariobangi [...] The post Govt

A legend of Asante Kotoko, Samuel Opoku Nti, popularly known as Lord ‘Zico’, had paid tribute to the late Simms Kofi Mensah, former Chairman of the club who passed on last week after a short illness. “Simms Mensah would always be remembered for transforming the Porcupine Warriors into an all-conquering squad,” the Kotoko legend said. Opoku Nti, who scored Kotoko’s [...] The post Zico

Inter Milan ace Kwadwo Asamoah says he feels honoured when he plays for Ghana’s national team, the Black Stars amid concerns about his commitment. Largely due to injury problems, the utility man went on a self-imposed sabbatical in 2014, only returning last year. In November, he provoked another round of criticism when he withdrew from the Black Stars squad for [...] The post Playing

Invest in Africa (IIA), as part of its mechanism to recognise and celebrate businesses has honoured nine small and medium and enterprises (SMEs) at the second edition of its SME Excellence Awards in Accra. The SME Excellence Awards is a platform that showcases and celebrates the achievements of successful businesses and individuals of entrepreneurial excellence, who have experienced IIA’s three [...] The post Invest

The World Customs Organisation (WCO), has tasked its members to intensify their mode of combating terrorism and other security threats at borders to facilitate the rapid and safe movement of the people and goods. Mr Kunio Mikuriya, the Secretary General of the WCO, in a speech delivered on his behalf at the “International Customs Day” in Accra on Monday, said [...] The post Customs

The Maritime and Dockworkers’ Union (MDU) has called on the government to renegotiate the concession agreement with the Meridian Port Services (MPS) for the construction of the new container terminal at the Tema Port. It said the concession agreement did not inure to the benefit of the country and would lead to a reduction of Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority’s [...] The post Renegotiate