Medeama Sporting Club have expressed their joy at getting their first win in the First Capital Plus Premier League in recent weeks. Since their elimination from the CAF Confederations Cup, they Yellow and Mauves have failed to win their last two outstanding league matches against Aduana Stars and AshantiGold but they managed to beat Liberty ...

Most parts of Accra and its environs are currently in darkness, following an explosion at the Achimota substation of the Electricity Company of Ghana. The explosion which occurred around 7:30pm on Wednesday left major parts of the capital in darkness. The outage reached as far as Tema and parts of the Akuapim range. Confirming the ...

A group calling itself Platform for Elite Teachers has opposed the decision by the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT)  to embark on a strike;describing it as ”frivolous”. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Wednesday, the leader of the group, Mr. Propser Puo-Ire said “we do not say that the decision by NAGRAT to embark on ...

The much anticipated bout between Braimah Kamako a.k.a Bukom Banku and Ayittey Powers took an interesting twist on Wednesday as Banku failed to meet the weight class for the cruiserweight bout. Kamoko weighed eighteen pounds above the stipulated 200-pound limit for the bout while Powers weighed exactly 200 pounds. However, the President of the Ghana ...

His rise in the Ghanaian music industry has not been a surprise to keen observers, Okyeame Kwame showed signs of his creativity in the early days as a member of the duo Akyeame. In one of his songs, he rapped about being the favourite rapper’s favourite rapper. Few can begrudge Kwame Nsiah-Apau for making that ...

The 2014 BET Awards will be held on June 29thand the nominees have been revealed. Ghana’s Sarkodie has been nominated for Best International Act Africa, an award he shared with Nigeria’s Wizkid in 2012. He is competing with Davido (Nigeria), Diamond Platinumz (Tanzania), Mafikizolo (South Africa), Tiwa Savage (Nigeria) and Toofan (Togo). Sarkodie recently won ...

Ghanaian forward Abdul Majeed Warris has confirmed his exit from French club Valenciennes at the end of the current season. The player has been with the club since January after joining on loan from Russian side Spartak Moscow and has managed a club-high tally of 9 goals in 16 appearances for the club. Warris confirmed ...

Ghanaian musician Ekow Alabi Savage has officially tied the knot with Sharon Marley, Bob Marley’s daughter. The marriage ceremony came off at a private family location in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. The Marley Family was represented by Dr. Erica Bennett, Ambassador for the Diasporan African Forum (DAF), who stood in for  Rita ...

Babies cry. That is just a simple fact of nature. But one nurse didn’t like it when a 6-day-old baby in her care was crying, so she taped his mouth shut! The parents had thought their baby was “supposedly in ‘good hands’ of a professional establishment,” according the father’s Facebook page, but they were not ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved Republic Bank’s new share price offer of 1 cedi 60 pesewa to HFC Bank shareholders. This follows the Commission’s earlier disapproval of Republic Bank’s publication of the offer price in the press without the comission’s consent. Republic Bank on April 29th of this year published an increase in its ...

Some students of the University of Ghana are planning on demonstrating against the school’s authorities over anomalies a new grading system has created which could potentially prevent thousands of final year students from graduating. Under the new system, a student can only be graded A after getting 80% in an exam while the old system ...

The Black Stars will face a tough challenge in the form of Cristiano Ronaldo at the World Cup as he has been named in the European country’s 30-man provisional squad for the competition. The reigning World Player Of The Year captained his country through the European play-offs against Sweden in November 2013 to book their ...

Inflation for the month of April has hit a high rate of 14.7 percent. This figure was up from a rate of 14.5 percent recorded in March. This means the average prices of goods and services in Ghana have gone up 14.7 percent in the past one year. This is the highest since February 2010. ...

A Sudanese court gave a 27-year-old woman until Thursday to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith and return to Islam or face a death sentence, judicial sources said on Monday. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim was charged with apostasy as well as adultery for marrying a Christian man, something prohibited for Muslim women to do and which ...

Victor Valdes has said farewell to Barcelona in an emotional letter on the club’s official website, thanking former coaches Louis van Gaal, Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola and Tito Vilanova for their support over the years. The shot stopper will leave the Camp Nou side at the end of the season, but will not get the ...

Marriage sex counselling can be a bit of a taboo subject. Put it this way: it’s not exactly something you want to bring up while having your in-laws over for dinner or while interviewing for a new job. But, while it may be a bit taboo, it’s also a subject that becomes necessary when certain ...

Yahoo has acquired Blink, a mobile application that allows users to share messages that self-destruct, in order to poach the talent behind it. The app will reportedly be shut down in the coming weeks so that Blink’s seven-person team can work on Yahoo’s “smart communication” products. This includes former Google employees Kevin Stephens and Michelle ...

SAP, the global market leader in enterprise application software, has announced its first Managed Cloud as a Service (MCaaS) partnership in Ghana with Nosmay Company Limited. MCaaS is SAP’s latest partnering business model that gives solution providers complete control of customer relationships for cloud delivery of SAP software. This model sees SAP’s partners directly licensing ...

 The National Communications Authority (NCA) has defended the ban on Expresso not to run any sales and marketing promotions until it has fixed issues of poor quality of service. NCA slapped the ban on Expresso after it failed the quality of service tests in the Volta, Eastern and three Northern regions. Expresso has till the ...