BLACK STARS coach Kwasi Appiah left the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel on Wednesday night more humbled after receiving a special award from Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL).   The honour was in recognition of coach Appiah’s meritorious feat of qualifying the Black Stars for the World Cup as the first black man.   And for […]

HEARTS OF Oak coach Mohammed Polo has stated that he does not need the services of winger Bernard Don-Bortey. The 31-year-old who rose to fame with the Phobians is harbouring hopes of returning to the team, but the new coach maintains his aim is to build a young, but winsome team. “We don’t need Don […]

ROSEMOND AKOSUA Nyampong, the 32-year-old Stanbic Bank Staff who was murdered at her residence at Baatsonaa on the Spintex Road will be laid to rest today. She will be laid in state at the Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) Dominion Centre on the Spintex road which will be followed with a burial service at the […]

CITI FM’S Decemba 2 rememba has always been the biggest Christmas party, but this year’s performers, a line-up that cuts across hip-hop, dancehall, hiplife, afro pop and contemporary highlife, makes the annual Christmas concert a must watch. The award-winning artiste, producer and Airtel ambassador, EL, joins the likes of M.anifest, Guru and Tic Tac to […]

RITA QuAySon, a new revelation in the Gospel music industry, outdoored her maiden album at the Prayer Mission Chapel at Madina estates last Sunday. The lunch was preceded by song ministration by Vessels of Christ Choir and the Vessels of God respectively. Some of the songs on the album include ‘wo ma wonsa so a’, […]

A NIGERIAN cleaner is currently being held by the police for allegedly swallowing 78 pellets of cocaine. The accused person, Igwe Godfrey Frank, allegedly swallowed the substance in Sao Paolo, Brazil with the intention of delivering them to an unidentified person in Ghana for a fee of 1million Naira. The accused person confessed while on […]

ROSEMOND NYAMPONG’S death attracted an expected countrywide empathy. All who read the sad story about her could not help but ask why a lady of her stature, minding her own business, would have life snuffed out of her so crudely. As for those who murdered the lady, their state of mind at the time they […]

K! – KOO, ever since Nelson Mandela died, I have been crying like a baby. You know how babies cry – the crying just occurs when they feel uncomfortable, right? Me too, whenever I hear the ANC national anthem, Nkosi Sikel’Africa, my chest begins to heave and before I know it, I am sobbing. Real […]

Barefooted Kwasi Addai Odike at the Manhyia court, Kumasi, with thesheep (inserted) THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the United Front Party (UFP), Akwasi Addai, popularly called Odike, was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of 24 sheep by the traditional court of the Asantehemaa, for invoking a curse in Asanteman, which has been outlawed. Appearing […]

THE NEWPatriotic Party (NPP) goes to the polls today to elect constituency officers across the length and breadth of the country. With the exception of the Eastern region and some constituencies like the Krowor Constituency in the Greater Accra region where elections have been put on hold, all constituencies are expected to elect officers to […]

THE FIVE suspects arrested in Sekondi in the Western Region, in connection with the importation of 400 kilogrammes of suspected cocaine worth $50 million from British Guyana, using a semi-submarine vessel called Atiyah Ex Alisam, were yesterday convicted by an Accra Circuit Court. This was after Justice C.K. Honyenugah, a Court of Appeal Judge, sitting […]

ORGANIZED LABOUR is demanding the immediate suspension of the sale of Merchant Bank to Fortiz Equity Fund, the group which claims it has paid GH¢90million for 90 percent shares in the bank. The trade unionists stated “it is prudent for the board of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and the Bank of […]

CONSISTENT WARNINGS by the Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho for ministers of state to come and move motions on their budget estimates and defend them have fallen on deaf ears, prompting him to issue a stern warning yesterday that such attitude would not be tolerated any longer. Angry Doe Adjaho said he had complained […]