Following the upcoming U23 AFCON Tournament to be hosted in Egypt, former Asante Kotoko coach CK Akonnor has replaced Ibrahim Tanko on the technical team of the Black Stars, footballmadeinghana.com understands. FootballMadeInGhana.com understands that the former Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak coach was in a meeting with the technical team on Wednesday as he accepts to work with Kwasi ...

Last week, a Ugandan minister attempted to reintroduce a revoked 2014 law allowing capital punishment for people convicted of gay sex. Meanwhile, police arrested 16 activists on suspicion of homosexuality, which is illegal in Uganda and punishable with up to life in prison. The government’s renewed anti-gay focus has led a long-castigated and already fearful community to lie low, with ...

Angry members of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) on Thursday stormed shops owned by Nigerians in Kumasi, the Ashanti Region capital, and locked them up. GUTA members have for some time now waged a war on foreigners doing retail business in the country. They cite Ghanaian laws to justify their action, insisting that they have been left with ...

The Herald has chanced upon reports, suggesting the Bank of Ghana (BoG) could be blowing some outrageous amounts of money on the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited (“PwC”) and KPMG, as receivers for the purpose of winding down the affairs of the collapsed commercial banks, Savings and Loans and Finance Houses. Insiders have hinted about the procurement irregularities in the selection ...

The management of the Kumasi Shoe Factory is considering closing the factory over the refusal of the security agencies, particularly the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), to patronise its boots and shoes. Nothing had changed since November 2017 when the management of the factory came out to lament the effects of the refusal of the state security agencies to patronise their ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Savanna Region has called on the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, to apologise and retract certain comments he made which they deem demeaning to persons from the northern part of Ghana. The party said Dr Afriyie Akoto sought to suggest in an interview aired on Accra-based Joy TV on Wednesday, 30 ...

Samuel Eto’o is up there with George Weah as an African great on the football field, but he says he has no plans to follow the Liberian into politics “for the moment”. “Everyone wants me to go into politics, but there won’t be 10 million Weahs,” Eto’o said in an exclusive interview with AFP. Weah, the only African player to win ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, has asked Ghanaians to cherish their culture and not allow the West to impose their liberal values on the country. He alleged that the West were facing many challenges today due to some liberal policies they espoused over the years, for which reason Ghanaians, and for that matter Africa, must consciously re-examine ...

The much-anticipated single from one of Ghana’s performing artistes, Martin King Arthur aka Kofi Kinaata, has been released and currently making waves in the music scene. The single titled “Thing Fall Apart”, produced by Two Bars, is a mid-tempo danceable highlife song. Kofi Kinaata said he was happy that his latest single which was released a few days ago had ...

The sitting judge at the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court where four persons are before the court for the kidnap of some Canadian nationals, Justice George Buadi, has said he will no longer hear the case. In court Thursday when the case was called, the judge said his days at Court are numbered and therefore he is not ...