The Republic of Ireland ended their first World Cup with a 0-0 draw with Nigeria, who progressed to the last-16 and could face England. The result, coupled with Australia’s win over Canada, meant the Super Falcons, the lowest-ranked side in Group B, qualified in second place at the expense of the Olympic champions. The Irish were already knocked out after ...

Former Black Stars defender Samuel Inkoom has narrated how one of the sacrifices he made for Ghana almost crashed his promising football career. The seasoned fullback was a key figure for various Ghanaian national teams including the Back Stars and the Black Satellites where he won the U-20 World Cup in 2009, a feat yet to be matched by any ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has told Parliament that the government will not be requiring a supplementary budget in the mid-year budget. He said this while presenting the kid year budget review in parliament on Monday, July 31. “We will not require a supplementary budget,” he said. In the area of stemming inflation, he told Parliament that to be able to ...

Ghana’s total petroleum receipts (i.e. proceeds from liftings and other petroleum receipts) as of December 2022, amounted to US$1.43 billion, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has told parliament in his mid-year budget review on Monday, 31 July 2023. This amount comprises receipts from: the 63rd to the 68th liftings from the Jubilee field; the 20th and 21st liftings from the Tweneboa ...

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said that the government has avoided the unimaginable. He told Parliament during the presentation of the 2023 mid-year budget review on Monday, July 31 that with a lot of effort, the government managed to avoid empty shop shelves for medicines and other essentials; we have seen no shortages of food; “we have been spared ...

Former Black Stars head coach, Charles Kwablan Akonnor, has denied receiving an amount of $100,000 from the Ministry of Youth and Sports following the termination of his contract in 2021. During a press brief last Wednesday, the Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif, despite admitting the country still owes C.K Akonnor and Milovan Rajevac, claimed both were paid $100,000 each following the ...

Government has settled all arrears owed to caterers under the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said. The GSFP coverage also increased considerably from 1,671,777 beneficiaries in 2016 to 3,801,491 beneficiaries by June 2023 while school feeding grants cost per meal, per child has also been increased from GHS1.00 to GHS1.20 for the 2023 academic year. ...

The Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta has said that overall first-quarter growth for 2023 was 4.2 percent, up from 3 percent recorded for the same period in 2022. This growth, he said, largely reflected an increase in the Services Sector which recorded a growth of 10.1 percent. Presenting the 2023 mid-year budget review in Parliament on Monday, July 31, he ...

Monaco have agreed a £17million deal with Southampton to sign defender Mohammed Salisu. Southampton, who are braced for new offers from Liverpool and West Ham for Romeo Lavia and James Ward-Prowse respectively, saw Salisu’s proposed £15million move to Fulham collapse last week. However, Monaco have rekindled the interest they showed earlier in the month to sign the 24-year-old, pending a ...

CEO of Media Excel Productions, Kwesi Ernest has said that he finds the way KiDi, Lasmid and other artistes use their voices very beautiful. In an interview on Onua Showtime with Nana Ama McBrown, the artiste manager disclosed that for him, the way some musicians used their voices was really beautiful. “When you listen to the melodies they project, it’s ...