Former Ghana Premier League champions, Asante Kotoko have named for Black Stars skipper Charles Kwablan Akonnor on a three-year deal. The former Dreams FC gaffer is expected to lead the technical bench till 2021. His signing was done at the Sports Hotel in Kumasi on Monday with Kotoko represented by Chief Executive Officer, George Amoako, with the backing of management ...

It appears the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu decided to go public with his plights after internal structures he used to have his problems resolved failed. citinewsroom.com has sighted a letter dated September 10, 2018, written by Martin Amidu and addressed to the Chief of Staff, copied to the Attorney General, Finance Minister and the Chairpersons of the Special Prosecutor’s Governing ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Friday officially proclaimed 2019 as the Year of Return for all Diasporan descendants of Africans who were captured and transported into the Americas as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. Titled, ‘Year of Return, Ghana 2019’, the proclamation was read at a ceremony at the United States National Press Club in Washington DC ...

African nations would support Gianni Infantino for re-election as FIFA president, the head of the continental football federation Ahmad Ahmad said on Sunday, AFP reports. “I feel it is my duty… to announce this support from Africa,” Ahmad said at a special meeting of the Confederation of African Football Executive Committee, which Infantino attended, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Infantino, a ...

Former communications minister Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Agricultural Economist Goosie Tanoh, former National Health Insurance boss Sylvester Mensah and 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin, and former Deputy Minister of Finance Kweku Ricketts-Hagan are among individuals who have began moves to work in concert to ensure that former president John Mahama is not elected flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has announced that government has pledged a minimum of one percent of Gross Domestic product (GDP) towards the promotion of research and development expenditure of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in the country. He said in many advanced countries, conservative estimates have it that the direct and ...

Ghana’s Second Lady and Global Ambassador for the Global Alliance for Cleancookstoves, Mrs Samira Bawumia, has been honoured as the African Woman of Excellence for her contribution to the cause of humanity. This follows the passionate drive she is undertaking through the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP). The Samira Empowerment & Humanitarian Projects (SEHP) is a not-for-profit organisation established ...

A huge durbar was held by chiefs and people of Gbambaya in Tamale to mark the commissioning of a furnished CHPs facility fully funded by their Member of Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu. A legion of residents of other beneficiary communities also left their homes overjoyed and raced to the ceremony ground near the Business Senior High School to witness the handing ...

“We as a nation are facing a national crisis, with lots of difficulties and hardships and in these times we must proclaim a fast,” Archbishop Duncan Williams said on Sunday. The General Overseer of the Action Chapel International Ministry proclaimed the 72-hour fasting and prayer for the country because, according to him, that is what some leaders have done in ...

An 18-member joint delegation of officers from the Liberia National Police and Swedish Police Authority are in Ghana for a four-day visit to acquaint themselves with measures the Ghana Police Service has put in place to fight crime. The delegation comprises four senior officers and 14 other ranks, led by the Sheriff of the Liberia National Police, Assistant Commissioner of ...