Senegalese football captain, Sadio Mane, has won the first Socrates Award at this year’s Ballon d’Or. The Ballon d’Or organisers added a humanitarian prize to this year’s ceremony named for Socrates, the Brazil midfielder, who also held a medical degree. “The Socrates Prize will identify the best social initiative by committed champions,” a statement from the France Football magazine said ...

Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil football star Neymar and eight others went on trial in Barcelona yesterday charged with fraud and corruption over the player’s transfer to Barcelona from Santos in 2013. Neymar, who arrived in the city early Monday, spent about two hours at the Barcelona courthouse before he was excused by the judge from the rest of the day’s ...

Barcelona player, Robert Lewandowski, on Monday won the Gerd Müller award at the Ballon d’Or in Paris. The Gerd Müller Trophy goes to the top scorer of the season combining goals both for club and country. Meanwhile, Real Madrid’s goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, won the Best Goalkeeper award called the Yachine Trophy. Credit: Twitter| francefootball Lands For Sale Share on: WhatsApp

Fancy Gadam has aborted a mission to collaborate with Diamond Platnumz after the Tanzanian pop star charged him a sum of GH¢50,000. Speaking in an interview on Radio Justice 98.5 FM on Saturday, he said he could not pay such an amount for collaboration; hence they could not proceed to work. Lands For Sale “After I released my song ‘KOM’ ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has rejected calls to relieve Finance Minister, Ken Ofori, from his position, asserting that he cannot turn his back on the man who helped his government to achieve an average growth rate of 7% a year in the past. According to him, Mr. Ofori-Atta has performed excellently and that he should be blamed solely for the government’s ...

Mrs Tracy Owusu-Addo, the wife of Ghanaian musician Sarkodie, shared her love journey with the musician. Among other things, which caught her attention, Tracy Sarkcess reveals that her husband’s steadfast faith in his vision confirmed that he was the right person. Lands For Sale As the Founder of Brave Connect, a social enterprise designed to solve menstrual health hygiene problems in Ghana, ...

Real Madrid and France forward Karim Benzema has won the Ballon d’Or – awarded to the best footballer of the year – for the first time. Benzema scored 44 goals in 46 games as he helped Real win the Champions League and La Liga in 2021-22. Lionel Messi (seven) and Cristiano Ronaldo (five) had won the award on 12 of ...

Ghanaian dancehall act Shatta Wale is campaigning for ex-President John Dramani Mahama to win the upcoming general election in 2024. Shatta Wale insists that the NDC government is the best administration to propel the development of the creative arts industry. For Shatta Wale, there were many growth opportunities for him as an artiste under the Mahama-led government. He mentioned instances where government ...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has axed most of Liz Truss’s mini-budget, as the prime minister tries to remain in power. Mr Hunt announced he was scrapping “almost all” of the tax cuts announced by the government last month, in a bid to stabilise the financial markets. A minister had to deny Ms Truss was hiding “under a desk” after the prime ...

A justice nominee of the Supreme Court, Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu, has said that even a slightest loss of public confidence in Ghana’s judiciary is not good for the institution and the administration of justice. Although she questioned data that have been released indicating corruption in the judiciary, she indicated that loss of confidence in the judiciary is not a good ...