Asante Kotoko striker Saddick Adams has expressed his displeasure after missing out on the 2016/17 season MTN FA Cup most valuable player award. Despite guiding Kotoko to win the competition, Adams lost the individual accolade to rival Winful Cobbinah and was left very unhappy with the outcome. He argued that he had a better season compared to Hearts of Oak talisman. The ...

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has stated emphatically that free Senior High School (SHS) beneficiaries are not paying school fees. He has therefore dared anybody who has evidence that headmasters are charging school fees from beneficiaries of the free SHS programme to produce it. According to him, some fiendish people, who are not happy with the good works ...

A Former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has described the death of Winnie Madikizela Mandela as a great loss to Africa. A statement signed by Mrs Rawlings, who is also the President of Developing Women for Mobilisation (DWM) said by Winnie Mandela’s death, Africa had lost a great and courageous beacon and queen. “We learnt with deep sadness the ...

JOSE MOURINHO must win the FA Cup with Manchester United this season, according to former star Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Portuguese coach hasn’t enjoyed the best of seasons at the Red Devils. Despite sitting second in the Premier League, United have conceded defeat to neighbours Manchester City in the title race. And Mourinho’s men were also knocked out of the Champions ...

Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has denied ever saying in an interview that President Nana Akufo-Addo cannot build all the 216 factories that the New Patriotic Party promised in the lead-up to the 2016 general elections. Mr Abdul-Hamid was quoted as saying on Wednesday, 4 April in an interview with Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen political talk show that: “…President Akufo-Addo was ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asunafo North, Eric Opoku, has warned that it will be very difficult for anybody to stop him when he starts to retaliate to all the attacks committed against him by main political opponent, George Boakye, and his thugs. He said he has intentionally kept quiet and placed surveillance on the Police with the hope ...

Struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela wanted to be buried next to her parents in Mbhongweni Village in Bizana in the Eastern Cape – that is according to Gxaba Madikizela, a close relative of hers. “We thought she would be buried here next to her parents (father Columbus Kokani Madikizela and mother MaRhadebe Mzaidume),” he said. However, the 63-year-old ex-mineworker said the ...

PEP GUARDIOLA urged his Manchester City to “believe” they can turn around their Champions League fortunes despite being battered on and off the pitch at Anfield last night. On a night marred by shameful scenes before the game when the City team coach was bombarded with bottles and missiles, leaving it unfit for the return journey home, Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool ...

Sierra Leone’s opposition candidate, Julius Maada Bio, has rushed to take his presidential oath in a hotel after winning the run-off election. Mr Maada Bio is a former military ruler who briefly ruled the country in 1996. He narrowly beat ruling party candidate Samura Kamara, who has alleged irregularities and says he will challenge the outcome in court. Mr Maada ...

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be imprisoned while he appeals his corruption conviction, the country’s Supreme Court has ruled. He is facing 12 years in jail on charges of accepting a bribe but had asked to remain free during his appeal. Lula claims the charges are politically motivated, and designed to prevent him from running for ...