Leicester City have sacked manager Craig Shakespeare just four months after he signed a three-year deal to take the job on a permanent basis. The Foxes are third from bottom in the Premier League and have not won any of their past six league matches. Shakespeare, 53, succeeded title winner Claudio Ranieri in February, initially on a temporary basis. After ...

Member of Parliament for Assin Central has alleged the fired CID boss was fueling languard activities in the Greater Accra Region. According to Kennedy Agyapong, the news of his removal from office does not come to him as a shock because he is certain of his alleged connection with land guards. “Bright Oduro has not been fired, but has been ...

A presidential hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah, has charged the national executives of the party to ensure that they devise mechanisms to safeguard the integrity of the party’s register. His comments come on the back of a unanimous decision taken by the National Executive Council (NEC) to scrap the biometric register and return to ...

Hertha Berlin’s Ivorian forward Salomon Kalou compared racism to terrorism as he explained why his Bundesliga side “took the knee” on Saturday. Before the game against Schalke, Hertha staff copied the protests started by NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick against treatment of black Americans. “It’s like terrorism – either you’re against it or for it,” said Kalou, 32. “If you don’t ...

Visiting Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara was honoured with Ghana’s highest civilian honour Tuesday. His Ghanaian counterpart bestowed on him “The Companion of the Star of Ghana, Honorary Division” for his “untiring efforts” in ensuring social justice, peace and security both in Africa and across the world. This came seven months after Mr Ouattara also gave the Highest National Award, ...

In an attempt to tackle obesity on its campus, a university in Jiangsu, China, is offering overweight students the chance to enroll in a special weight-loss program, where they will receive their grades based on how much weight they shed and on how well they do in class. Zhou Quanfu, a lecturer at the Nanjing Agriculture University, came up with ...

Ghana and Ivory Coast have signed a memorandum of understanding on the implementation of the ruling of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). This was done after a joint commission for the implementation of the ruling was signed by both parties. The MOU was read by Ghana’s foreign affairs minister. Speaking at the signing ceremony Tuesday, ...

Three Ghanaians have been arrested by Ghanaian and UK authorities for their involvement in £5-million romance fraud. At least 16 Britons fell victim to the three suspects who are Opoku Agyemang, Moro Musah and Sabina Adzre. Deputy Director of Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO), Nana Antwi told journalists on Tuesday, 17 October at a press conference that Operation ...

The owner and bankroller of Elmina Sharks, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has taken a strong swipe at the Ghana Football Association after his side lost 2-1 at Aduana Stars last Sunday in the penultimate game of the 2017 Ghana Premier League. According to the business mogul, his side lost the clash because of poor officiating. The win helped Aduana Stars to win ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand, Kennedy Agyapong has threatened to stage a one man naked demonstration if the current government fails to expedite action on the deplorable state of roads in his constituency. He said bad roads in the area is affecting economic activities and therefore will not hesitate to strip himself naked and register his displeasure if the Minister ...