Egypt will compete at the 2018 African Nations Championship in Morocco, despite being eliminated in the qualifying competition two months ago. The Egyptians lost 4-2 on aggregate to Morocco, who are now automatic competitors in the 16-team event having replaced Kenya as hosts. This opened the door for Egypt to be reinstated into the biennial tournament restricted to home-based footballers. ...

Tema Youth head coach Edward Nii Odoom has laid a shivering allegation that all Ghana Premier League clubs swim in the pool of bribery, fingering his own side as victims of the act. The passionate coach hinted that the Ghana Premier League (GPL) is not won on merit since all clubs are involved in bribing referees to win games. Speaking ...

A Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho has confirmed he will run for the General Secretary position of the opposition party. According to him, some key members of the party including the current General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia are calling on him to contest for the position since he [Asiedu Nketia] has disclosed he will ...

Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has described Harry Kane as a “complete player” but said Champions League opponents Tottenham are about more than the England striker. Kane, 24, is set to face Madrid in the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday having scored five goals in two games so far in Group H, and his prolific form over recent seasons has prompted ...

WomanRising, a flagship network of The African Network of Entrepreneurs, has presented an award to Estelle Akofio-Sowah, Country Manager of Google Ghana as a recognition for being listed among 2016’s Top 50 Corporate Women Leaders in Ghana. The ranking which was instituted in 2016 by WomanRising, was aimed at highlighting the achievements of women business leaders in the country and ...

President Akufo-Addo has reiterated his resolve to ensure the full implementation of the judgment delivered by the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). The tribunal ruled last month that Ghana did not violate the sovereign right of Cote D’Ivoire by drilling oil around the maritime area shared by both countries. “Ghana did not violate the provisional measures ...

Lagos – The leader of a pro-Biafran separatist group in Nigeria has apparently gone missing, prompting speculation as to his whereabouts on the eve of his trial on treason charges. Nnamdi Kanu, who heads the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, has not been seen in public since troops were deployed to the southeastern city of Umuahia last month. Kanu, ...

The Ghana International Bank says it never suggested that the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, was involved in money laundering. A statement from the UK-based bank explains, the ongoing court case between the bank and a former staff, Mark Arthur, has mainly to do with whether Mr. Arthur breached the Bank’s internal policies and procedures as well as UK laws ...

LIVERPOOL boss Jurgen Klopp jokingly suggested he was a “charismatic, funny, loser” when being compared with the likes of Jose Mourinho. Liverpool take on Maribor in the Champions League tomorrow night and the German was talking to the media when a Slovenian journalist prompted him to give a hilarious assessment of himself. The journalist suggested Jurgen Klopp is admired for his charisma ...

London – YouTube has lifted restrictions from videos showing Swaziland’s reed dance, which feature bare-breasted women. A spokesperson for the video-sharing platform told the BBC that YouTube allows nudity when “culturally relevant or properly contextualised”. The move was in response to a campaign led by Lazi Dlamini, the head of TV Yabantu, an online video production company, featuring Africa’s “finest ...