Alexia Putellas became just the third female player to win the Women’s Ballon d’Or following a treble-winning campaign for Barcelona. Having already been crowned UEFA Women’s Player of the Year, Putellas was favourite to land the award handed out by France Football. The Barcelona captain, 27, steered her side to the Spanish league and cup in 2020-21 and then completed ...

Anglogold Ashanti Ghana, Obuasi Mine has donated items worth GH¢122,120 to eight districts in the Ashanti Region in support of this year’s National Farmer’s Day celebrations. The beneficiary districts include the Obuasi Municipal, Obuasi East, Adansi Asokwa, Adansi North, Adansi South, Adansi Akrofuom,  Amansie West and Bekwai Municipal. In a short ceremony to present the items to Agric Directors of the ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has accused the France Football editor of lying after he said the Portuguese’s only ambition was to retire with more Ballon d’Ors than Lionel Messi. Ballon d’Or organiser Pascal Ferre made the claim to the New York Times. Paris St-Germain’s Messi won his seventh Ballon d’Or on Monday, with five-time winner Ronaldo voted sixth. “I always win for ...

General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has defended the introduction of the E-levy in the 2022 budget statement. He said this is the proposal is the most sustainable way for boosting public finances because the government cannot afford to borrow more at this time to fund projects. Addressing a press conference in Koforidua on Monday November ...

The Office of the Speaker of Parliament has assured citizens of Speaker Alban Bagbin’s “commitment to protect the public purse at all times.” The assurance comes on the heels of a statement from parliament announcing the travel schedule of the Speaker dated November 26, 2021, addressed to the head of the Ghana Mission in UAE. The statement suggested that the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said reforming Ghana’s current legal education regime is necessary to accommodate current realities. He, however, added that the new system will have to be girded by a strong element of sustainability. According to President Akufo-Addo, “Sustainable legal education will have, as its base, the establishment of a regime that will consider the pressing needs ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Monday visited the Diabetes Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to distribute to the patients Glucometers on the occasion of his 63rd birthday. Accompanied by his wife, Lordina, and children, President Mahama presented to the Centre, 150 Glucometers with strips to be given out to diabetes patients. Mr. Mahama told the patients in ...

Ghanaian singer, King Promise was one of the stars to perform at the Made In Lagos live concert – which spans Wizkid’s 10-year discography. The multi-talented Ghanaian vocalist performed a set of his hit songs “Oh Yeah,” “Tokyo,” “Slow Down,” “Ring My Line,” and more at the O2 Arena in London, UK, to the delight of the audience. Illustrating how ...

Irate youth of Asamang Tamfoe in Atiwa East District in Eastern Region have attacked and set ablaze a container on an alleged community mining site. The arson attack is in protest against community mining which the youth have likened to illegal mining. All items including cement and other mining and construction tools and materials in the two forty-feet containers were ...

The former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu says the arrogance and impunity of power by President Akufo-Addo and his government must be blamed for Friday’s budget rejection by Parliament. “The Parliamentary vote of rejection of the 2022 budget demonstrates what the arrogance of power and impunity can do to any Government that takes the electorate for granted as rabbles,” the former ...