Germany’s Angelique Kerber became the first women’s top seed to lose in the opening round of the French Open with defeat by Ekaterina Makarova. Kerber went down 6-2 6-2 in one hour and 22 minutes, leaving her number one status in the balance. Both Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova have the chance to take top spot for the first time ...

The Money Team (TMT), Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. has concluded arrangements for his hospitality tour of two West African countries, Nigeria and Ghana next month. The undefeated champion in the welterweight category in a statement made available through the official marketing company handling the tour, Zzini Media said that the Africa tour which is stipulated to kick off from June ...

Art world satire The Square, directed by Ruben Ostlund, has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The Swedish title was one of 19 films competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or, in the 70th year of the festival on the French Riviera. Prizes also went to British filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and director Sofia Coppola. But juror Jessica Chastain ...

A former Deputy Coordinator of the National Disaster management Organisation (NADMO) in charge of operations, Joseph Yamin has stated that the very day a portrait of president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was brought to his office was the day he quit. “I could not have sat down in that office for Nana Addo’s picture to be hanged over my head…Never ...

Reggae cum dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has express worry over the media incessant practice of twisting his words. According to the music personality, anytime he grants an interview, the media ends up twisting his words. The “Dancehall King” thus stated that henceforth he will not grant any interview unless he is ‘handsomely’ rewarded financially. “I will not grant any interview ...

Nigerian musical star Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly called Burna Boy, has been reported banned from performing at events in the United State. The report, according to sources, said that Burna Boy was banned from performing at any event, venue or any form of recording anywhere in USA & Canada by US Supreme Federal Court in New York unless he settles ...

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has revealed plans to set up a fund to address financing challenges of researchers in universities and other institutions. Sector Minister, Professor Kwabena Frimpong- Boateng, says a bill to that effect is currently being drafted for subsequent passage into law. “We have to create a vehicle that will allow this fund to be ...

Of course there are varieties of ways people/decision makerscan use to size upunfolding eventsin an attempt to understand and if necessary devise action plan(s) to address those critical emerging issues. From personal observation,one of the most effective means to connect, gauge, or figure out an unfiltered mood of the Ghanaian society isto ridein taxi quite often. Perhaps every Ghanaian knows ...

The devastation caused by fall armyworms has affected 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms as at Friday May 26, 2017. So far, nine regions have been affected with farmers losing hundreds of thousands of Cedis of investment. Most of the affected farmers have abandoned their farms as there is nothing left to be salvaged. The pests were detected, last year, and ...

The Minister for monitoring and evaluation Dr. Anthony Osei Akoto has for the de-politicisation of discussions on the seeming impasse between IT firms WestBlue Consulting and the Ghana Community Network Services Limited, GCNet. There is uneasy calm and a turf war between the two entities especially since the inception of WestBlue, who are technical partners of the Customs Division of ...