Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic scored a dramatic late winner as Serbia booked their place at next year’s World Cup and condemned Portugal to the play-offs. Hosts Portugal only needed a draw to qualify and looked to have done enough, with Renato Sanches’ opener cancelled out by Dusan Tadic’s equaliser. Mitrovic had started the game on the bench but was sent ...

The Bank of Ghana has revealed that an assessment of the banking sector as at end-August 2021 indicated that the sector’s performance remained strong, underpinned by sustained growth in total assets, deposits, and investments. The expansion in the industry’s assets was on the back of increased liquidity flows from deposits and borrowings during the review period. Banks’ average lending rates ...

“Just as we were the first country, south of the Sahara, to gain our independence, Ghana’s distinguished diplomat, Patrick Seddoh, was the first African to be elected chairperson of the Executive Board of UNESCO in 1983. We were also the first African country to have a female representative on the Executive Board, in the person of another distinguished diplomat, Mrs. ...

Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso Constituency in the Ashanti Region Dr Stephen Amoah has apologized for the scuffle that ensued between him and South Dayi colleague Rockson Dafeamekpor. He explained that although the scene was widely reported on various social media platforms and traditional media, it was exaggerated and only captured one side of the whole incident. In a video ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has applauded the Black Stars for topping Group G to qualify for the World Cup play-offs following a 1-0 victory over South Africa on Sunday, 14 November 2021. Dr Bawumia descried the victor as hard-fought. Captain of the team Andre Ayew who won his 100th Cap on the day, scored the only goal of the match ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Friday approved a grant of $40 million from the African Development Fund to Ghana to further capitalise The Development Bank Ghana (DBG), a newly established development finance institution in Ghana. The Development Bank Ghana is designed to provide financing to micro, small and medium sized enterprises as well as ...

The South African Football Association (SAFA) has made clear its intention to file an official complaint with world football governing body FIFA as well as continental counterpart CAF for a replay of the 1-0 defeat to Ghana in Cape Coast on Sunday, November 14. According to the Chief Executive Officer of SAFA, Tebogo Motlanthe, there were many infractions in the ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has urged Muslims across the country to continue to embrace tolerance and cooperation with members of other religious divide, to maintain the peace the country is enjoying. Dr Bawumia said this over the weekend when he joined the National Chief Imam and the Muslim Ummah in Accra for the 2021 National Maulid, which is the ...

The Ghanaian delegation at the 2021 Africa Oil Week in Dubai, UAE has met with Maersk Drilling, a drilling company with presence in Ghana’s upstream petroleum industry. At the meeting, leader of the delegation and Deputy Minister for Energy, Andrew Egyapa Mercer tasked the company to among other things increase their contribution to Ghana’s local content and local participation drive ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ketu South, Dzifa Abla Gomashie, has expressed disappointment in what she says is the continuing silence of President Akufo-Addo on communities affected by tidal waves at Aflao and Keta in the Volta Region. Speaking to Starr FM, the MP said the area feels abandoned describing the President’s silence as unfortunate. “This is a disaster; ...