Nana Yaw Amponsah is set to step down as the CEO of Ghanaian football giant Kumasi Asante Kotoko with immediate effect after he was slapped with a five-year ban by the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA). The decision by the Disciplinary Committee means that the former football agent will not be able to hold his position as ...

The National Peace Council has condemned the killing of an activist Ibrahim Kaaka by some unknown persons at Ejura in the Ashanti region. The Council has in a statement also bemoaned the subsequent killing of two other residents of the Ashanti regional town by security officers who were deployed to the town to de-escalate tensions. The officers were deployed after ...

Government will later today announce a three-member committee to probe the Killings at Ejura in the Ashanti region. It comes after President Akufo-Addo noted in a statement that there will be a public inquiry into the killings. Activist Ibrahim Kaaka was allegedly murdered over his views deemed to be making government unpopular in the area. Two other residents were also ...

The Inspector-General of Police James Oppong-Boanuh has said police officers have the right to use lethal force if they feel their lives are under threat. The IGP told the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Wednesday that situations on the grounds determine the response of the security agencies at any point in time. “Honourable Chair, you and I know that ...

Former President John Mahama has said a “video circulating of my visit to injured persons in a hospital is an old one and has no link to current developments in Ejura”. Prior to the circulation of the video, the former flag bearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) had said: “I urgently call on President Nana Akufo-Addo to ...

Shaip Africa Foundation led by its founder, Mr. Clement Clinton Blay in collaboration with the National Service Personnel in Ellembelle district has organized blood donation exercise to the St. Martins De Poress Hospital to support the hospital’s blood bank. The Shaip Africa Foundation, a non-governmental Organization saw the need to enrich the blood bank of the St. Martins De Poress ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the Minister for Interior, Ambrose Dery to conduct a public inquiry into the circumstances that led to the unfortunate incidents at Ejura in the Ashanti region. A statement signed by the Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin on Wednesday, June 30, 2021, also revealed that the President has given the Interior ...

Government has condemned the incidents of violence that claimed the lives of three persons and led to 3 persons sustaining various degrees of injury after a youth protest in Ejura in the Ashanti Region of Ghana yesterday. The youth protest was after Ibrahim Mohammed, a resident of Ejura was attacked by unknown persons last Friday and subsequently died on Monday. ...

Asante Kotoko SC have reported Algerian club USM Alger to FIFA over unpaid transfer fee of striker Kwame Opoku. Opoku joined the Algiers based side in April 2021 from the Ghanaian club in a deal reported to be around US$300,000 in a four-and-a-half year contract. The Algerian side are yet to pay the amount to Kotoko since completing the signing ...

Patrick Vieira is in advanced talks to become Crystal Palace’s new manager, with a deal said to be ’75 per cent done’ for the Arsenal legend to replace Roy Hodgson. Palace’s move for a new boss this summer has been protracted, after they walked away from a pursuit of Nuno Espirito Santo and were rejected by Lucien Favre earlier this ...