Kylian Mbappe will bounce back from missing the decisive penalty in France’s shootout loss to Switzerland on Monday that saw the world champions exit Euro 2020 at the last-16 stage, coach Didier Deschamps said. The French threw away a two-goal lead to draw 3-3 in normal time, and after a goalless extra time, they crashed out when Mbappe’s penalty was ...

‘Say Cheese’ crooner, Kidi, has fired shots at gospel musicians describing them as the “most hypocrites.” According to him, just for the mere fact that they are gospel musicians doesn’t make them the most righteous than the other category of musicians like him. Kidi was responding to gospel fans who have been trolling him for losing out on 2021 Vodafone ...

The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, said beginning next week government would disburse GH¢55million grant to players in the tourism industry to support their businesses. According to the minister, the sector lost about 75 per cent of its resources and about eight million Ghana cedis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, last year, and the grant ...

LEADERSHIP OF the Ghana Co-operative Credit Unions Association (CUA) wants President Akufo-Addo to intervene and help recoup their lock-up funds as a result of the banking sector cleanup. CUA says its members have well over GH¢180 million locked up in 31 financial institutions whose activities and operations were affected by the recent financial sector cleanup exercise by the Bank of ...

THE NATIONAL Insurance Commission (NIC) has carried out a nationwide series of training of trainers (ToT) workshops for personnel of the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service. The workshop is part of a campaign to clamp down on vehicles with fake and invalid insurance policy stickers plying roads with the aim of reducing the high ...

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Adukwei Mensa, says attitude is everything and determines how far a person goes in life. “Most people who have made it in life will testify that, it is not only the degrees but the right attitude, perseverance, determination, humility, courage and resilience that took them to the top,” she said. Mrs Mensa said ...

Chief Justice (CJ), Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, has given Justice Kwasi Boakye, Presiding Judge of Cape Coast High Court II, the go-ahead to continue with the embattled Assin North Member of Parliament’s (MP) dual citizenship case. The CJ’s response followed a petition by the Assin North MP, Joseph Gyaakye Quayson, requesting that the Chief Justice compelled Justice Boakye, who is ...

An estimated 335 million businesses across Africa may not be able to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement AfCFTA, Secretary-General Wamkele Mene has indicated. Speaking at a public lecture organised by the University of Dar Es Salaam on Monday, 28 June 2021 under the theme: ‘The AfCFTA and the new age of ...

Former President of Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, was yesterday re-arraigned before an Accra High Court over alleged shady deals which were exposed by popular investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in his ‘Number 12’ investigative piece. Mr. Nyatakyi together with a former member of the Executive Committee of the GFA, Abdulai Alhassan, appeared in court, charged with three counts ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, 29 June 2021, opened the Toyota Tsusho Vehicle Assembly Plant, which is assembling some models of Toyota and Suzuki vehicles in the country. Describing the occasion as a very happy one for him, the Ghanaian people, and for the government’s industrial transformation agenda, President Akufo-Addo stated that Toyota Tsusho’s presence in Ghana has ...