NEWS

The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) is expected to announce its verdict on the landmark case between Wilfred Osei Kwaku ‘Palmer’ and the Ghana Football Association (GFA) today after postponing its ruling on two previous occasions. The verdict by the Swiss court was previously scheduled to be announced in July and later postponed to August but CAS again adjourn ...

Kenyan investigative reporter and TV anchor Victoria Rubadiri has won the 2020 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Rubadiri is a presenter with Citizen TV in Kenya, where she hosts the channel’s prime-time shows. She’s a multifaceted journalist in East Africa and has interviewed some of the leading names in politics and current affairs. The award was created to honour ...

A number of Saudi officials, including two members of the royal family, have been sacked. A royal decree said Saudi King Salman had relieved Prince Fahad bin Turki of his role as commander of joint forces in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. His son, Abdulaziz bin Fahad, was also removed as a deputy governor. The men, along with four other ...

Award-winning freelance investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni has taken on officials of the Akufo-Addo government for their seeming intolerance of criticism from civil society organizations (CSOs) and independent voices, reminding them that those same voices fought with them when they were in opposition and had no power. Some civil society organizations (CSOs), especially Imani Africa, have come under intense criticism ...

A former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Minerals Commission, Dr Tony Aubynn has urged government to pull the brakes on the Agyapa royalties deal and listen to concerns being raised by the Civil Society Organisations. Speaking on the Morning Starr Tuesday, Dr Aubynn said the entire deal is worrying and the government has a mandate to be transparent to ...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is currently recruiting prospective trainers to participate in a Pre-Certification Training Programme of Trainers for Censuses. The pre-certification programme is being offered for both National Trainers (trainers of Regional trainers) and Regional Trainers (trainers of Field Officers). The training programme will combine virtual with in-person modules and will run from 5th October 2020 to 5th ...

A 20-year-old man has been shot dead by unknown assailants at Adompe a suburb of Akyem Kade in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region. The deceased identified as Kofi Amoah was gunned down in a wooden structure at the outskirt of the community on Monday August 31, 2020 about 3:00pm. The body of the deceased has been retrieved and ...

The Nigerian Community in the Eastern Region has called the bluff of a threat by the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) to lock down retail shops of Nigerians in the Region. GUTA has served notice a taskforce will storm Eastern region on September 1st to 3rd ,2020 to close down shops of foreigners engaging in retail trade. This follows ...

Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a mastermind of the PDS/Agyapa scandals, has suggested that former President John Dramani Mahama is hypocritical over the trending Agyapa scandal because the Atta-Mills administration, under which Mahama was Vice President, set up the Ghana Gold Company. According to him, the Ghana Gold Company was set up under the Finance Ministry in 2010-11 to hold and monetize Ghana’s gold ...

Ghana’s agribusiness industry is set to benefit from its participation in Macfrut virtual trade fair. Macfrut, the organizer of the world’s largest fruit and vegetable fair, has launched the Macfrut Digital fair scheduled to take place in Cesena, Italy between 8th to 10th September. The fair, which is the first and only digital trade fair for the fresh produce industry ...