Ghana has petitioned Fifa for a replay of Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Uganda after South African referee Daniel Bennett disallowed a “perfect goal”, the football association has announced. The matchday five fixture at the Mandela National Stadium in Kampala ended in a 0-0 draw, all but ending the Black Stars’ hopes of reaching a fourth successive World Cup….
A legal expert, Dr Raymond Atuguba, has pulled stitches out of the government’s proposed Office of Independent/Special Prosecutor, describing it as an illegality that will not pass the test in the Supreme Court if Parliament goes ahead to pass the Bill into law. In a fiery delivery of his opposition to the Bill, the law lecturer said the office…
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has revealed that over 23, 000 youth will soon be recruited to plant trees. According to the Lands and Natural Resources ministry, the move is part of the Government’s plan to plant six-thousand hectares of trees every year. Latest statistics indicate that Ghana loses 65 thousand hectares of its trees and timber…
Most basic school children at Tapa C.K Kope and fifteen other communities in the Biakoye District of Volta Region determined to access education have to swim to school everyday. This is because the only bridge they use to cross the river has broken down for several months. The residents in an exclusive interview with Adomonline.com’s Gershon Mortey said strenuous…
The president of Breast Care International Dr. Beatrice Wiafe -Addai has urged men to handle the breast of women with care as it is a very fragile part of a woman’s anatomy. Speaking on the sidelines of the breast cancer awareness month which is celebrated in October every year, Dr. Wiafe-Addai told Starr Fm morning show host Francis Abban…
Miss Ruth Ama Gyan-Darkwa, a 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kwadwo Gyan-Darkwa of Space Workers College, has been admitted as the youngest ever at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. The girl, a native of Anyimon, Berekum in the Brong-Ahafo Region, and who lives at Prempeh College, Kumasi, where her father is a…
Ghanaians are upset with the New York Times for describing President Akufo- Addo as “round-faced overweight” in an article titled: “Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC” In its quest to highlight the effects of the sprouting fast food joints on the health of Ghanaians, the highly respected newspaper brazenly abandoned the ethics of journalism…
The Twenty-Six (26) assemblies in the Northern Region are to contribute Ghc130,000, which comes to GHc 5,000 each, towards President Akufo-Addo’s 3-day official visit to the region beginning October 6, 2017. Nana Addo will also be in the Upper East and West Regions during the 7-day trip. A circular sighted by citifmonline.com stated that, “in a bid to put…
Japan has shown commitment to collaborate with Ghana to promote the food value chain in the country with emphasis on increasing the production and processing high quality rice. At a seminar for stakeholders on Thursday, Mr Imoro Amoro, the President of the Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB) said the rice value chain in the country faced a number of…
Ghana coach, James Kwasi Appiah has made a donation to the Africa Widows and Widowers Foundation at Nima, Accra. The items, estimated around GH¢10,000.00 which included bags of rice, cooking oil and detergent was part of Appiah’s social responsibility to the less privileged in society. Donating the items, the Black Stars coach said that “This is something that has been…
