Black Queens put seven past Rwanda in WAFCON qualifier opener
Ghana’s Black Queens recorded a resounding 7-0 mauling of Rwanda in the first leg of the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier (WAFCON) at the Kigali Pele Stadium on Wednesday. The Black Queens side dominated the game from the onset with a spirited performance in both halves as they brushed aside the “She Amavubis” in the first leg. A second-minute...
UEFA Champions League: Harry Kane scores for Bayern as Man Utd beaten again
Manchester United were given a taste of what could have been as Harry Kane helped Bayern Munich to victory over Erik ten Hag's struggling side in a high-scoring and eventful Champions League opener. It was no secret that the Red Devils would have liked to have signed Kane from Tottenham in the summer, but instead England's captain and record goalscorer...
Arsenal thrash PSV on Champions League return
Arsenal returned to the Champions League in style as they started their first campaign in six years with an impressive win over PSV Eindhoven at Emirates Stadium. The Gunners wrapped up victory in their opening Group B game with a scintillating first half display that saw them race into a 3-0 lead on a rain-soaked night in north London. Bukayo Saka...
UEFA Champions League: Jude Bellingham strikes injury-time Real Madrid winner
Jude Bellingham scored an injury-time tap-in as Real Madrid left it late to beat Champions League debutants Union Berlin at the Santiago Bernabeu. Bellingham's strike was his sixth goal in six matches for Madrid since joining Los Blancos this summer. Federico Valverde's 94th-minute strike deflected into the path of the England midfield who tapped into an empty net. Union, in their first...
President Akufo-Addo calls for UN’s support in curbing insecurity in Africa
President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the United Nations (UN) and other international organizations to support Africa in combating the rising threats of terrorism and coup d’états taking over the continent. He made the appeal when he addressed the 78th UN General Assembly on Wednesday September 20, at the UN Headquarters in New...
Technology and innovation key for the development of mining sector-Deputy Lands Minister
The Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker has espoused the crucial role of technology and innovation as elements of utmost significance and importance in the process of creating positive, progressive and sustainable developments in Ghana’s mining industry. Delivering a speech at the commissioning of the Intertek Minerals Photonassay Laboratory in Tarkwa On Tuesday, 19th September, 2023,...
GUTA resents “unbearable harassment and intimidation” of traders by officials of GRA
The Ghana Union of Traders Associations, (GUTA) has expressed resentment at what they described as unbearable harassment of members of the association by the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). According to GUTA, officers of the Ghana Revenue Authority have been meting out unfair treatments to its members both at the port and outside the port. The Ashanti Region branch of GUTA...
Access Bank invests in creative arts industry
Access Bank Ghana has premiered its award-winning online TV series, ‘All Walks of Life’, a captivating film at the Silverbird cinema in Accra. This is in line with the bank’s strategic intent of changing the narrative about Africa through the promotion of Ghanaian creative talents across Africa and beyond. The premiere brought together distinguished personalities, including Nana Osafo Adjei, the Special...
Rwanda’s Kagame Sets Sights on Fourth Term in 2024
President Paul Kagame has announced that he will run for a fourth term in 2024's presidential election. Kagame has been in power for 23 years and can run for two more five-year terms under the current constitution, which was controversially amended in 2015 to allow him a fourth term. In April 2023, Kagame joked that he was looking forward to retiring...
Nigeria’s Atiku, Obi Challenge Tinubu’s Victory at Supreme Court
Barely two weeks after the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal upheld Bola Tinubu's victory in the February 25, 2023 polls, the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party Atiku Abubakar and Labour Party candidate Peter Obi have filed appeals with the Supreme Court to nullify the judgment. Atiku Abubakar and his party, have filed 35 grounds of appeal, arguing that the...
