"I could play for Holland but I want to make my dad proud," says Ajax's teenage goalkeeper Charlie Setford.
"He is English and has been there all the time for me. One thing I always wanted to achieve was to play for England."
An …
Whatever the outcome of Manchester United's Champions League last-16 second leg against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday, you can be sure Diego Simeone will not be far away from the headlines.
The Atletico boss has been in charge of the Spa…
Christian Eriksen has been named in Denmark's squad for the first time since his cardiac arrest while playing at Euro 2020 last summer.
The playmaker, 30, was fitted with an implanted cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) - a type of pacem…
For the second day running, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv awoke to residential buildings on fire. It feels like this could become the new normal. There is a clear sense that the conflict is coming ever closer to city.
A 15-story block in t…
Ghana’s Olympic bronze medallist, Samuel Takyi, has described his relationship with trainer Ike ‘Bazooka’ Quartey as the best for his young career ahead of his pro debut on April 15.
Takyi, who is scheduled to face Kamalrudeen Boyefio o…
Former Black Stars defender, John Paintsil, has given his full backing to any decision that would include Sulley Ali Muntari in the national team for the World Cup playoff against Nigeria later this month.
The 37-year-old winger’s name …
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC), wants the Finance Ministry to break its silence on the rising cost of fuel prices.
With fuel prices expected to hit at least GH¢10 per litre, COPEC’s Executive Director, Duca…
Former Black Stars and Asante Kotoko defender, Stephen Frimpong-Manso has identified the striking department of the national team as the main headache Coach Otto Addo would have to confront in this month's FIFA World Cup qualifying playoff…
A former national table tennis star, Emmanuel Kofi Asare, has bemoaned the low standard of the sport in recent times as compared to the situation in the country three decades ago.
He lamented that despite the availability of talents, th…
It has emerged that ex-Black Stars winger, Sulley Muntari, is paid just GH¢1 each month for playing for Accra Hearts of Oak, making him the lowest earning player in the league.
Muntari's return to domestic football last month was, perha…
Suleimanu Korley, a former trainer of Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Samuel Takyi, says he is shocked by the treatment he has received at the hands of Takyi since he became an Olympic bronze medalist.
Korley, formerly of the Discipline …
SULLEY Muntari has been praised for playing an important role in Accra Hearts of Oak victory in this year's President's Cup match, as his timely intervention in convincing the Hearts management to abandon a decision to offload teammate Pat…
Some personnel of the Youth in Afforestation program say the Green Ghana project will fail if the government does not pay their three-month arrears owed them.
Last month the group protested over their al…
Arsenal midfielder, Granit Xhaka, has extolled the qualities of teammate Thomas Partey and his contribution in helping people even off the pitch.
According to the 29-year-old Swiss, the Ghana deputy captain was so key to the team that h…
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor says the government will pursue the findings and recommendations of the Prof. Amankwah led 5-member Committee to review the Health and Safety regime for the mining industry.
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Ghana’s Second Lady, Samira Bawumia says the achievements of the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration are dotted across the country.
Samira Bawumia says through the Ministry of Special Development Initiative, every constit…
WHEN I saw the crowd at the Bukom Boxing Arena last Sunday, I realised what boxing has been missing locally all these years.
For the second time since the Bukom Boxing Arena was inaugurated, the venue was full to capacity during George …
Charger Limited, manufacturers of fast-growing Happy Man Beverages Plus 1 Energy Drink, has signed Black Stars and former Asante Kotoko right-back Samuel Nkoom its brand ambassador.
The former FC Basel defender was unveiled in the compa…
Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which takes place in Kigali, Rwanda during the week of 20th June.
"As the world works to recover fro…
In the first such report, children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) showed improvement in behaviour, learning skills and sleep, after oral consumption of AFO-202 strain of black yeast Aureobasidium Pullulans produced Beta 1,3 -1,6 gluca…
The maiden edition of the West Africa Peace and Innovation (WAPSI) Forum which held on the 9th and 10th of March 2022 has raised hope of inclusivity, good governance and an enduring stakeholders’ engagement on peace and security in the reg…
The innovative Audiobook Worlds Awards Academy (A.W.A.A.®), in partnership with the Lions Club International Monaco, will celebrate in the Principality of Monaco the very first edition of its Awards Night’s ceremony by the end of summer…
Over the last weeks, we have been deeply affected by the war in Ukraine and its impact on many innocent people including our own employees and partners. We condemn any form of violence and hope that peace can quickly be re-established. Our…
Africa No Filter and Meta (Facebook.com) are excited to announce today the six finalists of the ‘Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds’ programme - focused on harnessing and investing in the next generation of Extended Reality (X…
The jailing of a prominent lawyer on March 2, 2022, for arguing with police officers is an alarming new step in the confiscation of civil liberties since President Kais Saied seized extraordinary powers on July 25, 2021, Human Rights Watch…
NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber (EnergyChamber.org). Ayuk is also the CEO of the Centurion International AG, the first African company to be listed on the Dusseldorf stock exchange in Germany.
Russia’s invasi…
The President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Angel Carbornu has strongly condemned the government’s decision to deduct 10 percent of the salaries of teachers and staff of senior high schools occ…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Russian soldiers to surrender.
In his nightly TV address, he said Russian forces had suffered worse losses during their invasion of his country than in the Chechnya confli…
The Ghana Geological Survey Authority (GGSA) has warned that people around the Weija Ridge and Reservoir are living on a time bomb which is ticking away every day as the human activities on the mountains pose a great risk to their lives an…
Senegal has launched an offensive against separatist rebels in the southern region of Casamance.
The military is bombarding the bases of Salif Sadio, who leads an MFDC faction.
Local media say civilians are fleeing the area. Four Sen…
South Africa's aviation regulator has indefinitely grounded a fleet owned by Comair, a British Airways franchise, following a series of safety incidents.
It comes a day after the airline was suspended after it failed to convince the Sou…
A Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Irene-Charity Larbi, has entreated parties in litigation to embrace Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to help decongest the courts.
“The regular court system, being a right-based process, tho…
The leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Yendi constituency in the Northern Region says it will not be able to organise the Electoral Area Coordinators election following its inability to organise its polling station electio…
Ghana's Black Princess of Ghana took a huge step towards the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup after securing a 3-0 win against Ethiopia in the first leg of the final qualifying round at the Abebe Bikila Stadium.
Coach Ben Fokuo's team w…
Barack Obama has tested positive for COVID-19, the former U.S. president announced in a tweet on Sunday afternoon.
According to the 60-year-old, who is vaccinated and boosted, he is "feeling fine" aside from what he described as a "scra…
Will Smith has taken the leading actor honor at the 2022 BAFTA Awards.
Smith, 53, won the top male acting award for his role as Serena and Venus Williams' father, Richard Williams Jr., in King Richard.
The star beat out Adeel Akhtar …
Last week, I talked about the future of this newsletter and what’s coming next. The short of which is that in the coming weeks I will be winding down my time authoring the Week in Review newsletter as I start sending out a brand new newsle…
The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has partnered with two major regulators in the country (the Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the National Communications Authority (NCA) to help it monitor the amount spent on online services.
The authority has …
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has predicted that diesel may sell at over GH¢10 per litre while petrol will cross GH¢9 from March 16, 2022.
COPEC attributed its prediction on the rising cost of crude on the internation…
Four people lost their lives in an accident involving a Mercedes Benz bus and a Renault cargo truck at the Peki-Avetile portion of the Eastern Corridor Road soon after midnight Monday (March 14, 2022).
According to the police, the carg…
Legal practitioner, Mr Yaw D. Oppong has been appointed as the Director of Legal Education at the General Legal Council (GLC).
The Director of Legal Education is also the Director of the Ghana School of Law (GSL).
Mr Oppong who is cu…
One person is feared dead and four others have been arrested after sporadic shootings in Bawku in the Upper East Region on Monday.
According to information gathered, the deceased was said to be riding a horse in town but was accosted by…
Electrifying a car like the two-door Mini Cooper seems like a brilliant, forehead-slapping, “why didn’t we think of this before” kind of concept, and Mini certainly agrees.
The brand has been toying with the concept since 2009, with t…
Amid the pressing need to meet the demand for financing green projects in Africa, the Green Exchange – the first of its kind on the continent – is set to be launched in Ghana by mid-July 2022, specifically …
Justin Bieber is "very worried" for wife Hailey Bieber following her recent health scare.
The model, 25, was hospitalized in Palm Springs, California, for a medical emergency last Thursday, PEOPLE previously confirmed. Hailey was admitt…
When Sam Finelli tried out for American Idol Season 20, in the final minutes of Sunday’s episode, he confessed that this had been his dream since childhood — but he’d never sang anywhere other than his bedroom, basement, and shower, aside …
Boomplay, the largest music streaming service in Africa, has been announced as a partner to Ghana and West Africa’s most exciting music awards scheme, 3Music Awards for its 2022 edition.
Central to the p…
Agtech startup SupPlant‘s flagship product is, essentially, a Babel fish for plants: leveraging a set of hardware sensors, the plants can tell you whether they’ve been drinking enough water, or whether they could do with an additional…
French startup Fleet wants to become your IT department’s best friend by managing hardware as a service. Fleet clients can rent computers and smartphones for a flat monthly fee. If there’s a hardware issue, the startup handles returns and …
For weeks now, several economists and stakeholders have predicted that prices of fuel and food will continue to rise following tensions between Ukraine and Russia and the cedi’s depreciation against the dollar.
The prices of some key co…
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