Blackburn Rovers will talk to six out-of-contract players once the Championship season is concluded, having first agreed short-term deals.
Ex-England midfielder Stewart Downing was among the six whose contracts were due to expire on 30 …
Gold’s scarcity and durability positions it as the perfect monetary asset hence the race by central banks and institutions to stock up their piles. The race to increase gold reserves has seen ten top global economies take the lead by amass…
Coronavirus - Africa: Treat climate crisis with same urgency as COVID-19 pandemic; new Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) paper
Paper addresses climate emergency and lessons from COVID-19
A post coronavirus recovery in Africa shoul…
The benchmark index remained downbeat at the session, declining by 16.82 points (-0.88%) to close at 1,903.03 with a year-to-date return of -15.69% due to GCB Bank (-4.23%) and Standard Chartered (-5.88%) while the market capitalization de…
Huddersfield Town full-back Danny Simpson is to leave the club when his contract expires at the end of June.
The 33-year-old, who won the Premier League with Leicester in 2016, joined Town on a short-term deal in September and has made …
Juventus have agreed a 80m euro (£72.5m) fee with Barcelona to sign 22-year-old Brazilian Arthur - but must still convince the midfielder to join them. (Sky Sports)
The Serie A side are also interested in Chelsea midfielder Jorginho, bu…
Three individuals from two Championship clubs tested positive for coronavirus during the past week, the English Football League has confirmed.
It is not yet known which clubs, players or staff are affected.
In the Championship, 2,858…
Burnley boss Sean Dyche says a 'White Lives Matter Burnley' banner flown over Etihad Stadium was "a moment nobody wanted" but believes people are becoming "more educated in life".
The banner appeared during Manchester City's 5-0 win ove…
"At least I've got eight games without being booed by anybody, it'll be very strange for me that."
Neil Warnock's latest managerial quest - the 16th different club he has taken over - has come in strange times.
With fans barred from …
The hosts for the 2023 Women’s World Cup will be decided by Fifa’s Council during an online meeting on Thursday, with Colombia and a joint submission from Australia and New Zealand the only two bids left in the process.
After Brazil and…
United States winger Megan Rapinoe is one of three internationals to have withdrawn from the NWSL Challenge Cup amid coronavirus fears.
Forward Christen Press and midfielder Tobin Heath will not play because of "uncertainty" caused by t…
Manchester United Women forward Jess Sigsworth has signed a new deal to keep her with the Women's Super League side next season.
The 25-year-old joined the club from Doncaster Rovers Belles during United's formation in 2018.
She has …
World’s largest public agricultural research network launches COVID-19 Hub to support global scientific response
As the UN warns of an impending global food emergency, researchers in health, nutrition and agriculture have united to supp…
Former Hearts manager Daniel Stendel says the club were "on the right track" before the Premiership season ended.
The German has been replaced by Robbie Neilson, his departure the result of a clause in his contract which said he or the …
The Scottish Professional Football League has issued a resolution to clubs asking them to cede Covid-19-related decisions to its board for next season.
The resolution only relates to disruption caused by coronavirus and is limited to se…
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, has directed the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to make contact with some stranded Ghanaian footballers in Ethiopia and the Ghana Embassy to facilitate their return, GFA president…
Scottish teams suffer from a lack of training, says former Celtic assistant manager John Collins.
Collins, 52, has managed Hibernian and Charleroi and been director of football at Livingston.
The midfielder was one of the few Scots o…
The Western Regional Sports Authority has held a one-day training programme for its security personnel to equip them to handle security and safety issues at the various stadia in the country.
In his welcome address at the ceremony on Th…
Tottenham striker Harry Kane is aiming to become only the third player to reach 200 Premier League goals after scoring in Tuesday's 2-0 victory over West Ham.
The England captain netted his 137th league goal for Spurs in his 200th appea…
Second row Leone Nakarawa has extended his stay at Glasgow Warriors until the summer of 2021.
The Fiji international, 32, returned to Scotsoun for a second spell in January on a short-term deal.
The club say the extension was agreed …
The deputy director general of the national sports authority in charge of technical, saka acquaye has passed on after a long battle with a peculiar ailment.
A former national swimming champion and handball player, Mr Acquaye played a l…
Ivan Rakitic scored the only goal as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao to move back to the top of La Liga.
The substitute latched onto Lionel Messi's pass before slotting home with 19 minutes to go.
It was a 15th La Liga assist of the s…
Saracens have signed centre Harry Sloan from Championship club Ealing.
The 26-year-old will join the three-time European champions in England's second division next season after the club was consigned to relegation after breaching salar…
Former Wales captain Gareth Thomas fears the nation could lose a "generation of great rugby players" because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Thomas says young players are motivated by watching their heroes on TV and could lose interest wit…
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) "simply cannot give up on" women's rugby during the coronavirus pandemic, says chief executive Bill Sweeney.
Premier 15s, England's top women's league, is currently without a title sponsor and the 2019-20 …
Leicester Tigers have signed Australia international lock Blake Enever from Super Rugby side Brumbies.
The 28-year-old made his two appearances for his country in 2017.
Geordan Murphy, soon to become Tigers' director of rugby, said: …
Graeme McDowell has pulled out of this week's Travelers Championship in the USA because his caddie Ken Comboy tested positive for coronavirus.
Northern Irishman McDowell, 40, said he was withdrawing for the protection of others players …
Dozens of activists and students gathered peacefully in Bangkok early this morning to commemorate the 88th anniversary of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, which ended nearly 800 years of absolute monarchy, defying a ban on public gatherings am…
Laura Muir says she was coach Andy Young's "guinea pig" in developing a training programme that has allowed compatriot Jemma Reekie to flourish.
Five-time European champion Muir has worked with Young for nine years, while 22-year-old fe…
There are "big questions" as to whether Scottish Athletics is prioritising the welfare of young athletes, says former pole vaulter Anna Gordon.
In 2013, she made allegations of sexual abuse against a coach; he was found not guilty after…
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologised to Nigeria for the demolition of a building at its High Commission in the capital, Accra, the Nigerian presidency said
The Ghanaian leader told President Muhammadu Buhari in a telephone c…
The suit of Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) challenging the National Communication Authority's (NCA) introduction of conditional access to Free to Air-Television policy has been thrown out by the Supreme Court.
The sev…
EU ambassadors meet on Wednesday to plan reopening external borders on 1 July, and travellers from the US could be among those not allowed in.
A number of European countries are keen to open up to tourists but others are wary of the con…
Arsenal defender David Luiz has agreed a new one-year contract with the club.
Defenders Pablo Mari and Cedric Soares will also join the Gunners permanently at the end of their loan deals, from Flamengo and Southampton respectively.
M…
The sale of bushmeat - or wild animal meat - at markets continues in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, despite calls for a ban by the UN biodiversity office.
At Olowu market in Epe, one of the most popular bushmeat markets in the city,…
The National Identification Authority (NIA), Tuesday, extended the Ghana Card Issuance exercise to Saturday, June 27, in some selected districts.
The NIA was scheduled to end the card insurance blitz today, Tuesday, June 23, but extende…
The State on Tuesday filed new charges against the Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah also known as NAM 1 at the Accra Circuit Court.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sylvester Asare told the Court that the …
After 27 years of using a dilapidated wooden place of convenience which led to the spread of diseases, the inmates of the Ahinsan Camp Prison in the Adansi District in the Ashanti Region are excited that they now have a GH¢40,000 10-seater…
The Adentan constituency of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has congratulated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a successful and peaceful parliamentary primaries, which saw the election of more youth.
A statement signed by Mr Abdul …
Major League Baseball is set to return in July after the league and players' association agreed to a shortened 60-game season.
Officials say training will begin on 1 July, with players tested for coronavirus on arrival, and games are sc…
World Refugee Day was celebrated on Saturday 20th June, 2020. Joseph Munyambanza, a young man in a Ugandan refugee camp, tells his story of how he has worked to find real solutions to complex challenges.
When I was six years old my fam…
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has stated that the party will respect the verdict of the Supreme Court on the issue of the voters registration exercise.
He said the party was awaiting …
Health authorities in Brazil have registered the second-highest daily death toll since the pandemic began.
The health ministry said on Tuesday that 1,374 deaths had been registered in the previous 24 hours.
The highest daily number o…
Liberia’s education minister is undergoing treatment for Covid-19 as his ministry prepares to reopen schools next week.
Ansu Sonii and his deputy Latim Da-thong are both in hospital.
The deputy minister was flown to Ghana after his c…
French luxury label Christian Dior said on Monday it would press ahead with a calendar of fashion shows for this year starting in July with an Italian catwalk display - but without the celebrated front-row audience of A-listers.
The cor…
The Accra Technical University (ATU) has confirmed a case of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The patient, a National Service Personnel with the academic department, is said to have tested positive for the disease on Sunday, June 21,…
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), an independent statutory body, has urged Parliament to ensure that the Ministry of Finance accounts for the $1.
5 billion unutilized Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA).
In its…
All transactional data from 2002 to May 31, 2020, has been handed over to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), the Ghana Community Network (GcNet) has clarified.
The GcNet in reaction to reports accusing the organization of failing to pro…
The Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said the government is engaging the Ghana Police Service to fine-tune the enforcement of a new law which aims to curb the spread of COVID-19 by making the wearing of nose mask mandat…
Gold prices surged to their highest in nearly eight years on Wednesday, while global shares cooled as signs of an acceleration in coronavirus cases kept investors on edge.
Fuelling concerns about sustained weakness in the pace of the ec…
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