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Tottenham striker Harry Kane has been ruled out until April after the club said he needed surgery on a hamstring injury. Kane, 26, suffered the injury during Tottenham’s defeat at Southampton on New Year’s Day. No timescale was originally given on the England captain’s return but Spurs now say specialists have advised surgery is required. Source: BBC

The strike action by Technical University Tutors Association of Ghana (TUTAG) and Technical University Senior Administrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) has started biting hard at Kumasi Technical University. Students resumed on Monday, January 6 after a brief Christmas break expecting to start their end-of-semester exams on Wednesday but that is not going to happen due to the industrial action by TUTAG and TUSAAG. A visit to the campus on Thursday shows some of the students learning on their own whilst others are idling about. The various lectures halls have been placed under lock and key. Students of the University are,…

Ghana’s quest at playing a pivotal role in the oil and gas industry has received another significant boost with the design and fabrication of two topside FPSO modules at the Takoradi Port by wholly Ghanaian owned Belmet 7. The two topside FPSO modules, which are a pigging skid and a hang-off platform, are the first to be designed and fabricated in-country, since the discovery of hydrocarbons in the country. They will help address the turret-bearing challenges of FPSO Kwame Nkrumah and thereby restore it to its full operating capacity. As part of efforts to rectify the turret-bearing failure, which affected…

The National Labour Commission (NLC) has sent an urgent notice to leadership of the Technical University Senior Administrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG) over the recently declared strike action. The notice orders the leadership of TUSAAG to appear before the Commission on Friday. TUSAAG declared strike on Wednesday, January 8 over unpaid allowances, claiming the December salaries received by members were below those paid their colleagues in other public universities. The Association had suspended an earlier strike action declared last year after a last-minute intervention by the Commission, which gave assurances of resolving their grievances. But TUSAAG said the matters are…

Along with losing weight, one of the most popular new year’s resolutions is “to do more exercise”. Although any form of exercise is better than none, “brisk” exercise seems to be particularly good for the heart and brain. So if you are one of the millions who made the resolution to be more active, perhaps up-tempo music can help you achieve that beneficial “briskness”? In an experiment for Trust Me I’m A Doctor, we looked at if it can work. Unlike a gentle stroll, a brisk walk is more likely to increase blood flow to your brain and also to…

National sprint star Benjamin Kwaku Azamati lived up to the billing after clinching Gold in the men’s 100m final in the ongoing GUSA Games. Azamati, representing the University of Ghana, clocked a time of 10.60s to beat University of Cape Coast’s Edwin Gadayi (10.64s) and University of Development Studies’ Fuseini Ibrahim (10.67s). Coincidentally, Azamati had raced the two in the heats earlier on Wednesday, January 8. He, however, did a better time of 10.56s to beat Gadayi (10.67s) and Ibrahim (10.71s). Azamati was a member of Ghana’s 4 X 100m team that won Gold at the All Africa Games last…

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will step back as “senior” royals and divide time between UK and North America. In a statement released by Buckingham Palace, the couple said they plan to “carve out a progressive new role within this institution”. They said they intend to “work to become financially independent”. Last October, Prince Harry and Meghan publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight. In their statement, also posted on their Instagram page, the couple said they made the decision “after many months of reflection and internal discussions” “We intend to step back as ‘senior’…

A Tamale magistrate court presided over by Amadu Issifu on Wednesday, January 8 remanded Dramani Zakaria and Abdul Rahaman into prison custody. The two were charged with murder, the Salaga District Police Commander, DSP David Kofi Kumah, revealed. Suspects Abdul Rahaman Yussif and Dramani Zakaria were picked up from different locations on Sunday evening and Monday morning respectively, DSP David Kofi-Kumah said. While Dramani Zakaria was arrested at Kpembe, Abdul Rahaman Yussif was picked from his hideout. Two persons died in a clash between natives of Kpalbusi and Mujipe in the North East Gonja District of the Savannah Region on…

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) says a compilation of a new register by the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) without the utilization of the National Identification System will be a wasteful venture. The second largest opposition party said its position on the new voters’ register had been contingent upon the beginning of the implementation of the Ghana Card by the National Identification Authority (NIA). “It is in this respect that we were gravely concerned and disappointed at the news that the Parliament of Ghana approved the budget for the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters’ register for the 2020 elections,”…

The University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has responded to recent comments made by former President Jerry John Rawlings on the occasion of the commemoration of the 31st December 1981 revolution. Mr Rawlings had called for the immediate interdiction of the Vice Chancellor, Reverend Professor Anthony Afful-Broni, whom he accused of trampling on the rights of some other senior members of the university. “From the records of EOCO and other state agencies, the affected individuals were exonerated as there was no evidence of misconduct established against them,” the former president told a gathering at Winneba in the Central Region. “Ironically, the…