Author: Krobea

Liverpool beat Southampton to secure an 11th successive top-flight victory and equal their best-ever Premier League winning run – despite a howler by goalkeeper Adrian. With the European champions leading 2-0, Liverpool’s number two keeper – starting in place of the injured Alisson – cleared the ball against the shin of substitute Danny Ings to gift the Saints striker a goal against his former club. Sadio Mane had given Liverpool the lead at the end of the first-half with a delicious arrowed finish from the edge of the penalty area after Saints had gone close on three occasions. Adrian, who…

Procrastination is common – but in extreme cases it can be bad for your health, putting you under extra stress as the missed deadlines whizz by. Here’s how to break out of the habit. Inevitably, before I wrote a single sentence of this article, I put some washing on, made a cup of tea, answered my emails, checked Facebook and read a couple of blogs. By then of course the washing was done and I could procrastinate for a bit longer by hanging it out to dry in the garden and watering my plants while I was there. This didn’t…

Nicki Minaj has changed her surname on Twitter to “Petty”.  The 36-year-old rapper announced this week she plans to marry her fiancé Kenneth ‘Zoo’ Petty within the next 80 days, but it seems she’s already taken their romance to the next level on social media, as she’s taken on her beau’s last name on her Twitter account. On Friday (16.08.19) Nicki changed her display name on Twitter from “Ms. Minaj” to “Mrs. Petty”, to reflect the last name of the 41-year-old music executive. The change comes just days after she revealed she and Kenneth have obtained a marriage license, and…

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated government’s commitment to maintaining the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC) as a Center of Excellence for the training of Middle and Senior Level Officers for the armies on the African continent. Speaking at the Joint Graduation Ceremony of the Senior Division Course 40 and 2019 batch of MSc Defence and International Politics at the Otu Barracks, Teshie, Accra on Friday, August 16, Vice President Bawumia reiterated government’s resolve to continue to support the College with all its requirements to ensure that it retains its status as one of the top…

A British judge has ordered the Nigerian government to pay $9bn in assets to a small private company. The firm, P&ID, had reached a deal with the Nigerian government in 2010 to build a natural gas plant – but the deal fell through two years later. P&ID then sued the government for failing to provide the gas or install the pipelines it had promised to build. The firm was first awarded $6.6bn (£5.4bn) in 2017, but the London court has now added $2.4bn in interest. According to the firm’s website, the deal would have allowed it to “build a state-of-the-art…

The chiefs and people of Kpandai, in the Northern Region, have expressed their appreciation to the President for the construction of Kpandai-Ekumdipe-Salaga road, and the implementation of a raft of policies which is improving their living standards. The chiefs made this known on Friday, August 16, when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the construction of the Kpandai-Ekumdipe-Salaga Road project, will be constructed and completed in 24 months. In a statement read on their behalf by Brukum Napoleon Bonapart, the Chiefs stated that “you (President Akufo-Addo) have demonstrated to the people of Kpandai, yet again, that you…

A sublime winner by 38-year-old striker Aritz Aduriz handed Athletic Bilbao victory over champions Barcelona on the opening day of the La Liga season. Lacklustre Barca were punished when substitute Aduriz found the net with a stunning 89th-minute scissor-kick. “Sometimes football is so beautiful and when you least expect it a ball like that comes to your feet and goes into the net,” he said. Luis Suarez and Rafinha both hit the woodwork for Barca. But the visitors – without the injured Lionel Messi – struggled to impress despite fielding new £107m signing Antoine Griezmann, and Suarez was forced off…

The Bank of Ghana says it will, together with government, launch the commencement of operations of the Ghana Deposit Protection Scheme from next month to protect depositors’ interests. This comes in the wake of the completion of a two-year-long clean-up of the banking sector. BoG completes clean-up of banking sector The clean-up saw the revocation of licenses of nine universal banks, 347 microfinance companies, 39 micro-credit companies, 15 savings and loans companies, eight finance house companies and two non-bank financial institutions that have already ceased operations. The clean-up began in August 2017 with the takeover of UT Bank and Capital…

Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia has been banned for life and fined $50,000 by Fifa for agreeing to ‘the manipulation of matches.’ Siasia was coach of Nigeria between 2010-2011 and for a spell in 2016 but the time period when Fifa believes he committed his infractions is unclear. He has also served as coach of the country’s Under-20 and Under-23 sides. In a statement, Siasia was found ‘guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches.’ The sanction stems from an ongoing ‘large-scale investigation’ Fifa is conducting into the behaviour of Wilson Raj…

The Bank of Ghana has explained why it revoked the license of GN Savings and Loans after reclassifying it last year from a universal bank following its failure to meet the minimum capital requirement. Chairman of Groupe Nduom Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom had accused government of non-payment of contractors resulting in the crisis of financial institutions including his, GN Bank. But the Central Bank says even when the total amount owed erstwhile GN Bank is paid, it will not address its capital deficit. “While GN has indicated that government owes it a total amount of GH¢942.98 million of which GH¢102.73…