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Arsenal will play French side Rennes and Chelsea face Ukraine’s Dynamo Kiev in the last 16 of the Europa League. Rennes are 11th in Ligue 1 while Kiev are second behind Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League. The Premier League clubs avoided Serie A’s second and third-placed sides Napoli, who face FC Salzburg, and Inter Milan, who play Eintracht Frankfurt. Arsenal boss Unai Emery’s former club Sevilla face Slavia Prague and Celtic’s conquerors Valencia play FC Krasnodar. Arsenal and Chelsea will both play at home in the first leg on 7 March with the return games a week later.…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed disappointment in his successor, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for describing the violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election as an “isolated incident”. He said if the president had borne the brunt of the violence, he would not have described the events as such. The former president was commenting on the incident in an interview on Accra-based Radio Gold. Despite the widely condemned violence, President Akufo-Addo had congratulated the winner, Lydia Seyram Alhassan, in a statement. The three-time leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had described events during the by-elections as isolated. Akufo-Addo…

Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana mandates the President to deliver a message on the state of the nation to parliament at the beginning of each session and before the dissolution of parliament. The content of this address has been a bone of contention since the inception of the 4th Republic. The nature of the various sectors of the country and the time duration for such an address make it a daunting task for the President to adequately touch on all sectors of the economy. In most cases, Presidents have been chastised for leaving one sector or the…

Eight mourners have died at Asiowkor in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern Region. Sixty-three others who have been injured are receiving care at the Asamankese Government Hospital. Three have been referred to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua. Information gathered indicates that the seven deceased were among some 71 persons who were in a bucket of a Kia Rhino vehicle in a convoy conveying a dead body from Asamankese Government Hospital to Esiokor for funeral rites. The body of the deceased was in an ambulance followed by the Kia Rhino, whose bucket carried the mourners, numbering 61.…

A section of the Makola Shopping Mall was gutted by fire Friday morning. According to TV3’s Stanley Blewu, officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) encountered challenges dousing the fire despite the availability of adequate fire tenders. Affected shops include City Gold, City Bridal, Nancylette, among others. The incident caused a huge vehicular and human traffic around that area. The fire was reported to have started around 7:00am. Source: 3news.com|Ghana

Chelsea have been banned from signing players in the next two transfer windows for breaching rules in relation to youth players, Fifa has announced. The ban, until the end of January 2020, does not prevent the release of players and will not apply to their women’s and futsal teams. The Premier League club have been given three days to appeal. They have also been fined £460,000, while the Football Association (FA) has been fined £390,000. It comes following a Fifa investigation into Chelsea’s signing of foreign under-18 players, including former striker Bertrand Traore. The world governing body says it found…

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has declared a public holiday a day to the postponed presidential elections. Addressing the country in a nationwide broadcast on Friday, President Buhari, who is among 73 candidates for Saturday’s elections, said the holiday will enable voters travel to their various voting centres to cast their ballot. The elections in Africa’s most populous nation were originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, February 16. But a few hours to the polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) postponed the elections by a week, citing logistical challenges. Nigeria elections postponed hours to polls The governorship, State House…

The Ghana Police Service has given the strongest warning yet that any unauthorized security arrangement made for Saturday’s presidential primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not be tolerated. The Service has, therefore, urged party executives, delegates, sympathisers and the public, in general, to cooperate with its officers for successful polls. The NDC will on Saturday elect its candidate for the 2020 presidential elections from seven aspirants. Voting centres will be mounted in the 275 constituencies across the country for the exercise. A statement from the police said they will be in charge. “Police shall be in-charge of security,”…

Former President John Dramani Mahama has asked delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and, by extension, the entire membership to ignore lawsuits challenging his eligibility to stand for president. There have been two lawsuits challenging the former president as a result of having served in the high capacity before. Stephen Agyemang had dragged Mr Mahama to court, arguing that his re-election bid violates the 1992 Constitution. A few days later, a former General Secretary of Trobu Constituency’s NDC, Edmund Palmer, also filed a writ to have Mr Mahama stopped “from pursuing his bid to be re-elected as a flagbearer/…

DAGBON A month ago, almost to the day, I was in Yendi, fittingly attired as a self-proclaimed Prince of Dagbon, Prince Abudani, the first of that lineage, to witness the installation of Yaa-Na Mahama Abukari II as the overlord of Dagbon. Thousands of our compatriots were there to share in the joy of the occasion. It was a ceremony that many had despaired we would ever see, but a new Yaa-Na, accepted by the two gates of Abudu and Andani, was installed on that day. The installation of a new Yaa-Na brought to an end decade of feuding that laid…