Author: Krobea

Egyptian side Al Ahly will fight for the CAF Champions League trophy for the second consecutive year after setting up a final with Tunisian side Esperance. Ahly beat Entente Setif 3-2 on aggregate to make it to the final. They will seek to extent their trophy haul in the competition, having won it a record eight times. A 2-1 second-leg loss to Setif on Tuesday did not stop the Egyptian giants from booking a place in the final. They had won the first leg 2-0. Earlier on Tuesday, Tunisia side had to ward off a gritty fight from Angolan side…

A viral outbreak at a New Jersey long-term medical care centre has killed six children and left a dozen more infected. State officials confirmed a total of 18 cases of adenovirus among paediatric patients at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Tuesday. Adenoviruses typically cause “mild illness” but the children affected are “medically fragile”, officials say. The state investigation is ongoing. The centre is now closed to new patients. The children involved have “severely compromised immune systems” rendering them more susceptible to the virus, the health department said. “The combination of a worse strain of adenovirus together with…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has officially opened the world’s longest sea crossing bridge, nine years after construction first began. Including its access roads, the bridge spans 55km (34 miles) and connects Hong Kong to Macau and the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai. The bridge cost about $20bn (£15.3bn) and should have opened in 2016.  Construction has been dogged by safety issues – at least 18 workers have died on the project, officials say. Mr Xi attended the opening ceremony of the bridge, which took place in Zhuhai, along with the leaders of Hong Kong and Macau. Limited bus services…

FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital has won the maiden edition of the FOCOS Corporate Culinary Cup fundraiser held on Saturday, October 20 at the hospital’s 70-bed facility in Pantang, Accra. The Specialist Orthopedic Hospital emerged victorious after beating the first runner-up Euracare Advanced Diagnostics and Heart Centre by just a point. Cal Bank, Sunpower Innovations, Sunshine HealthCare Ltd and Safety Insurance Brokers followed in that order. FOCOS Culinary Cup is an annual inter-organizational cooking competition that aims to raise funds to support children who require complex orthopedic procedures at the FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital through fun and healthy cooking. The criteria used were…

The Spokesperson of the John Mahama Campaign Team, James Agyenim Boateng, says the violence that ensued at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is an “underlying frustration” of Ghanaians caused by the government. In a statement issued on Monday’s destruction of property by demonstrating students, Mr Agyenim Boateng noted that it is a reflection of the “intolerance” and “impunity” that have characterized the Akufo-Addo-led government. “The events at KNUST show a deeper underlying frustration of the pent-up feelings of not just students but also the larger Ghanaian public,” he stated. “It is a reflection of the intolerance…

The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told MPs from his ruling party. He said Turkey had strong evidence Khashoggi was killed in a premeditated and “savage” murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. He also called for the suspects to be tried in Istanbul. He demanded Saudi Arabia provide answers about where Khashoggi’s body was, and who ordered the operation. The Saudi kingdom has provided conflicting accounts of what happened to the Washington Post contributor. After weeks of maintaining he was still alive, the authorities now…

Three Kenyan athletes have made it onto the list of nominees for the 2018 Male World Athlete of the Year. The list was released on Tuesday by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Diamond League champion Timothy Cheruiyot, world marathon record holder Eliud Kipchoge and 800m world leader Emmanuel Korir are the Kenyans to have been named among the 10. The list is expected to be whittled down to five after voting closes on Tuesday, 13 November. The award ceremony is scheduled to be held in Monaco on Tuesday, December 4 at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2018. Aside the…

Alumni of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are set to be locked up in a meeting Tuesday, following a shutdown of the school. The premier university in the Ashanti Region was closed down indefinitely on Monday after students went on rampage to protest claimed brutality by the campus security personnel. Property worth thousands of Cedis was vandalized while many including the personnel ran for their lives. After an assessment of the extent of damage caused, the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Monday while asking all Ghanaian students to vacate the halls of…

An art student who made a solid gold necklace for Lil Wayne has said the sale helped pay for her course fees. Joy Bonfield-Colombara, 29, from south-east London, said she was struggling to pay her £9,500-a-year course fees at the prestigious Royal College of Art. But just as she was considering dropping out, she received an email from a friend of the US rapper who wanted to buy him a birthday present. The 18-carat gold pendant is in the shape of Lil Wayne’s face. It features two diamonds for the Lollipop singer’s famous teardrop tattoos, which represent the deaths of…

Real Madrid coach Julen Lopetegui says he is going to “fight” to turn around the club’s faltering form but could not say whether he would still be in a job for the trip to Barcelona on Sunday. Lopetegui is under pressure following Real’s run of four defeats in five games. “Results haven’t been great but we are going to turn this around,” he said. Real face Czech side Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League on Tuesday before the weekend’s El Clasico. “What I’ve learned about this club is to fight, that is the DNA of this club,” Lopetegui said. “That’s…