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Champions Manchester City will travel to Arsenal on the weekend of 11-12 August for their opening match of the 2018-19 Premier League season. Tottenham visit Newcastle first, then play Fulham at Wembley while their new £850m stadium is completed. Manchester United host Leicester City, Liverpool entertain West Ham, and Championship winners Wolverhampton Wanderers welcome Everton to Molineux. Promoted Fulham host Crystal Palace, while Cardiff visit Bournemouth. The three other fixtures on the opening weekend see Chelsea travel to Huddersfield, Southampton host Burnley, and Watford take on Brighton at Vicarage Road. The opening weekend in full Arsenal v Manchester City Bournemouth…

Pressure group Strategic Thinkers Network-Africa (STRANEK) has filed a writ at the court against the National Identification Authority (NIA) for not accepting the voters’ ID as one of the documents of proof for the national registration exercise. The NIA – as per the National Identification Amendment Law, 2017 or Act 950 – requires a Ghanaian passport, a birth certificate or two Ghanaian witnesses for the registration of citizens for the new cards, to be known as Ghana Cards. But there has been disagreement from certain quarters over the requirements. Most of the dissentients want the voters’ ID cards to be…

Government has constituted a five-member committee to oversee the running of football in the country. The interim management committee (IMC) will be chaired by the Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, Dr Kofi Amoah. Members will be Cudjoe Fianoo, who will also serve as Secretary to the committee, former footballers Abedi Pele and Reverend Osei Kofi and lawyer and former sports journalist Eva Okyere. Peace FM’s sports anchor Daniel Kweku Yeboah will serve as the spokesperson of the committee. In a release issued by Minister of Information Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid on Wednesday, the…

Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has formally petitioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, to launch “full-scale” investigations into the activities of Kwesi Nyantakyi, who until recently was the President of the Ghana Football Association. In a letter dated June 13, 2018 to the Attorney General, Mr Aremeyaw Anas said the conduct of Mr Nyantakyi as per an attached documentary evidence breaches “the general criminal laws of Ghana and especially the Anti Money Laundering Act, 2008 (Act 749)”. Find the letter below: Source: 3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

With barely 24 hours to go for the commencement of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, former champions Spain have replaced their coach with a former captain. Julen Lopetegui was sacked on Wednesday just a day after he was named replacement to Zinedine Zidane at Real Madrid. The announcement by Madrid is said to have stirred tension in the camp of La Furia ahead of their World Cup opener with Portugal on Saturday. A few hours after Lopetegui was sacked, the Spanish football federation announced Fernando Hierro as his replacement. The former Real Madrid and Spain captain is expected to coach…

Former President John Dramani Mahama on Wednesday posted a short video on Twitter subtly taking a swipe at Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia over the latter’s criticism some time back on the domestic currency’s depreciation against the US dollars. In the video, Dr Bawumia, definitely while in opposition, attributed the depreciation of the Cedi to weak fundamentals. He insinuated that the incumbent government was engaged in propaganda with the issue. In his tweet, Mr Mahama quoted the current exchange rate of the Cedi to the US Dollar and asked, ‘Weak fundamentals?’ https://twitter.com/JDMahama/status/1006839534536060928 Source: 3news.com|Ghana Follow @3Newsgh

Some executives of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) are not happy with a “blanket” directive from the Speaker of Parliament to criminalise health professionals who turn patients away as a result of unavailability of beds. According to two of the Association’s executives, the situation should not be looked at on the surface but in detail to stamp it out completely from the health sector. On Tuesday, Speaker Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye expressed worry about the syndrome of patients losing their lives after being turned away from health facilities due to lack of beds. He ordered a probe, particularly, into the…

First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called for increased collaboration among key stakeholders in the health sector in a concerted effort towards achieving universal health coverage. According to her, working with two foundations, The Rebecca Foundation and the Infanta Malaria Prevention Foundation, has informed her that to be be effective, partnerships and coalitions must be built. “I am therefore glad that both the Infanta Malaria Prevention Foundation and the Rebecca foundation, are part of a community of organizations with a shared objective of achieving universal health coverage in reproductive, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition.” The First Lady said this…

Morocco has once again lost a bid to host the FIFA World Cup. At the 68th FIFA Congress on Wednesday, Morocco’s 2026 World Cup bid lost to an unprecedented bid – dubbed the United Bid – from United States of America, Mexico and Canada. Out of a total of 200 votes, 134 voted for the United bid while 65 voted for the African bid. One abstained. The result is the fifth time the North African country is failing in its attempt to host the mundial. The result will come as a big relief to USA after it lost the 2022…

2010 World Cup champions Spain have sacked manager Julen Lopetegui. Lopetegui was named as Real Madrid manager on Tuesday but the decision may have ruffled some feathers in the Spanish camp in Russia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The decision to sack the former Spain U-19 and U-21 coach comes two days before La Roja’s opener with Portugal in Group B. After taking charge of Spain in 2016, on the back of European successes with the youth teams, Lopetegui did not lose a match. He supervised 20 La Roja matches, winning 14 and drawing 6. There were initial reports…