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The Italian Football Federation, FIGC, has upheld an appeal against the one-match suspension of Pescara’s Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Ali Muntari. Muntari walked off during his side’s 1-0 loss at Cagliari last weekend after he had complained of racial abuse to the referee. His complaint to referee Daniele Minelli rather saw him being Yellow-carded. FIGC later decided not to sanction Cagliari fans, claiming those who made the chants were too few to warrant any sanctions. But on Friday, following world-wide condemnation, the FIGC’s Corto Sportivo d’Apello overturned the former Inter Milan, AC Milan and Udinese man’s ban. He will, therefore, be…

The two candidates hoping to be France’s next president are making a final push for votes on the last day of campaigning before Sunday’s election. Centrist Emmanuel Macron – who has a substantial lead in opinion polls – is visiting the southern city of Rodez. His far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, was heckled as she arrived at Reims cathedral, in northern France. Mr Macron said that he had already decided who his prime minister would be, if he were elected on Sunday. The former economy minister implied that the person themselves did not know. His prime minister would reflect the…

A University of Kentucky student in the US has been charged with burglary after crawling through air ducts to steal an exam paper from the tutor’s office. Henry Lynch II’s luck ran out when his tutor, who had been working extremely late, surprised him – and an accomplice – when he came back to his office. It happened at about 02:00 on Wednesday, a university spokesman said. Fellow student Troy Kiphuth has also been charged. The duo will go before a judge next month. According to Jay Blanton, the university spokesman, Mr Lynch, a 21 year-old biosystems engineering student, had…

The Northern Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu, has described as illegal a meeting organized by the party’s National Women’s Organiser, Hafisah Otiko Djaba in Tamale. Daniel Bugri Naabu, who stormed the meeting, insisted the meeting be called off but Miss Djaba, who doubles as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, explained the meeting between her and constituency women organizers was to appreciate them for their efforts during the 2016 campaign that led to the victory of the party in the 2016 general election. The near chaotic meeting began with Miss Djaba walking…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Friday, May 5 decorated with the highest national award of Burkina Faso. The award, the Grand Croix de l’Ordre National, was conferred on Ghana’s president by Burkina Faso’s Roch Marc Christian Kabore at a brief ceremony. The ceremony preceded a joint communiqué issued at the end of President Akufo-Addo’s two-day official visit of Burkina Faso. The Ghanaian president is on a month-long visit of ten West African countries. In two phases, the visit began on Tuesday, May 2 with President Akufo-Addo storming Togo via Aflao. He was there for three days. He arrived…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo arrived in Ouagadougou, the capital of the Republic of Burkina Faso, on Thursday to begin his two-day tour of that country with his agenda being “to develop the initiatives that will bring prosperity to our people.” At a State Dinner held in his honour and in responding to the remarks made by Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, President of the Republic of Burkina Faso, President Akufo-Addo indicated that the most important of these initiatives “are the regional projects in the area of infrastructure, and especially transportation.” According to President Akufo-Addo, “it would be, for me, perhaps,…

The SOS Children’s Village in Tamale is making giant strides in improving child labor in the Northern Region following a community sensitization programme. This is in line with the organization’s Family Strengthening Programme (FSP) that supports children in the communities who stand the risk of losing parental care. The activity, which is an initiative of the FSP unit of the Village, constitutes one of FSP’s core components of engaging the local communities as a pre-emptive method to secure the future of these deprived children and prevent them from losing the care of their family. The community programme featured children who…

North Korea has accused US and South Korean agents of plotting to kill its Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. A North Korean referred to only as “Kim” was paid to carry out an attack with biochemical substances, the ministry of state security said. The plot was foiled, it said, but gave no details on the fate of “Kim”. The CIA declined to comment and South Korea has issued no statement so far. The North’s claim comes amid continued high tension on the Korean peninsula. US President Donald Trump has promised to “solve” North Korea and stop it developing nuclear weapons. ‘Human…

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Minister of Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has pledged the support of her Ministry to work with GCNet to ensure the smooth implementation of Total Revenue Integrated Processing Systems (TRIPS) and Ghana’s business automation project as part of eGhana project with the support of the World Bank. Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful said the goal of her Ministry is to address all outstanding issues militating against the e-Ghana project to enhance transparency drive. She stressed on government’s commitment to use technology to facilitate government business to ensure Ghana improves its business competitiveness and the ease of doing business. She added that it was critical for…