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The General Secretary of the Professional Football Association of Ghana (PFAG), Anthony Baffoe, has admitted that the fight against racism has not been easy. He also believes that the canker will never stop but Blacks need to be respected. Baffoe, who played 13 times for the Black Stars and played most of his peak seasons in Germany, made this comment following the rate at which Blacks, especially Africans, are racially abused in Europe and elsewhere. Several references can be made on this issue: Sulley Muntari later last season was racially attacked when he was playing for Pescara against Cagliari in…

The US is to ban its citizens from travelling to North Korea, according to two agencies that operate tours there. Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours said the ban would be announced on 27 July to come into effect 30 days later. They were informed by the Swedish embassy, which conducts US affairs in the country. The US has not yet confirmed the ban but there has been momentum, given the worsening ties and the death of jailed American student Otto Warmbier. Mr Warmbier travelled to North Korea with Young Pioneer Tours. He was arrested in 2016 for trying to…

Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has rubbished allegations of abuse of office, causing financial loss to the state and breaches of the country’s procurement law leveled against her as totally baseless. Some staff of the Commission have petitioned President Akufo-Addo to cause the Chief Justice, Ms Sophia Akuffo, to initiate impeachment proceedings against Ms Osei. The staff are claiming Ms Osei without recourse to laid down administrative structures and the Public Procurement Act, singularly abrogated contracts, secured a V8 Land Cruiser for her use, and awarded contracts worth thousands of dollars. The petitioners also claim a contract…

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has launched the prestigious Ghana Club 100 (GC100) Awards at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra. The Awards will be under the distinguished patronage of the President of the Republic Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. This year’s event will mark the 16th edition of the highly anticipated awards ceremony. It will be themed: ‘Industrialisation: A Tool for Job Creation and Accelerated Economic Development’. The theme is in line with Government’s vision to use manufacturing through the ‘One district, One factory’ initiative as an economic development and job creation tool. The GIPC also intends…

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Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is meddling in the affairs of the Electoral Commission at his own risk. According to him, the Akufo-Addo-led government wants to follow through with its ploy to oust heads of all public institutions but the opposition, he resolves, will not see that succeed at the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC). A petition has been filed with the president to initiate proceedings to get Charlotte Osei, the Chair of the Commission, removed from office. According to the petitioners, who refer to themselves as the Concerned EC Staff, Mrs Osei has engaged in…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that if African leaders are to succeed in improving the living standards of their peoples, a critical piece of the puzzle has to be the availability and use of information and data. According to President Akufo-Addo, the rapid evolution of the advanced and emerging market economies have been made possible largely as a result of the employment of information and data. “If we, in Africa, are to emulate them and be an integral part of the on-going data revolution, there is the need, firstly, for us to require the owners of data to…

At the Flagstaff House [the seat of government], in the Greater Accra region, the President invited journalists to come listen to him tell Ghanaians what he has achieved so far after six months in office. On Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at exactly 12:30pm, the President’s guests were seated; so was the larger populace, outside the Flagstaff House, either glued to their television or radio sets waiting to hear the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces speak. Touching on almost all sectors of the economy, President Akufo-Addo touted his government’s achievements. He noted he has restored the teachers and nursing trainees’…

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of sponsoring “criminal gangs to operate in the country with impunity”. In assessing the six-month old government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday at a press conference at its headquarters in Accra, the NDC ran down the “achievements” of the NPP, describing the current dispensation as an era characterized by lawlessness, insecurity and government-backed terrorism. According to the Leader and National Chairman of the opposition NDC, Kofi Portuphy, who read the speech on behalf of the party, the level and form of lawlessness currently…

Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. A report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) showed deaths had fallen from a peak of 1.9 million in 2005 to 1 million last year. It said the “scales have tipped”, with more than half of people getting drug treatment for the first time. An HIV infection cannot be cured – it can only be contained with daily doses of antiretroviral therapy. Unchecked, it destroys the…