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Chelsea’s record signing, Alvaro Morata has finally made his debut for the club after completing a big money move to the English champions. The striker was introduced in the 62nd minute in an International Championship Cup held in Singapore, in a game between the German champions Bayern Munich and Chelsea. Morata 24, signed from his boyhood club real Madrid for a fee of £58 million but could rise to £70million. He is now Chelsea’s most expensive player as well as the most expensive Spanish player in the premier league, after Fernando Torres broke that record when he moved from Liverpool…

The minority in parliament has condemned the invasion of the residence of former Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, by the Police Criminal Investigations Department over the AMERI power deal. Personnel of the Police CID acting on a warrant, stormed the residence of Dr Donkor in Accra to search and retrieve evidence that could result in him being charged for causing financial loss to the state for his involvement in the controversial AMERI deal. His laptop and other electronic devices were seized in Monday’s raid. But minority in a statement issued Tuesday described the act as “shameful and sad in a…

The Ghana Premier League could be on hold for up to a month to make way for local CHAN qualifiers, the WAFU championships and allow Kumasi Asante Kotoko recover fully from their recent accident. The league is already due to go on break this weekend for the MTN FA Cup but it is highly unlikely to be back next weekend according to its communications with Communication Director of the Premier League Board (PLB), Tamimu Issah has hinted that the Ghana Premier league (GPL) is likely to go on a recess for almost a month. In an interview with TV3 Sports,…

Founder of the All People’s Congress, Dr. Hassan Ayariga, has insisted that Madam Charlotte Osei, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana is “stupid” and unfit to continue to be the chairperson of the Commission. Though he said he has no personal vendetta against the Mrs Osei, his position and judgment on Mrs Osei is purely base upon her performance since her appointment. “I still stand by my earlier claim that Madam Charlotte Osei is stupid and I would even add that she is ignorant to manage the EC office”, he told Bright Kwesi Asempa, host of the Onua…

Embattled chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Charlotte Osei, has sued lawyer for the anonymous staff of the Commission who are seeking her removal from office for alleged corruption and breaches of law. The staff claimed Mrs 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 staff who remained anonymous claimed among others that the EC chair has since taking the EC office, demonstrated ineptitude in the manner she managerially and administratively run the Electoral Commission.…

Actress Yvonne Nelson has replied her colleague Nana Akua Addo after the latter rebuked her for talking against Ghanaian actors who dress to impress at events. Yvonne Nelson in a series of tweets after this year’s Golden Movie Awards asked actors in the country to focus on saving the dying movie industry. To her, actors slaying on red carpet is important but that is not what the industry needs at the moment. This tweet did not go down well with Nana Akua Addo who lambasted her on Instagram few hours after Miss Nelson’s post went viral “RED CARPET is an…

Days after the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, hinted of Government’s desire to place a cap on Ghana’s fiscal deficit as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Cabinet has given its approval for the submission of the appropriate legislation to Parliament to amend the relevant law. The proposed amendment to the Public Financial Management Act is expected to limit the fiscal deficit to between 3% and 5% of GDP from the year 2018, to ensure greater fiscal discipline. Fiscal deficit is the difference between the government’s expenditures and its revenues, excluding the money it borrowed. A country’s fiscal deficit…

Pupils of Tebu M/A Basic School in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra region sit on the bare floor to write with others using their laps as tables to write on. The younger ones in Kindergarten also lie on the floor which some of them complaining of back and spinal aches. Some of the pupils also sit on stones and plastics chairs. The pupils also risk contracting various types of diseases due to the lack of a proper water system in the school. This was disclosed by the head teacher of the school Emmanuel Bagut in an interview…

An Accra High Court has ordered the confiscation and sale of convicted drug trafficker, Nayele Ametefe’s mansion at East Legon worth $1.6 million and the revenue distributed to state institutions. At the court today it came up that the Nayele, who’s serving an eight (8) year jail sentence in the United Kingdom after pleading guilty for trafficking 12 kilos of cocaine, had two mansions, one at East Legon and the other in Kumasi, in the Ashanti region. The state according to the judge could only prove that the East legion property belonged to the convict but not the one situated…

The Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission in charge of finance, Ms Georgina Opoku Amankwa has debunked stories circulating in the media purporting that she has responded to Charlotte Osei over allegations that she single handedly signed a GHC 40 million contract on behalf of the commission. Ms Opoku Amankwa in a letter dated July 25, 2017 asked persons who authored the fictitious response to desist from the act adding that she is studying the allegations leveled against her by the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei with her lawyers. She said “as a lawyer and a senior public…