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Ghana coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin, has refused to admit that his side’s play has fallen ahead of the 2017 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations final with Mali on Sunday. The Black Starlets are set to face their West African counterparts at the Stade de l’Amitié Sino Gabonaise in Libreville, to climax the two-week tournament. After scoring nine goals in their first two matches, Ghana have drawn blank in the last two games, prompting concerns that the Black Starlets’ performance may have fallen too early. “We all know about economics and law of diminishing return; and after playing at high tempo…

French President Emmanuel Macron has said his clenched handshake with Donald Trump was “not innocent” and was a “moment of truth”. The awkward encounter saw each grip the other’s hand so firmly that their knuckles turned white . Mr Macron told French media he had wanted to “show he would not make small concessions, not even symbolic ones, but also not overdo things”. The leaders met in Brussels on Thursday ahead of a Nato summit. As their vigorous handshake continued over several seconds, Mr Macron and Mr Trump also looked each other fixedly in the eyes until the US president…

The Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana has joined the anti-galamsey campaign with a call for effective collaboration between the state and non-state actors to deal with the menace. At the 8th synod of the church, the moderator of the church, Rev R.K Nimo, said the fight against illegal mining could only be won if it was considered as a top national security priority. To this end, he said a multi-faceted approach should be adopted to tackle the menace at the root. The event was attended by District Pastors, Catechists, Presbytery Executive Council members, Church Group Leaders, their benefactors and well-wishers.…

Bacterial black spot disease attacks mango farms in Kintampo Mango farms in the Kintampo North municipality have been massively attacked by mango bacterial black spot disease, raising fears of poor harvest among farmers in the area this season. The farmers say they risk losing their harvest this year, noting they do not have the financial strength to undertake mass spraying exercise to rid their farms of the disease, hence need assistance. The bacterial black spot is a very serious disease of mangoes and it causes cracks in both the trees and the fruit, resulting in the fruit getting rotten and…

Pizza is healthy. And it isn’t healthy. Depending on the type of crust, the amount of cheese and the toppings used, pizza can rank anywhere from nutritionally decent to a diet disaster. Even healthy pizzas deliver a good amount of sodium from tomato sauce and cheese, so if you are watching your salt intake, you should eat with caution. Of course, the size of the slice and the number of slices you eat count, too. Pizza pros include the fact that it offers calcium from cheese and disease-fighting lycopene from tomatoes. And pizza crust made with whole-wheat flour (including whole…

Shareholders of the GCB Bank have shot down a motion to increase the yearly remuneration of the Bank’s Directors, from GHȼ2.5 million to GHȼ4 million. The motion was put forward by the Board at the Bank’s 23rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Accra on Friday but shareholders did not approve it, saying the proposed GHȼ4 million per annum was too high. The shareholders, by a show of hands when the motion was put to the vote, declined to approve the proposed increment, which was the penultimate issue on the agenda of the AGM. According to the shareholders, the proposed increment,…

Sir Stanley Matthews remains one of England’s most famous footballers and was known as the Wizard of Dribble. But he was also arguably the first global icon, paving the way for superstars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. And it all began in Ghana, writes Scott Anthony. Football is the closest thing the planet has to a global popular culture. Wherever you go in the world, you’ll find people kicking a ball around, watching matches in cafes, wearing replica shirts, and betting or playing football games on their phones. Yet the idea of a footballer as a global icon…

The head of Chemical Engineering at the Kumasi Technical University, Professor Osei-Wusu Achaw, is hopeful the conversion of polytechnics into technical universities will curb youth unemployment and alleviate poverty in the country. Speaking in an interview with TV3, Professor Osei-Wusu Achaw, pointed out that, the focus of technical universities is to produce people with medium and high level employable skills , Professor Osei-Wusu Achaw, who is also the Ashanti Regional chairman of the Ghana Institution of Engineers, noted: ‘’It is in this vein that government committed a lot of resources to ensure the successful implementation of the conversion in line…

After she lost the courage to trade in vegetables – her  source of livelihood at the Aboabo market in Tamale – due to her fistula condition after her fifth birth, 40 years old Mma Fulera is now back to her business with higher aspirations. Today, Mma fulera has returned to her spot in the market where she does not only trade in vegetables, but also have her friends and happier life. Following her successful reconstructive surgery,  Mma Fulera reveals she has become an ambassador of fistula and has not relented on her efforts to spreading the news of reconstructive surgery to women living with…

The Attorney General says she is unable to assist a member of the opposition NDC legal team, Victor Kojogah Adawudu with information on the controversial US$2.25 bond as requested. The 2.25 billion dollars domestic bond was issued by the Finance Minister in April 2017 but has since been on the front burner constantly being fueled by NDC functionaries led by the Minority in Parliament. They suspect some fishy deal in the sale of the bond, petitioning both local and international bodies to investigate the sale. About a fortnight ago, Mr. Adawuda also wrote to the Attorney General Ms Gloria Akuffo…