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Many football pundits have described Ghana’s returnee coach, Kwesi Appiah as a calm and collected coach but how does the character of a coach impact on his duties on and off the pitch? Some are clearly wild and animated like Chelsea’s Antonio Conte and Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp whereas others are calm and cool irrespective of what is happening like Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger and former Spain coach, Vicente Del Bosque. But how does their attitude on the touchline impact on the teams? This has become one of football’s greatest debating points and one that is bound to resurface in Ghana with…

Scoliosis Foundation Ghana(SFG), a Ghanaian based not- for-profit organisation with support from some benevolent organisations and philanthropists in the country, has assisted 12- year-old Emily Darko, a scoliosis patient to successfully undergo a surgery  to straighten up her spine. Emily’s condition was critical which required a surgery to correct the defect with her spine to aid her live a normal life. The surgery was executed by team of experts from the FOCOS Orthopedic Hospital in Accra Speaking at a thanksgiving ceremony after the successful surgery, Founder of Scoliosis Foundation Ghana, Gabriel Ntow said it is always an exciting moment when…

The Akosombo Textile Limited (ATL) is likely to lay off 600 workers by June if government does not stop the importation of cheap and pirated textiles. Two major unions, Ghana Federation of Labour, and Industrial Commercial Workers Union are proposing government deals with the problem before rolling out any stimulus package for the industry. Between December 2016 and April this year, GTP alone has laid off  about 300 workers, attributing it to the importation of cheap textile products. The situation is expected to get worse with the dissolution of the anti-pirated textile taskforce which was set up in 2010. General…

President Akufo Addo has given strong indications that the French language would be made compulsory from the next academic year in 2017 from basic school through to Senior High Schools. The president who speaks fluent French himself, said this when he addressed the Ghanaian community in neighbouring Togo as part of his three country tour. According to the president, it is unacceptable for Ghana which is bordered on the East, West and North by three French speaking countries not to show interest in the French language. “We’ll want to make French a compulsory language in our schools right until the…

Members of Professionals for Change, a pro-New Patriotic Party group of professionals, have donated food items, detergents and an undisclosed amount to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. The food items included bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, fruits and vegetables. Members of the group also used the opportunity to clean the premises of the Hospital and interacted with some of the patients on admission. Presenting the items, Secretary of the group, Amma Frimpomaa, explained they chose the Psychiatric Hospital because it is one of the under-resourced healthcare facilities in the country. She added the gesture was also to thank the…

Tema-based rapper Yaa Pono has told Hitz FM’s Dr. Pounds that he is ever ready to enter the battle ring with BET award-winner Sarkodie. The musician who was celebrated on Hitz High Table show on Friday, April 28 at Champs Bar in Accra disclosed that he has battled 23 rappers but never lost any. Asked about the toughest rapper he faced during his rap battle days, he mentioned one Exile. When Pounds asked if he ever battled Sarkodie years ago, Pono answered yes but quickly added that there was no winner because he had 14 votes and Obidi also had…

WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before being resolved, the company said. “Earlier today, WhatsApp users in all parts of the world were unable to access WhatsApp for a few hours. We have now fixed the issue and apologize for the inconvenience,” WhatsApp said in an email late Wednesday afternoon. WhatsApp was down in parts of India, Canada, the United States and Brazil, according to Reuters journalists. It affected people who use the service on Apple Inc’s iOS operating system, Alphabet Inc’s Android and Microsoft…

Kumasi Asante Kotoko goalkeeper, Felix Annan, says he is unhappy with his side’s recent slump in the ongoing Ghana Premier League, promising to redeem the team’s image in their next game against Accra Great Olympics next Saturday. Kotoko are without a win in their last seven games, a development the fans, management as well as the players are not happy with. Kotoko are currently in fifth position on the league table. He told Onua FM at the Lizzy Sports Complex in Accra, where the team is currently lodging and preparing for their match day 14 game against Great Olympics. “We…

Ghana and Togo have resolved to deepen co-operation and strengthen the ties of friendship between them in the areas of security, immigration, agriculture and water, health, trade, digital economy, environment, energy, transport and the issue of maritime borders. Presidents of both countries indicated their willingness to activate “the high level permanent joint Commission of cooperation between the two countries.” This was at the end of the official visit of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to Togo, where the former met with President Faure Gnassingbe. On Wednesday, May 3, 2017, the two leaders visited the Joint Border Post at Noepe and…

President Akufo-Addo, is advocating for a 24-hour opening of the borders between Ghana and Togo, explaining that this will boost trade and tourism, and, thereby, ensure that the peoples of the two nations reap the economic benefits thereof. According to President Akufo-Addo, “the opening of our borders will give true meaning to the ECOWAS Protocols on Free Movement of Goods and Persons, and will spur on progress and prosperity for our peoples.” He made this known on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, when he delivered a brief speech at a State dinner held in his honour by the President of the…