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The Premier League Board (PLB) has set a new date for the 2016/2017 Ghana Premier league which was earlier scheduled to start on Saturday the 4th of February. Confirming the date change at the media launch of the 2016/2017 league season, the vice chairman of the PLB, George Amoako gave Saturday, February 11 as the new date for start of the league. He explained that the decision was informed by concerns raised by the various premier league clubs on the possible clash of the league with the Black Stars campaign at the ongoing African Cup of Nations (CAN2017) in Gabon.…

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The Pharaohs of Egypt reached the finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations after beating Burkina Faso 4-3 on penalties in the first semi-final match on Wednesday. The match at the Stade de l’Amitie had ended 1-1 after extra time and the winner had to be decided in the shootouts. Egypt had reached the semi-finals after beating North African rivals Morocco by a lone goal in the quarter-finals. Record title holders in the tournament, the Pharaohs kept the pace with the Stallions, who were seeking to reach a second final in four years. It was Egypt’s star player Mohamed…

Over the last few days, a bribery allegation has shaken the Appointment Committee of Parliament. The MP who made this allegation, Mahama Ayariga, (NDC-Bawku Central) has accused the Minister-designate for Energy, Boakye Agyarko, of passing a bribe of GHS 3000 each through the First Deputy Speaker, Mr. Joseph Osei-Owusu (NPP-Bekwai) to lure the minority side of the committee to approve him after they initially withheld his approval based on certain grounds. According to Mr Ayariga, the said money was given to them during a closed-door evaluation meeting on his candidature in the guise of sitting allowance. Speaker Professor Mike Oquaye’s…

A high court judge indicted in Ghana’s scandalous judicial corruption has initiated contempt proceedings against the country’s chief justice for her attempts to proceed with impeachment processes against him. Justice Habib Logoh was in 2015 named among 34 judges at the country’s High, District and Magistrate courts for allegedly taking bribes from litigants to compromise justice delivery in cases before the various courts. The High Court judge who is currently on suspension, has since been challenging legality of the investigative piece that unraveled deep-seated corruption among some judges and judicial staff in the country. He consequently declined a September 9,…

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has arrived in Singapore for a ceremony at which the Floating Production and Storage Vessel (FPSO) to operate in the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP) oilfields in the Western Region, will be named in his honour. The FPSO OCTP is the first and largest vessel in Ghana to convert crude oil and gas into finished products on the same platform. Also in Singapore to help in the naming of the FPSO is First Lady Mrs  Rebecca Akufo-Addo. The vessel built by Singapore’s Keppel Offshore and Marine Company Ltd will process 58,000 barrels of oil and…

Businessman-cum-politician, Papa Kwesi Nduom, has raised red flag over Communications minister designate’s plan to use state resources to fund set-top boxes for Ghanaians in the digital television migration this year. Ghana is expected to migrate from analogue to Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting by September 2017 to among others, ensure that broadcasting services are protected from interference and for improved services. At her vetting Wednesday, Communications minister-designate, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, told the Appointments Committee of Parliament that she intends to look for funds for set-top boxes to enable those with analog TV sets in the country watch digital transmission. “…My priority now is…

A series of photographs taken in the slums of Lagos shows the faces of sex workers living in squalid conditions. And the images have a tragic undercurrent, with tens of thousands of people in the sex trade diagnosed with HIV each year, and millions dying from AIDS across Nigeria. A survey conducted last year has also highlighted that attitudes towards condom use is helping the spread of the condition, and research suggests that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV. The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koeneon in a Lagos slum named Badia. There are currently an…

A series of photographs taken in the slums of Lagos shows the faces of sex workers living in squalid conditions. And the images have a tragic undercurrent, with tens of thousands of people in the sex trade diagnosed with HIV each year, and millions dying from AIDS across Nigeria. A survey conducted last year has also highlighted that attitudes towards condom use is helping the spread of the condition, and research suggests that nearly a quarter of Nigerian sex workers have HIV. The pictures were taken by photographer Ton Koeneon in a Lagos slum named Badia. There are currently an…

A former Attorney General, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has suggested none of the ministers designated for the various ministerial portfolios being vetted by the Appointments Committee of Parliament will be disqualified. He argued on 3FM’s Sunrise morning show Wednesday that the work of the Committee is a mere procedure, and lacked the wherewithal to disqualify any of the ministerial nominees, hence the public should not  put much faith in the Committee. The legal practitioner premised his argument on the fact that the report of the Committee will be presented to the entire parliament for consideration and where necessary, a vote cast…