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Inter Milan hope to complete the signing of Christian Eriksen from Tottenham on Monday. The Denmark midfielder’s future has been uncertain since the end of last season, when he said he was ready to seek a fresh challenge away from the Premier League. After a hoped-for move to Spain failed to materialise, the 27-year-old started the season with Spurs. It is understood an outline agreement is in place to be finalised next week. Eriksen, who is out of contract at the end of the season, is expected to command a fee of around £16.9m, despite his patchy recent form. The midfielder…

Upper East Regional Minister, Paulina Tangoba Abayage, has announced she has picked nomination form to contest the Novrongo central parliamentary seat in the December 2020 general elections. Ms Abayage who will contest on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party, will first have to beat Minister of Aviation, Joseph Kofi Adda, who currently occupies that seat, in the NPP primary to get the mandate of the party. The regional minister announced her bid Friday night during a press soiree in Bolgatanga. “This morning I paid 2,000 cedis in banker’s draft and picked my forms to contest the Navrongo central parliamentary…

Ghana’s economic outlook has been scored positive by the renowned credit rating agency, Moody’s Investors Service. It pegged the country’s rating balance rating at B3, thus moving it from stable to positive. The decision to assign a positive outlook reflects Moody’s rising confidence that the Ghana’s institutions and policy settings will foster improved macroeconomic and fiscal stability over the medium term. That, it explained is partly due to the reforms implemented under the recent IMF reform programme. “Those reforms are beginning to bear fruit” it said in a statement issued Friday. Moody’s cited Ghana’s return to primary fiscal surpluses, measures…

At least four persons are in critical condition after sustaining gunshot wounds in a renewed chieftaincy clash between two factions at Kpatinga in the Gusheigu District of the Northern region. One of them is currently receiving treatment at the Tamale Teaching Hospital while the others are at the Gusheigu and Savelugu hospitals. About 10 houses have also been reportedly torched. Armed military and police personnel have also been deployed to the area. Supporters of two rival chiefs started shooting each other claiming legitimacy to the Kpatinga skin. Both chiefs are holding themselves as rightful chiefs to the skin. Information gathered…

The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated its decision to compile a new voters’ register for Ghana’s presidential and parliamentary elections in December is final, despite strong resistance against the last minute move. According to the EC, the scheduled engagement with the 21-member Eminent Advisory Committee and the political parties next week, is not to seek consensus on whether or not to go on with the new registration. “You can’t get consensus anywhere; it can never happen and it will never happen. If we want to get consensus before we act, then we will never act,” Director of Electoral Services at…

The death toll from a newly-discovered coronavirus in China has risen to 41 on the day of the Lunar New Year. Another 15 deaths in the Hubei province, where the outbreak began, were announced on Saturday. Health officials are struggling to contain the outbreak as millions of people travel for the new year festival, one of the most important dates in its calendar. There are now more than 1,200 confirmed cases in China. The virus has also now spread to Europe, with three cases confirmed in France. The UK is investigating a number of suspected cases, while officials there are trying…

Some executives of the People’s National Congress (PNC), including the leader and former flagbearer, Edward Mahama, have been accused of hoarding funds and resources meant for the advancement of the party. A total of one million cedis was said to have been released by the Akufo-Addo government to Dr Mahama to be handed to his party, but the now Ambassador-at-Large is claimed to have pocketed the money. Communications Director of the PNC, Emmanuel Wilson, in an exclusive interview with TV3 alleged Dr Mahama has refused to release the money to the party on grounds that it was given to him…

Court bailiffs have successfully served the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe popularly known as Abronye DC with a defamatory suit filed against him by former CEO of COCOBOD Dr. Stephen Opuni. The plaintiff is seeking 10 million cedis in general damages against Abronye for slandering him during a television show in November 2019. U2 Company Limited owners of United Television (UTV), and the Despite Media Group were joined in the suit for providing the platform for the first defendant to propagate his defamatory statements. After weeks of what appears to be a hide and…

The Oguaa Traditional Council has denied reports claiming that the Omanhene of Cape Coast, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, has been destooled. According to the Council, there has been “a false news” circulating on social media that the paramount chief has been destooled. “He has not, repeat, not been destooled,” a statement issued and signed by the Senior Registrar of the Council, I.A. Donkoh said. It said Osabrima Kwesi Atta II “is still the paramount chief of Cape Coast”. The Council has thus warned the public to desist from circulating the false information, noting that anyone caught circulating such false news…

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dr Benjamin Agordzo, who was released on bail Thursday, has said he has no plans whatsoever to topple Ghana’s government as has been alleged against him. The top police officer being tried for his alleged involvement in a coup plot said, with his six years’ experience in peacekeeping in war ravaged countries, he will be the last person to do anything to disturb the peace of Ghana. “Having spent about 6 years of my life in peace keeping missions in Sudan, Somalia and Haiti and witnessed how conflicts have ravaged those countries, I will be the…