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New Ghana Football Association president Kurt Okraku asked for the love back and on the resumption of the first day of the Ghana Premier League new season, there was a considerable bit of that back. It wasn’t a tale of full stadiums but there was significant social media interest to build on and above all plenty drama to drive a league badly in need of public image resurrection. Key highlights That has to be the sheer number of goals on the opening weekend. There were 25 in the nine matches, an average of 2.7 every game which is a considerably…

It has emerged that claims by Mrs Seinye Lulu-Briggs, wife of late High Chief O.B. Lulu-Briggs, that sons of her late husband had appealed against a high court ruling concerning the burial of the High Chief were “false”. Mrs Lulu-Briggs, who is also a pastor, alleged that Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, one of the surviving sons of her late husband, had opposed the release of the autopsy result on the father. But available documents from court have exposed Mrs. Seinye Lulu-Briggs as being the one who is rather leading an appeal against last week’s ruling by the Accra High Court on…

After one year’s break, the Ghana Premier League made a return, throwing up some interesting results across nine matches centres. The top-flight had been away since the suspension of the 2017-18 championship halfway through the season and subsequently annulled due to a bribery and match-fixing scandal. The comeback of the league ends an 18-month absence. Also, unlike previous seasons, the new campaign features 18 teams. Asante Kotoko, the most successful team in the history of the competition with 23 titles, got their campaign off to a good start by a 1-0 home triumph over Eleven Wonders at Kumasi’s Baba Yara Sports Stadium.…

Chelsea overcame an “awful” start, said boss Frank Lampard, as they staged a stunning late comeback to snatch victory and wreck Mikel Arteta’s return to Emirates Stadium as Arsenal manager. Arteta, taking charge of his first home game since succeeding the sacked Unai Emery, looked on course for three important points after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s early header put the Gunners in front. Chelsea, with Lampard making a first-half tactical switch when he introduced Jorginho for the struggling Emerson, were gifted an equaliser seven minutes from time when goalkeeper Bernd Leno hopelessly misjudged Mason Mount’s free-kick to leave the substitute with a…

A raging fire has swept through nine vehicles, consuming seven of them in a mechanic shop near the old American Embassy at Osu in Accra. Two of the vehicles, a V8 and V6, had their bonnets and engine area burnt in the Sunday afternoon fire that rapidly spread to an adjoining residential building. Three rooms and their washrooms were all burnt, Moses Dickson reported a while ago. “The cars are quite new,” he said, adding a motorbike in the affected residential building has also been consumed by the fire that started around midday. No one has been injured. Personnel from…

The scourge of monetization in Ghana’s electoral politics will be the underlying theme for the celebration of the 38th anniversary of the 31st December revolution, on Tuesday December 31. The commemoration, which will take place at the Winneba Lorry Park with a durbar of chiefs and people, will have leading cadres including the architect of the revolution, former President Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings as speakers. The event will involve a wreath laying ceremony in honour of the fallen heroes followed by a durbar. According to the Organising Committee, the celebration will be under the theme, Monetization of Elections in…

A three-week-old baby born with spina bifida occulta (spine deformity) in the East Gonja municipality of the Savannah Region is likely to die as his parents are unable to afford a surgical procedure to correct the medical condition. Doctors at the Tamale Teaching Hospital say if the baby does undergo surgery early, he could develop sepsis, a medical emergency that causes the immune system to go into overdrive and attacks the body’s own organs and tissues. Sepsis can also cause damage to kidneys, lungs, brain, and heart, leading to death. The Hospital authorities say they will need 17,000 cedis to…

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, Justice of the Court of Appeal (Sitting as additional High Court Judge) on Monday, December 23, 2019 ordered the release of the remains of the late Nigerian philanthropist, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs to his “family by custom, led by Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, to convey the same to Nigeria, for burial and funeral rites.” The order follows months of wrangling in court between the widow of the deceased, Seinye Lulu-Briggs, and his three oldest sons – Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, Senibo Lulu-Briggs and Sofiri Lulu-Briggs, over who is the rightful…

At least five people have been stabbed at the house of a rabbi in New York state, police say. The house in Monsey, north of New York City, was hosting a religious celebration when the attacker burst in, according to the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC). The suspect fled but was later taken into custody, police said. The motive was not immediately clear. One of the victims was stabbed at least six times, OJPAC said in a tweet. The attack came a day after New York city police said officers were stepping up patrols in heavily Jewish districts following a spate…

Ghana government has lauded the decision by some eight countries in the ECOWAS sub region to cease using CFA franc for the new common currency, the Eco, from 2020. The President of West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), Alassane Ouattara, on December 21 announced the end of the CFA franc in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo and his country, Ivory Coast. “This is a welcome decision, which Ghana warmly applauds,” a statement issued by the Diretor of Communications at the presidency Eugene Arhin said on Saturday. The decision, according to Ghana government, “is good testimony to the…