Barcelona forward Ousmane Dembele will join Paris St-Germain, says Barca coach Xavi. The 26-year-old France international was an unused substitute in Barcelona’s 1-0 pre-season friendly win over AC Milan in Las Vegas on Wednesday. “He says that he has this proposal and that he has decided to leave. It...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is going all out to clampdown on the registration of unqualified candidates for its school exams. This is particularly so with the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), where some parents connive with, mostly public schools to move their wards from private schools to...
The Akyem Abuakwa State has served notice to protest on the principal streets of Adoagyiri on Wednesday, 9th August 2023, against the gruesome murder of one Odehye Kwame Sarkodie, a member of the Dwumana Royal family of Adoagyiri The notice to the Ghana Police Service on the protest was...
The Director, Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Professor Kwesi Aning has indicated that rampant corruption breeds fertile grounds for coups to take place. He explained that coups take place long before the military decides to take the gun to seize power. Speaking in...
The Tamale High Court presided over by his Lordship, Justice, Eric Ansah Ankomah, has slapped the immediate past Savannah Regional Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Inusah Abdulai, with a fine of GH¢ 20,000. Mr Abdulai took his successor, Sorku Kassim Yahuza, and the NDC as a party...
What caused the coup in Niger? An expert outlines three driving factors. At an emergency meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on 30 July, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) demanded the “immediate release and reinstatement” of Niger’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. He had been held by the military since 19...
Grammy award-winning Nigerian superstar singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has become the first African musician to earn the BRIT Billion Award for over one billion streams in the United Kingdom. The award is given to artists who have achieved over one billion digital streams in the United...
Two US soldiers may face up to three years in prison and a $11,000 fine in connection with the spray painting of a 15th-century Basilica in the latest case of an Italian monument being defaced by foreigners. The two suspects, named only as A.J. Jr., 29, and B.M.E., 23, allegedly...
The Presidential Elections Committee of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has released a list of polling centres across the 16 regions for the forthcoming Special Delegates Conference scheduled for August 26. Williams Yamoah, the Secretary of the Presidential Elections Committee, disclosed in a statement that the delegates conference,...
The military juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali have said any forcible attempt to restore President Mohamed Bazoum in neighbouring Niger will be seen as a declaration of war on them. This follows a threat from a regional bloc that it would “take all measures” if the president was...
