Yearly Archives: 2019

I almost left Barcelona five years ago – Messi

Lionel Messi has revealed that he almost left Barcelona in 2014 after he and his father were charged with tax fraud. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner was alleged to have used tax havens in Belize and Uruguay to conceal earnings from image rights, and as such defrauded Spain of €4.1 …

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Turkey boosts troops to cross Syria border ‘shortly’

Turkey has boosted its forces on the Syrian border ahead of a long-threatened incursion that could target Kurdish-led forces allied to the US. Troops would cross into Syria “shortly”, a presidential aide said. Turkey wants to create a “safe zone” cleared of a Kurdish militia that will also house some …

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Northern California braced for mega power cut

A power company has started cutting electricity to around 800,000 homes, businesses and other locations in Northern California, in an attempt to prevent wildfires. Large swathes of the San Francisco Bay Area – though not the city itself – are expected to be affected. The region’s utility company, Pacific Gas …

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Ethiopian Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Dakar

An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing minutes after taking off in Senegal because an engine had caught fire, an airport spokesman said. None of the 90 passengers or crew were injured, spokesman Tidiane Tamba told Reuters. The airline confirmed on Twitter that its Boeing 767 …

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Yingli Namene submits proposal to construct 50 megawatts solar energy

Yingli Namene West Africa Limited, solar energy designing, developing and installation company, has submitted a proposal to government to construct a 50 megawatts rooftop solar energy for government buildings. The proposal is in line with the Ministry of Energy’s plan to improve renewable energy penetration from less than five per …

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BoG orders closure of ‘illegal’ forex bureau

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) on Tuesday ordered the closure of Aero Cash forex bureau operated by two Nigerians in Dzorwulu, Accra. This is due to failure by the operators to provide relevant documents to the Bank of Ghana to ascertain the legality of their operations. A team from the …

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Five former Ghanaian players who are coaches abroad

More often than not, many footballers enter into coaching after they hang their boots and even with some of them, they undertake coaching courses getting to the twilight of their careers so that when they retire, they start their new adventure. Coaches like Zidane, Laurent Blanc, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard …

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CST: Telcos deliberately making gov’t unpopular – Assibey-Yeboah

The Chairman of the Finance committee of Parliament, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has accused telecommunications companies in the country of bad faith regarding the implementation of the recently increased Communications Service Tax, (CST). The tax which was reviewed upward from 6 to 9 percent now sees credits of customers deducted at …

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