Elvis Anokye

Pay the players well to get the best out of them- Ex Prez Kufour to local clubs

Former Board Chairman of Asante Kotoko, John Agyekum Kufuor has added his voice to the growing concerns on the meagre salaries of Ghanaian footballers who ply their trade on the local scene. The meagre salaries of locally-based players which are often not paid promptly at the end of every month …

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Ghanaian gets top job at Facebook

A Ghanaian human rights lawyer and Programme Manager, Afia Asantewaa Asare-Kyei, has been appointed Board Member of the New Global Independent ‘Oversight Board’ for Facebook and Instagram Content. She joins two other Africans – Julie Owono, a digital rights advocate and Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontières from Cameroon and …

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Locked up funds: GH¢5.06bn has been paid to depositors – Oppong Nkrumah

Legitimate claims made to depositors of Savings & Loans and Micro Credit institutions whose funds were locked up due to the financial sector clean-up is at GH¢5.06 billion, the Information Minister has said. According to him, GH¢2.11 billion in cash has so far been paid to depositors with about GH¢2.95 …

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‘Tier 2 pension would better serve Coronavirus relief for workers’ – Analysis

The second tier of the country’s pension scheme is better placed to make relief payments to workers affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), rather than from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), an analysis of the pensions scheme, has shown. With the National Pensions Act making the Tier …

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Is the NDC also typing a letter to suspend Rawlings? – Manasseh asks

Award-winning freelance investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has stated that if Bernard Allotey Jacobs’ suspension by opposition National Democratic Congress ( NDC) is due to his unfavourable commentary about the NDC, then the founder of the party, former President JJ Rawlings, deserves to be suspended as well for having said …

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Ghana to receive Madagascar’s coronavirus ‘herbal cure’

Ghana is to receive quantities of Madagascar’s highly publicized Covid-19 remedy and preventative herbal mixture, the Ghana Health Service has revealed. According to Director of Public Health at the Ghana Helth Service Dr Badu Sarkodie, Madagascar has made an offer to Ghana concerning the herbal solution but the FDA will …

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Fetish priests escape from Suhum

It is turning out that the two ‘killer’ fetish priests — Christian Lawoe Gameli, aka Power One, 36, and his accomplice, Famous Adukonu, aka Scorpion, 37, who have been detained for the alleged callous murder of at least two people at their shrine — were chased out of Suhum in …

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Don’t blame me, blame God – Allotey Jacobs fires NDC again

Bernard Allotey Jacobs has fired back at his saboteurs stating they cannot ruin his life with their pull-him-down syndrome. According to the former NDC Central Regional Chairman, there is a strong supernatural force behind him and no attempts to cause his downfall, particularly in the political realm, will succeed. The …

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Akan drum, the oldest African-American object in the British Museum

The Akan drum is the oldest African-American object in the British Museum, brought from West Africa to the Colony of Virginia as part of the slave trade around 1735. ‘Akan’ refers to an ethnic group from West Africa. Its culture is most apparent today in Ghana. The Akan drum was acquired by …

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Adam Kwarasey was better than all three goalkeepers selected for 2014 world cup – Joseph Yamin

Former Deputy Youth and Sports Minister, Joseph Yamin has said that Adam Kwarasey was better than the other two goalkeepers selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which was hosted by Brazil. Yamin who was responding to assertions that GFA official’s influence player selection into the national said that, player …

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