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The Ghana Football Association has held advanced talks with the United States Soccer Federation for a pre-2022 FIFA World Cup friendly between the Black Stars and the USMNT. But the date and venue for the match remains undecided with most qualified associations yet to announce their schedules. The tournament in …

Will Smith has been banned from the Oscars gala and other Academy events for 10 years after the US actor slapped comic Chris Rock at the Oscars. In a statement, the Academy said the 94th Oscars had been “overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behaviour we saw Mr Smith exhibit …

Former Nigeria striker Ndubisi Chukunyere claims the ‘harsh’ weather conditions in Abuja halted the Super Eagles’ ambition to defeat Ghana. Having settled for a 0-0 draw in the first leg played in the Baba Yara Stadium, the three-time African kings needed a win to secure a 2022 World Cup berth. …

The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, Johnson Aseidu Nketia, has stated that the party is ready to contest a by-election in Assin North Constituency. The NDC scribe, popularly referred to as General Mosquito, revealed that the current Member of Parliament, Jame Gyakye Quayson, will be the party’s …

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced a 53-year-old fisherman to 15 years imprisonment for defiling a 10-year-old girl at La. Samuel Odoi Yemofio, charged with defilement, pleaded not guilty. At the end of the trial presided over by Mrs Christina Cann, Yemofio was found guilty. The case as narrated by …

A 35-year old man is in the custody of the Bawjiase Police Command in the Central Region for sexually assaulting a married woman. The suspect, Kwabena Ebo, popularly known as ‘One in town’, is alleged to have put some concoction in a drink for the married woman who had gone …

A court in Burkina Faso has sentenced the country’s former president, Blaise Compaoré, to life in prison for the murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara. Sankara, who was not one of those African leaders to be told what to do by western nations, was murdered after four years in power …

52-year-old Imam, Tamimu Mohammed has been jailed on three separate occasions for engaging in drugs and in illegal mining. In an interview with Crime Check TV GH, he said he was an experienced weed smoker who started smoking when he was in class six. Mohammed said whiles working with a …

The Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and robbing a 25-year-old student at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Akoka on Tuesday, April 5. Identified as Collins Okechukwu, he was handed the sentence by Justice Abiola Soladoye. According …

It seems that Asamoah Gyan is not retiring from the game anytime soon as he has begun intensive training with the aim to return to active football. The former Black Stars captain has not been in action since parting ways with Ghana Premier League side Legon Cities in 2021 after a year …