Ghana Hold On To Reach Quarter-Finals
Ghana withstood intense second-half pressure to beat Mali 1-0 and reach the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals. Andre Ayew fired wide from six yards before Asamoah Gyan headed in the opener as...
Day: January 21, 2017
Ghana Through To AFCON Quarters After Win Over Mali
The Black Stars are through to the quarter-finals of the AFCON after a hard-fought 1-0 win over Mali on Saturday. Ghana’s Captain Asamoah Gyan headed home from a cross by Jordan Ayew in the 20th...
Rescuers Listen For Signs of Life In Avalanche-Struck Hotel
Rescuers listened for signs Saturday of any more survivors, three days after an avalanche slammed into a resort hotel in Italy's central Apennines mountains. Using saws, shovels and just gloved...
Ghana 1-0 Mali- Asamoah Gyan Heads Black Stars Into Quarter-Finals
Ghana progressed to the quarter-final of the 2017 Africa Cup Nations with one match to spare after a 1-0 win over Mali on Saturday in their second Group D match. Captain Asamoah Gyan's 20th minute...
Thomas Partey Wins Man of the Match Award In Ghana’s Win Over Mali
Midfielder Thomas Partey was named Man of the Match in Ghana's 1-0 win over Mali on Saturday in Africa Cup of Nations Group D. The Atletico Madrid man was rugged in the middle alongside Mubarak...
Full Match Report, Ghana 1-0 Mali
Ghana progressed to the quarter-final of the 2017 Africa Cup Nations with one match to spare after a 1-0 win over Mali on Saturday in their second Group D match. Captain Asamoah Gyan's 20th minute...
U.S. Envoy To Kazakhstan To Attend Syria Talks As An Observer
The U. S. State Department said on Saturday it will not send a delegation from Washington to attend Syrian peace talks in the Kazakh capital next week due to immediate demands of the transition. The...
Arab Israelis Protest After Bedouin Death
Thousands of Arab Israelis protested in northern Israel on Saturday, days after a Bedouin man was killed during clashes with police in the south. Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan, 50, died in disputed...
Asamoah Gyan Is Ghana’s All-Time Top Scorer In Africa Cup of Nations History
Asamoah Gyan has become Ghana's all-time top scorer in Africa Cup of Nations history his header gave the Black Stars a 1-0 win over Mali on Saturday in their second Group D match against Mali on...
FDI Drops By Over 80% In 2016 Third Quarter
Foreign Direct Investments decreased by 83.33 percent for the third quarter of 2016, figures from the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has shown. The FDIs dropped from 1.45 billion dollars...
Marine Le Pen Hails Patriotism As the Policy of the Future
French National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen has told a meeting of right-wing politicians in Germany that patriotism is the policy of the future. The presidential candidate predicted that voters...
Inaccurate Data From BoG, Finance Ministry Affecting Gov’t Work – Osafo-Maafo
Senior Minister Nominee, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has disclosed that the lack of accurate data on Ghana’s debt has made it difficult for the NPP government to make projections on the fiscal gap to influence...
Black Stars Eye Place In Knockout Round With Win Over Mali
play videoThe Black Stars were denied the bronze medal twice by Mali in 2012 and 2013 A second successive win in Group D for Ghana will see the the Black Stars through to the knockout phase of the...
Tornado Rips Through Parts of South Mississippi, Killing 4
Four people were killed and scores of homes were flattened early Saturday when a tornado hitting in the dark of night ripped through a city in southern Mississippi, officials said. The city of...
Advocacy Needed For Increased Saving and Investment Culture
Mr Kojo Addae-Mensah, the Group Chief Executive Officer of Databank, called on all stakeholders in the financial sector to adopt strategies of making savings and investment a part of the Ghanaian...
Independent Prosecutor Will Deal With Corruption – Gloria Akuffo
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice-designate, Gloria Akuffo has stated that the Independent Prosecutor’s office to be set up by the President will deal specifically with corruption....
Washington Leads Global Rallies
Hundreds of thousands are gathering for a “Women’s March on Washington”, part of a global day of protests against new US President Donald Trump. The rally is one of more than 600 expected...
Uber To Pay $20m To ‘misled’ Drivers
Between January and March 2015, ride-sharing service Uber put out ads on Craigslist in the hope of attracting new drivers by offering attractive hourly rates of pay. In Boston, for example, it told...
France’s Socialists Open Battle For Party’s Future
France is choosing its left-wing presidential candidate this weekend, in what is seen as a crucial test for the direction - even the survival - of the governing Socialist Party. Six men and one woman...
State Attorneys’ Strike To End After Nana Addo’s Intervention – Gloria Akuffo
Striking state attorneys will be returning to work on Monday, January 23, the Attorney General-nominee, Gloria Akuffo, has indicated. During her vetting for the office of Attorney General and...