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Football talents abound in Ghana and the African continent in general, however; it takes scouts, mini-tournaments, and in some areas, community-organized football competitions to uncover these endowments. Such competitions, particularly in areas outside the big towns offer enormous opportunities for emerging football geniuses. One of these convergences was recently organized by no other person but the venerable Frank Annoh- Dompreh ...

The activist daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said on Tuesday. The lawyer did not give detail of the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. But Tehran’s public prosecutor indicted Hashemi last year on charges of “propaganda against the system”, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. State media in ...

Former Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye wants the appointment process for the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) reviewed. He wants a fixed term of 6 years for the Chairperson of the elections management body. Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Alfred Ocansey on Monday, January 9, the former lawmaker for Dome-Kwabenya indicated that the appointments of ...

The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications says it will commence the implementation of the revised Electronic Transfer levy (E-Levy) rate of 1% from Wednesday, January 11, 2023. The government presenting the 2023 Budget and Economic Policy Statement, reviewed the 1.5 percent electronic transaction levy downwards to 1 percent effective January 2023. The reduction has also been approved by Parliament. The chamber ...

Many second-cycle schools have expressed their readiness to reopen for the commencement of the 2023 academic year. In separate interviews with the Daily Graphic, the management of some second-cycle schools expressed their readiness to reopen for the commencement of the 2023 academic year. According to the management of some of the schools, they had put in place the necessary arrangements ...

Nigeria has officially restricted massive cash withdrawals from the bank beginning Monday the 9th January in an effort to cool off inflation. Nigerians will only be allowed to withdraw 44 dollars per week per individual and $11,000 for businesses. This policy is most likely to affect millions of Nigerians especially businessmen and high cash-intensive activities. The stated goal of the ...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says it has concluded investigations into corruption-related allegations at the Northern Development Authority. This is contained in a half-year report issued by the OSP. According to the OSP, the release of the report is in pursuance of section 3(3) of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act, 2017 (Act 959). The 13-page report ...

The state-funded Ethiopian Media Authority (Ema) has issued a statement calling on the authorities to stop harassing media workers, particularly investigative journalists. It came after the privately owned Ethiopian Satellite Television (Esat TV) said last week that it had received what it called a letter of intimidation from a court in the capital, Addis Ababa. “Of late, a tendency to stop the ...

The authorities in Burkina Faso have launched an investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of 28 people whose bodies were found in the north-western town of Nouna. In a statement, the government said the killings were discovered on the night of 30 December and condemned the “unacceptable violence”. The Reuters news agency quotes prosecutors as saying that the victims were ...

The United States has dropped Burkina Faso from its AGOA trade preference program citing deep concerns over “unconstitutional change” in government in the West African country, the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) office said on Sunday. Frustrations over the government’s inability to curb an Islamist insurgency spurred two military coups in Burkina Faso in 2022. Both the previous and current juntas ...