Punchless Zebras Worry Tshosane

FREDERICK KEBADIRETSE After watching his side draw 0-0 with Zambia in Molepolole in an international friendly on Saturday, the coach said he has done everything to try and make the team to score goals, but no such thing is happening. The national team has a long-standing goal drought often blamed on defensive tactics employed by [...]

Kraft sells Polish Cadbury business to Lotte Group

Kraft Foods Inc. has agreed to sell a Polish candy business it acquired through its acquisition of Cadbury to Japanese conglomerate Lotte Group. The food maker did not disclose terms of the deal for Cadbury’s E. Wedel business in a news release Monday. The company, based in Northfield, Ill., said it had to sell the [...]

Breaking the quarter-final jinx?

…‘Yes, we Gyan’

It is time to break the jinx. And indeed exploits of the Black Stars at the ongoing World Cup tournament in South Africa seems to be firming up the belief that Africa’s all time best of a quarter-final berth is likely to be broken by the West African giant.

Girl, 7, electrocuted

The negligence on the part of Electricity Company Ghana (ECG) officials of Awoshie in Accra, to rectify one of their electricity poles, which was zapping and electrocuting unsuspecting residents in Nyamekye, has led the untimely death of a seven-year-old girl in the area.

Peg Presidential age at 35 — PNC

STORY: KWAKU SAKYI-DANSO The National Youth Organizer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Atik Mohamed, has called for a change in the age limit to enable Ghanaians who qualify to stand and be elected as president of this country. He argued that “it is wrong to peg the age limit at 40, and I believe [...]

Bawku MP declares for Akufo-Addo

“Nana is Bawku and Bawku is Nana” were the words of Adamu Dramani, Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, when he addressed delegates of his constituency at the Bawku Community Centre and declared his support for Nana Akufo-Addo and his desire that Nana will win the general elections of 2012, and hopefully become president of [...]

Bio system to check lazy MPs

STORY: KWAKU SAKYI-DANSO As controversy over attendance of Members of Parliament (MPs) rages on, a former deputy Minister of Communication and the current Minority Chief Whip, Hon Fredrick Opare Ansah, has advocated for the introduction of a biometric system to monitor the attendance of MPs, especially those who do not attend parliamentary proceedings, but end [...]

The NHIS: Where is it headed?

—Ti-Kelenkelen— With Osikani Yaw Once at our March 6 Independence celebration, President Rawlings cracked a long joke, but the top military officer in charge if the parade did not laugh. The president had to tell him to lighten up, but still the officer did not laugh. Rolling that incident over in my big head now, [...]