The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Commercial Service of the US Embassy in Accra to organise two business expositions ahead of this year’s international friendlies against Mexico and the USA. The business exposition, which is being organised in partnership with RGG Sports LLC of Tampa, will see a business conference and two exhibition fairs held in the two cities for the friendlies.

A sliced nerve suffered by Ghana defender Harrison Afful during an attempt to prepare chicken is the latest in a long line of bizarre off-the-pitch injuries suffered by a professional footballer. Afful's club, Columbus Crew disclosed that he was back in training on Monday after undergoing surgery to repair a sliced nerve in his hand.

Las Palmas’ Kevin-Prince Boateng has until the end of April to decide if he wants to take an offer from Valencia or stay with the island outfit. Plaza Deportiva reports a meeting between Boateng’s representatives and the Las Palmas hierarchy that will take place in the next few days and go a long way to determining the midfielder’s future.

The University of Ghana (UG) men's basketball team retained the Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges (UPAC) Basketball Championship by easing past Marshalls University College 41-23 in a one-sided final on Saturday in Accra. The rampant UG team lived up to their pre-tournament billing as favourites and had accounted for the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) 45-20 in the semi-finals.

A US military strike with a weapon known as the "mother of all bombs" (MOAB) killed 36 IS militants and destroyed their base, the Afghan defence ministry says.

The Northern Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu, has waded into the controversy surrounding the relocation of residents of Old Fadama.

Illegal miners are reported to have mined the community cemetery at Kukuaville near Bameanko in the Jomoro District of the Western Region in an overnight operation.

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Import of petroleum products rose by 18.27 per cent in 2015 to 4.4 million metric tons (MT) last year. This is in spite of the fact that national consumption of those products dropped by 5.64 per cent in the same period under review. Data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) showed that after consuming 3.53 million MT of refined petroleum products in 2015, the country’s total consumption of premix fuel, gasoil, fuel oil, kerosene and liquefied

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has said for the government to win the fight against the illegal small-scale mining, popularly known as ‘galamsey’ in Ghana, it was important for it to identify the invisible powers behind the trade. It said the uncontrolled destruction of the environment for precious minerals, particularly gold, highlighted a collective irresponsibility of small-scale miners, chiefs, politicians, land sector agencies,

For most businesses, the telephone is often the first contact with existing customers and perhaps the only point of contact with most prospective clients. It can potentially make or break a business relationship. When customers call a company, they expect an undivided attention. They don’t want to be kept waiting, they need prompt answers and they need to trust the information they receive is accurate. Because first impressions are lasting, and

The $138 million National Data Centre managed by the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) is being underutilised due to lack of funds and poor patronage by the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITA, Mr Jeff Konadu, the data centre was to cater for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) needs of the MDAs, but majority of them were not patronising NITA’s services.

The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) has launched a campaign to build momentum for clean cooking in Ghana. Dubbed ‘Strategic Support to the Clean Cooking Sector,’ it is aimed at supporting the government’s efforts to ensure about two million improved biomass stoves are used in homes, while attaining a 50 per cent penetration of cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) by 2020 in both urban and rural areas.