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  • Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda quits Nigerian giants Enyimba

    Ghanaian goalkeeper Fatau Dauda has opted not to extend his expired contract with Nigerian giants Enyimba, The Black Stars shot-stopper leaves the People’s Elephants after impressing in just one season at the Aba-based club.

    Dauda has now returned home eyeing his next career move with a club in the Ghana Premier League most likely to sign him.

    He will move as a free agent with several clubs in the Ghanaian top-flight seeking players to boost their squads ahead of the start of the new season.

    Enyimba have entered the market and swooped for Nigeria goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa as a direct replacement for Dauda.

    Ezenwa was a free agent after his contract with FC Ifeanyiubah ended this past season.

    He is expected to join Enyimba in Kano for the Ahlan Pre-Season Tournament, which kicks off tomorrow.

    There is a get-out clause in his contract with Enyimba which will allow him to leave should he agree a move overseas before the end of his year-long deal.

    He is a direct replacement for Ghana goalkeeper Fatau Dauda, who will not be returning to the Aba club for the new season.

    Ezenwa, who has also been capped by Nigeria at U20 and U23 levels, has previously featured for Sharks, Sunshine Stars and Ocean Boys.

    Ghanasoccernet.com

  • 6 dead, several others injured in Ghana as Gas truck fire triggers explosion

    At least six people have been confirmed dead with dozens injured in the Madina Atomic Junction gas explosion that occurred on Saturday night in Accra, Ghana.

    Two of the deceased are said to have been knocked down by speeding vehicles during the chaos.

    More than 20 vehicles are also reported to have been razed down by the explosion.

    Many of the injured persons were sent to the 37 Military Hospital and Legon Hospital for treatment.

    Four of the injured persons are said to be in life-threatening conditions at the 37 Military Hospital.

    Two fuel stations, including a gas refill station at the Madina Junction, caught fire leading to the destruction of several properties and loss of lives.

    The fire is said to have started at about 7 p.m on Saturday night and lasted for many hours.

  • Bring back Ghana’s dead movie industry- Yvonne Nelson cries out

    Svelte Ghanaian actress and filmmaker, Yvonne Nelson has decried the state of Ghana’s movie industry. The popular Ghanaian actress took to Twitter to condemn the amount of time Ghanaian actors spend on fashion and ‘Slaying’ on the red carpets.

    Nelson noted that the same time and energy can be used to grow the movie industry.

    This is coming after the Golden Movie Awards that took place at the Movenpick Hotel, Accra with so many fashionable actors and actresses on the red carpet.

    She wrote: “Listen, let’s put in same energy to bring back the dead industry rather than slay on carpets cuz truthfully y’all know there’s no work!”

     

  • I sleep with men I find attractive- Sister Afia

    Ghanaian singer, Sista Afia is no doubt a talented highlife singer.Asides that, she is also known to be vocal about her sex life. The singer who flaunts her cleavage on social media has said she sometimes have sex with men she finds attractive without being emotionally attached to them.

    Afia who sees nothing wrong with kissing a fan on stage said:”I sometimes have sex with attractive men without getting emotionally attached”.

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    When asked about the weirdest comment she has ever gotten about her mode of dressing, the busty entertainer revealed that someone once called her a prostitute.

    Hear her:” I get bad comments all the time I don’t really take them as embarrassing moments however the worst comment someone ever passed about me was that I was a prostitute but come on, do I look like that? That was harsh but I don’t take comments like that serious anyway because when you are in the music industry, people are gonna come at you left, right, centre so you need to be prepared I don’t really pay attention to all that stuff”.

     

     

  • UBA ‘Read Africa’ visits Ghana

    UBA ‘Read Africa’ visits Ghana

    On Tuesday, July 4th, 2017, The UBA Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, continued on its quest to educate and empower African youths as it visited the Accra High School in Ghana.

    UBA Foundation’s Read Africa Initiative was launched in 2011 and has been changing the lives of African students across the continent for six years. The project is aimed at encouraging children to improve their vocabulary and communication skills through reading. Through its Read Africa initiative, the UBA Foundation is helping rekindle the dwindling reading culture amongst African youths as they pursue their education. Over a hundred thousand books and educational materials have been donated to various schools across Africa as UBA Foundation continues to traverse the continent, contributing positively to the development of African youths.

     

    The Accra High school assembly hall was packed with over 500 energetic and enthusiastic high school students who were already in a reading mode as they prepare for their exams next week. They were eager to talk about their own ambitions and to read passages from The Fishermen.

     

    Bola Atta, Acting CEO of the UBA Foundation, told the children that the Foundation was eager to give back to society and to contribute to creating dynamic educational platforms for future generations on the continent. She encouraged the students to read voraciously saying: ‘the pursuit of knowledge should be a lifelong activity that starts at a very young age. You should read all types of books so that you can explore and shape your own narrative.’

     

     

    Abiola Bawuah, the CEO of UBA Ghana who was also present, advised the students to pay a lot of attention to studying. ‘Don’t spend all your time glued to your mobile phones. Spare some moments for reading also’ said Bawuah.

     

    The Assistant head master of Accra High School, Michael Addo thanked the UBA Foundation for coming to their Aid.

     

    United Bank for Africa (UBA)Plc, Africa’s global bank, is committed to being a socially responsible company and role model for all businesses in Africa. UBA understands that there is a need for a social contract between the bank, the communities in which it operates, and its people. To this end, in 2006, UBA became the first bank in Nigeria to institute a foundation, the UBA Foundation. As the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the UBA Group, UBA Foundation is committed to the socio-economic betterment of communities across the African continent focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education, Economic Empowerment and Special Projects.

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Panic as 14 people are trapped in mining pit in Ghana

    Panic as 14 people are trapped in mining pit in Ghana

    At least 14 illegal miners are said to have been trapped in a mine at Prestea-Nsuta in the Western Region, Ghana.

    According to a national TV station in Ghana, the miners, numbering 19, were believed to have been trapped since Sunday after a heavy downpour.

    Only five of the miners successfully came out from the collapsed pit, Nsuta District Police Commander, Superintendent Atsu Dzinaku confirmed.

    It is not clear if the trapped victims are still alive or dead. Rescue efforts are underway to attempt to rescue possible survivors.

    Dzinaku said the pit in which the victims are trapped is about 80 meters deep. The residents are leading the rescue mission, the district commander confirmed.

    The police are currently interrogating two out of the five victims who escaped unhurt.

    The collapse is the latest in many mining disasters that have been recorded in the past. It comes at a time government is waging war on illegal mining across the country.

  • Nigeria, Ghana to intensify bilateral cooperation – Presidency

    Nigeria and Ghana have agreed to intensify bilateral cooperation for the benefit and development of both countries and that of the West African sub-region.

    Mr Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), confirmed this development in a statement he issued in Abuja on Sunday.

    He said that the bilateral agreement was part of the outcome of the closed door meeting between Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and the visiting Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, held at the official residence of the Nigerian acting President on Sunday in Abuja.

    According to the presidential aide, during the meeting that followed, the two leaders highlighted the critical role that Nigeria and Ghana play as the “centre piece’’ of the West African sub-region.

    “Discussions between the two leaders touched on the forthcoming African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, ongoing negotiations on the Continental Free Trade Agreement (CFTA), and the revitalisation of the Ghana-Nigeria Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation.

    “Both leaders pledged to intensify bilateral cooperation for the benefit and development of the sub-region,’’ he said.

    According to the statement, Akufo-Addo thanked the acting president for receiving his delegation on a special day, when Nigeria was commemorating Eid-el-Fitr.

    He said that his visit was part of an ongoing tour of the sub-region to “take stock of what’s going on, and to renew relations’’.

    The Ghanaian president also extended his good wishes to President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Osinbajo on his part thanked the Ghanaian president for visiting Nigeria.

    He said: “We are extremely excited about the ECOWAS sub-region and hope that we will be able to do a lot together.’’

    Members of Akufo-Addo’s delegation included Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, and Minister of National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, as well officials of Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry.

     

  • Graphic photo: Jealous man chops off ex-girlfriend’s hand

    A 22-year-old farmer, Joshua Tei, has been declared wanted by the police in the Suhum Municipality in Ghana, for allegedly chopping off his girlfriend’s hand over suspicion of cheating.

    According to Daily Guide, the incident occurred at about 7:30 pm on Saturday at Aponoapono, a farming community in the Eastern Region.

    The victim, whose name was given as Patience, has had one of her hands amputated at the Suhum Government Hospital after it could not be sutured and has since been deposited at a mortuary.

    It was also reported that the severed hand was reportedly dangling after the gruesome attack.

    Narrating the sad event, Patience said she was in church but came out to receive a phone call and that unknown to her, her former boyfriend, who had laid ambush near the church and monitoring her movement, suddenly emerged from the bush, assaulted her and chopped off the hand that was holding the mobile phone. She said Tei took to his heels thereafter.

    According to her, it was until she screamed for help before the congregants in the church came to her rescue and rushed her to the hospital.

    It was learned the suspect who is presently at large, had been accusing the victim of cheating on him with another man.

    According to some neighbours in the area, Joshua Tei had been threatening the ex-girlfriend and so the latter reported the matter to the former boyfriend’s parents but no action was taken.

     

     

     

     

  • FUTA, partners launch satellite, NigeriaEdusat-1 into space

    FUTA, partners launch satellite, NigeriaEdusat-1 into space

    At Exactly 10:07 a.m. on Saturday, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, made history when the SpaceX Falcon9 Rocket launched Birds 1 satellites, comprising 5 CubeSats belonging to Japan, Ghana, Mongolia, Nigeria and Bangladesh, into Space from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA.

    The Nigerian CubeSat, code name NigeriaEdusat-1, is designed, built and owned by FUTA in collaboration with the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Abuja, Nigeria, and Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. Ibukun Adebolu of FUTA’s Department of Mechanical Engineering is the representative of Nigeria on the project. The initial launch scheduled for Thursday June 1 was aborted due to adverse weather condition.

    The satellite is expected to dock at the International Space Station, ISS, on June 5 at 10:30 a.m. Nigerian time. It is the first ever University satellite to be launched in Nigeria. From the International Space Station, the satellites will be deployed into lower orbit during the last week of June 2017.

    The major objective of NigeriaEdusat-1 is capacity building, i.e. domesticating the satellite technology in a Nigerian university, FUTA, and making the technology a common business among staff and students of the university in Nigeria for the purpose of research, resources and environmental management and sustainable socio-economic development of the nation.

    The satellite technology development in the long run shall have spillover effects on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education that is an essential tool for a country industrial development.

    Mr. Adebolu, who is involved in the Structure Configuration Design, BIRDS Project gives details of his role on the project, “My role in the Birds’ Project is Structure Design. Drawing on my background in Mechanical Engineering, I am saddled with the task of ensuring that our satellites have sufficient strength and rigidity to survive the rigorous launch and space environments. In order to achieve this, I have to ensure that all payload and Bus System are properly accommodated within the 10-cubic centimeter structure. I find this very challenging, because it involves a lot of optimisation and trade-offs. In the future, I hope to work more on other aspects of satellite design.”

    The Vice Chancellor, Joseph Fuwape, said with the successful launch, FUTA has shown the capabilities of Nigerian scientists and would build on the success to concretize its leading position in cutting edge researches and scientific breakthroughs.

     

  • Ghana defender, Rahman out for the rest of season

    Ghanaian defender, Baba Rahman, has been ruled out for the rest of the season after undergoing surgery in Germany, officials said on Tuesday.

    The Chelsea fullback, on loan this season to Schalke 04, flew to London for initial examinations.

    He then went on to Germany after suffering the injury during Ghana’s opening game at the African Nations Cup finals in Gabon.

    He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and damaged the inner and outer meniscus, according to Ghana FA officials.

    Coach Avram Grant blamed the poor surface at Port Gentil for the injury, suffered in the first half against Uganda one week ago.

    Rahman will begin rehabilitation with Chelsea in the coming days.

    The 22-year-old cost the London club 21.7 million pounds in August, 2015, and made 23 appearances before Antonio Conte agreed to loan him to Schalke at the beginning of this season.