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Atletico Madrid midfielder Thomas Partey was crowned best footballer in the country for the second year running at the Ghana Football Awards on Sunday. Partey beat Mukarama Abdulai and Felix Annan to retain the individual award he won last year. The 26-year-old also retained the foreign-based best footballer award.  Partey …

Goalkeeper, Fatau Dauda, has told Citi Sports that he still dreams of a call up to the senior national team, the Black Stars. The Enyimba FC shotstopper has not featured for the Black Stars since AFCON 2017. Now 34, Dauda, who won the Nigerian Premier League with Enyimba last year, …

There is uneasiness at Lower Dixcove in the Ahanta West Municipality as reports suggest the Paramount Chief of the area, Nana Kwasi Agyemang, is alleged to have been stripped naked and abducted by unidentified men. A relative of the chief told Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan that the assailants used dynamite …

Violent crime in the country increased by 43 percent in the second quarter of 2019, according to the Ghana Public Safety and Crime Report released by the Bureau for Public Safety, (BPS). The report also revealed that the most reported occurrence of violent crimes in the first half of the …

The Builsa North District Security Committee (DISEC) has set up a five-member committee to investigate the cause of clashes by first-year students of the Sandema Senior High Technical School in the Upper East Region. The committee is also expected to unravel the circumstance that led to the death of Abduali …

The government may not be able to meet the full target set for projected revenue if it fails to deploy recommended fiscal electronic devices. These devices are expected to help the revenue collection agencies like the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to assess taxpayers on revenue and Value Added Tax (VAT) …

Ghana’s finest stations Obuoba 91.7 FM and Delight 99.3 FM products of Obuoba Group Ltd have both been nominated in categories for this year’s Eastern Region Media Excellence Awards (ERMEA) . The nomination list was made public on ERMEA’s Facebook platform (https://www.facebook.com/ERMEAGH/). Our very own Nana Darkwa popularly known as …

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, says the Akufo-Addo Administration is gambling with the country’s share in the global cocoa market following the agreement of a new minimum price with Cote D’Ivoire. Though the Ghana-Cote D’Ivoire relationship in cocoa marketing may be strategic, the Minority Leader argued that the …

Youth activist and entrepreneur, Mr. Nafis Quaye, has bemoaned the overreliance on propaganda by political parties  as a major contributor to the unhealthy political discourse in the country. He notes that “if care is not taken, the canker of propaganda as being used by opposition political parties, could tear this …

Boeing on Thursday said it will take a $4.9 billion charge in the second quarter due to the worldwide grounding of its 737 Max planes after two fatal crashes that killed 346 people. The charge, which comes to $8.74 a share, is set to wipe out profits. Analysts expected the company …