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Asante Kotoko has dismissed reports claiming coach Paa Kwesi Fabin has quit the club. According to reports in the local media, the former U-17 coach had stepped down due to the club’s poor form in this season’s Ghana Premier League. After 11 matchdays,they find themselves 10th on the standings six points behind leaders AshantiGold. However, the club insists Fabin is still at post and will be in the dugout when they welcome Bechem United to the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday. They posted on their official Twitter page: ”NO CHANGES! Contrary to reports going round, Asante Kotoko head coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin remains the at post and currently preparing the lads for the game against Bechem United. ”Fabin joined the Porcupine Warriors at the start of the season following the sacking of Englishman Steve Polack. The Reds had a dream start to the campaign as they picked a draw at Sogakofe Red Bulls Arena against WAFA- a game in which they made history by scoring their first goal at the ground....

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is set to launch the mobile money interoperability system next week. This means it will be possible from next week to send mobile money from one mobile phone network to another seamlessly when the mobile money interoperability is launched. The launch to be performed by the Vice President will come as a major relief as sending money across networkshas been a major challenge to many. The mobile money interoperability is however only the first phase of a bigger project that will ensure that the public can also transfer funds from their bank accounts tomobile money networks as well as to e-zwich cards and vice versa in what is being termed the Financial Inclusion Triangle. The move by the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), Telcos and Banks, was in response to a challenge thrown by the Vice President Dr Bawumia last year for a mobile money interoperability to become a reality in Ghana. While the original plan was to ensure that m...

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has lauded government for the Nation Builders Corps policy.But, he is worried about the implementation of the policy. The Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo) is a government initiative aimed at addressing graduate unemployment in Ghana. The programme was launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on May 1, 2018. Central to its objectives is to engage the raw talents of unemployed graduates and equip them with skills through a process of value addition and training. The scheme will this year employ 100,000 graduates under seven modules, namely; Educate Ghana, Heal Ghana, Feed Ghana, Revenue Ghana, Digitize Ghana, CivicGhana and Enterprise Ghana. Placement in the NaBCo will last for a period of 3 years under a stipend of GH¢700 every month. The NaBCo is opened to all Ghanaians who have discharged their national service obligations. Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Ade Akye Abia’ programme, he explained that t...

The government will spend GH¢453 million ($103m) of the country’s oil revenue to fund the free senior high school programme this year. The amount is more than twice the figure it spent on the programme, one of its major flagships, last year, having doled out GH¢198 million ($45m) in 2017. The Minister of Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko, disclosed thisin Houston, Texas last Tuesday at a special roundtable meeting with some oil giants on the sidelines of the ongoing Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) as he made a strong case for players in the industry to take full advantage of opportunities in the country and invest in that sector. The meeting, which was arranged by the Commercial Service of the United States of America Department of Commerce, featured major oil companies such as BP, Exxon, Kosmos and other players in the oil and gas industry interested in knowing more about Ghana’s oil prospects. “It is the intention of the government to ensure that the revenues generated from the oil ...

The Board Chairman of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Hackman Owusu-Agyeman, has said the agitations by staff for his removal is largely because he has been very strong on reforming the state-owned cocoa firm. According to him, the workers who are opposing his transformational agenda due to their desire not change their attitudes want him removed. During the May Day celebrations in Kumasi, a section of Cocobod workers wielded placards calling for the Board Chair’s removal. They accused Mr Owusu-Agyeman of usurping the authority of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Joseph Boahen Aidoo. Besides, the workers say Mr Owusu-Agyeman does not listen to their concerns and does not have their interest at heart. But in a reaction to the various allegations against him, Mr Owusu-Agyeman told Accra-based Citi FM that COCOBOD workers have been “spoilt” in the past years, which according to him, explains for the reason why the firm is in crisis. “This is part of an entrenched mindset of the peopl...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has become uncomfortable and troubled following the launch of the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo). The NDC has expressed its opposition to government’s plan to hire 100,000 unemployed graduates as part of NABCo.The largest opposition party has said the government program ‘Nation Builders Corps’ (NABCo) offers no new plan to create jobs but a duplication of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA). It has also said the GHS700 salary for the employees ridicules the value of a tertiary level certificate. NABCo will initially operate seven modules designed to meet the pressing needs of the nation while providing jobsfor the teeming youth who have received tertiary education but are struggling to find jobs. The modules include the Feed Ghana module where people serve as agric extension officers to help our farmers. There’s also the Educate Ghana module where p...

The Head of Tepa Fetishist Priest in the Ashanti Region Nana Kusi Komfour has chide those calling for legalisation of homosexuality as non God fearing people who don’t reason. I wonder some people are calling for legislation of homosexuality whilst animals are not into such act. This is typical taboo which we must desist from it as a nation to avoid any calamities on the Country. If Animals are not diverting their sexual desire why human beings. ” Even Animals are now wiser than we (Human beings). Can those people give birth and name their children from such act,” he asked. The spiritualist therefore pleaded with the President of the republic and the Citizens of Ghana, not to endorse or support such ungodly act.