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By Julius Addae ODURO Online betting company Betpawa has revised its sponsorship of the Ghana Premier League. The company in the 2022/2023 league season signed a three year sponsorship deal with the Ghana Football Association worth $6Million.A press statement from Betpawa released on Thursday November 30,2023 indicates that the partnership with Ghana Football Association have been revised. The company has ...

It is estimated that one in five girls across the world is married by the age of 18. Even countries that have laws against child marriage sometimes fail to enforce them. But in Malawi some are seeing the first signs of change. The third time we visited Tamara we were told she had left for the nearby fields early in ...

Image caption, The plane will fly from London Heathrow to New York’s JFK airport By Katy Austin Transport correspondent The first transatlantic flight powered only by alternative fuels is due to take off on Tuesday morning. Operated by Virgin Atlantic, it will fly from London’s Heathrow to New York’s JFK airport at 11:30 GMT. Airlines see the flight, which is supported ...

By Nutifafa BequineThe Confederation of African Football(CAF) has announced its shortlisted nominees for the women’s category for the CAF Awards 2023, and Ghana had 3 nominations. Despite Ghana missing from the prestigious Player of The Year nominee list, Ampem Darkoa Ladies FC’s sensational defender, Comfort Yeboah have been nominated for Interclub Player of The Year and Young Player of The ...

Image caption, Streets in Freetown were largely deserted on Sunday after a curfew was declared By Mayeni Jones & Umaru Fofana Lagos & Freetown Sierra Leone has been placed under a nationwide curfew after armed men broke into prisons, setting inmates free. Detainees from a number of “major” facilities were released on Sunday morning, said the West African nation’s information minister. ...

At least 100 people have been abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest, residents have said. Locals told the BBC that armed men on motorcycles stormed villages in Zamfara state. The residents were kidnapped after the villages failed to pay a “tax” imposed on them by the gunmen, witnesses said. In recent years, kidnapping for ransom has become rife in north-western ...

By Julius Addae ODURO The Business Executive,organizers of the 6th Ghana Industry CEOs Awards , have adjudged Rev.Dr. Bright Adonai as Ghana’s Most Respected CEO in the Volta Region. Dr. Adonai was decorated with a plaque and a citation at the annual ceremony in Accra on Friday November 24,2023. A citation presented reads ” The 2023 Ghana Industry CEOs Awards ...

By Kalkidan Yibeltal & Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News, Addis Ababa & London More than 50 people have died in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray and Amhara regions amid drought and an aid freeze, local officials have told the BBC.  The Horn of Africa has had five failed rainy seasons since 2019, according to the UN. The US and UN suspended aid ...

An artist’s impression of the robot rover, which is designed to search for life on Mars By: Jonathan Amos A scientific instrument built in Wales will lead the search for life on Mars at the end of this decade. Enfys, meaning “rainbow” in Welsh, is an infrared spectrometer and will be assembled at Aberystwyth University.  It will be fitted to ...

By Nadine Yousif BBC News Four high school students accused of beating a classmate to death in Las Vegas have been formally charged with second-degree murder. Jonathan Lewis Jr, 17, died after a fight in an alleyway near his school, where as many as 10 of his classmates swarmed him.  Police said nine students in total have been arrested so ...