During the second Akwasidae celebration of the year on February 18, 2024, LBO featherweight champion Stanley Nyantakyi gladly gave Monarch Otumfuo Osei Tutu II his title. Nyantakyi, who was raised in Kumasi, moved to Accra in 2019 when he was eighteen years old to follow his dream of boxing. He joined the Bronx Boxing Gym and was trained by seasoned coach Carl Lokko. In his first international fight, Nyantakyi, also known as the Asante Warrior, defeated Komlangan Hounkpatin of Togo on February 3, 2024, in Accra, Ghana, to retain the LBO Featherweight title and maintain his undefeated record. Nyantakyi, accompanied…
Author: Kofi Dekye Acquaye
Eden Hazard has named Gael Kakuta as the best young talent he has ever played with, despite him having flopped at Chelsea. FIFA punished Chelsea and the winger with a four-month ban after it was determined that the Premier League team had coerced him into breaching his contract in France. That judgment was overturned by an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which decided that Kakuta’s contract with Lens was void. Kakuta has mostly focused on his career in France since leaving Chelsea in 2015, which has caused many Premier League fans to lose track of him. However,…
Nigerian film stars Victor Osuagwu and Ramsey Noah have made their way to Ghana thanks to the efforts of Ghanaian actor and film producer Lil Win, better known as Kojo Nkansah. The much-anticipated film in which they both appear was supposed to star Lil Win. The upcoming movie is called “A Country Called Ghana.” According to sources, Martha Ankoma was supposed to be part of the movie, but the actress declined after he said the Kumawood movie is full of witches, ghosts, and Juju portrayals. The noted Nigerian actors touched down 4 hours ago at the Kotoka International Airport. As…
The English Football Association is looking to expedite the process so that Ghana cannot acquire Manchester United’s talented midfield player, Kobby Mainoo. In all competitions, the 18-year-old began his tenth consecutive match over the weekend. Mainoo opened his Premier League account after scoring a dramatic stoppage-time winner in a seven-goal thriller at Wolves earlier this month. The United Academy alumnus only made his Premier League debut in November, shining in the team’s 3-0 victory away at Everton. The midfielder is still being watched by Ghana, whom he is eligible to play for through his parents, despite having played for England…
Asante Kotoko Sporting Club pipped Nsoatraman Football Club 2-1 to win the JA Kufuor CUP after a hard-fought comeback win. This match was part of the JAK Foundation’s efforts to honor the legacy of former Ghanaian president John Agyekum Kufuor, who served two terms from 2000 to 2008. The much-anticipated game on the Ghana Football Calendar was greeted with excitement and tumultuous noise from both fans as their euphoria set in. The match began with both teams wearing identical yellow jerseys, so it is unclear why the authorities did not recognize the fault. However, play was stopped in the 25th…
Dancehall superstar Shatta Wale from Ghana has expressed his dissatisfaction once more regarding the way that certain Ghanaian media outlets make him feel inferior to Nigerians. He disclosed that Burna Boy moved to Ghana to live with him for a year and a half, but that Burna is now more beloved than he is. He went on to say that although Davido had traveled directly to his home after arriving in Ghana some time ago, everything had since fallen apart as a result of the way Ghanaian media outlets had covered him. Shatta Wale said, “Everyone with whom I began…
A civil society organization reported on Thursday that at least twelve people had been killed and sixteen more had been abducted by rebels at a mining site in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. A gold mine near the Djugu district of Ituri province was attacked on Wednesday by rebels from the CODECO armed group, according to Vital Tungulo, director of Mabendi, a local rights organization. Primarily composed of Lendu ethnic farming community members, CODECO is an unofficial association of militia groups. 14 people were killed when its fighters attacked a village in the province of Ituri in September.…
Media personality Nana Aba Anamoah warns women, especially those looking for work, that some business owners are only interested in getting into a sexual relationship with a woman before they extend an employment offer. Her emphasis is specifically on how important it is for young women to abstain from sexual activity to pursue career opportunities. She said young women should not give in to men’s advances on a sexual level in exchange for jobs or career advancement. She made a point of stating that these compromises jeopardize women’s dignity as well as their rights to be utilized and respected. Put…
On February 14, 2024, there was a celebration in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, when the police arrested a woman and reunited two kidnapped children with their parents. The children, who were both students at Divine Grace Academy, were abducted on January 22, 2024, at Nwezenyi junction in Ndiokpoto village, Igbeagu community in the state’s Izzi Local Government Area, by a woman posing as a NYSC volunteer. On Sunday, January 4, 2024, Ngozi Nwibo, a seven-year-old victim of abduction, was freed from captivity at Oba in the Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State. The female abductor was apprehended and taken to…
Salis Abdul Samed, a midfielder for the Ghana Black Stars, came off the bench to play 27 minutes for his club, RC Lens, in their UEFA Europa League Round of 32 first-leg match against SC Freiburg. The game, which was attended by the rowdy RC Lens supporters, ended 0–0 at home following a string of opportunities that both teams created and missed. The Ghanaian managed the midfield so expertly and maintained his usual calm demeanor. He was rated 6.6. To play in the Europa League knockout stages, the French team was eliminated from the Champions League group stages. Meanwhile, his…