By Peterking Quaye – Shout-Africa.com sources have it that Coach Stevanovic trained with the full squad, drawn from bases in Europe at the Bosuilstadion, the match venue. The Serb met the 18 foreign-based players picked up for the task at the training ground yesterday. The match played at the 17000 capacity Bosuilstadion. Ghana, who top the African rankings, played the Hawks with the previous meeting between the pair coming in a friendly in August 2006, which ended 2-0 in favour of the Black Stars. Goran Stevanovic’s tenure as Ghana boss got off to the best possible start with a 4-1... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, February 11th 2011 |
By Own Correspondent – The British High Commission in Banjul will in few weeks time a relocate its visa section to Accra, Ghana, due to what its officials call a “massive budget deficit” facing the UK government. Ian Underhill, Regional Entry Clearance Manager, UK Border Agency International Group, told journalists at a press conference held at the High Commission in Fajara on Friday that the UK government has a massive budget deficit and, as a result, each government department has been asked to make savings in their budget, not just for this current financial year, but for the next four... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, February 7th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye – Ghana has become Africa’s best football nation after edging Egypt to the top spot on the continental table released Wednesday by Fifa. The Black Stars accumulated 940 points after adding up 16 more points to become the continent’s number one side and are now placed 15th on the world ranking table for February. Ivory Coast move to second with Egypt falling to third. According to Fifa, the significant devaluation of the points won a year ago at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations contributed to the changes in the rankings this month. Though changes were recorded... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, February 7th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye, from Accra,Ghana – It seems that there was more than just a recycling of old faces from various past singing competitions at the nationwide auditions for the hot new TV reality show, ‘Icons: The Divas Edition’ which aims to create Ghana’s first super girl-group. According to reliable and confirm reports reaching Shout-Africa.com,the auditions for Icons saw contestants whom had already qualified for the finals of the upcoming 5th edition of singing contest, Stars of the Future pitching for a chance to enter the Icons: Divas Edition show. The first episode of Icons: Divas Edition airs on TV,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, February 7th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye – The Goethe Institute (GI) and The National Films and Television Institute (NAFTI) are set to celebrate the works of Kwaw Ansah, Ghana’s premier film-maker, explores his body of work, reflecting on the thematic and narrative content, the structure, visual style and technical components of his cinema works in Ghana that have touched many parts of the world as part of 2011 NAFTI Lectures. Kwaw Ansah’s movie ‘Heritage Africa’ won the FESPACO Grand Prix (Etalon de yennega), Organization of African Unity best Film and many other International Awards. Since Heritage Africa, Kwaw Ansah has made historical Prize... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, February 6th 2011 |
