Author: TNRgh

It is exactly 18 years today when over 126 football fans lost their lives during a match between rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko on May 9, 2001. The deaths were as a result of a stampede which preceded a controversial match decision taken by the referee on that day. Former Kotoko captain Godwin Ablordey, Hearts’ Adjah Tetteh, Amankwa Mireku, Joe Sam and some footballers who were on the field that day and some fans have been sharing their experience about what they saw and how they felt. Speaking to the media after a commemorative walk in…

Tottenham scored three second-half goals to reach their first Champions League final[/caption] Lucas Moura scored a dramatic 96th-minute winner to cap an astonishing Tottenham fightback against Ajax and set up an all-English Champions League final against Liverpool. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Spurs made the worst possible start in Amsterdam when a towering fifth-minute header by 19-year-old Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt doubled the advantage for Erik ten Hag’s exciting young side. Tottenham hit the post through Son Heung-min before Hakim Ziyech doubled Ajax’s lead on the night with a sweeping finish after an assist by former Southampton winger…

A Chinese company operating in Ghana, Sunda International has donated cash, household consumables and T-shirts through the May 9 Foundation for families of victims of the Accra stadium disaster.  The donation coincides with the 18th anniversary of the tragic stampede which occurred during a soccer game between rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko on May 9, 2001. The tragic stampede claimed at least 127 lives and left many football supporters injured and their families in despair. The May, 9 2001 Accra stadium disaster remains the number one sports tragedy in Ghana’s history.  A month earlier in the same…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have commended Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko for their splendid leadership and spiritual guidance to the Japanese nation. The two also congratulated newly installed Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on their ascension to the throne. The former President and his wife offered their congratulations when they called at the Embassy of Japan on Monday to sign the congratulatory book opened following the enthronement of Japan’s new Emperor. Referring to their admiration for the tenure of Emperor Akihito and urging the new monarch to replicate that quality of…

A delegation visited the explosion scene on Monday[/caption] Any landing beach committee caught hoarding and engaging in premix fuel racketeering would be dissolved and leadership prosecuted, the National Premix Committee has warned. National Chairman of the Premix Committee Mr. Nii Lante Bannerman told 3news.com’s Central Regional correspondent Kwame Kakraba it is illegal to sell the fuel to persons who are not fishermen to be resold later at a higher price. His comment follows last Friday’s premix fuel explosion at Kormantse in the Central Religion in which four people lost their lives. Three others were seriously injured. One Nana Kojo,34, who…

Captain Vincent Kompany scored his first goal of the season for Manchester City against Leicester[/caption] Manchester City know they will retain their Premier League title if they win on the final day of the season after Vincent Kompany’s wonder strike saw off a spirited Leicester side. With 20 minutes remaining, the score goalless and nerves jangling at Etihad Stadium, the defending champions needed inspiration in a game where only victory would maintain their initiative at the top of the table. They got it from an unlikely source in their long-serving captain, who strode forward and let fly from 25 yards…

President Akufo-Addo[/caption] 1. Your Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo, I bring you greetings from Saltpond where I am currently cooling off for the weekend. 2. About three months ago, I was in the University of Bristol as Visiting Scholar to present a paper assessing the democratic practice in Ghana. In that presentation, I particularly singled out the political freedom we enjoyed in Ghana under the previous somewhat revolutionary-minded regime of the NDC. I predicted more freedom for the Ghanaian people under the NPP administration led by you, given the democratic culture of your party and your own persona as an avowed democrat.…

Robert Sarfo-Mensah[/caption] After the premiering of the Number 12 exposé by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Robert Sarfo-Mensah, then Director-General of National Sports Authority hauled Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye PI before the High Court, Accra. He alleged that Anas had defamed and violated his human rights. The said writ was filed on 10th October, 2018. The lawyer for Anas, Kissi Agyebeng however contended that the suit filed by Robert Sarfo-Mensah sinned incurably against the rules of Court. Lawyer for Anas filed an application and prayed the Court to strike out the case against the defendants, i.e. Anas and his…

The May 9 Foundation has marked 18 years of the Accra stadium disaster with Ramadan prayers and donations at the Kumasi Central Mosque. Herbert Mensah, former chairman of Asante Kotoko and founder of the May 9 Remembered annual charity events joined Muslims and chiefs to pray for the souls of the over 126 football fans who died during the Stadium stampede on May 9, 2001. Mr Mensah was chairman of Kotoko in 2001 when the disaster occurred and he personally participated in conveying and transporting the dead bodies and injured soccer fans on that sad day. This year’s memorial and…

The denomination to be affected are the 10, 20 and 50 cedi notes[/caption] The upgraded and security-enhanced banknotes of the Bank of Ghana would be made available to the public for use as a medium of exchange from today, May 6. The central bank had said in a statement issued in April that the upgraded banknotes will have enhanced security features in line with evolving changes in technological landscape. The new 10, 20 and 50 cedi notes have “improved durability and machine readability”. According to the Bank of Ghana, both the new notes and existing series of banknotes will co-circulate.…