Howard Webb has ended his 25-year refereeing career after being appointed technical director of the official referees’ association. Webb has refereed over 500 Premier League and Football League matches and officiated in the 2010 World Cup final. The 43-year-old began his career in 1989, progressing through the Northern Counties and Football League to become a Select Group referee in 2003. “I am very excited to start this new chapter in my career,” said Webb. Webb was involved in nine major {.....}

Ghana Under 20 Women’s coach Bashir Hayford is upbeat about progression after their opening day win. After seeing his side edge hosts Canada 1-0 in their FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup opening game, Hayford knows advancement is within reach. “It was a good game, I appreciated all that I’ve seen tonight. And at the end of the day, the best team won,” said Hayford in Toronto post-game. The three points put Ghana second Group A after Sherifatu Sumaila got the winner, which got the admiration of the {....}

A 44-year-old electrician who is alleged to have repeatedly defiled his biological daughter for the past two years has been arrested by the police. The suspect, whose name was given as Solomon Addae Mensah, was arrested after the victim had confided in her class teacher about what she had been going through. The teacher, who heard the graphic details of the lewd acts and sexual abuse the junior high school (JHS) student had been going through, immediately informed the Kaneshie Division of the Domestic {....}

A mother has been jailed for having sex with her 12-year-old son – while her partner watched and directed her over a webcam. The woman wore headphones as she abused the boy in her bedroom as her lover viewed online from abroad. The boy told police how he could hear his 39-year-old mother being told what to do as she gave him a ‘sex lesson’. The offence came to light when the woman ‘blurted out’ that she had abused the older of her two sons while speaking to a domestic abuse charity about her partner {....}

Ghana Black Stars coach James Kwesi Appiah could quit the senior national team if a foreign aid is brought in to supervise his work, Ghanaian sports journalist Kwabena Yeboah has revealed. The Black Stars boss has had his contract extended recently but the deal is set to go under review with some decisions to be made. Among such decisions according to Kwabena Yeboah is to appoint a foreign technical director which coach Appiah will highly oppose to. This could lead to the Ghana senior {....}

Customers of the various telcos in the country are now paying more to for credit they use. Some telecommunication companies have conceded they have also been affected by the current economic crisis. According to some media advertisements, telecom giant, Vodafone has introduced new mobile tariffs and new fixed voice postpaid packages. Since August 1, 2014, prepaid customers of Vodafone have been paying a flat rate of 11 pesewas per minute as new tariff. New tariffs for post paid customers {....}

Fredrik Sunesson had high hopes when the first tanker truck unloaded feces from some of Accra’s 4 million residents at his recycling plant in Ghana’s capital. Seventeen months later, those expectations have been dashed. A combination of red tape and disputes over payments mean Sunesson’s Slamson Ghana Ltd. is running far below capacity, he says. Most of the 140 tankers moving the contents of Accra’s toilets each day drive instead to a foul-smelling point near the Gulf of Guinea known as {....}

President of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG), James Dugrah, says teachers will not return to the classroom unless government pays their book and research allowance. According to him, the book and research allowance is the ‘’basic tool’’ for the work of the teachers. ‘’I think you know want goes into teaching; if you don’t research can you go and teach. If you don’t research how can you just get up and go and be teaching…,’’ he told the host of the Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Avle {.....}

Clashes between African migrants in the French port city of Calais have left more than 50 people injured. A fight which started on Monday evening at a food distribution centre was initially broken up by police but later continued into the night. Hundreds of migrants live in informal camps in the Calais port, trying to cross into Britain illegally. French police have spent months trying to break up the camps, but the migrants say they have nowhere else to go. The latest fight between Sudanese and Eritrean migrants {.....}

The ongoing Takoradi Port Expansion Project has already started attracting investments into the Port’s Oil & Gas enclave as the Ghana Ports & Harbors Authority(GPHA) works to position the Takoradi Port as a major maritime services support hub along the west coast of Africa. COX OIL, a Texas based oil and gas company has announced plans to build a $600 million state of the art oil refinery plant at the Takoradi Port area. The project would come with the associated infrastructure required the {....}

The Canadian High Commission has refuted claims that it deliberately denied members of the supporter various union groups visas for the upcoming Women’s U-20 world Cup in Canada. Members of some Ghanaian supporters union groups have alleged that they were deliberately refused visas by the commission. The groups subsequently threatened to stage a demonstration on the premises of the Canadian embassy if their needs were not adhered to. However, in a rebuttal on Accra based {....}

Nigerian authorities said on Monday that a doctor in Lagos has contracted Ebola, the second case in the sprawling megacity as the deadliest ever outbreak of the disease continues to spread fear and panic across west Africa. The confirmation that a fourth doctor had been infected comes as fear and anger about the dead being left unburied in Liberia’s capital Monrovia brought protesters into the streets, while Sierra Leone’s president said Monday that the epidemic threatened the “very essence” {.....}

According to CNN, Three vials containing an experimental drug stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save two American missionary workers who had contracted Ebola, according to a source familiar with details of the treatment. The drug appears to have worked, sources say. Dr. Kent Brantly’s and Nancy Writebol’s conditions significantly improved after receiving the medication, sources say. Brantly was able to walk into Emory University Hospital in {....}

Barcelona and Spain midfielder Xavi Hernandez has announced his retirement from international football. The 34-year-old won the World Cup and two European Championships with his country. He was capped 133 times, more than any other Spanish outfield player, and scored 13 goals. Xavi told a news conference in Barcelona on Tuesday: “I’m grateful for all those years. It has been a fantastic time.” He made his full Spain debut on 15 November 2000, aged 20, against the Netherlands {.....}

22 people were killed in a day of militia fighting for control of the international airport in the capital Tripoli has , a spokesman for Libya’s interim government said. In a statement early today, it said “heavily armed groups” have shelled “civilian targets” endangering thousands of citizens and leaving hundreds of families displaced. The 22 people were killed yesterday alone, the latest casualties in fighting that has claimed more than 200 lives in recent weeks. Libya is in the grip of its worst violence {....}

African Leaders attending next week’s US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C. will be screened for Ebola, President Barack Obama has announced. At least 730 people have died from the outbreak in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. Nigeria recently, recorded one case. A total of approximately 1,300 people have been affected by the viral outbreak since March. Ebola kills 90 percent of patients within days. It is transmitted through direct contact with infected persons, as well as the consumption {....}

The National Teaching Council of the Ministry of Education (MoE) has indicated that from the year 2015, teachers will have to meet both certification and licensing requirements by the service to be able to teach. The Council is to license and give certificates to all teachers, enforce policy on ethical and professional standards and advise the sector ministry accordingly. Teachers would be issued a 14-digit identity card to be renewed at regular intervals, said Dr Augustine Tawiah, Executive Secretary {....}

Dr Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Sunday the American doctor who contracted Ebola in West Africa seemed to have improved. Dr Frieden, who was making media appearances in an effort to reassure a public worried by press reports and speculation over the West African outbreak, the worst ever, told NBC’s Meet the Press talk show it was encouraging to see Dr Kent Brantly walk out of an ambulance unassisted when he arrived {....}