The Referees Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in consultation with the Assessors and Classification Panel have approved a list of 30 referees for next month’s FIFA/MA ELITE Online Course. The FIFA course will run from 30th September to 2nd October 2020. The list includes 20 FIFA Referees and Read more…
The NBA playoff pool is deeper than ever this season. Playoff teams will split a record $23,287,266 for making the NBA postseason, a figure that’s up about $1.6 million from last year. And the Milwaukee Bucks stand to grab the biggest share of a pool ever, if they win the Read more…
They have millions of followers, but Egypt’s social media stars are paying a heavy price. Source: BBC
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has inaugurated a 29-member Volta Regional Campaign Team to prosecute vigorous strategies to retain the party going into the December general elections. The team’s duty is to give visibility to the Party’s Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to win massively to continue with its Read more…
There’s an increasing demand for fast turnaround time in the satellite imaging industry, especially among clients across government and defense, who want responsive, near-real time performance because of how quickly situations on the ground can develop and change. BlackSky, a sensor and satellite-based monitoring technology company, has broken new ground Read more…
Asante Kotoko have not decided on their participation in CAF Champions League, a board member, Alhaji Abu Lamine has revealed. The Porcupine Warriors and their regional rivals, AshantiGold have been selected by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to represent the country in next season’s CAF inter-club competitions. The decision was Read more…
Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw has reacted to claims that celebrities are being paid to say Covid-19 is real in Nigeria. She had shared her painful experience on her Instagram page after she went for Covid-19 test. View this post on Instagram #Covid test taken….. This is the new normal before Read more…
The only copy of Ed Sheeran’s first demo album that he does not own himself is being auctioned and set to fetch £10,000. The star wrote the songs when he was 13 and owns 19 of the 20 copies in the hope no one gets their hands on it but Read more…
Ghana continues to make significant progress in its fight against the Covid-19 pandemic as the country’s active cases have again dropped to 1,847 from a previous 1,906 on Friday, August 14. On its dedicated website, the Ghana Health Service said out of the active cases, 6 people are in critical Read more…
President Akufo Addo has lifted the limit on the numbers of persons who can attend conferences, workshops and award events. Addressing the state yesterday, August 16, the president stated that “the limit on the number of persons who can attend conferences, workshops and award events, has now been lifted”. This, Read more…
Actor Clement Bonney aka ‘Mr Beautiful’ has said the creative arts industry is dormant due to the vindictiveness of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). Speaking in an interview in Cape Coast on Saturday, he said the current government’s quest to get back at its political opponents for no reasons Read more…
SpaceX is preparing for yet another launch of Starlink satellites on Tuesday – its tenth launch of production versions of the satellites to date. In addition to 58 Starlink satellites, the Falcon 9 flying the mission will also carry three Planet satellites – and it’ll be the sixth time this Read more…
The tech firm is fighting efforts to make it pay for local media content. Source: BBC
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point Read more…
Tencent just added another portfolio member to its expanding global gaming empire, this time, to up its game in mobile casual plays. Voodoo, the French company behind a slew of popular casual games, announced Monday that Tencent has become a minority shareholder in its business valued at $1.4 billion. The Read more…
Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize — seeking to mobilize its users against “big media”. Last month Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published Read more…
The website of Notepad++ is banned in China as of Monday, “obviously due to” its release of editions named ‘Free Uyghur’ and ‘Stand With Hong Kong’, the source code and text editor announced on Twitter. First released in 2003 by France-based developer Don Ho, free-to-use Notepad++ operates on Windows and Read more…
Stephen Beckett looks at some of the popular social media apps you might not have heard of. Source: BBC
Hammock, a U.K. fintech/proptech helping landlords and property manages gain better oversight on the financial health of their rental properties, has raised £1 million in seed funding as it readies the launch of a current account. Backing comes from Fuel Ventures and Ascension Ventures, joining existing investors that include Founders Read more…
Facebook is facing heat in India, its biggest market by users, over a report that claimed the company compromised its hate speech policy to favor the ruling party. Politicians from both Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules the government in India, and opposition Indian National Congress lambasted Facebook for its supposed Read more…