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WAFA produced a breathtaking first half display to end Hearts of Oak’s long unbeaten away record with a convincing 3-0 win over the Phobians. A treble within the first 27 minutes of the game was enough for the academy side who outplayed their illustrious hosts. A brace from Togolese Komlan Agbeniadan and one from Charles Boateng completed one of the most one sided performances in the league thus far. The Phobians had no clue to the swashbuckling display by their young opponents and were down as early as the second minute when Komlan Agbeniadan profited on a mixup in the Hearts defence to calmly slot pass Soulama Abdoulaye. The second came not long after when Charles Boateng also capitalized on comical defending to volley past a hapless Soulama. Two became three when the Togolese was played through to complete a perfect day for the academy side. Hearts failed to sparkle and failed to pass on a day when their title aspirations were put to test. Captain Reuben Gnagne was

Over 5,000 flash-points have been identified by the 2016 National Elections and Security Task-force. According to the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, they are putting measures in place to ensure that the flashpoints do not pose any risk going into election 2016. Superintendent Cephas Arthur who made the revelation after a simulation exercise on how to fight crime during the 2016 elections added that they are aware of heightened tension before, during and after the polls but they are hopeful that people will comport themselves. He said flashpoints are areas notorious for acts of violence. "Usually such places record violence, acts of vandalism, disturbances of public peace as a result of elections and other social activities. These are the places we have tagged as flashpoints. "We have identified 5000 places across the country. It calls for concern. We won't say it is a worrying situation. It calls fo

2015/16 Ghana Premier League Trophy The Ghana Football Association has officially unveiled the trophy for the 2015/16 Ghana Premier League (GPL) season on Thursday at the FA’s secretariat. GFA officials during the unveiling The magnificent trophy which comes with a prize package of $30,000 will be given to the winner of this season’s domestic league, which is being keenly contested for by as many as five clubs with eight matches to go. GFA officials during the unveiling GFA officials during the unveiling GFA officials during the unveiling The trophy has always been provided by title sponsors of the league, but the GFA and the PLB are providing it this time around.

South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has suffered its worst electoral setback since apartheid ended in 1994. With 92% of the votes counted after Wednesday’s municipal elections, the party has lost the key battleground of Nelson Mandela Bay to the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA). The two parties are in a close fight for Johannesburg and Pretoria. But the ANC is still in the lead nationally, with 54% of the vote. The ANC has won more than 60% of the vote at every election since the end of apartheid more than two decades ago. Unemployment and corruption scandals surrounding President Jacob Zuma have tarnished the ANC’s image. South African political analyst Ranjeni Munusamy says the loss of Nelson Mandela Bay, named after ANC liberation hero and South Africa’s first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela, is a blow from which the party will never recover. “If you ask people in Nelson Mandela Bay what they voted for they said, ‘We voted for c