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Ex-Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has broken his silence over what wrecked Ghana’s 2014 World Cup campaign revealing that several failed promises by government over when the Black Stars appearance fee would be paid led to the team’s dismal showing. “Before we played the USA game, they were told that the money was in a flight coming to Brazil. After that game, it took some days for the players to ask again,” Appiah said on Metro TV. Kwesi Appiah Kwesi Appiah “Before the Germany game, they were promised again that they will get their monies right after the game and that was also not true. So they decided not to train two days to the Portugal game. “By that time, they were fed up with my continuous pleas. So they insisted. And I knew we would have challenges. “So during the Portugal game, you could see that the players were psychologically down. “The money had really pre-occupied their minds. So we actually couldn’t progress because of those external factors which was the appearance fee...

Port Elizabeth - Two South African medics were Thursday suspended after a pregnant woman they were ferrying to hospital fell out of a moving ambulance and suffered a miscarriage, an official said. The ambulance door opened while the vehicle was moving and the 19-year-old woman plunged to the ground. The drivers only realised on arriving at the hospital in the remote southeastern village of Ntabankulu, that their patient was missing. She was picked up by a passing motorist and rushed to hospital. But she had suffered multiple injuries from the fall and miscarried. The medics “were negligent and they have been suspended with immediate effect,” Eastern Cape provincial health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo told AFP. The two are to face disciplinary action and possible dismissal, he added. “We condemn their actions in the strongest terms. We make them work as a pair so that one guards the patient while the other drives the ambulance,” he said. - See more at: http://www.vanguardng...

San Franciscon – The South Korean consumer electronics titan credited with being the first major manufacturer to blend tablet and smartphone features said it will begin taking orders for the coming model on Friday, the same day rival Apple launches its new-generation iPhone 6. “Samsung created the large screen smartphone category with the Galaxy Note and we are on our fourth generation, a category others are just entering,” Gregory Lee, Samsung’s Telecommunications America president, said in a statement. “The Galaxy Note 4 delivers a refined Note experience, and the latest technology that consumers want in their smartphone.” In what was seen by some as a direct shot at Apple, Samsung promised that anyone ordering a Note 4 by October 16 would be entitled to a trade-in value of $200 for any working smartphone. The Note 4 boasts a 5.7-inch high definition screen, improved front and rear cameras, speedy charging, and an “S Pen” to write, draw or edit on the touch screen more naturall...

By Gbenga Ariyibi Ado-Ekiti – A leading Ekiti traditional musician , Chief Peter Ogunyemi, popularly known as Elemure, 70, is dead. Ogunyemi died in the early hours of Thursday. A family source told our correspondent that the ace musician may have died of undisclosed ailment. While alive, Elemure Ogunyemi’ traversed the length and breath of the country, trilling his fans with his music usual laced with Ekiti dialect. His sudden demise on Thursday shocked residents of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital where he operate his musical prowess. The ace musician was born in Ikole Ekiti on August 23,1944. and started his elementary education at Saint Peters Catholic Primary School, Ikole-Ekiti where he finished his Standard Six. He proceeded to Lagos and worked briefly with the Federal Ministry of Finance in 1976. He moved down to Ekiti State finally in 1979 where he had his musical headquarters. Elemure released about 46 albums.He is Elejoka of Isaba He is survived by children and many g...

The Nigeria Police Force has faulted the report of Amnesty International, saying that torture is prohibited. In a statement by Force Public Relations Officer, Ag.CP Emmanuel Ojukwu, it stated that there is a zero tolerance for corruption and abuse of power, stressing there is no Immunity for impunity in Nigeria Police Force. READ THE FULL STATEMENT BELOW: The attention of the Nigeria Police has been drawn to an on-line publication entitled ‘Welcome to Hell-Fire’: torture and other ill-treatment in Nigeria. While we do not question the freedom of Amnesty International to earn its relevance and bread, the Nigeria Police takes serious exceptions to some blatant falsehoods and innuendoes contained in that report. For one, it smacks of indecency and intemperate language to liken our dear nation Nigeria, to hell fire. That cannot be true. We believe that Nigeria is a growing nation, green and largely peaceful. While the Nigeria Police and other operators in the criminal justice sector ...

Lagos - A Nigerian man has been arrested for selling his wife to black magic practitioners who wanted to sacrifice a virgin, police said Thursday. The deal in the central Nigerian state of Plateau was cancelled at the last minute, however, when the ritualists realised she was married. “The man lured his wife to a bush under the pretext of fetching firewood and sold her to two ritualists for 800,000 naira (about $5,000), Plateau state police spokesman Abuh Emmanuel told AFP. He said the man from Kwalla town lied to the ritualists that the woman was a virgin and had been given part of the money. “When the ritualists discovered that the woman was the man’s wife, they asked her to go because she could not be used for the sacrifice,” he said. Emmanuel said the man and his two accomplices were arrested after the woman reported the incident to the police. “The suspects are in our custody and will be taken to court for criminal conspiracy and an attempted murder,” he said. Belief in b...

Lagos – Nigerian preacher TB Joshua on Thursday broke his silence over a building collapse that killed 80 at his Lagos megachurch but denied lack of cooperation and stuck to his theory of possible aerial sabotage. The popular televangelist, known as “The Preacher” or “The Man of God” to his thousands of followers in Nigeria and around the world, also indicated that other overseas nationals were involved. TB Joshua suggests sabotage over deadly building collapse TB Joshua suggests sabotage over deadly building collapse South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday said that 67 of his compatriots were killed when a guesthouse for foreign followers of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) came down last Friday. The death toll from the tragedy climbed after 10 more bodies were pulled from among the twisted metal and shattered masonry of the building on the sprawling SCOAN compound. Joshua had not directly commented on the deaths and had only published Bible quotations on his ...