Senegal 2015: Flying Eagles land in final, whip Ghana 2-0

The Flying Eagles will meet the winners of Senegal and Mali second semifinal match in the final match on Sunday Six-time African U20 Championship winners, the Flying Eagles, on Wednesday confirmed their superiority over the Black Satellites of Ghana in the semi final tie at the ongoing Senegal 2015 African Youth Championship.

A hundred of Nigerian whistle-blowing fans where trilled to football spectacle as the Flying Eagles cruised past the Ghanians at Stade LS Senghor, Dakar.

Nigeria’s Usman Sale beat the Ghanians defenders but his attempts at hitting an early goal was curtailed by onrushing Black Satellites’ goalkeeper, Michael Sai, in the fourth minute of the tensioned soaked tie.

Ghana President promises bold action on electricity crisis, as protests persist

A Ghanaian protester 

Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday promised decisive action to fix the country’s worsening electricity crisis, which has wreaked havoc in the once bourgeoning economy.

“The effects and frustrations posed by the power deficit are clearly felt in our work places, our homes, schools and hospitals,” Mahama said in a state of the nation address to lawmakers in the West African country.

Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama

“Big businesses and industries are also suffering and threatening to lay off workers…

“I do not intend to manage the situation as has been done in the past,” he said. “I intend to fix it!”

Mahama’s pledge came after the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) organised a rally in the capital Accra on February 18, calling on the president to resign if he proved unable to boost electricity supply.