AFCON 2021 qualifiers: Sudan scores last gasp goal to beat Ghana
Sudan danger-man Mohammed Abdul Rahman’s last-minute goal snatched AFCON qualification from Ghana to hand Sudan a lifeline in the qualifiers. The MC Algiers forward rose high to connect a cross in injury time to secure victory for the home side. The Black Stars began the game brightly, controlling the first 15 minutes but lost steam as the Sudanese took over to create some decent chances. Fatau Dauda, who is deputizing for suspended Richard Ofori pulled the save of the half to deny Sudan from taking a first-half lead. Ghana’s closest opportunity at goal came when Mubarak Wakaso weaved in a pass but Tariqe Fosu was inches late as goalkeeper Abdallah Ashrin cleared the ball for Sudan. The Black Stars returned from the break with a similar approach they started as Jordan Ayew drew a fantastic save from the Sudanese goalie with a long drive. Ghana had two quick corners which were wasted. Abdul Rahman finally broke the deadlock after rising above the Ghanaian defense to connect a cross from the right and grab all three points for the North Africans. The defeat means Ghana will have to wait for their next game against Sao Tome in Cape Coast to qualify for the tournament. Ghana Soccernet Please kindly contact apexnewsgh.com on apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
JUST IN: 2020/2021 Colleges of Education Admission List to be released on Friday, 20th November 2020
The latest news reaching Honestynewsgh front desk from the News Desk of the Colleges of Education Weekly Journal can authoritatively report that the 2020/2021 Colleges of Education admission list for the 46 public Colleges of Education will be released on Friday, 20th November 2020. A circular intercepted by the News Desk indicates that the admission list for 1st choice applicants will be released on Friday, 20th November, 2020. The deadline for payment of Admission fees by 1st Choice Applicants is Friday, 4th December, 2020 The admission list for 2nd choice applicants will be released from Wednesday 9th – Friday 18th December, 2020. The deadline for payment of Admission fees by 2nd Choice Applicants is Monday, 21st December, 2020. Other supplementary lists can be displayed any time after 21st December, 2020 if the need be. The reopening date for Colleges of Education to commence the 2020/2021 academic year is yet to be determined. The News Desk will keep you updated on any other development relating to the admission of new applicants into the 46 public Colleges of Education. Source: News Desk, Colleges of Education Weekly Journal Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
Ghana unleashes strong starting line-up to face Sudan – Wakaso, Schlupp start
Ghana coach Charles CK Akonnor has unleased Mubarak Wakaso and Jeffrey Schlupp in his crack starting line-up to face Sudan on Tuesday in their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, Ghanasoccernet.com can exclusively reveal. The Black Stars coach will also use two proven strikers in Caleb Ekuban and captain Jordan Ayew in his starting team, serving his intention of attacking the opponent even though they would be playing the match as visitors in Omdurman. True to the prediction of Ghana’s leading football news outfit, the Black Stars coach has named a largely changed starting team to face the Nile Crocodiles in Group C. Injuries to substantive captain Andre Ayew and winger Samuel Owusu has forced the coach to make some changes while augmenting the starting line-up with the arrival of the more experienced Wakaso and Schlupp. In-form St. Gallen FC goalie Lawrence Ati-Zigi has been given the nod to start between sticks ahead of returnee Fatau Dauda. Surprisingly, central defender Nicholas Opoku will play from the right-back while Baba Rahman maintains his place at the left side of the defence. John Boye and Alexander Djiku will also maintain their position at the centre of the defence while Wakaso will partner Afriyie Acquah in central midfield. This makes the Black Stars defence and midfield perhaps the strongest in recent times with several in-form or experienced players starting in the match. Tarique Fosu will also maintain his place on the right side of the midfield while Schlupp will play from his favourite position of the left side of midfield. Ekuban will play as the lone striker while Jordan Ayew will take the role of the playmaker to provide the needed threat to draw out the opponents who have been strong in defending. Ghana have a perfect record in the qualifiers for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations and a victory for the Black Stars on Tuesday take them through to the tournament in Cameroon. The Black Stars defeated Sudan 2-0 in their previous fixture played in Cape Coast on Thursday with Andre Ayew scoring both goals in the game. Black Stars starting line-up Lawrence Ati-Zigi, Nicholas Opoku, Baba Rahman, John Boye, Alexander Djiku, Afriyie Acquah, Tarique Fosu Mubarak Wakaso, Caleb Ekuban, Jordan Ayew, Jeff Schlupp. Ghana soccernet Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
UER: ORGIIS Advocates For Improved Cook Stoves To Reduce Energy Poverty And Environmental Degradation.
The Coordinator for the Organization for Indigenous initiative and Sustainability Ghana, ORGIIS, Julius Awaregya has described as worrying the unsustainable use of wood as fuel has contributed to environmental degradation. He further attributed the level of energy poverty of women and girls in rural communities in Africa to unpaid labor cost for the time women and girls spend most of their day performing basic subsistence task including time consuming and physically draining tasks of biomass. Speaking in an interview the sidelines of a stakeholder’s workshop in the Kassena Nankana Municipality Mr Awaregya disclosed the in partnership with SNV and the Netherland Development Organization, ORGIIS is working to mitigate the energy poverty that most developmental policies fails to address. While a multitude of technologies exist that could potentially address the suite of problems linked to the current biomass cooking practices, efforts to disseminate these technologies and promote change on cooking behavior have often fallen short. He further indicated that improved cook stoves contribute to poverty alleviation and vulnerability reduction in Ghana adding despite the potential health and social benefits, adoption and use of improved cook stove has been low due to price for target population. Mr Awarega explained that ORGIIS has been supporting rural women groups to form cooperatives to be supplied with these improved stoves and payment made in six-month installment. A price, peers and perception P3study protocol was conducted in the Kassena Nankana Municipality to address the limited opportunities for households to learn about the cook stove through peers and perceptions that these technologies are not appropriate for local cooking needs. The Gender Desk Officer and Planning Officer at the Kassena Nankana Municipal Assembly called on ORGIIS to trains local artisans to develop same technology for local use and hinted the Assembly plans to liaise with government and other agencies to give subsidies on the cooking stove. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/ Contributor Prosper Adaakai Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications.
Akufo-Addo handed me copy of Ofori-Atta’s comments to infuse into Agyapa report but I refused – Amidu
In his resignation letter to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu, directly told the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces that he could not direct him about as far as his handling of the corruption and anti-corruption assessment report of the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal was concerned, and refused to “bargain” with the President, who insisted the anti-corruption crusader infuse Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s comment about the deal, to his (SP’s) final report. Mr Amidu, in his corruption and anti-corruption risk assessment report on the deal, said the Transaction Advisor(s) involved were susceptible to “nepotism, cronyism and favouritism”. In his resignation letter to the President dated Monday, 16 November 2020, however, Mr Amidu accused Nana Akufo-Addo of interfering with the independence of the Office of the Special Prosecutor with regard to the corruption and anti-corruption assessment, thus, found it “untenable” to remain in office. He said the President on several occasions, pestered him to either freeze the report or add some comments of his cousin, Mr Ofori-Atta, into the final assessment report. He said: “After receiving my letter under reference on 19 October 2020, you ordered your Chief of Staff on 20 October 2020, to deliver an urgent message personally to me on the same day”. “When she could not reach me on telephone, she decided to invite me in writing in her letter with reference number OP/COS/015 dated 2o October 2020, stating that: ‘I have been directed by HE the President of the Republic, to deliver an urgent message personally to you, today, 20 October 2020. I am looking forward to seeing you as requested’. “I received the Chief of Staff’s letter the next morning, 21 October 2020, and reported to her office as requested. The message she delivered to me was that: You had instructed that I was not to do anything about my report on the Agyapa Royalties Transaction until I had met you on Friday, 23 October 2020. “You were away in the Volta Region when I met the Chief of Staff. “I met Your Excellency in your office in the afternoon of 23 October 2020 and I underscored the fact that my letter dated 16 October 2020 to you was sent out of the necessary courtesy of prior information to your office as President of the Republic and the Commander-in-Chief responsible for national security. “I also underscored the fact that the analysis of the risk of corruption and anti-corruption assessment, was conducted professionally, and could not be reviewed by the Minister of Finance or yourself, and my letter was particularly not intended for you to direct me as to how to conduct the duties of my office. “Your Excellency insisted that I should withhold any further action on the report for one week. I reluctantly agreed to your terms but gave you notice immediately that I did not intend to continue as the Special Prosecutor because of your interference the performance of my functions under the law. “You eventually invited me to your office in the evening of Sunday, 1 November 2020, where I, again, asserted that I was not going to bargain over the independence of my function as the Special Prosecutor. “I refused to take the copy of the alleged comments from the Minister of Finance you offered me, as that would have compromised my independence as the Special Prosecutor. “I also refused to shelve my report to enable you handle the matter, which explains my press release to the public on the morning of 2 November 2020 and the follow-up with the distribution of the full 64-page Agyapa Royalties Transactions Anti-corruption Assessment Report to the Public.” “Unbeknownst to you that I had published the full 64-page report to the public, you caused a press statement to be made based on my letter dated 16 October 2020 to you under reference which sought to politicise and downplay the seriousness of the professional analysis of the risk of corruption and anti-corruption assessment reported by my office”. “It, thus, became abundant clear to me that I cannot continue under your government as the special prosecutor because we disagree with the non-partisan independence of the special prosecutor in the performance of the functions of my office in preventing and fighting corruption and corruption-related offences.” According to Mr Amidu, “the 64-page analysis of corruption and anti-corruption assessment report, discloses several serious corruption and corruption-related offences in respect of which I intended to open full investigations as the Special Prosecutor.” “I cannot do that now after your political interference in the performance of functions of the office for two weeks – from 20 October 2020 to 1 November 2020 – culminating in your directives on how the anti-corruption assessment report of Agyapa Royalties Limited Transaction by this office should be handled by the principal suspects disclosed by the anti-corruption assessment report”. He added: “More importantly, Your Excellency was acting as a judge in your own court in usurping my functions to take any independent follow-up actions on the anti-corruption assessment report when you knew from my 13-page letter of 16 October 2020, conveying the conclusions and observations of the anti-corruption assessment report to you that negative anti-corruption assessment had been made against the conduct of your office in the procedure adopted in granting the Executive Approval dated 24 March 2020 and your assent of the Minerals Income Investment (Amendment) Act, 2020 (Act 1024) on 27 August 2020 intended to retroactively impact the parliamentary approval of the transactions document granted on 14 August 2020. “Pages 31 to 33; and 52 to 53 of the full 64-page report, submitted to you on 2 November 2020, contains the detailed anti-corruption assessments on these matters. The total of the foregoing interventions by you in my functions, make my position as the Special Prosecutor, untenable”. Class Fm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
Mahama reveals what Rawlings Said On Choosing Naana Jane As His Running Mate
NDC Presidential candidate, John Mahama has revealed what his late party founder, Jerry John Rawlings said about his choice of Prof. Naana Jane as his running mate. Speaking at a special vigil to honour the memory of the late former President in Accra on Sunday November 15, 2020, Mahama said Rawlings’ choice sealed his choice of running mate. Mahama said after reading out the names of five persons who had been shortlisted as his running mate to Rawlings, he said the party founder asked him to complete his consultation with others before returning to him to discuss the choice. “I had done quite a lot of consultation, and we have fixed the date that on Monday we will take the final decision. I asked to see him [Rawlings] on Saturday. I went to see him and I read out the names of those who had been shortlisted without saying what my own preference was. There were 5 names. He asked me if I had finished all consultations. I told him there were a few more. He said I should finish with them and come back to discuss. He said we should meet on Sunday, but he will be in Tefle. I said no problem, I will drive there.” “I finished the consultations the next morning, getting ready to drive to Tefle, and he called me the next morning and said, ‘Chief, I decided to spare you the journey, don’t waste your time driving all the way to Tefle, look on your phone, I have sent you a text, and he went off the line,” Mahama recounted. He said the message Rawlings sent to him read, “You didn’t tell me your choice but I knew that your choice is Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang”. Mahama said Rawlings also in the message expressed his approval of her to be the running mate. “He said ‘she is a woman of integrity and I think that you should go with her’. That was the text, and that sealed my decision,” Mahama recounted. Citinewsroom Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
IMF conditionalities affected my delivery as Interior Minister-Mark Woyongo
Former Interior Minister Under the NDC Mahama Administration Mark Owen Woyongo has said that one of the things he regretted so much during his tenure as the Interior Minister was the International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionalities. Mr.Woyongo who was speaking in an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com said the Interior ministry was more handicapped than today. Because during his days as Interior Minister, the Ministry were not having any funding to facilitate a lot of the things they wanted to do which includes equipping the Police Service, Immigration Service, and Prison Service “…what I regret during my days as Interior Minister, is that we do not have the funding to do a lot of the things we wanted to do. I wanted to equip the Ghana Police Service, the Immigration Service, the Fire Service, and the Prison Service. But unfortunately, we were on IMF conditionalities. So, there was an embargo on a lot of the things we had planned to do. For example, equipping these institutions which I have mentioned, recruiting more officers. You know we don’t have enough Police officers in this country and recruiting them, means there must be more money to pay them.” He stressed According to Mr. Woyongo, during those days he easily had issues with the then Finance Minister Seth Terkper, because whenever he approached him for a solution especially on employment, Seth Terkper will simply say they cannot employ or if you like recruit because of the IMF conditionalities, a response that always destroy his mood, especially when he struggling hard to equip them to enable them to work effectively. ” I had a problem sometimes with the Finance Minister Seth Tekper, you will go there that you want to recruit and he will say no, we cannot recruit, under the IMF, we cannot recruit now. So, that was a very big problem. But with the little scare’s resources, we managed to do a few things. For example, the Immigration Service didn’t have guns and aminations and people were patrolling our borders and we couldn’t get them gun and amination, so I had to link up with the military and some of their weapons were given to the Immigrations and some were given to the Prison Service. I went to Turkey and met with manufacturers of some of these weapons and before I left, we have arranged for a donation weapon to the Ministry and that was before I left the Ministry of Interior. And I think that is key, equipping the security agencies is key. Because, if you don’t equip them how will they perform? So, that was my focus. To equip them and make them have adequate numbers to operate effectively.” He said Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT A COVER LETTER
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