Mauritania referee to officiate U-20 AFCON final between Ghana and Uganda
Abdelaziz Bouh from Mauritania has been appointed for the Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations final between Ghana and Uganda. The game will take place on Saturday, March 6, 2021 in at 20:00. Bouh will be assisted by compatriot Hamedine Diba (Assistant Referee I), Abbes Akram Zerhouni from Algeria (Assistant Referee II), Ngwa Blaise Yuven from Cameroon (Fourth Official) and Chedad from Mauritania (Assistant Referee III/VAR). Wajdi Aouadi from Tunisia will serve as the match Commissioner. Bouh took charge of Ghana’s Group C game against Morocco. Other appointments are: Jean Claude Birmushahu – Referee Assessor – Burundi Kelly Athanasie Mukandanga – General Coordinator – Rwanda Watson Edgar Nigel Suubi – Technical Study Group – Uganda Dina Mohsen Medhat Hassan Radwan – Marketing Officer – Egypt Lassana Camara – Media Officer – Mauritania Ahmed Zakaria Enaam mohamed Saber – Security Officer – Egypt Cyrille Serges Dah – Doping Control – Côte D’Ivoire Ernest Ntadissi – Koussangata – Assistant General Coordinator – Congo footballmediainghana Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
GPL: Elmina Sharks beat lackluster Asante Kotoko
Kumasi Asante Kotoko lost their first game on the road this season in the Ghana Premier League against struggling Elmina Sharks at the Paa Kwasi Nduom Stadium. The porcupine warriors who have been stricken by injury worries rang changes to their squad as Wahab Adams and Mudasiru Salifu were handed starts. The game started brightly as both teams had chances to have opened the scores of the game but they wasted the opportunities that came their way. Kwame Opoku shot goalwards after beating the Sharks goalkeeper but his goal bound effort was cleared off the line by his defense. Elmina Sharks had all the chances but wasted them and had about three penalty appeals waved away by the center referee. When the second half began, they made their dominance count as Alhaji Mustapha ghosted past left back Imoro Ibrahim before slotting home in the 55th minute to open the scores. Kotoko pressed for the elusive equalizer which never arrived as they wasted opportunities which came their way. It was the first game for former Ghana and Kotoko player Nii Odartey Lamptey who was appointed interim coach of the club last week after Sharks dissolved their technical team. OTHER RESULTS Inter Allies 1 Ashgold 1 Ghana Guardian Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
I stand by what I said – Sammy Gyamfi, says he’s motivated by ‘bravery’ of J.J Rawlings
National Communications Director for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sammy Gyamfi has indicated that he stands by his outburst on social media as it was necessity to cause a change in the political party. According to him, a lot had happened prior to the approval of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s nominees and that the approval of the Ministers was in violation of the party’s position and not in the interest of the country, revealing he is emboldened by the “bravery” of NDC founder, late Jerry John Rawlings. To him, his outburst was not out of spite for any Member of Parliament or the Speaker of Parliament because he keeps a very good relationship with them. “So when all the leadership of the party did and the agreements reached were breached so openly and brazenly and you look at the impact it will have on the party, this was not a problem that had rared its head for the first time, a number of things had happened behind the scenes and we had spoken to a number of people and I felt that at some point, somebody needed to be called out. So it is to ensure that the right changes will happen and the right things will be done so that the NDC will grow. It is not out of spite for anybody, it is not out of disrespect for anybody but we must learn. The founder of the party was a brave man so sometimes, somebody can be your friend but you need to look at the collective good and collective interest and do certain things,” he told Power FM in an interview restreamed by MyNewsGh.com. He indicated that he still stands by his post on Facebook and believes that if the right changes are done, it will be good for the political party. Mynewsgh Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
You justified your inclusion, my confidence in you at Appointments C’ttee – Akufo-Addo to new ministers
President Nana Akufo-Addo has told his new ministers that they justified the confidence he has reposed in them as well as their capacity to serve, when they appeared before Parliament’s Appointments Committee for vetting. “The entire nation followed keenly your individual interactions with the Appointments Committee. In those sessions, you exhibited your capacity to act as ministers of state for all to see and justified to the county the confidence I have reposed in you to serve in government”, the President said to them on Friday, 5 March 2021 at the Jubilee House when he swore 28 of the 30 ministers-designate in. Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta is yet to be vetted by Parliament’s Appointments Committee due to ill health. Also, the Minister-designate of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mr Ebenezer Kojo Kum, could not make it to Friday’s ceremony at the Jubilee House due to ill health. The President administered to the 28 vetted nominees, the Oath of Allegiance, Oath of a Minister and Oath of Secrecy. Each minister was given an instrument of appointment and signed the oath book. “I am confident that together, we will work to realise the vision of the mandate given to me by the Ghanaian people in the victory of 7 December 2020, a victory which yesterday [Thursday], 4th March, was unanimously upheld in the lucid, well-considered judgment by a 7-member panel of the Supreme Court presided over by the Chief Justice,” he said. The President continued: “I urge you to provide leadership that will ensure that the work which we are embarking on benefits the progress of our nation and help raise the living standards of our people. That is why we are here and that is why the Ghanaian people voted for us,” Nana Akufo-Addo added. “I am assured that the various backgrounds of each one of you will bring value to the governance of our country and enable us to deliver the commitments of our manifesto, the secret compact that ties us, the New Patriotic Party, to the Ghanaian people”, he added. Classfm Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
Shame on you for abandoning post for 3 hours to go drink tea – Atubiga to Rojo
Mr Robert Joseph Mettle-Nunoo (Rojo), one of the two agents who represented the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Electoral Commission’s Strong Room (National Collation Centre), must bow his head in shame for abandoning his job to go an drink tea for three hours at the office of the Chairperson of the election management body, a former flag bearer aspirant of the party, Mr Stephen Atubiga has said. “We are angry, we are upset. I mean, how can somebody go and sit for three hours in somebody’s office drinking tea and would not bow the head in shame but says: ‘I didn’t get biscuit’. I mean, you have an obligation, you left the room ajar”, Mr Atubiga chastised in an interview with Kofi Oppong Asamoah on Class91.3FM’s mid-day news programme, 12Live on Friday, 5 March 2021. “Within the three hours that the man was sitting at the EC Chair’s office drinking tea, do you what can happen within those three hours? Do you know what arrangements can be done? I’m talking about Rojo. Rojo sitting at the EC’s office for three hours, who was coordinating with him? So, the three hours, nobody called him from the campaign directorate, from Afriyie Ankrah and co., from John Dramani Mahama’s office, from Joshua Alabi as the campaign manager; nobody was making a phone call there monitoring and asking them questions? It means somebody was sleeping on the job and without disrespect to anybody, Joshua Alabi is the campaign manager for us, it is his responsibility to coordinate with the party and all sectors to make sure that we get victory”, he fumed. In his view, former President John Mahama “won this election but our negligence started from our campaign manager’s office and then the irresponsible representatives that we had in the EC’s office”. Background Rojo, who was Mr Mahama’s third witness in the just-ended election petition, told the Supreme Court when he was put in the witness box that officials of the Electoral Commission served him tea without biscuit, as he waited his turn to meet the Chairperson to lodge certain complaints to her about some qualms the NDC had with the collation of figures for the presidential election after the 7 December 2020 polls. “I was served tea but not with biscuit”, the former deputy minister of health told the court on Monday, 8 February 2021, as he was being cross-examined by the counsel for the election management body, Mr Justine Amenuvor, who had put it to the witness that he was served tea and biscuit as he sought audience with the EC boss. Mr Mettle- Nunoo also told the court that he was sacked by the EC from its Strong Room on the 9th of December 2020. “The first time I left the strong room when the EC sacked me from the Strong Room”. “That was the first time I left the room. The EC sacked me from the Strong Room”, he insisted, adding: “It has never happened before”. In previous elections, he noted, “I stayed there for 72 hours”. He reiterated: “In the early hours of the 9th, I was sacked from the EC Strong Room and I had to drive from Accra, all the way to Community 25, where I reside. This was around 2 am of the 9th. I then had to wake up very early and go through another two hours of traffic on that […] corridor, back to the EC office”. “I left the strong room the second time to seek audience with the Electoral Commissioner. It was somewhere between 3 O’clock and 4 O’clock”, he mentioned. According to him, “…As required by law, the Returning Officer, was also supposed to be an independent returning officer: to be fair, transparent and determine an election with integrity. So, under those three principles, I was asked to go into the strong room to defend his interest to the best of my abilities”. “In the case of the NPP, you had Mac Manu, John Boadu and so many other people in the Strong Room, even though two people were supposed to have been in the strong room at a time. Why is it that they were permitted to be in the room?” he wondered. He also denied threats that he had told untruths to the court. “That is absolutely untrue”, he said, adding: “I swore an oath to tell the truth and I told the court nothing but the truth”. The longest-serving representative of any political party at the Strong Room also noted that he had, in the past, been sent by EC Chairs to his presidential candidate. “It is not the first time. In my engagement with previous returning officers of the presidential polls, I have had occasion, to leave the Strong Room to go and speak to the person I was representing in the strong room and then I return with the understanding that I had been sent to do so and in this particular instance, I had also been sent to do so.” “So, you want the court to believe that various chairpersons of the EC send you and you obey. Is that the position?” Mr Justin Amenuvor, counsel for the EC asked. “As and when it was necessary to do so in order to resolve the issues”, Mr Mettle-Nunoo said. Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
“The Caucus has never been and would never be for sale – Minority reminds NDC supporters
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) caucus in Parliament is asking supporters of the party to keep faith in them. The admonition comes on the back of rising tensions within the party. The approval of some ministerial nominees of the President which received the endorsement of some of the caucus members despite the party’s position against such individuals has seen several backlash being directed at the minority members. Some of the criticisms include accusations of betrayal to the party and yielding to influence in favour of nominees. However, in a statement signed by the leader of the Caucus, Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority has reaffirmed its commitment to the NDC and their fidelity to hold the government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo accountable which it says is non-negotiable. “The Caucus has never been and would never be for sale. We categorically deny all allegations of influence or favour as a consideration for approvals in the house,” the Minority stated. The Minority reiterated its loyalty to the base of the NDC whiles calling for restraint and calm and again reminded the aggrieved supporters of the “unthinkable feat” it achieved on January 7 and 8 when it ensured the successful election of Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin as Speaker of the 8th Parliament. “We pray for calm nerves even as leadership at all levels continue to offer us direction towards our coming victory. Be assured that the Caucus is still the same Caucus of the 6/7th January 2021 that achieved the unthinkable feat of electing the Rt. Hon. Alban S. K. Bagbin as Speaker. Let’s keep the faith. May we all be measured in our utterances as we seek to rise together. God bless the great NDC,” the statement concludes. Minority Statement: Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093
LIVESTREAMED: Ghana holds 64th Independence Parade
Ghana will on March 6th 2021 mark 64 years since it gained Independence from British colonial rule. The national celebration would be marked in a rather different setting at the forecourt of the Jubilee House. This is due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on large gatherings. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to address citizens from the forecourt of the presidency as part of the celebrations. Ghana has over the years marked the Independence Day celebrations with a march past and performances from the security services in their full regalia. The country’s first president and prime minister, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on March 6th, 1957 declared Ghana as independent from the British colonial regime making it the first African country to do so. Watch a livestream of the event below: Ghanaweb Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications. Contact: 0555568093