Ghana?s Security Level Okay

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Preident John Mahama

Government has declared its satisfaction with the security of the country.

This was after President John Mahama met security chiefs in the country on Monday.

It was disclosed at the meeting that crime rates had significantly fallen.

Speaking at the daily press briefing, Deputy Minister for Information and Media relations Felix Kwakye Ofosu said measures are being taken to ensure Ghanaians live in safety.

?It [report] also took note of measures that have been rolled out to ensure Ghanaians live in safety and also challenges which have to be dealt with,? he stated.

Mr. Kwakye Ofosu further stated, ?the President went ahead to make some proposals that he believes could strengthen the work that the security agencies are carrying out and further consolidate the gains that have been made.?

?He [president] is even more determined to ensure that further assistance is given to the various security agencies to boost their capacities to tackle emerging security challenges. It is believed that these measures will go a long way to help us achieve even greater results,? he added.

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Mumuni Abubaker to join Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

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Mumuni Abubaker will join Belgian side Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

 Mumuni Abubakari To Join Belgian Side Oud-heverlee Leuven This Week         

Ghanaian midfielder Mumuni Abubakar is set to leave South Africa for Belgium to join Pro League side Oud-Heverlee Leuven.

The 19-year-old has been issued with a visa and he will be expected to leave Premier Soccer League side Mamelodi Sundowns.

?He should be leaving this week. He was delayed by paperwork. But all is fine now. He is going to Oud-Heverlee Leuven,? Abubakar?s agent Ralph Nkomo told Soccer Laduma.

Abubakar was signed last June from Ghana Premier League side New Edubiase United but never made an appearance for the Chloorkop-based side.

He is out of Pitso Mosimane?s plans for the upcoming season after being left out of the Sundowns? trip to his native Ghana for pre-season.

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Arsenal?s Gervinho To Join Roma

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Gervinho

Roma hope to finalise a ?7million deal for Arsenal striker Gervinho before the weekend.

Lyon have also been linked with the 26- year-old ? who is not on the club?s pre-season tour of Asia.

In other news, Nottingham Forest are close to signing Olympiakos winger Djamel Abdoun for ?1.7m.

Wigan boss Owen Coyle is ditching plans to sign Bristol City winger Albert Adomah after failing to agree on the payment terms of a ?1m fee.

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Dangerous s*x offender escapes from Jail

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A dangerous sex offender is on the run after carving an escape hole out of his cell wall using a spoon, a broom handle and a chair leg.

But a photo of him cannot be released to the public ? because it would infringe his human rights.

Thomas Schmidt, 25, chipped away a hole in the outside wall of his third floor cell at Hamburg?s Remand Prison then tied his knotted bed sheets to a grate before shinning down.

He was injured by razor wire in the escape, enabling police to follow a trail of bloodspots to a nearby station from where he is thought to have fled.

Schmidt is a notorious sex criminal with multiple offences. He is aided by a bizarre law stipulating that his picture cannot be released to the public because of data protection laws governing his ?personal rights?. Only if a police search fails to find him can authorities put out a picture of him.

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At war? Dr KK Sarpong and Kwesi Nyantakyi

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At war? Dr KK Sarpong and Kwesi Nyantakyi

Kwesi Nyantakyi has revealed he recommended key transfer deals for Asante Kotoko including the sale of Awal Mohammed, Daniel Nii Adjei and Yaw Frimpong which fetched the club in excess of $600,000.

The Ghana FA boss is livid at accusations he contributed to the exit of Dr. Desmond Sarpong as the Executive Chairman of the club.

Kotoko?s International Relations manager Kwame Baah-Nuakoh had earlier insinuated Nyantakyi used his strong ties with club owner Otumfuor Osei Tutu II to frustrate Dr. Sarpong into an unexpected resignation.

But the GFA boss has descended heavily on these allegations to prove his innocence by saying he even deserve thanks for the key roles he played in helping Kotoko accrue significant amounts in player sales.

?Aside helping this current Kotoko administration by giving them four players for which they have fully not paid, I recommended the sale of Awal Mohammed to Maritzburg United,? he told Kumasi-based Kessben FM.

?Not only that, I again recommended the sale of Nii Adjei and Yaw Frimpong personally to the TP Mazembe owner who happens to be my friend.

?In all these interventions, I have helped raise over $600,000 for Kotoko.

?No individual has been able to help raise even a $100,000 for the club and they are there saying I helped in the exit of the chairman?

?No one has even called to thank me for my role in these deals and yet still they want to tarnish my image.?

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Abdul Razak says Kotoko?s owner wants him to coach the club.

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Abdul Razak says Kotoko's owner wants him to coach the club.

Abdul Razak Claims He Is Wanted For Kotoko Coaching Job       

Ghana legend Abdul Razak claims he is wanted by Asante Kotoko as their new head coach with Mas-Ud Dramani set to be dismissed.

The 1978 African Footballer of the Year has told the Graphic Sports the club?s owner Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu will love to have him back as head of the technical team.

But the 61-year-old, who hold a FIFA License ?B? coach coaching certificate is not qualified for the job unless he picks up the License ?A? badge ? the requirement for coaches in the Ghana top-flight.

?Yes, His Majesty had expressed his desire to see me back to the club,? Razak is quoted by the state-owned newspaper.

?I went with the team and in the course of the introduction, the then Executive Chairman, Dr Kofi Kodua Sarpong, mentioned my name and told the Asantehene that but for the fact that I did not have a FIFA License ?A? coaching certificate, he would have loved to see me as the coach of the club.

?At the meeting, Otumfuo invited me to his seat where he told me he would want me to return to coach Kotoko.?

Razak guided Malian giants Stade Malien to three league titles, FA Cup and Super Cup during two spells in 2001-2002 and 2005 and 2006.

He led Asante Kotoko to win their first Ghana Premier League title in ten years in 2003 before moving over to Real Tamale United.

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Manison failed to impress Kaizer Chiefs

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Manison failed to impress Kaizer Chiefs

Ghanaian Defender Manison Fails Kaizer Chiefs Trial         

Ghanaian defender Anthony Manison failed to get a contract with Kaizer Chief after a two-week trial.

The 19-year-old has been trying out with the South African side for the past 14 days  but failed to impress trainer Stuart Baxter.

The Amakhosi has decided against offering the Ghanaian a long-term deal.

?He?s not better than what we have so we are letting him go,? Baxter said

The youngster is expected back home to continue his search for a new club.

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Suarez Not For Sale

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Liverpool have rejected Arsenal?s improved offer of just over ?40m for Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez.

The unusual bid, understood to be ?40,000,001, was designed to trigger a clause in the player?s contract, but Liverpool have turned it down.

Under the terms of Suarez?s deal, the club are duty bound to consider any offer for him in excess of ?40m and then inform the 26-year-old of it.

But they do not have to sell and have now rejected two bids from Arsenal.

While Liverpool remain determined to keep their prized asset, who scored 30 goals for the club in 44 appearances last season, their resolve is likely to be tested if the bidding continues to rise.

Should Arsenal persist and have an improved bid accepted, it could come close to trebling their previous highest initial outlay on a transfer.The Gunners, whose first offer for Suarez was ?30m, paid a reported ?15m to Zenit St Petersburg for Andrey Arshavin, in January 2009.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers last week said he considered Suarez to be at least as valuable as Edinson Cavani, who recently joined Paris St-Germain for ?55m.

Real Madrid remain interested but have yet to make a formal offer.

Suarez joined Liverpool?s pre-season tour of Australia at the weekend and was expected to hold talks about his future with Rodgers.

The Uruguay international flew to Melbourne from Montevideo on Sunday after being given extended leave by the Reds following the Confederations Cup.

He wants to leave Anfield to play for a Champions League club despite only signing a new long-term deal last summer.

Speculation has grown about Suarez?s future since he was punished with a 10-game ban at the end of April for biting Chelsea?s Branislav Ivanovic.

The striker still has to serve six games of that suspension and was also banned in 2011 after being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United?s Patrice Evra.

Suarez joined Liverpool from Ajax in January 2011 in a ?22.7m deal.

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Owabi Dam Faces Imminent Shutdown Due To Encroachment

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The Owabi Dam, which has been supplying two million gallons of water daily to Kumasi now faces imminent shutdown as reserved lands meant to protect it, has come under unrestrained encroachment.

So disturbing is the situation that the people of Bokankye-Sennie, one of the communities sited along the banks of the Owabi River that feeds the Dam, have appealed to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, to intervene.

They have appealed to the King to stop the chiefs from selling the land to developers.

Mr George Kofi Asabre, their Spokesperson, told the Ghana News Agency that more than 1,000 acres of the reserved land is gone.

He said about 500 buildings have sprung up on the stretch of land, purposely demarcated to protect the river banks and prevent it from drying up.

Mr Asabre said if the authorities do not act decisively and with urgency to forestall the situation, the people would be compelled to take the law into their hands to stop the siege.

Nana Owusu Ababio, Chief of Bokankye-Sennie, said selling of the reserved land was done in the past.

He said not a single plot of land has been allocated to anybody for development since 2011, when the Asantehene imposed a customary fine on anyone found doing so.

The Dam, built in 1925, has the capacity to produce three million gallons of water a day.

The Ghana Water Company Limited has complained of huge costs of treating water from the river because of the high level of contamination by effluent and other waste materials.

It may be recalled that the Regional Security Council in the 1990?s pulled down some buildings on the Owabi reserved lands but the action did not stop the encroachment.

Source: GNA

More than 100 Christian homes attacked in Egypt

Security forces must do more to protect Egypt’s Christian minority in the turmoil following the military overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, rights groups said on Tuesday, citing the mob killing of four near the southern city of Luxor.

Coptic Christians account for about a tenth of Egypt’s 84 million people. They have suffered discrimination for decades, but communal tensions and attacks rose sharply under Mursi, who was elected president a year ago following the fall of strongman Hosni Mubarak in 2011, reports Reuters.

The army deposed Mursi on July 3, unleashing violent street clashes and exposing deep fissures in the Arab world’s most populous nation.

Two days later, a mob beat to death four Christians and destroyed at least 24 Christian-owned properties after a Muslim was found dead in the village of Naga Hassan, near Luxor, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

Amnesty International said security forces in the area “stood by and failed to intervene” while more than 100 Christian homes were attacked, scores of them looted or torched.

Both rights groups quoted witnesses as saying they had begged police and local officials to intervene, but to no avail.

Amnesty said Luxor prosecutors were investigating the attack and at least 18 men had been detained. A military spokesman was not contactable for comment on the criticism of the security forces. Tuesday was a public holiday in Egypt.

HRW said it had registered at least six attacks on Christians across Egypt since the ouster of Mursi, the country’s first democratically-elected president.

Many Christians feared the ascendance to power of Mursi and his Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. When he was ousted, Coptic Pope Tawadros II gave his public backing, standing with other leaders beside armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi when he announced Mursi’s removal.

HRW said that in only one of the attacks against Christians had police intervened effectively.

“The Egyptian government should make ending sectarian violence a priority, or risk letting this deadly problem spiral out of control,” said Nadim Houry, acting Middle East director at HRW.

Amnesty said security forces in Hagba Nassan had evacuated some women and children trapped inside a house surrounded by an angry mob, but left six men behind, “apparently following demands from the crowd that the men remain.” Four of the men were later stabbed or beaten to death, it said.

“The attack went on for 18 hours,” Amnesty quoted local priest, Father Barsilious, as saying. “And there was not a door on which I did not knock: police, army, local leaders, the Central Security Forces, the Governate. Nothing was done.”

While in power, Mursi’s government said it was committed to protecting minorities, but the Muslim Brotherhood strongly criticized the Coptic pope for backing the president’s overthrow and anti-Christian sentiment has been on display at pro-Mursi rallies. The army-backed authorities who replaced him have said little about attacks on Christians.

Site of Egypt’s greatest Pharaonic temples, Luxor made headlines in 1997, when Islamist militants killed 62 people, 58 of them foreign tourists in a temple in the Valley of the Queens.

Sundowns will play against Dwarfs in Cape Coast today.

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Sundowns will play against Dwarfs in Cape Coast on Wednesday

Sundowns To Wrap-up Pre-season Tour Of Ghana With Ebusua Dwarfs Friendly Today

Sundowns will wrap up their pre-season tour of Ghana with a friendly against Ebusua Dwarfs on Wednesday.

The South African side have been in Ghana for the past 12 days where they have been trimming the rough edges ahead of the new season.

They have played two friendlies against two of the country?s  powerful clubs in Ghana, holding Hearts to 1-1-1 while beaten Ghanaian champions Kotoko 2-0 in Kumasi last Sunday.

The Brazilians will engage Dwarfs at the Robert Mensah stadium in their last pre-season friendly in the West African country.

Ghanaian defender Rashid Sumaila is expected to line up against against his former club, just as he did against Kotoko at the Baba Yara stadium.

Sundowns will fly out of the country on Thursday to end their 13 days tour of Ghana  to prepare for the 2013/2014 South African Absa Premiership.

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Kotoko Turmoil May Derile Tour Of Sunderland

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The 24-hour unfolding turmoil in Kumasi Asante Kotoko could affect the club's youth side's impending tour of England to play Sunderland as necessary preparations have stalled because of the impasse.

Kotoko and Sunderland

The 24-hour unfolding turmoil in Kumasi Asante Kotoko could affect the club?s youth side?s impending tour of England to play Sunderland as necessary preparations have stalled because of the impasse.

Kotoko?s juvenile side were scheduled to play their Sunderland counterparts in a friendly fixed for the United Kingdom in August.

The game, an initiative of Sunderland, seeks to solidify the partnership between the two sides, which was brokered a few years ago.

But departure of KK Sarpong and the uncertainty surrounding who is to takeover the club has left the players in limbo.

Visa acquisition and other preparation have also been held up as fans are asking for an interim management to be put in place to sort it out.

During their stay in the UK, Kotoko would have the opportunity to play against Scottish Premier side Motherwell FC in a game put together by Divine Sports Management Limited, headed by Charlie Baffour, a FIFA Licensed/Registered agent.

?Sunderland Youth Academy Director Mr Gordon Chisholm, myself and Kotoko?s Executive Chairman Dr. K.K. Sarpong and other top management members have discussed in detail the benefits the two sides stand to gain, hence this exercise,? Mr Baffour told DAILY GUIDE SPORTS said last earlier this month.

?My outfit has also succeeded in talking with a club in Holland (Vitesse Arnhem FC), Anderlecht in Belgium and possibly PSV FC who have confirmed that they are willing to host Kotoko after the UK games.

?Kotoko, like the top flight clubs, have expressed delight in the forthcoming games, and I see it as a big platform for Kotoko?s youth to market the team,?   Baffour added.

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Ebenezer Ofori to undergo medical at AIK Stockholm

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Ebenezer Ofori

Ghana U20 defender Ebenezer Ofori will undergo medical at Swedish giants AIK Stockhom, MTNFootball.com can exclusively reveal.

The New Edubaise player, who can play as a left winger and left-back, was spotted during the 2013 African Youth Championship in Algeria early this year.

At the FIFA U20 World Cup, he made only two appearances and was limited to the bench with the presence of Baba Abdul Rahman and Frank Acheampong.

Both clubs have reached a deal for him to be transferred.

Ofori will join former Edubiase teammate Moro Ibrahim who was sold to AIK last June.

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Mandela Lives On

Nelson Mandela

The Nelson Mandela story has quietly shifted from a gloomy ? if not morbid ? wait for the worst news out of his Pretoria hospital to what has nearly become a spirit of local and international cheering over his progress in recent weeks.

Tuesday, South African President Jacob Zuma issued a statement saying that Mr. Mandela is showing ?sustained improvement.? That comes after Mandela?s daughter spoke last week of her father possibly leaving intensive care, and even eventually going home from the hospital altogether, reports Christian Science Monitor.

There?s an authentic element of inspiration to this. Mandela is a lifelong fighter, and at 95 he is defying the confident expectations of his demise ? as he defied the system of apartheid and the attempts of his jailers, for 27 years, to defeat his spirit. He is again turning the story about him around.

Last week South Africans celebrated with a day of service as Mandela marked his birthday.

What a welcome change from late June, when some media erroneously reported that Mandela had died, and an Australian politician sent condolences to the Mandela family ? and every day various oleaginous commentaries seemed to eagerly roll out the red carpet for the imminent earthly departure of the first black president of formerly white-ruled South Africa.

What has replaced the often unseemly death watch now seems to be a more settled, sober, and calm appreciation of Mandela?s life and its significance.

Earlier this month, South African media in Johannesburg reported a surprising spike in sales of books about Mandela. Agence France-Presse said his autobiography in particular was getting new attention.

That work is largely based on his prison writings from Robben Island, in which he advocates developing the qualities of honesty, sincerity, and simplicity that are ?within easy reach of every soul.?

Yesterday the White House released photos of the Obama family visiting Mandela?s cell on Robben Island, taken from their recent visit to South Africa.

There is some feeling that an authentic appreciation of Mandela carries with it an important message of present day reconciliation.

It is again work in progress for Eagles-Keshi

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The Super Eagles had their last test game before travelling to Abidjan on Tuesday evening in Abuja and came away with a hard fought 2-0 win over The Everlasting Arms Parish (TEAP) FC, of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

The highly entertaining game had among the crowd former NFF board member and Technical Adviser of Lobi Stars, Dominic Iorfa, current board member and Chairman of the NFF Media Committee, Chief Emeka Inyama, NFF Director of Technical, Dr Emmanuel Ikpeme, National Competitions Director, Dr Sanusi Mohammed, former Flying Eagles and Golden Eaglets Assistant Coach Ben Iroha and NFF technical eye, Siji Lagunju.

Traditionally, Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi put his best legs forward in the opening half of the game but the likes of Chigozie Agbim, Solomon Kwambe, Benjamin Francis, Godfrey Oboabona, Azubuike Egwuekwe, Sunday Mba, Oladapo Olufemi and even Ifeayin Ede fail to break the resilience of the TEAP side in a half dominated by the Eagles.

Keshi didn?t lose faith in his squad but merely reinforced it in the second half. Ayo Saka came in for Rabiu, Junior international Alhaji Gero replaced Ezekiel Mba, while Chibuzor Okonkwo took over from Kwambe. It didn?t take long for the changes to start yielding fruits as a clever move initiated by Joseph Osandaye found Sunday Mba whose leg work deflated the TEAP defence for Gero to slot in the first goal. This was in the 48th minute.

The ding dong nature of the game continued until ten minutes later when Femi Oladapo connected Okonkwo to lay a cross for onrushing Ifeanyi Ede to nod clear. It was a classic and by then the Eagles have killed the game and were just enjoying the rest of the encounhter. The coaching crew noted it and withdrew  the problables. Agbim was out for Akpeyi, Gomo for Mba, Ajiya, Ezekiel Bassey and Ebenezer Oloruntoba also tasted action, same as Ganiyu Atanda. When referee Aniete Ukoh sounded the bhome whistle it was clear who the better side was.

TEAP Coach Malomo Paris, said he was again impressed by the display of the national side and his own team. ?It was a good game but the better side won and we know we should have done better but this is the national team.?

Keshi simply said, it was again work in progress for the national team.

I am still the property of Wolves-Agbim

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Chigozie Agbim

Super Eagles home-based skipper, Chigozie Agbim, has said he remains a player of Warri Wolves on loan to Enugu Rangers International until contractual terms are sorted out by both sides.

Agbim was reacting to reports in a section of the media which quoted him as saying that he is a full Rangers player and owes his allegiance to the Enugu side.

?No, I never said that, all I said was that Rangers and Warri Wolves are still negotiating over my future and at the end of the day they will tell the world what agreement they have. Now I have been misquoted over what I never said.?

The goalie said he has no personal disagreement with Wolves but only sought a transfer as normal players do and will not want the media to create a crisis between him and the Warri side.

The same scenario played out in the case of Sunday Mba, which has since been resolved in favour of Warri Wolves and Agbim declared on Tuesday that he does not want a similar problem as both sides have been very good to him and are at the moment negotiating on the best way forward for him.

Clifford Aboagye says he is ready to play in the Black Stars.

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Clifford Aboagye says he is ready to play in the Black Stars.

I?m Ready For Black Stars- Clifford Aboagye

Ghana U20 maestro Clifford Aboagye says has the qualities to thrive in the Black Stars if handed a call-up.

The diminutive but skillful midfielder gained global attention after winning the 2013 FIFA U20 World Cup bronze ball in Turkey.

Aboagye, set to join Spanish side Granada on loan from Udinese, could be promoted to the senior national team after his exhilarating display at the tournament.

The 19-year-old says he is ready to take the big leap in his international career.

?Getting a call up to the Black Stars will depend on Coach Appiah because he knows where I can fit,? he told Joy sports.

?So if the call up comes I?m ready and since I want to play professional football I should be ready to serve my country anytime the chance comes.?

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Kevin Constant walking off after racist abuse

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AC Milan defender Kevin Constant has emulated his Ghanaian team-mate Kevin Prince Boateng as walked off the pitch on Tuesday night during the Rossoneri?s TIM Trophy clash against Sassuolo after racial abuse was directed at him.

Kevin Constant walking off after the abuse

AC Milan defender Kevin Constant has emulated his Ghanaian team-mate Kevin Prince Boateng as walked off the pitch on Tuesday night during the Rossoneri?s TIM Trophy clash against Sassuolo after racial abuse was directed at him.

The TIM Trophy is an annual pre-season event featuring AC Milan, Juventus and Inter. The Nerazzurri pulled out for this first time this summer and were replaced by Sassuolo.

During the final and deciding encounter between the Rossoneri and Neroverdi, Constant walked off the pitch in the 33rd minute after reportedly hearing racial abuse from the crowd.

The Guinean kicked the ball into the stands before walking off the pitch and heading for the locker room.

Referee Andrea Gervasoni followed protocol and ensured a warning was read over the stadium?s speaker, though the match was not stopped.

This is not the first time a Milan player has been the subject of racial abuse as Kevin-Prince Boateng went through a similar situation last January during a friendly against Pro Patria.

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Today In History: Ghana Football Remembers Late Mills

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Late-President John Evans Attah Mills

Late-President John Evans Attah Mills

Ghana football was thrown into a state of mourning exactly a year today following the death of ex-President John Evans Attah Mills.  

Late President Mills, who was the president of Hearts of Oak, a leading Ghanaian football team, was pronounced death at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra on July 24, 2012.

Until his demise, the law professor served on various committees at the Ghana Football Association and hailed by many for his immense contribution to the development of football in the West African country.

He was an avid supporter of the Black Stars and hugely remembered for his humility and selflessness.

A wreath-laying ceremony will take place at Asomdwe Park (burial place) on Wednesday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of his passing.

Ghana?s leading football outlet, GHANAsoccernet.com continue to remember the bereaved family and Ghanaians in our thoughts.

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Foreign Clubs To Pay Kotoko Us$ 324,000 Over Transfers

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Alex Asamoah during his arrival at Entete Setif.

Alex Asamoah during his arrival at Entete Setif.

FIFA has directed three foreign clubs to pay Ghanaian side Asante Kotoko a combined sum of US$ 324,000 as unpaid transfer fees of three clubs.

The clubs failed to promptly settle debts owed the club for signing its players.

Kotoko?s legal representative Minkah-Premo & Co officially wrote to FIFA to claim their due fees from the three clubs after the delayed payment for Nathaniel Asamoah, Alex Asamoah and former captain Jordan Opoku.

Striker Asamoah was sold to Serbian giants Red Star Belgrade in a 200,000 euro ($264,000) deal for four years.

After several appeals over the course of over 18 months, FIFA has ordered the Belgrade club to settle the fee with a 5% interest from the original due date.

Algerian club ES Setif have also suffered a same fate as FIFA has ordered them to pay up the US$ 40,000 balance from the purchase of striker Asamoah in August 2011.

They are also liable to a 5% interest from the date of 0da5d4e61ec3df84e9e4d5d71fdb6f07 of the initial transfer fee of US$ 80,000.

Midfielder Opoku was loaned out to Albanian side Dinamo Tirana for four months in 2011 for US$ 20,000 which has not been settled till date.

Dinamo Tirana has also been ordered to defray the debt with an additional 5% interest.

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Owusu Abeyie Scores In Crystal Palace Friendly

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Ghanaian trialist Quincy Owusu Abeyie scored for Crystal Palace on Tuesday when they beat Gillingham 3-0 to boost his chances of winning a deal with the newly-promoted Premier League side.

Quincy Abeyie

Ghanaian trialist Quincy Owusu Abeyie scored for Crystal Palace on Tuesday when they beat Gillingham 3-0 to boost his chances of winning a deal with the newly-promoted Premier League side.

The ex-Arsenal player grabbed the last goal as long-range strikes from Dean Moxey and Stephen Dobbie helped Crystal Palace to the win in the friendly

Left-back Moxey struck a crisp low drive in the 21st minute that Stuart Nelson was unable to get to, before Dobbie added a second after the break from a little further out.

Trialist Quincy Owusu Abeyie scored a third after neat work from Dobbie as Palace continued their preparations for the new season in style.

The Premier League new boys took their time to get going and it was their League 1 opponents who had the best of the early chances, although their wayward finishing meant that Julian Speroni was rarely tested.

Dobbie released substitute Abeyie behind the Gillingham defence, with the former Arsenal and Spartak Moscow winger firing past Nelson to confirm the win.

Abeyie is on trial with Palace with the hope of getting a deal after being released by Greek giants Panathinaikos.

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Kwadwo Asamoah played for Juventus in the Champions League

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Juventus may have been knocked out in the quarter-finals but they were the biggest financial winners from last season's Champions League competition.

Juventus Top Uefa Champions League Earners Despite Not Reaching Final

Juventus may have been knocked out in the quarter-finals but they were the biggest financial winners from last season?s Champions League competition.

Bayern Munich beat German compatriots Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in May?s Wembley final yet neither side could match Juve?s earning power, a UEFA report said.

The Italian champions made 65.3 million euros ($A93.75 million) last season from their participation, more than 10 million euros more than Bayern earned.

The two finalists unsurprisingly were the next biggest winners with Bayern earning 55.0 million euros and Dortmund making 54.2 million euros.

The 32 clubs participating in the group stages shared out 904.6 million euros, according to UEFA.

The main difference between the German pair and Juve was television rights with the Turin giants earning 44.8 million euros from that alone, compared with just 19.1 million euros for Bayern.

AC Milan, who only made it to the second round, were the next biggest winners with 51.4 million euros ahead of Spanish losing semi-finalists Real Madrid (48.4m) and Barcelona (45.5m) and French quarter-finalists Paris Saint-Germain (44.7m).

The top English earners were Manchester United, who earned 35.6 million euros despite their second round exit.

The smallest share of 10.5 million euros went to Dynamo Zagreb.

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Player Scored 14 Goals In 79-0 Scandalous Win Nigeria

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The Nigeria Football Federation found that one player scored 14 goals in a 79-0 win in one of two fixed play-off games involving amateur teams seeking promotion to the professional league this month, www.nigeriasoccernet.com has reported.

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The Nigeria Football Federation found that one player scored 14 goals in a 79-0 win in one of two fixed play-off games involving amateur teams seeking promotion to the professional league this month, www.nigeriasoccernet.com has reported.

In the other match, which ended 67-0 and was played at the same time, four goals were scored in a minute.

The NFF made public its findings after it banned all the players and officials involved in the games for life for match-fixing when Plateau United Feeders beat Akurba FC and Police Machine beat Babayaro FC by the scarcely believable scores.

The winning teams both wanted to boost their goal tallies to clinch promotion, having won the same amount of games.

The NFF said the four clubs were each banned for 10 years for their ?fraudulent conspiracy?.

Source: www.nigeriasoccernet.com

Aaron Winter has called on the Ghanaian football authorities to provide more

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Ex-Dutch international Aaron Winter has called on the Ghanaian football authorities to provide more of the things that will help grow the local game better.

Aron Winter

Ex-Dutch international Aaron Winter has called on the Ghanaian football authorities to provide more of the things that will help grow the local game better.

He said that Ghana?s potential will not be of suitable benefit if there are no means of developing footballers for them to compete with other players in the world and that there should be more efforts by the requisite bodies.

He spoke to Citi Sports in an interview on Tuesday and said:

?To become better at football, you need to give players opportunities to reach the top but I see that the facilities are not available. I have observed that a large number of players have to travel a distance before getting to a pitch.

Nationally, there are not a lot of good pitches for use and this is not good enough. Aside this, there should be a lot more focus on developing the game through the various age groups. I agree that some things are being done but, for a country like Ghana, it is not good enough.?

He also spoke about Ghana?s wonderful performance in the last FIFA World Cup in South Africa and he said that the feat marked the growth of African football in recent times.

? Ghana was unlucky not to have made it to the semi-finals but I was impressed with the development of African football in the last few years. When you look at the current situation and what was there some years ago, you see a difference.

Now, African footballers are leaving the continent at younger ages and this means that they can access the same training as their counterparts in Europe. They learn more now and this is very clear when their countries play. They have brought African football forward and it?s amazing.?

Winter, who played for Ajax, Lazio and Inter Milan in addition to appearing at the 1988 European Championships and the 1994 and 1998 World Cups for the Netherlands, is currently working with the Dutch Football Association in providing support to other countries including Ghana.

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Delta Leisure Theme Park To Provide Over 5, 000 Jobs

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Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel has said that the Delta Leisure and Theme Park, Oleri in Udu Local Government Area, will provide employment opportunities for over 5,000 unemployed Deltans when completed.

Dr. Uduaghan who stated this Monday when he was conducted round the site by the Project Supervisor, Princess Abiodun Oyefusi during an inspection visit of the progress of work said on completion, the Park would provide direct employment to over 5,000 persons in the state while others would get indirect employment from the various businesses that would shoot up from the park?s operations.

The Governor who said that he was impressed with the progress and pace of work done so far reiterated government?s commitment to the completion of the project, saying ?I am very happy that the firm carrying out the execution of the Park started earlier than expected; I am impressed with them and we will continue to give them the needed support. I am encouraged by the pace of work so far and I can say that, so far, so good.?

Dr. Uduaghan added: ?I am praying that this project comes to fruition as it is expected to employ about 5,000 persons directly on completion, aside others that will make money from its operations indirectly.?

Governor Uduaghan, who was also at the Nigerian Gas Company Ltd (NGC), opposite the DSC, Aladja, explained that the Park will be gas driven, hence his visit to the plant.

?We are going to discuss with NGC, a subsidiary of the NNPC on the possibility of supplying gas to the Park because it is going to be gas driven. We are also going to sit down with the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on how to use their facilities to ship in equipment needed at the Park,? he stated.

Project Supervisor of Sarner PFM, the firm executing the project, Princess Abiodun Oyefusi told the Governor the stage of the reclamation of land has been completed and first phase of construction will start in September.

While saying that the first stage of infrastructure would gulp about 290 Million Dollars, including the Wild Life Park at Ogwashi-Uku, she assured of speedy execution of the project.

?We are commencing the first phase of construction in the upland in September which will include the construction of catering villa, three star hotels and the electric fence,? she said.

Ghana’s Illegal Mining Law Sentences Too Low

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fuseiniThe mining law in Ghana did not contemplate that foreigners will come and violate the law. In view of this, the sentences were and still remain too low to serve as a stringent punishment, the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini bemoaned.

This observation came to light during a tour of Ghanaian owned and first gold refinery in Ghana-ASAPVASA Company Limited in Accra yesterday.

According to Alhaji Fuseini, the Illegal mining law was originally targeted at Ghanaians and not foreigners. We are not prosecuting the illegal miners so far arrested because presently we want to get them out and amend the law. So now we reforming and in the process of amending the law and thereafter we will do the prosecution.

We cannot give timeline as to when we will complete the flushing out of illegal miners but we are determined to mitigate the involvement or the presence of illegal mining in our mining communities.?

Speaking to the media during the tour, the Chief Executive Officer of ASAP VASA, Henry Vroom Parker mentioned that, the refinery was set up at a total cost of about $15m and would soon go into production of bullion bars, coins and medals to stem the importation of these items and create jobs for Ghanaians.

ASAP VASA which started full refinery operations in 2007 with 500kg per month capacity can now refine two tonnes of gold per month.

The company has direct staff strength of twenty-five (25) and indirect jobs to hundreds of legal small-scale miners who supply the raw material.

Story by Pascal K. Kudiabor

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Youth Graduate under Newmont Ghana Apprenticeship Programme

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New PictureThe third batch of trainees under Newmont Ghana?s Apprenticeship Training Programme has graduated from their four-year training in mechanical and electrical maintenance.

A ceremony was recently held in Kenyasi, in the Brong Ahafo Region to mark the passing out of the 13 apprentices, who enrolled in 2009.? The ceremony also saw the promotion of continuing trainees under the programme.

Newmont Ghana established the Apprenticeship Training Programme in 2005 as part of the company?s commitment to its Social Responsibility obligations to its host communities.

The programme was also established partly as a technical pipeline to ensure access to skilled and trained mechanical and electrical specialists to support operational requirements in the company. So far, 132 locals from Newmont Ahafo?s host communities have gone through the programme since its inception.

The module, based on the Applied Technical Pipeline Approach, is also being replicated at the Akyem project which is expected to be operational later this year. At the end of the training, the apprentices are awarded the London City and Guilds Institute Certificates.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony, the Chief of Ntotroso, Barima Twereku Ampem III, congratulated the graduates for successfully passing through the programme and commended Newmont Ghana for providing an avenue for the youth of the area to acquire relevant skills which can earn them employment not only in Newmont but in other companies as well.

He implored the youth in the mine?s host communities to take advantage of this unique opportunity provided by Newmont to enhance their capacity and contribute meaningfully to the development of their communities.

The District Chief Executive of Tano North, Apraku Lartey lauded Newmont for its commitment to its social responsibility obligations commitments towards the host communities.

The General Manager ? Operations of Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (Ahafo Mine), Joep Coenen, reminded the graduates to be guided by the safety culture in Newmont and always strive to ensure an injury-free work culture while contributing meaningfully to the development of their communities and the nation as a whole.

 

 

 

Scrap Export Industry Runs Broke

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Members of Scrap Dealers Association, the Ashanti Chapter have fingered Hon Haruna Iddrisu, Minister for Trade and Industry over his reluctance in taking?concrete steps?towards ensuring that the wholesale?ban on the?exportation of scraps is relaxed to the barest minimum despite?the many concerns raised.

wpid-harunaiddrisu.jpgThe rush by the Hon Minister in requesting for a ban on the exportation of scraps from parliament they described to have been done out of selfish ambition?since he has at heart the plight of only foreign steel companies operating in the country with no room whatsoever to consider the plight of Ghanaian scrap metal dealers. Since coming into force of the ban,?local???players of the industry have been hard hit by a Tsunami of challenges.

Addressing the media at a press conference, the spokesperson for the association Mr.Abdul Latiff Adam indicated that mixed steel was bought for an average of GH?620.00 but with the ban,?it?is currently bought at GH 400.00 by the local steel industries adding that even with the reduction in prices, some of the companies are not able to make quick payments on purchases made from them, thereby leaving??them at the mercy of financial institutions who are always on their tails for their monies offered to them as loans.

The local industry he mentioned,?is in a huge debt of?GH? 20,000,000.00 and are posed with the challenge as to how to get funds to make the payment.

Following the foregoing challenge, many players of the industry all over the country have been rendered unemployed?with several of them running away from their creditors. ?The trade ministry is throwing us out of our jobs and as you already know. A hungry man is an angry man,? he challenged.

The association has therefore made a passionate appeal to His Excellency John Dramani Mahama and for that matter the sector minister Hon Haruna Iddrisu to take a second look into the matter by relaxing the ban to allow them to export scraps that are rejected by the five local steel companies.

They again want to be given the opportunity under the ban to export the following; steel balls, ductile steel, manganese, etc. This according to the association will serve as a window of opportunity to enable scrap dealers survive in the wake of the economic hardship being experienced by all.

His Excellency John Dramani Mahama they appealed should set up a monitoring team to monitor the export of scraps not needed by local steel industries so as to fetch foreign exchange into the economy.

Police & State Security Must Stand Up!

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A Veteran Politician, Mr. Joshua Attoh Quarshie has called on the police and the state security to work hard and regain the somehow lost reputation.

IGPMr. Attoh Quarshie, who is also the Head of Oto Kunor We (Family) of James Town in Accra, said if the country could prosper or broken, it would depend on these institutions.

He said the whole nation spoke ill against the police and the state security of being corrupt, but to him, ?this is not 100% correct. This is because, there are institutions that are corrupt than the police and the state security. There are institutions that don?t bring peace into this nation and are difficult for the police to deal with them because they are government officials.?

Mr. Attoh Quarshie alluded that, ?we know when you do a good job, someone can say ?ayekoo? (well done) and that ayekoo must come now to revive the respect, hope and peace we are expecting from the police and the state security to enable them put their feet down to protect the state instead of individuals? he said, adding that ?They should know that they are powerful than the Head Of State despite the fact that they are under the him. If the Head of State offend the law, it is the State Security and the Police who can cause the arrest and put him before Court so they must respect their institutions. They can arrest even the Chief Justice and put him before court so they should know if the country can develop; it should come from them and if it would break it comes from them.?

He recalled that ?when I was growing up, if someone is putting up a building, the state security will investigate where that income came from and where he got that money whether the person is a farmer, fisherman or another worker. It is the duty of the state security to know all these so they must respect their institution?.

Mr. Attoh Quarshie appealed to the police to stop receiving perceived little GH?5.00 from some commercial drivers who allegedly put in driving licence while on road for checks.

?If a man offends and he offers you such an amount for you to set him free, you are not doing the nation any good. Take for instance, if his insurance has expired and give him 24hour to go and do it and report himself to any police station, the driver can meet you give you something to thank you for not delaying his time when you arrested him. This is good?.

He explained that ?institutions like Lands Department, Customs, the Trade and Industry Ministry, are corrupt than any institution in the country, but people take the police to task because they are always on the road checking the drivers?.

Mr. Attoh Quarshie said when the police take offenders to court, ?what the judges stand on to set them free is hundred times what they will give to the police and they always talk about the police.?

He called on the Chief Justice to take a critical look at one Dentist Coffie who is parading himself as a Royal at James Town.

?I am appealing to the Chief Justice to call for a re-trial of Dentist Coffie in an case for which they jailed his Surveyor. This man has caused bloodshed from Oblogo, near Weija, Aplaku, Bortianor, Oshiee, Amanfro, among others, by setting non-royals, non-proper Gas in a position so that he can get their support to sell the land to people. Dentist Coffie must be dealt with. This man is not a royal, he is not from James Town, and he is called Kwamena. His CV in my possession state that the father comes from Sempe and the mother Owuman, but I am making it clear that, the mother gave birth to him, before he married Coffie so his name is Kwamena and not Coffie.He can challenge me in court over these allegations?.

He explained that Mr Coffie?s mother and auntie came to rent a house at James Town and he bought his way when there was a dispute between the Ga royals. The case is before court and whenever the case is called, he (Coffie) allegedly bribes the officials with land and money?.

Mr. Attoh Quarshie accused Dentist Coffie of putting people in the bush and whenever the poor farmers are going to plant crops they chase them with cutlass because they want to sell the land. He surrounded himself with servants who are not royals like himself and are causing mess on our land. I see no reason why he should be set free, this wicked wretch?.

He called on all royals in James Town to join force with my family, Oto Kunor We, to fight against the descendants of the slaves in James Town. ?I am pointing out to Ghanaian that we are not the first people that servants are occupying our stools?.

He cited a typical example in the Bible?Lamentation Chapter 5:8 ?Servants have ruled over us: there is none doth deliver us out of their hand?, the same thing applies to the former Mimhene of Ashanti, Nana Appiah Kusi Brempong II, who the present Ashantihene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II distooled him and the queen for ruling them twenty and thirty years respectively illegally.

He called on Ga Adanme that ?we are one people, one language, one Bible. It is time to join hand with James Town Oto Kunor We Ajumako Royals, Adanse and Trom. We call upon all the Ga Adanmes to come out with one voice to clear out all these slave descendants from our midst who are selling our lands recklessly and causing mess and confusion everywhere?.

 

 

God?s Signature Discovered In Mars By NASA

WITH MATERIALS FROM CNN AND COLOURED CREATIVITY.

The use of ?IN GOD WE TRUST? by the citizens of America, as a motto of United States of America [U.S.A] has not been changed or thrown out making it a big question why all these huge disasters raking across the country in recent times in a country that its citizen?s trust in God.

Yes there are great American evangelists who perform miracles to win souls for Christ. But what makes it shocking is that the country continues to record serious drop in religiosity despite their motto ?IN WE GOD WE TRUST?.

This has been proven by a WIN-Gallup Poll which conducted a survey and published their findings last year that,? America experienced a 13 percent drop in religiosity between 2005 and 2012 which did not reflect on its motto.

Two months ago, precisely on May a devastated storm raked across central of OklahomaState in America, which killed 24 people and flattened a whole city destroying properties worth billions of dollars beyond repair.

After the storm, ace journalist with the CNN Wolf Blitzer interviewed one of the survivors of the storm Rebecca Vitsmum who shocked many Christians and some non Christians shocked world over with her denied God?s existence.

This is how the interview went. ?We are happy you are here. You guys did a great job, Blitzer said to Rebecca Vitsmum, who escaped from her house with her 19 month-old son right before the twister tore through it.

?You gotta thank the lord right? Did you thank the lord for that split decision? Vitsmum hesitated for a moment and smiled. I-I?m actually an atheist,? she said, laughing off the awkward moment.

?You are. All right. But you made the right call, Blitzer said. ?We are here and I do not blame anyone for thanking the lord, Vitsmum said.

Two months after that interview with the Oklahoma storm survivor who denied the existence of the omnipotent God, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, [NASA] this month has announced that it Curiosity Rover has found an unambiguous message from God written on tablets in a Martian cave on the planet Mars.

According to an official press release, two giant stone slabs the size of a small elephants were located deep inside a cavern, abutting Aeolis Mars, a large mountain.

On one tablet is written on it a copy of the Ten Commandments and the text of John 3:16 written in 12 languages- including English, Spanish, Chinese, Basque and Hebrew. On the other tablet is a simple message in English reading ?I AM REAL?.

According to top scientists who have studied the discovery extensively, these findings may have definitively established Christianity as the one true religion.

An Australian researcher working for NASA Mars Exploration Programme, Syms Covington says,? this is amazing. We went into the cave looking for water and we found proof of God?s existence instead.

?I mean how else did these tablets get there? I can tell you one thing: there is no a single atheist inside NASA?S control room now. What we saw was a jaw-dropping?.

The findings of NASA?S CURIOSITY ROVER, has actually proved Genesis 1:1 right which says,? in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God?.

The simple explanation is that NASA?s Curiosity Rover arrived on Mars in August last year with the mission to explore the Martian climate and geology for signs for habitability.

Thus far the mission has been a success with the discovery of an ancient seabed and chemicals needed for life suggesting that Mars was once suitable for life.

However, the tablets both of which are signed ?Peace and Love?-YAHWEH? represent the rover?s most significant find to date and is perhaps the most important scientific event in history.

Explaining, a political scientist at GeorgetownUniversity said,? when people find out about this they will demand change in our society.?

He challenged that, ?democracy will have to give way to theocracy. We are going to build more churches and reintroduce prayer into our schools. Abortion is defiantly going to be illegal within a few months.

Despite its potential significance, Covington fears that the Earth shattering discovery may not make the impact it should make because unfortunately the mass media is so anti-Christian they might not even pick up the story, he explains.

HEAR O ISRAEL THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE. BLESSED IS HIS KINGDOM FOREVER AND EVER.

SO RISE UP O MEN OF GOD, OUR GOD IS REAL.