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GFA Congress Updates: GPL Clubs to maintain 18-team league structure

The Ghana Football Association’s Congress has voted to maintain the new 18-team league structure beyond the 2019/2020 season. It will be recalled that during the last Elective Congress in October, it was unanimously agreed that the 2019/2020 season should be expanded from 16 to 18 teams to among other reasons reinstate Accra Great Olympics and King Faisal into the elite ...

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Sports journalist, Heywood Okine gets job at Box Office promotions.

Ace sports journalist, Sammy Heywood Okine has been appointed as the official publicist for Box Office promotions. His new appointment was made known at the “Bliss on The Hills” press conference organized by Box office promotions at The Gym boxing training center in Accra. The appointment comes in the wake of the promotions efforts to foster a cordial working relationship ...

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Cedi records biggest fall in 4 years

The cedi has quickened the pace of depreciation against the US dollar in recent times, falling by an average of 0.93 per cent to the ‘greenback’ over the last four weeks, according to Bank of Ghana (BoG) data on the movement of the currency. By December 13 this year, the cedi had lost almost 13 per cent of its value ...

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Year of Return to rake in $1.9b in revenue – Tourism minister

Up to 1.5 million tourists expected in the country by the end of the year with up to 1.9 billion dollars expected to be accrued in revenue as a result of the Year of Return activities. The tourism sector has also recorded a tremendous growth of 18% in international arrivals from the Americas, Britain, Caribbean and other key countries while ...

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GFA Congress: Upper East RFA Chairman joins Exco

Upper East Regional Football Chairman, Alhaji Salifu Zida has been duly elected by Congress as a member of the GFA Executive Council at the 25th Ordinary Congress held on 20th December, 2019 at the Ghanaman Soccer Center of Excellence in Prampram. Mr Zida who contested the elections against Central Regional chairman Robert Duncan, received six out of seven votes with ...

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GFA Congress: Judicial Committees nominations approved

Ghana Football Association members at the ongoing 25th Congress have voted unanimously to approve proposals for members of the Judicial Committees namely: Disciplinary Committee, Appeals Committee, Ethics Committee and Elections Committee at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram. A. ELECTIONS COMMITTEE Joseph Bernard Ashalley (Esq.) – Chairman David Amoo-Osae – Vice chairman Daniel Oduro – Member Danielle James ...

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I’ll bridge gap between Article 71 office holders and workers – Mahama

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has assured Ghanaian workers that the next NDC administration will work to complete the processes already begun to review and bridge the remuneration and entitlement of public sector workers and Article 71 office holders. Speaking at a consultative meeting with the leadership of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in ...

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GN savings collapse: Court orders BoG, AG, Receiver to file defence

An Accra High Court has ordered the Bank of Ghana, the Attorney-General and the Receiver of GN Saving and Loans Limited to file their defences in response to Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom’s case. The Court has given the three Respondents one month to file their defences. At today’s Court hearing, the Human Rights judge, Justice Gifty Addo Adjei, referred to ...

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Akufo-Addo commission’s 1D1F Tomato Processing factory in Afienya

President Akufo-Addo has commissioned a $23 million dollars tomato processing factory at Afienya in the Shia Osu-doku Constituency of the Greater Accra Region as part of Government’s “One District, One Factory” (1D1F) policy. The total investment of the Leefound Food Stuff Ghana Limited is about $23 million US dollars, covering an area of about 60,000 square meters, including comprehensive production ...

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Trump becomes third US president to be impeached

Donald Trump has become the third US president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, setting up a trial in the Senate that will decide whether he remains in office. The House voted on two charges – that the president abused his power and that he had obstructed Congress. Both votes fell along party lines with nearly ...

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