Sports News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: footballghana.comAccra Hearts of Oak striker, Abednego Tetteh, is bent on winning the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League title for the fans. Despite his limited game time in the ongoing season, Tetteh insists they will win the league for the club teaming supporters. I promise the fans, God willing we are going to win the league title for them” he said. Abednego Tetteh featured in the side MTN FA Cup game against Liberty Professionals last Wednesday which ended 3-0 in their favour. Accra Hearts of Oak will lock horns with city-rivals Great Olympics on matchday 28 of the Ghana Premier League.

He said, “If Bulldog said I didn’t sign the contract then I will say that that’s one side of the story. If you’re given a contract which is good and you don’t sign that’s another side of the story. “So, if he said that I didn’t sign the contract it means the contract wasn’t good and wasn’t good enough to be signed. Reacting to Bulldog’s revelation that Iwan didn’t sign any contract with BullHause and that renegotiation was pointless, Iwan Suhyini said signing that contract would’ve made him a ‘milking cow’ and enslaved his craft to the record label. “So I didn’t sign but even though I didn’t sign that was what he was using and we based on what he has written in the contract,” he told the host.

Dr Yussif Sulemana, a Petrochemical engineer, based in Oman, has stated that the factors accounting for these fluctuations could be attributed to the fact that supply was more than demand last year due to the pandemic so there was excess crude which was wasted. Speaking in a Zoom interview with GhanaWeb’s Amos Ekow Coffie, Dr Sulemana said the downstream and upstream industries were badly affected by the pandemic as well and this could be the reason for the fluctuations. “April 20, 2020, was like a black day for the oil industry and the reason why I am saying it was one of the darkest days is; oil price collapsed phenomenally and the factors that caused the collapse are still in there and this is as a result of oversupply that demand could not meet and that actually was exacerbated by the pandemic. So, the fact that we had the pandemic that came around the same time caused the oil price to collapse,”“This threatened a lot of investors both in the downstream and the upstream, so OPEC and OPEC+ decided to cut supply to be able to meet demand, demand was simply not there, people were not there to consume the oil,” he said. Watch the full interview below

Africa News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: africanews.comEgypt whose economy heavily depends on tourism, announced Thursday, June 3 the completion of the COVID-19 vaccination program to all tourism workers in the Red Sea and South Sinai governorates. According to the ministry of tourism; Khaled el-Enany, Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities; the industry is recovering and there is a noticeable increase in tourists numbers. The tourism sector alone accounts for 12% of the gross domestic product. Egypt has reported more than 264,557 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 15,178 deaths. The actual number of COVID-19 cases, like elsewhere in the world, is thought to be far higher, in part due to limited testing.

Sports News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Dr. Randy Abbey says CK Akonnor recommended three foreigners to the GFA• Patrick Greveraars has been appointed as the second assistant Black Stars coach• Coach David Duncan is the first assistant coachExecutive Council Member of the Ghana Football Association, Dr. Randy Reports has denied reports that the GFA rejected coach Charles Akonnor's choice of Laryea Kingston and coach Prosper Ogum Nartey as his Black Stars assistants. The Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association on Monday, June 1, 2021, confirmed the appointment of Dutch trainer Patrick Greveraars as the second assistant coach of the Black upon the request of head coach Charles Akonnor. However, reports after the confirmation suggested that coach Patrick Greveraars was not the choice of the Black Stars coach as his preferred choice of former Ghana international Laryea Kingston or WAFA head coach Prosper Nartey Ogun was rejected by the GFA. "This particular coach (Patrick Greveraars) was recommended by CK Akonnor. The GFA had absolutely nothing to do with the recommendation," Dr. Randy Abbey added.

Charles Dedjoe, is alleged to have on March 1 this year assaulted his wife after a misunderstanding leading to her death on March 8, 2021. In Court on Friday, the court presided over by Her Worship Maame Afua Tordimah, also directed that Dedjoe’s wife Lillian, now deceased phone should also be unlocked to retrieve some information to assist in police investigations. The court said, one of the deceased’s daughters, 17, who has knowledge of her late mother’s password should assist the unit to unlock her phone. The Prosecutor, in her motion on notice for examination of electronic device i.e mobile phones, said the accused sent some Whatsapp messages to the complainant in the case. “The police believe that the phones have some vital information that would enhance investigations.

“The consulate assembly was boycotted by the bar association because they brought hairdressers and all manner of groups which know next to nothing about constitution or constitutionalism and constitution-making to clog the consulate assembly. "On hindsight, I’ve regretted that the bar boycotted it, they should still have been there to influence it,” Sam Okudzeto told Rev. “There is no reason why that document cannot be brought back… we can vote upon it and have a proper amendment. Look at the whole document and see that for the purposes of governance, it is better that power is diffused. The concentration of power is always dangerous even for you the president.”Watch the interview below:

Sports News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: ghanasoccernet.comGhana's Black Stars will depart from Accra to Morocco on Sunday, June 6 ahead of the international friendly game to played on June 7. The team is currently in Cape Coast preparing for the two international friendlies next week. 19 players trained with the team on Thursday with a full house expected by the close of Friday, June 6, 2021. The Black Stars will play the Atlas Lions of Morocco in Rabat, on Tuesday, June 8 before hosting the Elephants of Ivory Coast in Cape Coast on Saturday, June 12, 2021. You can also watch this week's episode of the Friday debate on GhanaWeb TV with Joel Eshun in the post below:

According to him, illegal miners have cut off normal access to his farm located in Assin Nyaduam in the Central Region. I have a farm, a cocoa farm and a teak farm at Assin Nyaduam, in the constituency of Ken Ohene Agyapong. Because they had discovered some gold in my farm, so I should sell it to them. They went and dug around the farm so you can’t enter the farm… Now I can’t enter my own farm, if I have to go there I must go by boat. “I beg to disagree, honourable minority leader, I beg to disagree (that we shouldn’t burn excavators).

General News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The police clashed with some sympathizers of the #FixTheCountry protest when they went to the Accra High court• The police say it was a misunderstanding as they were not preventing them from entering the court• The court was hearing the case brought to it by conveners of the #FixTheCountry protestProtesters of the #FixTheCountry protest present at the Accra High court hearing a case they brought before it, have clashed with some personnel of the Ghana Police Service. The protestors alleged that the police have been deliberately preventing them from entering the court premises, reports myjoyonline.com. But ahead of the court hearing, the group had, in a statement, called on sympathizers to embark on a march to the Criminal Division of the High Court to register their support and solidarity to them. “We intend to meet up and walk together from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Building at 9 am towards the High Court,” the group announced in that statement. You drag the youth to Court for ATTEMPTING to demand better living conditions and you assault them when they're honouring same?

Sports News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: ghanasoccernet.comMedeama has confirmed that midfielder Rashid Nortey will be available for the Ghana Premier League cliff hanger against rivals Karela United on Saturday, June 6, 2021. The midfielder has been released by Black Stars coach Charles Akonnor for the must-win game against the Pride and Passion. Nortey has been an integral part of the Medeama squad and will be crucial in their bid to push the title race to the wire. The pocket-size midfielder has been largely touted as the next big thing with his immaculate passing accuracy and intelligence. He is expected to rejoin his colleagues in camp for the massive showdown against United in the famous Western Derby at the Akoon Park.

Sports News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comN'Golo Kante was on the lip of every fan and pundits after Chelsea won their second UEFA Champions League trophy on Saturday, May 29, 2021. The Blues beat Pep Guardiola's Manchester City at the Estádio do Dragão in Portugal by lone goal kind courtesy a goal by forward Kai Havertz. Kante won the Man of the Match award in the game against Manchester City having already won the MVP in the Semifinal doubleheader against 13-times Champions Real Madrid. Kante's extraordinary performance has reincarnated the debate between him and former Chelsea and Black Stars midfielder Michael Essien. But is N'Golo Kante a better player than Michael Essien?

Business News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The price of crude oil went up on the commodities market today at a unit price of +0.36• Cotton also went up slightly and stood at +0.18• Coffee also stood at a unit price of +0.00On the commodities market today June 4, 2021, the price of crude oil is seventy-one dollars, twelve cents ($71.12) to close the 22nd trade week of the 2021 fiscal year as compared to yesterday’s trading of sixty-eight dollars, seventy-five cents ($68.75) according to Reuters commodities. Gold is trading at one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-one dollars, seventy-three cents ($1,871.73) as compared to yesterday’s trading of one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two dollars, ninety-two cents ($1,892.92). Cocoa is trading at two thousand, four hundred and fifteen dollars ($2,415.00) as compared to yesterday’s trading of two thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars ($2,446.00). Meanwhile, Cotton is also trading at eighty-four dollars, thirty-nine cents ($84.39) as compared to yesterday’s trading of eighty-four dollars, twenty-eight cents ($84.28). Coffee on the other hand is trading at one hundred and fifty-seven dollars, sixty cents ($157.60) as compared to yesterday’s trading of one hundred and sixty-one dollars, fifty cents ($161.50).

General News of Friday, 4 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Alban Bagbin is to deliver an address at the 60th year of the diplomatic relations between Ghana and Denmark• The event is scheduled for June 16• Alban Bagbin called for the two countries to initiate periodic dialogues to exchange ideasThe Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Alban Bagbin, will address a ceremony to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Ghana and Denmark. The Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Tom Norring extended the invitation when he paid a courtesy call on Speaker Bagbin in parliament. The Ambassador was in Parliament to officially invite the Speaker to participate in Denmark's 60th anniversary in Ghana and to solidify the long-lasting bilateral relation between the two countries. Alban Bagbin also urged the Danish envoy to pay special attention to the strengthening of the Ghana-Denmark Parliamentary Friendship Association geared at fostering MP – MP relationship between the two countries.

Known as the June 4th revolution, the Supreme Military Council II led by General Fred Akuffo was ousted from office by the AFRC. The reasoning behind what many described as a coup at the time but is now known as a revolution was borne out of a combination of many things gone wrong with the country at the time. These included; bad governance, corrupt practices, a lack of discipline among the ranks of the army which was said to have frustrated many Ghanaians. Today in History, GhanaWeb brings an image of how the state newspaper, Daily Graphic reported the takeover of government by the Rawlings military regime. See the image below: