Sports News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: ghanafa.orgStarting with matches scheduled for this weekend, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) is entreating all Premier League Clubs to use their Club Secretariats as sales points and at least two other outlets for the sale of advance tickets until the GFA concludes arrangements for an electronic solution within two weeks. This is in reference to the directive from the Ministry of Youth and Sports on the sale of advance tickets for the ongoing Premier League. This is also within the framework of the GFA Approved Matchday Protocols and their effect on attendance. The GFA advises that tickets should be sold a day before the matches - the rationale is to prevent crowding at the ticket sales box offices of the league centers. Furthermore, all trained club Stewards are to ensure that there is social distancing during the advance sales and also apply some on the matchday protocols during the entry and exit of fans from match venues.

General News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comSome victims of Nana Agradaa’s money doubling scheme dubbed ‘sika gari’ have stormed her house this morning to demand their monies following her arrest. A mason who claims to have invested GH¢8,000 told Angel FM that after paying the initial amount, he was asked by the embattled priestess to present a brown dove. Another victim, a hairdresser said, “I came all the way from Agogo and I’m here for sika gari. “I came with a friend who is interested in the sika gari package but since we came, we haven’t seen anyone. Patience Asiedu, as the priestess is known in real life, has become infamous for fleecing gullible Ghanaians huge sums of money with her ‘sika gari’ She was arrested on Tuesday, April 21, 2021.

To the then NPP opposition, President Mahama was corrupt as compared to their candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Highlighting some of the physical machinations by his opponents, he indicated that the Ford Expedition gift which he received from someone he had an acquaintance with cannot be a bribe to him as it was portrayed to be. Mahama emphasized that the vehicle was used by the soldiers to provide escort duties for the VIPs visiting the country. “When I was leaving the presidency, the vehicle was left at the presidency…,” he stressed. So, these were part of the occupational hazards; we take the blows but we continue moving forward.”Watch what John Dramani Mahama said on Kofi TV below.

General News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia described the National Chief Imam as amazing on the occasion of his 102nd birthday. The revered Islamic cleric turned 102 today, and the Vice President took to his Facebook page to extend his traditional greetings to the man he calls father. Below is what the Vice President wrote:"I join well-wishers in Ghana and across the globe to celebrate my father, the National Chief Imam, the amazing Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu on the occasion of his 102nd birthday. May Allah bless him with more wisdom and good health to continue to be a reference manual in Ghana's development, peace and stability. We thank God for his life."

Sports News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comTwo Ghanaian para-athletes have made the qualification time for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Award-winning Botsyo Nkegbe has clocked a tie of 14.22 to secure automatic qualification in the 100metre wheelchair race. Yusif Amadu also made a jump of 1.55metres which makes him a candidate for the games. This was revealed by the Ghana Paralympic Committee in their newsletter dubbed the ‘NPC Press Updates”. Despite making the time for qualification, their participation in the games is dependent on the times clocked by other athletes but hopes are high that they will both compete at the Tokyo Games later this year.

General News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comGood Morning, it's the end of another week of April and GhanaWeb TV will be bringing its viewers a line-up of compelling programmes and national events. For today’s itinerary, sports analysis programme Friday Debate, BizTech, Talkertainment will air on GhanaWeb TV. These events and many more will be streamed live on GhanaWeb TV on Youtube: GhanaWebTV. Stay tuned. Watch the feed below:

Adom-Otchere referred to Asiedu Nketia as an opportunist who wanted to take advantage of the petition to become ‘a national hero’. That’s what he was looking for,” Paul Adom-Otchere said on Thursday's edition of his show as monitored by GhanaWeb. Twitter users expressed diverse view on his ‘editorial’ with majority opposing his views on Asiedu Nketia and Manasseh. — agyapong k. steven (@expi_noza) April 22, 2021So the show Paul Adom Otchere Dey do rydeee what be the moral lesson ? Sammy Gyamfi will deal with him https://t.co/UIql1BEsCw — Makafui Theodore (@MakafuiTheodore) April 22, 2021What Paul adom otchere said is not funny.

Sports News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comIt has been close to two years since Dreams Football club owner, Kurt Okraku, took over the reigns as the President of the Ghana Football Association(GFA). Mr. Okraku was officially elected as the new President of the Ghana Football Association on October 24, 2019, after beating former GFA Vice President George Afriyie and Phar Rangers owner, Nana Yaw Amponsah. Has Kurt Okraku's leadership as GFA President been an improvement on that of Kwesi Nyantakyi in his bid to cleanse the FA of the negative publicity they have had over the years? We table this for a discussion on today's episode of the Friday Debate on GhanaWeb TV. Here are the views of others, join in the discussion with your contributions in the comment section after watching the video.

General News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comElvis Afriyie Ankrah, the Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress has insisted the party collated independent figures from the 2020 presidential elections. “Immediately after the elections, results were coming, we started seeing figures. He described as preposterous the assumption that the party does not have collated figures for the elections. “I have been wondering how those asking for the Pink Sheets wants us to do. Should we mount an exhibition at circle or the Party headquarters so people would come and inspect them?”He revealed that the party has retrieved almost all the pink sheets in the 2020 elections.

Regional News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comPaul Dwamena, the headmaster of Queen of Peace RC JHS has been found dead on a mango tree in his home at Wiawso, a suburb of Techiman in the Bono East Region. Yeboah Henry Jnr, a teacher and an eyewitness to the incident revealed his last meeting with the late Paul Dwamena. A mathematics teacher in the school is quoted in the report to have said expressed shock and sadness over the demise of the headmaster. I don’t know why this fake news is circulating that he hung himself in the school and a student came to find out. So if a student came to find out in the staff common room, the question, is where were the teachers?”

It’s what he does and he is one of the best at it in the country. Anthony Jefferson Hanson, born and bred in Ghana, took a peculiar liking to art during his adolescence and didn’t refrain from exhibiting it. At any opportunity, Anthony would use the resources available to him to draw and or paint; even his mother’s makeup items. Later, after school, and gifted a tattoo gun, Anthony decided to start body art; tattooing and is now spectacular at his work. Watch Anthony Jefferson Hanson tell his story on this edition of People&Places:

General News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comJohnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, has come under fire from Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana show host, Paul Adom-Otchere. Adom-Otchere also classified Asiedu Nketia as among politicians that do nothing but always seek to take advantage of situations to further their parochial interests. Here is a guy who has been General Secretary of the NDC since 2005, here is a guy who led the NDC to the 2012 election. “This is where the myth surrounding Asiedu Nketia is breaking when he announced to NDC supporters that they have won the election and then election results are announced and the NDC supporters don’t win,” he claimed. Paul charged further: “They will be party General Secretary for 100, 200 years they won’t do anything.

General News of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comIt appears that the feud between the political show host on Metro TV, Paul Adom-Otchere, and Manasseh Azure Awuni will not end soon. Paul Adom-Otchere during Thursday, April 22, 2021, edition of his show, described the modus operandi of Manasseh Azure Awuni as journalism of “I catch you”. “This journalism of I catch you, I catch you, I catch you, is not journalism. We don’t need to record anybody.” Investigative journalism, Adom-Otchere says, “is a much deeper work. It’s not hiding cameras on your body and I catch you, I catch you, I catch you.

Entertainment of Friday, 23 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comDeputy Minister-designate for Tourism, Arts and Culture is a candidate who has the backing of the entire showbusiness ecosystem in Ghana. An unscientific assertion advanced by journalist Paul Adom-Otchere who is quick to add that there is one person who is not happy for the nominee, Shatta Wale he says. “All of us in this industry terribly wish Mark Okraku Mantey well, and I have heard it on the radio, television, everywhere. Apart from Shatta Wale, who I understand is getting a change of mind, apart from him, everybody is wishing Okraku Mantey well,” the TV host claimed. Okraku Mantey is part of a list of 39 deputy ministers designate that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has submitted to parliament for vetting and approval.

GhanaWeb monitored his analysis of all the nominees where he dedicated more time to the candidature of Okraku Mantey whom he described as a good friend. “All of us in this industry terribly wish Mark Okraku Mantey well, and I have heard it on the radio, television, everywhere,” he stressed. “So Mark Okraku Mantey is someone that everybody is praying for, that he must succeed, because if Mark doesn’t succeed, it will cast a slur on all the industry practitioners, all of us talking plenty everyday bla bla bla. Mark Okraku Mantey is going to succeed in the name of the Lord Jesus,” he added. His name had long been peddled as a deputy to the substantive Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister, Mohammed Awal.