Sports News of Tuesday, 6 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comRenowned football administrator Nana Kwasi Darlin has teamed up with the Member of Parliament for Kwabre East Francisca Oteng Mensah to unearth football talents in the Ashanti Region. To achieve this purpose, a new football reality show dubbed Next Football Star was on Friday outdoored in the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi. The event which saw a blend Ashanti culture and football was graced by dignitaries including Adontenghene of the Manponteng traditional, actor Yaw Dabo and officials from the Ashanti Regional Football Association. Addressing guests at the event, Nana Kwesi Darlin said he was elated that after a decade and half, his dream of football reality show is coming to fruition. Revealing the format of the show, Nana Darlin stated that a tournament will be held in the Kwabre East District after which twenty-three players will be selected for the main show which will be hosted in Kwabre East Constituency.

Business News of Tuesday, 6 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced that it will today, April 6 commence maintenance works on its network lines in some parts of the Greater Accra region. According to a notice served by the power distribution company, the exercise is aimed at improving its service delivery following some intermittent power outages in the country. The planned maintenance exercise is expected to begin from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm the same day. Meanwhile, the Ghana Grid Company Limited has earlier said some parts of Accra and Winneba will experience power outages as a result of technical challenges on transmission lines and network substations. Chief Executive of the GRIDCo, Jonathan Amoako-Baah told journalists on Thursday, April 1, 2021 that some expansion works ought to be undertaken in order to upgrade some faulty transmission lines.

General News of Tuesday, 6 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comKennedy Agyapong is unhappy about the way some of his colleagues decide to endorse the irresponsible behaviour of some parents in the country. According to him, because of the fear of losing the next elections, politicians are afraid to speak the truth to some of the parents who tend to put their burden on the politicians. Agyapong disclosed that there are over 200 children named after him and their parents expect him to take responsibility for their welfare, just because they bear my name. He added that his colleagues are not bold enough to criticize some of these things that happen in society. He indicated that if he in the unlikely event becomes president of this nation, he will match all these irresponsible parents to go and work.

Track & Field News of Tuesday, 6 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comGhanaian sprinter Benjamin Azamati has continued his impressive form, smashing another record in the United States over the weekend. The former University of Ghana athlete has taken over as the best 200 metres runner in the school’s history after breaking Quinton Sansing’s record of 20.71 seconds. The 22-year-old Azamati has been flying high this season with records in the 60m and 200m at the Lone Conference Championship. Azamati who has already qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games was recently named athlete of the month at Texas A&M. In an interview after breaking Myles Mills’ long-standing record, Azamati reveals his dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.

Kobina Sekyi, as per history was a man of many attributes but one thing that stood out about him was his aversion of European or western clothes. As a lawyer, it is said that never did Kobina Sekyi wore European clothes to court as he was always draped in a local outfit. But this commendable act of nationalism that existed in colonial Ghana will not be permitted in independent Ghana, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, a US-based Ghanaian Professor has said. “I learnt that Kobena Sekyi was the first lawyer in the British colony (Gold Coast) to appear in court in a traditional African cloth. “Now that we are independent, I doubt that our independent courts will tolerate a Ghanaian lawyer wearing traditional clothes in an independent Ghanafuo court.

He explained that the former Senior Minister in his quest to get the accused persons prosecuted brought in the CID because the investigations by EOCO did not implicate the accused. The prosecution closed the state’s case against the accused persons after counsel for the second and third accused persons ended cross-examination of the seventh prosecution witness, Chief Inspector Thomas Prempeh Mercer. the Prosecution at this stage closes its case against the accused persons. Lawyer Cudjoe (Counsel for Dr. Opuni): My Lord, we will like to make a submission of no case against 1st Accused. By Court: Under Section 173 of the Criminal Offences Procedure Act, (Act 30) I am required to decide whether the accused persons have a case to answer.

Politics of Tuesday, 6 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comKennedy Ohene Agyapong (NPP – Assin Central MP) has warned the incumbent NPP to avoid complacency and work hard to win the 2024 elections. I’m afraid for the party.”Kennedy Agyapong observed, “Don’t… underestimate President Mahama because he lost by over a one-million-vote margin and in the last election, it reduced to 500 [thousand]. It tells you that he is a force to reckon with, so don’t….mount on ancient platitudes that we won in 2016, 2020 and 2024; is a done deal. If we don’t do things right, Mahama might come back. I’m a politician, I’m strategic…all the time,” he stressed.

Calls from some party supporters and some public figures have been made for changes in the leadership of the NDC caucus in Parliament. Speaking as a panelist on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV, Sam George urged the supporters not to be distracted by those issues. Sam George noted that the country is being ‘misruled' by the NPP and must be ‘saved’ by the NDC. On calls for Haruna Iddrisu and the NDC leadership in Parliament to be fired, Sam George expressed absolute belief in the Parliamentary leadership to steer the interest of the party and the country. They’ve steered this caucus from 106 to 137 and we are solidly behind them; All that is left is for our base to support us," Sam George stressed.

Sam George in an appearance on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana program detailed the procedure in selecting leadership for the caucuses in Parliament. The preferences by the sixteen regional committees form the basis for a decision by the National Executive Committee on the composition of the leadership. Sam George says the NDC MPs and the party decided to shelve a decision on the makeup of the leadership of the eighth parliament due to the 2020 election petition. “All sixteen regional caucuses that make up the NDC caucus have sent our collective position as regional caucuses to the national headquarters. The breaking of ranks by Isaac Adongo and the resignation of Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa from the Appointments Committee has led to calls for changes in the leadership of the NDC caucus in Parliament.

Politics of Tuesday, 6 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comKennedy Ohene Agyapong (NPP – Assin Central MP) says the NPP deserves the humiliation they got during the inauguration of the 8th Parliament when the NPP MPs were struggling to get their nominee voted as the Speaker of Parliament. He explained that the NPP supporters were disgruntled about some of the NPP MPs “which is not the fault of the MPs but the government's” because it is the government who gives contracts for roads and not the MPs. “If I take my petition to the Ministry of Health and they do not honour, what do I do? If I take my petition to the Roads Ministry and it is not honoured, what do I do?” he quizzed. “If I promise heaven and the government will agree with me and support me, my heaven will come through.

General News of Tuesday, 6 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo whilst campaigning to unseat John Dramani Mahama made the intermittent power supply described as “dumsor dumsor” a major campaign issue. On his official verified Facebook page, the then-candidate Akufo-Addo put out a long post on April 19, 2015, with the caption “Dumsor borders on Ghana’s Survival – Nana Akufo-Addo”. The NPP presidential candidate wondered why “government apologists are saying that after the government resolves the ‘dumsor’ crisis we, as opposition people, will have nothing to talk about”. He added that if the nation considered the fact that ‘dumsor dumsor’ had been going on since 2012, “then we are talking about a national loss of some 4 billion Cedis”. These are not matters about which a nation can recover with the wave of a hand or with the resolution of the crisis of ‘dumsor’," candidate Akufo-Addo observed.

Writing on his Facebook Page, Manasseh says there are many accomplices of these teenage murderers within the Ghanaian society. We worship money without questioning its source. Once you're rich, you can circumvent all the laws of the land and go unpunished. There are more killers like the Kasoa teenagers. The Kasoa teenagers have wasted a precious life.

His comments follow reports of the death of tons of fish along the shores of some beaches in the country. Speaking to Joy News on this issues, Professor Francis Nunoo urged the public to avoid purchasing cheap fish on the market“We all know the normal average prices of fish. So if you see somebody selling a huge high-class fish very cheaply, you must question it. Cheap fish is dangerous. Please let us not buy cheap fish,” he said.

Opinions of Monday, 5 April 2021Columnist: Kweku DonnsuroIt is shocking to know that Easter Monday, Boxing Day, etc are celebrated as important holidays in Ghana but President Akufo-Addo has cancelled the celebration of Ghana's Republic Day. Republic Day is nuisance to him. Since 1960, 1st July has been celebrated as Ghana's Republic Day, an important national holiday, until Nana Akufo-Addo became president in 2017. The Republic Day should be the most important Day in Ghana's history,... as important as Independence Day which occurred three years prior. Anybody who deliberately pushed for the trashing of Ghana's Republic Day is a traitor.

Prempeh Mercer had told the court previously that it was the former Senior Minister who petitioned the CID to take over the case from EOCO in July 2017. Q: Sir, you told this court on the 22nd of March, that all statements in this matter were taken at EOCO, Is that correct. My Lord, that is why we have August on the statement form when in fact EOCO had ceased investigation into this case. A: Yes my LordQ: Similarly, you took statements from staff of Cocobod that EOCO had had previous engagements with that is also correct. Mr. Cudjoe (Counsel for Dr. Opuni): My Lord, we will like to make a submission of no case against 1st Accused.