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Neymar, Mbappe score in PSG win

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Neymar and Mbappe celebrate win

Neymar scored twice as Ligue 1 leaders Paris St-Germain held off a late Bordeaux fightback to take victory.

The Brazil forward struck in the first half, firing into the bottom corner after being found by Kylian Mbappe.

The two linked up again for PSG’s second, Mbappe setting up Neymar to score from the edge of the box.

Mbappe tapped in a third but Bordeaux set up a tense finish with two late goals, Alberth Elis slotting in and M’Baye Niang lashing home.

But PSG held on for the final few seconds for a win that means they are 10 points clear of Lens at the top of Ligue 1, although Nice and Marseille – 11 and 12 points behind in third and fourth place respectively – have a game in hand.

Mauricio Pochettino’s side have been in excellent form in the league this season, losing just one game as they look to reclaim the title following Lille’s success last term.

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Mourinho’s Roma shocked by minnows Venezia

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Jose Mourinho’s struggles at Roma continued as minnows Venezia came from 2-1 down to sink the Italian giants.

Roma have won just one of their past seven matches and remain 12 points off leaders Napoli in Serie A.

Mattia Caldara put the hosts in front in the third minute, before goals from Eldor Shomurodov and Tammy Abraham put Roma ahead at the break.

Mattia Aramu’s penalty levelled the scores with David Okereke scoring the winner in the 74th minute.

Roma have now lost four of their last seven matches, a run which includes a 6-1 defeat to Norweigen side Bodo/Glimt in the Europa Conference League.

Venezia’s victory was just their third of the campaign, and it was the first time they’ve scored more than two goals in a game this season.

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Smith Rowe seals victory for Arsenal

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Emile Smith Rowe, Arsenal

Emile Smith Rowe scored in a third successive Premier League game as Arsenal claimed victory over Watford in manager Mikel Arteta’s 100th match in charge.

The in-form Smith Rowe registered the 100th league goal of Arteta’s tenure with a low drive from outside the box after 56 minutes.

Gunners captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a first-half penalty saved by Ben Foster following a poor challenge by Danny Rose on Alexandre Lacazette – and the Hornets goalkeeper produced another fine stop to keep out Gabriel’s header shortly before half-time.

Watford were fired an early warning when Bukayo Saka had an eighth-minute finish ruled out for offside at Emirates Stadium.

The visitors’ afternoon was made worse as Juraj Kucka was dismissed for a second yellow card late on and defeat left Claudio Ranieri’s two points above the relegation places.

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Momo transaction hits $100b: Oppong-Nkrumah tells good stories about digitisation agenda

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The Minister for Information, Mr Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has called on Ghanaians to support the digitisation and digitalisation policy being pursued by the government, because it wouldl help in the total transformation of our national economy.

According to him, though mobile money business was in place before the Akufo-Addo government took over the reins of government, the interoperability system it introduced, where money can be moved from one mobile network to other had revolutionised the financial market in the country.

Speaking in an interview with Peace FM yesterday, the Information Minister said mobile money transactions in 2020 alone amounted to GH¢560 billion or US$100 billion. This feat, he noted, was achieved because apart from people moving money from a mobile network to the other, Ghanaians could now also sit in the conform of their homes and move money from their bank accounts to their mobile money wallets and vice versa.

Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ofoase Ayirebi in the Eastern Region, told his listeners that when the current government came to power, only 4% of taxable Ghanaians had been captured in the national database. However, because of the National ID, digital property address system, interoperability, and other measures that had been put in place, the 4% taxable Ghanaians has now jumped to 86%, which was about 15.5 million of the population that was now paying taxes.

Digitisation, he continued, had also helped to nip in the bud the fraudulent conduct of some Ghanaians who were issuing cheques to the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) knowing very well that they did not have any money in their accounts.

“Today, because of Ghana.gov that we have introduced, which is a common platform to do a number of government services, today, we don’t receive cheque for such payments. It is online, so it’s direct payment from your account. You can pay via MoMo or through your bank account. So, the revenue mobilisation to government has increased,” he said.

The Information Minister also noted that it was through digitisation that the government got to know that a number of Ghanaian professionals, including lawyers, were not paying their taxes. The cover of these professionals has been blown, because their names, though covered by the National Identification Authority (NIA), were not on the tax database.

He also mentioned the revolution that had taken place at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Secretariat. According to him, the NHIA was previously using GH¢30 million annually to print cards for its clients, but the situation was not the same today, because of digitisation.

Patrons can now sit in the comfort of their homes and offices and renew their NHIA cards through their mobile phones. This has also resulted in the increased rate of re-registration of members.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah also spoke about cameras that were being installed throughout the country to enhance our security. He noted that though the security cameras were in place before this government assumed office, the figure had shot up considerable, which was helping to arrest criminals terrorising Ghanaians on the streets. He revealed that by the end of December this year, 10,000 cameras would have been installed.

“By the end of this year, I think by December; the target is that we will have 10,000 cameras; we will have 10,000, all connected to the central database,” he said.

By Emmanuel Akli

 

Uncollected ‘borla’ decorates Adenta SSNIT Flats as Jekora Ventures sleeps on the job

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One of the reasons why the various Metropolitan, Municipal and District assemblies decided to out-source refuse collection in their respective jurisdiction was to ensure efficiency. It, however, appears some of the contractors who won the bid to evacuate refuse have failed to live up to expectations.

One of such contractors is Jekora Ventures, which is responsible for the collection of refuse within the Adenta SSNIT Flats and beyond.

According to the residents, for close to two weeks now, the company has failed to collect refuse dumped at the designated places within the flats. Because the refuse has decomposed, it is emitting foul smell in addition to inviting houseflies, which have taken over the place.

The residents told The Chronicle that nobody has approached them to offer any explanation as to why the refuse have not been collected.

They fear the development can result in the outbreak of cholera and other communicable diseases within the flats, which is mainly occupied by public and private sector workers. The residents have, therefore, called on the Adentan Municipal Assembly to rein in the contractor and ensure that all the refuse have been collected to prevent outbreak of any communicable disease.

 

NPA vows to fight contaminated fuel menace

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The Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has indicated that petroleum service providers that engage in fuel adulteration deprive consumers of value for money at the retail outlets and also cause damage to engines of vehicles and machinery.

According to him, fuel adulteration increases emission of harmful compounds such like Carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds that affect air quality and the environment.

Dr. Abdul-Hamid was addressing stakeholders at this year’s Consumer Week Celebration which was held under the theme: “Adulterated Fuels: A Menace To The Consumer And The Economy,” at Ho, in the Volta Region.

The NPA Boss said the consequences go a long way to affect the health of the workforce, harm the reputation of a fuel retailer’s brand and cost government millions of Cedis in revenue each year.

He averred that, the petroleum downstream industry has always been about striking the right balance between the industry players, which are petroleum service providers and consumers.

Dr Abdul-Hamid pointed out that, in as much as the industry wants profitability, the consumer wants value for their money hence none of them must occur at the expense of the other.

“It is for this reason that the regulator (NPA) was established to innovate and adopt strategies to ensure that the industry remains efficient and profitable but at the same time consumers receive value for money,” he said.

He, however, stressed that, fuel adulteration is a global problem and in Ghana it has been the challenge to both industry and regulators.

According to the Chief Executive, in a bid to tackle the problem of petroleum product adulteration, innovative strategies have been adopted, primarily aimed at improving upon the quality of petroleum products to ensure fuel supplied at final dispensing outlets is of the right quality specification to consumers.

He said, “Among the key strategies are the revision of operating procedures in the importation, exportation and production of fuel by petroleum service providers (PSPs) and the introduction of Petroleum Product Marking Scheme (PPMS) and Bulk Road Vehicle (BRV) tracking system to ensure that products are devoid of adulteration and meet the required specification along the supply chain.”

Dignitaries who attended the programme

He mentioned that as a result of the stringent measures instituted, the retail outlet failure rate has reduced drastically from 32% as at 2013 to 2.51% as at August, 2021.

“We are poised to wipe out the 2.51% of culprits cheating petroleum consumers. This is why we are here today, to tell consumers to report to the NPA anytime there is suspicion of the purchase of contaminated fuel.

There are laws that provide punitive sanctions such as fines, imprisonment or both, for the perpetrators of these fuel quality crimes,” he said.

The Minister for Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, in a speech read on his behalf urged consumers of petroleum products to desist from buying from tabletop sellers.

“And to our drivers here who like to buy fuel from tabletop dealers; what is known to be ‘Gao-Gao’ in this Municipality, probably because it is cheaper than what is sold at filling stations, please note that you are rather damaging your car engines and you will spend more to fix your cars at the mechanic shop, than buying the quality products from the fuel stations,” he cautioned.

The Volta Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa, said the effects of bad fuels are many and that contaminated fuels cause engines to malfunction and come at extra cost to the consumer to restore damaged engines.

Such fuels, he said, also generate toxic fumes that pollute the air and are harmful to the health of people. According to him, putting in place such a programme to stem the trend is welcome news.

He also said that a section of the petroleum industry that engages in adulteration cheats the consumer out of what they are paying for, harms the reputation of a fuel retailer’s brand and cost government millions of cedis in revenue each year.

He encouraged all stakeholders not to see the theme as a single duty of the NPA, but rather embrace it as a collective responsibility. He charged all to report any suspicion of contaminated fuel either at the pump or in their cars.

Dr. Archibald Letsa also commended NPA for creating a platform to exchange views and educate the petroleum consumer on petroleum products usage.

This Consumer Week is intended to be observed every year to educate the public on the petroleum products usage, as well as increase the knowledge of the consuming public on their rights and responsibilities.

Oppong Nkrumah takes inputs from young entrepreneurs as government readies 2022 Budget

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As the government prepares to present the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy to Parliament on November 17, the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has been taking inputs from young entrepreneurs on how it can deepen its entrepreneurial interventions.

Youth entrepreneurship has become topical in recent weeks, following public discussions about how more young Ghanaians can be supported to succeed in private business.

Mr. Oppong Nkrumah, through a live virtual conversation on Sunday October 31, dubbed “#ListenUP”, sought to take feedback from young entrepreneurs on how the entrepreneurial ecosystem was functioning.

Feedback from the session would be channelled into government’s decision-making processes to inform its policy directions for the future.

Organised by the Ministry of Information, the live audio conversation on social networking site, Twitter, is an occasional platform for deepening engagements with the Ghanaian people, and at the same time take feedback that would aid government to better roll out its policies.

The Minister was joined by nearly 2,000 young entrepreneurs, who freely shared their feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Things the Government must consider

The Deputy National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edem Agbana, who is also into farming, suggested that one of the means government can support young entrepreneurs in the country was through the creation of a Start Up Banks that would make available funds to young entrepreneurs at low lending rates to enable them properly fund their businesses.

He bemoaned the lack of tax holidays targeted at young entrepreneurs, and said a lot of companies that enjoy tax holidays in the country were companies that enjoyed economies of scale, stressing that compared to these companies, young start-ups must be supported with tax reliefs to make them competitive.

One participant, who also joined the Space, bemoaned business registration in the country, noting that young entrepreneurs faced difficulties to get their business registered, and often times get frustrated.

He said though government had made frantic efforts at digitising the business registration process, he believes a lot could still be done to make it seamless.

What to do differently as young entrepreneurs

Proferring solutions, the participants agreed that already, government had created a foundation of which young entrepreneurs should take advantage of. One such foundation was the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

They were of the view that young entrepreneurs should take advantage of the free trade area and push their products into foreign markets to increase their profit margins.

One area the participants also suggested would improve young businesses a great deal, was investments in Research and Development (R and D). This, they said, would enable young entrepreneurs to innovate and introduce new products and services on to the market in order to rake in more revenue.

Letter to Senior Opupulepu (163) The Rights and Lefts of Our Alexander the Great!

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Dear Senior Opupulepu,

How are you do? I hope you are do fine, fine. As for me and my house, we are all do fine, fine.

Senior, it makes like you have read or heard about a certain main-man called Alexander the Great. He is that guy man who set to conquer all villages in front of him and he did conquer them all.

Senior, here in Ogyakrom, we have an Alexander the Great reincarnated, but this time round this Alexander is only Great for all the wrong reasons.

Senior, a certain guy man who is from the province where people brag and brag for anything and about anything. If they are hungry, they brag; if they are belly full, they brag; if they beat someone in a fight, if they are beaten up well, well to pulp, they will brag. Oh yes, these villagers can brag as if they only have the jeans, sorry genes that can make people to brag, life without end.

Senior, this our Alexander the Great who is not that Great goes by the sacred name of Osofo Kantanka but here unfortunately, he is not in the same profession and occupation of the great men and women of Yahweh, like Kowus Bumper, Somebody Knows, Niger Glacier and all those fake and false persons who announce Yahweh’s agenda to humankind. And neither is he related to the popular concert party, Kantanka, even though he seems to act as if he is an actor in that comedy show.

Senior, this Osofo Kantanka, went into battle or should I say the Great Leopard our Omanhene Nana Onsurowuo Owuobiayeowuo, knighted him and commissioned him into battle to win lots for himself so that he can become the supreme head of assembly and unit committee members and all of the land including all humans, animals, vegetations, huts, wells, boreholes, chop bars, hot-hot spots as in apio bars and everything in, on and above that part of the village land.

Senior, if our Alexander the Great, Osofo Kantanka were to win lots in that plot of land in the village, he would be ordained and enthroned as Nana Onsurowuo’s sole representative there and his duties among others will be to collect taxes on behalf of Nana. I hear, this is the reason why some people will do anything to land that position. Because they will work like the tax collectors during Yesu Christus’ time. They will decide what to collect, collect what they want and pay what they want to the Omanhene. This job is fund generating and many are those who use this as a platform to announce their arrival at the VIP level. By VIP, I am not referring to those big tro-tro buses which run from hamlet to hamlet.

Senior, our Alexander the Great, became great for all the wrong reasons, which I stated earlier. Instead of first conquering the people before resourcing them, he resourced them first and each was able to hire iron donkeys for the first time in their life and they assembled together as assembly members to decide what to do to him and for him.

Senior, you see these mborowa assembly men and women and children, when they saw money, they also felt they had arrived. Now they will be called to chair harvests in their churches and make very big pledges which they will redeem within a week, because they have money.

Senior, when they assembled, instead of taking a unanimous decision to cast all the lots in our Alexander the Great’s favour, they rather used that opportunity to talk about how bad he was, he is and forever be.

Senior, some even remembered how he used to thief colleagues’ gums and pencils when he was in skuul under trees. Some remembered how he outsmarted them and took from them, daughters of Eve they had targeted to go for better, for worse with.

Some remembered how he did so many bad-bad things and so they all decided to take a decision.

Senior, some of the one hundred and fifty assembly man and women gathered at that meeting, said our Alexander the Great was to be given only one lot in his favour and 149 against. Some people said “abaa, oh hooo” and begged and beg until they all agreed to give our Alexander the Great just ten lots.

Senior, and seriously these people looked our Alexander the Great in the eye and gave him only ten lots in his favour and one hundred and forty lots against. No, it cannot be, so they counted and recounted and recounted what they recounted but still, it was 10 for, 140 against.

Senior, a delegation was sent to Nana’s palace to plead for mercy and compassion so that our Alexander the Great could have a go at the go again. And Nana who is very compassionate asked the assembly to rethink what they did and go back to cast lots for his man, our Alexander the Great.

Senior, this our life version of Alexander the Great repeated his mistakes again. First, he gave each of the assembly members a brown average size envelope full of cowries. This time round he gave each and every person a human size Ghana-Must-Go bag full off the 200 division of cowries. Can you imagine? He turned those assembly men and women into instant billionaires and made them become like his co-equals and as such they became independent minded.

Senior, they instantaneously became sharp brains and started analysing things analytically. Puting two and two together, they saw danger coming. If our Alexander the Great gets the nod, he will collect back every cowry he gave them and even more and they will be poorer than poverty itself.

Senior, they did their thing some again but this time they gave our Alexander the Great, who is now great for all the wrong reasons, six lots for and one hundred and forty-four lots against.

Senior, the thing pained our Alexander the Great so much so that, he started cursing but the gods decided not to mind him. He never poured libation to them let along slaughter fowl for them to chop KFC some, now what does he want?

Senior, our Alexander the Great went ahead and openly demanded his cowries back. But everyone of the assembly members he confronted swore that he or she was among the six who voted for him.

Senior, all of a sudden, that Chief Professional Thief Slapper and our School Prefect who Omanhene saddled on us started smiling and when any of these two smile then it means trouble and here the two were smiling at the same time as they announced to Alexander the Great Osofo Kantanka to proceed immediately to their offices and explain why disciplinary measures should not be taken against him for resourcing people before they do the work they were supposed to do.

Senior, the two smiling faces decided that our Alexander the Great was to choose whose office he will visit first.

Senior, as we speak, Alexander the Great is on his knees begging the gods to show which of the two smiling faces he should visit first, meaning which slap should he collect first.

Senior, let us see what comes out. I am Dan, sorry I am Done.

Its Me.

Pastor Faasemkye Commits Suicide

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Residents of Atwima Denchemouso in the Kwadaso Municipality of the Ashanti region were thrown into a state of shock and disbelief last Tuesday morning, when they woke up to the news that a popular pastor in the area had committed suicide.

Pastor Hayford Akwasi Faasemkye, popularly known in the locality as Osofo Akwasi and an associate pastor at a church in Kwadaso, was found hanging in his room on Tuesday morning.

Very affable and a Counselor in the area, the entire neighborhood was lost with words as to what might have necessitated the decision by the ‘Man of God’ to end it all that way.

It is not immediately known the exact time the deceased hanged himself but his immediate neighbours confirmed seeing him around last Saturday in the morning and evening.

A foul stench within the compound of the not fully completed building, alerted his neighbours who informed their landlord.

Policemen who came to force the door open found Osofo Akwasi hanging to the rod of the ceiling fan with a nylon sponge.

From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey, Kumasi

Stonebwoy gets permission to remix Alpha Blondy’s ‘Jerusalem’

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Ghanaians will soon be listening to a remix version of Alpha Blondy’s 1986 classic song ‘Jerusalem’ by Stonebwoy.

The song which intends to celebrate diversity and coexistence amongst Christians, Jews and Muslims was written and recorded by the legend after his visit to the ‘Holy land.’

Stonebwoy further revealed in an interview on ‘Point of View’ on Citi TV on Monday thathe has unreleased projects, including songs with Alpha Blondy and Buju Banton, who, according to him, were two of his biggest when growing up.

Stonebowy mentions that he met Alpha Blondy and Buju Banton on separate occasions and recorded those songs with them and it was during that meeting that he gained the permission from Alpha Blondy to remix the ‘Jerusalem’ song.

“I had the opportunity to hang out with Buju (Banton) in Jamaica where I found out he knows a lot about Ghana, and he claims to be from the Northern part of the country,” he added.

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