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Oly in great comeback to draw with Dreams 

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Great Olympics staged a stirring comeback from three goals down to draw 3-3 with Dreams FC at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Wonder Club found themselves conceding the goals by the half hour mark, with Philemon Baffour opening the scoring for the visitors after five minutes. Ten minutes later, another Ghana international Isahaaku Fatawu doubled their lead with a trademark strike from distance.

Fatawu went on a solo run to finish off with a sublime goal on 27 minutes to make three-nil.

But just minutes later, Olympics reduced the deficit from the spot kick courtesy Maxwell Abbey Quaye to go into half time with a consolation.

The home side won another penalty in the course of the second half and Quaye elected himself to score. Late on Samuel Armah scored for the capital club to tie the scoring also from a penalty.

However, Olympics finished the match with ten men after Grippman was sent off for kicking Abdulai Ibrahim.

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Letter to Senior Opupulepu (165) The Post Prophecies of Prophet Daniel d’Jordan River

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Dear Senior Opupulepu,

How are you do? I hope that you are do fine. As for me and my family we are just confused and fine, fine.

Senior, you must remember my ancestor, the Great Prophet Daniel who featured prominently in the Holy Book. He was the one who entered the residential area of lions and wined and dined with them. He even played alokotoand kwani-kwani with these beasts and spent the full night sleeping on some of them and came back to tell the story.

Senior, that Prophet Daniel is a true prophet of Yahweh. But there is a certain prophet who will prophesy the event after it had taken place. He is from the Hosa-Hosa Ho village, the land of Makeba, Ipi-Tombi, Yvonne the Shark among many others like In-the-Begingin.

Senior, this prophet who was mistakenly and accidentally called Daniel, is popularly known as Prophet Daniel Dani d’ Jordan River and recently he prophesied an after event and claimed that Yahweh told him to told us that.

Senior, what was the matter? The Ogyakrom village squad of gutter-to-gutter professionals recently went to Hosa-Hosa Ho village to engage that village’s squad in gutter-to-gutter and small posts.

Senior, upon arrival, our boys saw the beauty and the behind of the Hosa-Hosa-Ho daughters of Eve and were so flabbergasted, overwhelmed, overhauled, and confused as to what they had to do. In fact, they forgot the reason why they went to that village.

Senior, each player encountered not less than two hundred ladies, winking at them and making suggestive faces with coquettish looks. This entered the inside of our players and something started doing them.

Senior, to establish the fact that they had come in peace and love and not war and hatred, our boys played for Hosa-Hosa Ho instead of playing for Ogyakrom. They created chances upon chances for the Hosa boys to just tap in balls into their open net, but try as hard as our boys did, the Hosa-Hosa Ho boys could not score any goal.

Senior, this frustrated our boys who decided that they will score themselves and they did just that. Come and see jubilation from our bench. In fact, our coach even paid losing bonus to our player who scored that own goal.

Senior, but after all these voluntary sacrifices, not a single player landed a Hosa-Hosa Ho daughter of Eve. They picked up their polythene bags and came back home empty handed.

Senior, back in Ogyakrom, someone, and I do not know who, told the Ogyakromian girls the real reason behind our defeat. And trust our girls, they immediately promised on their honour to faithful and loyal to their dignity unless our boys whip and whip well-well, the Hosa Ho boys whenever they cross boots again.

Senior, so it came to pass when without any advance notice, the Hosa Ho boys landed santam and dared our gutter-to-gutter professionals to come for round two.

The two sides re-engaged themselves into gutter-to-gutter and small posts. And during the game, one Ogyakrom player who chose to be in the company of Hosa-Hosa Ho boys and conduct them round the field since they were visitors, got trapped between fourteen of the visitors.

Senior, this player felt like doing the do since his stomach started roaring and trembling. This was noticed by one of the visitors who volunteered to give him a hand and walk him to the washroom.

Senior, our boy fell after his hand was held and the referee immediately pointed to the spot kick place and the result was a goal for Ogyakrom. The rest is current affairs.

Senior, this single goal should put a stop to whatever dreams Hosa-Hosa Ho going forward from Ogyakrom, but as they say “if you do not blow your trumpet, who should blow it for you?” The Hosa-Hosa Ho peoples started saying all manner of things to indicate that the match was taken to mechanics who fixed it well-well for Ogyakrom. Some even said they collected bribe from the referee to make sure they were defeated.

Senior, enter the Okomfo and Prophet Daniel d’ Jordan entered. He spoke and said that Yahweh revealed it unto him to tell the world that, Hosa-Hosa Ho had to lose if not Ogyakrom’s susu man will notcome to tell us how we are to walk and eat in coming year.

Senior, if our susu man fails to do so, our Omanhene Nana Onsuroowuo Owuobiayewuo will not able to know how many bags of gari will be consumed in the year to come.

Senior, when asked why he did not reveal the prophecy before the match, Prophet Daniel d’ Jordan said he was only waiting to find out whether what Yahweh told him would come to pass. And now he knows that Yahweh is a God who lives by His Word.

Senior, he said to tell you that with this prophecy coming to pass, anytime Yahweh speaks to him, you will be the first to know.

Senior, good for you. You have a friend in a prophet. As for me, I am Dan, sorry I am Done.

It’s me.

 

Sekyedumase area petitions President for own district, constituency

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The chiefs and people of Sekyedumase and surrounding communities have appealed to the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, to consider creating a new district and constituency for the area.

The said creation of a new district for Sekyedumase, Anyinasuso and surrounding communities would be a just fulfilment of campaign promises.

At a press conference last Tuesday to air their concerns, Dr. Sampson Anomah, spokesperson for the chiefs, reminded the President of his campaign promises to deliver when voted into power.

Dr. Anomah said the creation of a district for Sekyedumase, Anyinassosu and surrounding communities, as promised by the President, would leave an unprecedented legacy by the current administration and help break the eight years cycle in government.

According to him, their demand was premised on the fact that the area was endowed with a huge landmass with numerous small and large settlements in the current municipality.

Dr. Anomah said currently, Sekyedumase was a shadow of Ejura, which allegedly rejects the chiefs and people of Sekyedumase because of the sharp cultural and political diversity among their peoples.

The spokesman argued that people from settlements such as Bemi and Anyinasuso travel over 30 miles to access the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), electricity, police and judicial services at Ejura, and, therefore, are compelled to resort to neighbouring district assemblies only to be turned away for lack of jurisdiction.

Dr. Anomah pointed out that this situation was quite inconvenient and adds to the woes and hardships faced by the people.

He said the creation of a district for Sekyedumase and surrounding communities would not only help solve  their stated problems, but also ensure one safe parliamentary seat for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), having already enjoyed over 78% and 60% votes in the 2016 and 2020 elections in the area.

Besides, the area’s qualification, per the recent Ghana Statistical Service report, in terms of population Dr. Anomah said, the cultural and political diversity among the two peoples from Sekyedumase area and Ejura was too strong a for reason for their request to be considered.

Nana Adoma Nyarko II, Queenmother of Frante, expressed confidence in the President to deliver on the promise of creating a district, and by extension a constituency, for the area.

Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum generates GH¢1.88m in 5 years

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The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal  has disclosed that the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum has generated GH¢1.88 million between January 2017 and September this year.

A total of 176,589 Ghanaians and 92,937 non-Ghanaians visit to the facility generated the income for the facility.

In 2017, 41,010 Ghanaians and 15,605 non-Ghanaians visited the park in yielding GH¢440,571 whereas in 2018, 46,848 Ghanaians and 17,883 non-Ghanaians visited the park and mausoleum which raised GH¢455,272. In 2019, visits from 50,265 Ghanaians and 47,930 non-Ghanaians generated GH¢672,444.

In 2020, the facility witnessed a drop-in visit mainly as a result of the cOVID-19 pandemic 24,893 Ghanaians and 6,467 non-Ghanaians who visited the park generating GH¢191,643, while in 2021, some 13,573 Ghanaians and 5,052 non-Ghanaians visiting the place yielded GH¢121,869.

A consultant has been engaged to design a comprehensive concept for the rehabilitation of the park and mausoleum, the Minister further disclosed. In the new design to attract more visitors, there would be an Nkrumah Freedom Walkway to exhibit some of the writings and personal belongings of the former President, an administrative block, a memorabilia shop, restaurants and a library to “make it a truly attractive tourist park”.

“Domestic tourism is a key part of our ministry and as the years come, we will make sure that we double these domestic numbers”Dr.Awal mentioned. “The project is being rehabilitated and is about 95 per cent complete,” the minister said.

No new tax on fuel

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Contrary to expectations that more taxes will be introduced on petroleum products in the 2022 budget, as a way of raising more revenue to fund projects, government has eased the impact of the constant hikes in fuel prices on Ghanaians, by not introducing any levy on petroleum products in the country.

Presenting the 2022 budget statement and economic policy on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, November 17, 2022 Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, acknowledged that though fuel prices in the last few weeks have gone up at the various pumps across the country, largely as a result of the upward volatility of world market indexes over the period, government has no intention of increasing fuel prices, as we approach the yuletide.

Explaining this, Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who spoke to journalists on the sideline of the presentation said government didn’t introduce new levies on petroleum products because government is concerned about the plight of Ghanaians.

“Government didn’t go that way because the President was very worried about its impact on transport fares, food prices and inflation, at a time that government wants to ease the burden on Ghanaians,” he said.

He said the hardship Ghanaians have experienced, due to the ravages of the Coronavirus pandemic is not lost on the government and that, it will not further burden Ghanaians with an increase in fuel prices.

Oil price on the international market is over 80 dollars a barrel, after starting the year at a little over the 50-Dollar mark.

With the reopening of economies across the globe due to the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, demand for fuel has experienced a shape climb, in response to the increment of crude oil on the world market.

Meanwhile, government has also scrapped the amount of money being paid by motorists as tolls on public roads in the country. This, according to the Minister, is expected to further ease the burden on Ghanaians.

Contrary to expectations that more taxes will be introduced on petroleum products in the 2022 budget, as a way of raising more revenue to fund projects, government has eased the impact of the constant hikes in fuel prices on Ghanaians, by not introducing any levy on petroleum products in the country.

Presenting the 2022 budget statement and economic policy on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, November 17, 2022 Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, acknowledged that though fuel prices in the last few weeks have gone up at the various pumps across the country, largely as a result of the upward volatility of world market indexes over the period, government has no intention of increasing fuel prices, as we approach the yuletide.

Explaining this, Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who spoke to journalists on the sideline of the presentation said government didn’t introduce new levies on petroleum products because government is concerned about the plight of Ghanaians.

“Government didn’t go that way because the President was very worried about its impact on transport fares, food prices and inflation, at a time that government wants to ease the burden on Ghanaians,” he said.

He said the hardship Ghanaians have experienced, due to the ravages of the Coronavirus pandemic is not lost on the government and that, it will not further burden Ghanaians with an increase in fuel prices.

Oil price on the international market is over 80 dollars a barrel, after starting the year at a little over the 50-Dollar mark.

With the reopening of economies across the globe due to the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, demand for fuel has experienced a shape climb, in response to the increment of crude oil on the world market.

Meanwhile, government has also scrapped the amount of money being paid by motorists as tolls on public roads in the country. This, according to the Minister, is expected to further ease the burden on Ghanaians.

Sunyani Technical University battles land encroachers

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The management of the Sunyani Technical University (STU) in Sunyani is anticipating an increase in student/staff population from the current 7,000 to over 20,000 by 2030.

As part of the future expansion plans, the university has secured 55 and 142 acres of land at Duayaw Nkwanta in the Ahafo Region and Amasu in the Dormaa East District of the Bono region respectively.

The STU, which was established in 1967 with less than 100 students as a technical institute, currently has four faculties, fifteen departments and over 50 Degree, HND, Diploma, Certificate and professional programs on about 60 acres of developed land, out of the initial 166 earmarked for the school.

Addressing the press in Sunyani, ahead of the university’s weekly management meeting, Mr Dickson Kyere-Duah, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of STU, said the Northern Electricity Department of Volta River Authority’s construction of 161KVA transmission lines across the university has taken 42 acres of the land.

The PRO further said “some unscrupulous people have aggressively encroached about 30 acres of the remaining land behind the pylons”.

He added that, “If this alarming rate of encroachment is not curbed, there will be no land for the university to implement its 2020-2025 strategic plan and the much-touted master plan that seeks to transform the institution into a centre of excellence in science, technology, innovation, technical and vocational education”.

The university, therefore, served notice to illegal and potential encroachers to back off from the university’s land, since management will use all legitimate means to resist it.

Mr Kyere-Duah said “the situation is getting out of hand and management is warning such faceless people to desist from such illegal activities”.

According to the PRO, the university has legitimate documents covering the institution’s land even as they battle some developers in court.

He also said the university is collaborating with other bodies to use legitimate steps to reclaim the encroached university land without ceding any portion to individuals or organisations.

Mr Kyere-Duah gave assurance that management of the university would be using a series of coordinated activities to rid the lands, especially in Sunyani, of encroachers.

BUILDING IN THE NIGHT

Mr. Kyere-Duah also said that some developers build overnight, with the aim that once the put up the building; they will negotiate with the university.

He, however, warned such developers that “there will be no room for compromise”.

Mr. Kyere-Duah appealed to the government, state agencies, traditional authorities, the media, and other stakeholders to join forces with the university to protect the university lands for present and future generations.

Teenage Mothers Livelihood Project Launched In Kumasi

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A social intervention programme targeted at safeguarding teenage girls against becoming adolescent mothers with its concomitant socio-economic challenges has been launched in Kumasi by the National Youth Authority (NYA), as part of activities climaxing the Africa Youth Day.

Labelled ‘Teenage Mothers Livelihood Project’, it is aimed at eradicating teenage pregnancy or significantly reduce the prevalence, as well as any other issues affecting the development of teenage girls.

About 150 selected teenage mothers for the pilot project are to be supported by the NYA and the Department of Social Welfare to undergo apprenticeship in any vocation of their choice and to assist those of them who are still interested in education to go back to school.

In line with this, the NYA, with a technical support from the Ghana Health Service and the Asokwa Municipal Assembly, has established an Adolescent Health Corner at the Youth Center with professional nurses in charge offering guidance and counselling to young people on their sexuality.

The NYA Regional Director, Mr. George Orwell Amponsah lamented that in the 2020 alone, Ghana recorded 107,023 cases of teenage pregnancy.

The alarming part of it, he said, was that the Ashanti region topped the regional breakdown chart with 17,865 cases which represent 16.2 percent of the national figure, and almost twice the number of teenage pregnancy cases recorded in the Eastern region which came after Ashanti with 10,865 cases, representing 10.1 percent.

He said even though the population of the region is relatively higher in terms of other regions, it bears a higher proportion of the teenage pregnancy cases compared to the ratio of the national population figures, which is the cause for alarm in the region.

The Regional Director said reportage of sexual conduct of young people in the media has been generally negative with or without intent and argued that adolescence is the most curious and exciting period in the life of everyone when sexual fantasies are seen as fun without thinking of any realities like teenage pregnancy surrounding it and therefore charged journalists to be mindful of context whenever reporting on about young people and their sexual behaviours.

Ms. Hannah Amponsah, the Ashanti Regional Girls Education Officer, was worried that the country recorded a total of 555,575 teenage pregnancies between 2016 and 2020, and Ashanti region alone topped the chart with 89,856 cases within the period and stated that perhaps the abstinence policy by the GES seemed not to be yielding the needed results and advocated the need for stakeholders to revisit sex education in schools policy once again.

Madam Aba Oppong of Rights and Responsibility Initiative Ghana, who chaired the launch, emphasised that it was a crime for any man to have sex with girls below the age of sixteen and added that “society must allow the girls to develop into maturity before they start sleeping with them”.

From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey, Kumasi

Mel Gibson to direct ‘Lethal Weapon 5’

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American Actor Mel Gibson who starred in the first ‘Lethal Weapon’ movie some 30 years ago is in talks to direct the upcoming ‘Lethal Weapon 5.’.

According to The Chronicle source in USA, Lethal Weapon 5 has been in development for more than five years with Richard Wenk writing the most recent draft of the script.

Richard Donner, who directed and produced all four episodes died July this year, halting the project since.

The Producer’s wife, Lauren Schuler Donner will therefore produce the film together with Ride back’s Dan Lin..

In an interview in London, Gibson revealed that it has been the wish of Richard Donner for him to produce the movie in his absence. “He was developing the screenplay and he got pretty far along with it. And he said to me one day, ‘Listen kid, if I kick the bucket, you will do it.’ And I said: ‘Shut up,’” Gibson said.

“He did indeed pass away, but he did ask me to do it, and, at the time, I didn’t say anything. He said it to his wife and to the studio and the producer. So, I will be directing the fifth one.”

The first ‘Lethal Weapon’was debuted in 1987, shooting Gibson and writer Shane Black to stardom.

Okyeame Kwame discloses how Jomoro youth nearly beat him up

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Rapper Okyeame Kwame has disclosed that two years ago, he delivered a speech against galamsey which infuriated Jomoro youth who ganged up to beat him up.

“About two years ago on the ‘DGM Project’, I went to Jomoro with Solidaridad and the World Bank and we sat down with young men who are involved in galamsey, and after I made my speech that galamsey is destroying the waters and farmland, some of the young men gang up together that they will beat me if they didn’t love my music, they would have beaten me that day in Jomoro.”

“Why? Because they say their parents have been farmers all their lives but they don’t own a motor. But they started galamsey a year ago and bought a Toyota Corolla,” Okyeame Kwame recounted.

He noted that conversation is not only a social one but survival as well.Okyeame Kwame added that ways to improve climate change are good farming practices, conversations with our children about energy conservation, urinating in the rivers must stop, reducing meat consumption, changing car oil at the right time to reduce emission.

“Young graduates in engineering, from Ashesi, KNUST, Legon, coming together because as you can see it is a little difficult for them to find resources therefore if they come together, they will be able to create things including plant-based protein to lower emissions on livestock and produce an even better quality of energy.”

“We need to act in time, we don’t have 10 years, we don’t have 20 years, we have only 7 years to turn our death line into a lifeline. That’s what the clock is saying, “Okyeame Kwame mentioned in an interview on GTV which was monitored by The Chronicle.

Your laziness as opposition party is 2nd to none; Akeredolu blasts PDP

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Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has described the state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, as a lazy opposition over its stance on the appointment of his son, Babajide, as the Director-General, Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit, PPIMU.

Akeredolu who defended his action maintained that his son deserved the appointment going by his capability to deliver on tasks given.

Following the appointment of the governor’s son as DG, PPIMU, the PDP had accused the governor of allegedly turning governance in the state into a family affair.

According to the governor in a statement issued by his Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, Akeredolu was not the first governor to give an appointment to his son.

Ojogo maintained that PDP was only intimidated by the arrays of those within the governor’s cabinet.

“When Jang appointed his son, Yakubu as a commissioner in Plateau, it was okay for them; what about Okowa who did it in Delta? When their Principal’s brothers in Ondo literally did all appointments while they held sway, it was okay. We can only enjoy their gallery-looking dance. They are hypocritical aside from being saddened by their antecedents,” he said.

“This young man has been doing a lot behind scenes in the last five years plus, to enhance good governance. He has demonstrated enough capacity in many respects. Time will tell as we sail along in full steam.

“I think the problem PDP has is the fact of apparent intimidation that a very sound and balanced second term cabinet has berthed.”

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