The Youth and Sports Minister, Honorable Isaac Kwame Asiamah has presented a cheque of GH¢30,000 to Black Maidens striker Mukarama Abdulai following her stellar performance in the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup held in Uruguay. Mukarama Abdulai won the golden boot award in the tournament by scoring 7 goals in 4 matches and also won the bronze ball award for her spectacular performance even though Ghana were booted out in the knockout phase. The sector minister on behalf of President Akufo-Addo, presented the cheque to the Northern Ladies forward today in Accra. Mukarama Abdulai was part of the Black…
Author: Kwame Stephen Yeboah
The Deputy Youth and Sports Minister, Honorable Perry Curtis Okudzeto has on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 launched the YouthConnkt Ghana. The launching exercise held at the University of Ghana in Legon of the Greater Accra region was organized by the National Youth Authority in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Speaking at the launching ceremony on behalf of the sector minister, Honorable Perry Okudzeto explained that, “the YouthConnekt is an initiative being scaled up by the United Nations Development Programme in Africa after a successful implementation in Rwanda. The initiative seeks to create multiple opportunities for the youth…
The National Youth Authority (NYA) in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 launched the YouthConnekt Ghana at the Bank of Ghana Hall of the University of Ghana in Accra. YouthConnekt Ghana is a physical and virtual platform based on the interest of Ghanaian youth that will link up the various innovations and creativity in areas such as ICT, Entrepreneurship, Agri-Business, Civic Engagement etc. In attendance will be the Minister for Youth & Sports, Hon. Isaac Kwame Asiamah, CEO of NYA, Hon. Mr. Emmanuel Sin-nyet Asigri, Minister for Business Development, Hon. Mohammed Awal,…
The Youth and Sports Minister, Honorable Isaac Kwame Asiamah has on Monday, June 17, 2019 presented a cheque of One million Ghana Cedis to the contractor of the New Edubiase Sports Stadium for an immediate expansion of the facility to a FIFA standard. The edifice which started under the erstwhile John Mahama government in 2016 stalled over lack of funding for the project even though an amount of 1.6M cedis has already been spent in the project. However, the Sports Minister who has been commissioning sports centers across the various regions in the country presented the cheque to the contractor…
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation has secured scholarship package with Lovely Professional University (LPU) in India for students at the various Ghanaian fishing and rural communities. The package ensures a 50% discount in fees for every Ghanaian that enrolls in the University through the Foundation in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The Executive Director of the GNPC Foundation, Dr. Dominic Eduah alongside board member, Mr. Johnson Ben Oduro during a trip in the country met the leadership of the University to sign the mouthwatering package. Lovely Professional University is the largest tertiary institution in India…
The Youth and Sports Minister, Hon. Isaac Kwame Asiamah has rewarded former Black Stars team doctor, Kwabena Oboe Quansah a cheque of GHC 39,500. Dr. Kwabena Oboe Quansah was the medical doctor for the Black Stars during the 1965 AFCON where Ghana eventually won the trophy for the second time after beating Tunisia by 2:3 in the finals. He was handed the cheque on Wednesday at the office of the minister after it emerged that, he was left out when the government was rewarding the team for the AFCON triumph. The astute medical doctor, aside his accomplished medical duties, served…
Black Stars head coach, James Kwesi Appiah has finally named Ghana’s 23-member squad for the AFCON 2019 which will be hosted by Egypt. Ghana, who finished fourth at the last edition of the AFCON after losing 0-1 to Burkina Faso, will be playing in Group F alongside Cameroon Guinea Bissau and Benin in the tournament that will kick off on June 21, 2019. Coach Appiah dropped the following players: Ebenezer Ofori, Majeed Waris, Mohammed Alhassan, Abdul Fatawu and Yaw Yeboah after one week camping in Dubai. Ghana defender Nuhu Musah missed Ghana’s Afcon train through injury. Fernabahce midfielder and Ghana…
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation on Friday, June 7, 2019 embarked on a fire safety awareness campaign at the Takoradi Market Circle. The one day sensitization workshop organized by the GNPC Foundation in conjunction with the Ghana Fire Service, the Power Distributions Supply, the Energy Commission and the National Disaster Management Organization, was to educate traders at the Takoradi Market Circle to be aware of the safety and preventive measures in making fire outbreaks, a thing of the past. Speaking at the workshop, the Executive Director of the GNPC Foundation, Dr. Dominic Eduah reiterated the Foundation’s commitment in…
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation has donated nineteen fire extinguishers to the Takoradi Market Circle. The donation which came off on Friday, June 7, 2019 at the Takoradi Market Circle was aimed at empowering the traders and the market’s security officials to provide a first aid response whenever there is a fire outbreaks at the market. While donating the brand new fire extinguishers to the market leaders, the Executive Director of the GNPC Foundation, Dr. Dominic Eduah emphasized the need for the market women to be aware of the safety and preventive measures in order to make fire…
The Youth and Sports Minister, Hon. Isaac Kwame Asiamah has advised the 2019 year group of the Accra High School to abstain from social vices that could endanger their future. Speaking at a farewell and induction ceremony on Tuesday for the graduates who completed the just ended West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at the school, the minister urged the graduates to stand firm and not fall prey to repercussions of peer group influence. “I urged the SHS graduates to devoid of social vices such as armed-robbery, drug addiction and prostitution, the repercussions of peer group influence”, Honorable Asiamah…