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• Elizabeth Afoley Quaye,
Fisheries Minister
• Residents repairing a
portion of the road.
(INSET): Palm kennel
husks on parts of the road
• ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo
•Apostle Eric Nyamekye, Chairman
of the Church of Pentecost
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8000 outboard motors, Ahoto ovens coming
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE MINISTER for Fisheries and Aquaculture
Development, Elizabeth Afoley
Quaye, has indicated that bowls, outboard
motors and several other things are going
to be given to the fishermen.
“Ever since we came to office, we have
been gathering resources to get you as
many outboard motors as possible. The
Coastal Development Authority is bringing
5000 outboard motors. ADB and the Ministry
of Fisheries are bringing 1,336 as
well,” she said.
The Minister appealed to fisherfolks to
• Fisheries Minister assures fisherfolks
use the outboard motors for large-scale
fishing and not light fishing, “so that we
can reap the full benefits of the vessels
that we have brought. The women are tired
of buying fish from light fishing. This is
the little I have to say.”
Small-scale loans ready
To the women engaged in fishing, Mrs
Quaye noted that small-scale loans to be
given to them were ready and that “We will
disburse the loans amongst members of
the National Fish Processors Association
for their use.
“This year, we have heard that you have
caught a lot of fish and they just need the
money to work on the fish. We are also
bringing more Ahot ovens, 3,000 of
them,” Madam Quaye added.
The Minister recounted that last year,
“We brought 350 of them but this year, we
got some more funding to build more of
the ovens for you. We will also provide you
with insulated containers, in collaboration
with USAID. We distributed some in
Tema. We are bringing more this year.”
Touching on the storage facilities, she
indicated that a bumper harvest had been
recorded this year, and “the catch this year
is more than the cold stores can take”.
With the government owning six cold
stores across the country, she admitted that
those put in charge of the cold stores had
not taken good care of them.
“This year, the law has allowed us to
give the cold stores to companies that can
take better care of them, so we are in the
process of changing ownership. We are
working on restoring power to the cold
store at Prampram so that it can be reopened
for use,” she added
ACP Agordzo under
house arrest
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
THE EMBATTLED former Director
of Operations in the
Ghana Police Service, Assistant
Commissioner of Police (ACP)
Dr Benjamin Agordzo, who has
been handed over to the Inspector General of
Police to ensure his safety, is currently under
house arrest.
ACP Agordzo, who was hitherto in Bureau
of National Investigations (BNI) custody,
was released to the Inspector General of
Police (IGP) following a court order and the
DAILY HERITAGE has gathered ACP
Agordzo is currently lodging at a place prepared
for him by the IGP.
In court yesterday when the case was
called, Assistant Superintendent of Police
(ASP) Sylvester Asare told the court that investigations
were still going on and prayed for
the case to be adjourned.
The prosecutor said immediately investigations
were done, the bill of indictment would
be prepared. Defence lawyers did not opposed
the prosecutor.
In an interaction with one of the lawyers
representing ACP Agordzo, he said “ACP
Agordzo is under house arrest. It is not as if
he is in his house but at a place prepared for
him by the police within the Police Headquarters."
ACP Agordzo and nine others have been
arraigned for their respective roles in an alleged
case of attempt to destabilize the state.
Consolidation
Previously in court on Wednesday, November
20, ACP Agordzo was charged with
• ACP Dr
Benjamin Agordzo
abetment of treason felony and had his case
consolidated with nine others, including Dr
Frederick Yao Mac Palm, who are facing conspiracy
and treason felony charges.
All suspects with civilian background have
since been remanded in police custody while
those with military background are remanded
in the cells of the Ghana Armed Forces.
Magistrate Eleanor Botwe, while remanding
the suspects, specifically ordered that ACP
Agordzo be handed over to the IGP upon a
request by his lawyers.
New charge sheet
With the prosecution filing a consolidated
charge sheet, ACP Dr Agordzo and the other
nine alleged coup plotters have been named
on one charge sheet.
The 10 suspects, including five soldiers,
have been charged with offences including
conspiracy to commit treason felony, treason
felony, abetment to commit treason, conspiracy
to possess explosives, arms and ammunition
without lawful excuse and possession of
explosives, arms and ammunition without
lawful excuse.
They have been accused of plotting to
destabilise the country and “possibly take
over the government.”
Suspects
Colonel Samuel Kodzo Gameli, Warrant
Officer II Esther Saan Dekuwine, Corporal
Seidu Abubakar, Lance Corporal Sylvester
Akanpewon, Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm,
Donyo Kafui, aka Ezor, and Bright Alan Debrah.
Dr Mac-Palm is a medical practitioner;
Kafui, a blacksmith; Debrah, a fleet manager,
and Akpah, a weapons mechanic at the
Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).

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Bad roads killing pregnant
women at Twifo Wamaso
BY PHILIP ANTOH
THE CHIEFS and
people of Twifo Wamaso
in the Twifo
Atti-Morkwa District
of the Central Region
are angry with political decision
makers, especially the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) Member of Parliament
(MP) for the area and the
District Chief Executive (DCE)
for ignoring repairing their bad
roads for the past three years.
According to some drivers
who ply their trade on the roads,
there are situations where pregnant
women have to give birth
prematurely because of the bad
nature of the road while others
lose their lives in the course of
accessing health centres for
healthcare.
Some residents told the
DAILY HERITAGE that any
time it rained vehicles could not
ply the road, hence communities
were cut from neighbouring
towns like Twifo Praso.
The Chief of Twifo Wamaso
and Krontihene of Atti-Morkwa
Traditional Area, Nana Fi Agyeman,
said for some time now,
there had not been any sign on
the roads to show they would be
repaired and calls to policy makers
and other efforts had yielded
no results.
• Residents used palm kennel husks on parts of the road
Nana Agyeman said while some parts
of the country were enjoying good roads,
others like Twifo Praso and Twifo Wamaso
were suffering and all they could do
“is cover their roads with palm kennel
husks to aid drivers to climb the hills and
access other parts of the roads”.
“It is laughable that in this 21st century
where everybody is enjoying good
roads and other facilities, Twifo Praso
“It is laughable that in this 21st century where
everybody is enjoying good roads and other
facilities, Twifo Praso and its neighbouring
communities, especially Twifo Wamaso, have to
go for palm kennel husks to use as bitumen
before drivers can access the roads,” he stated.
• Palm kennel husk used as ‘bitumen’
to aid vehicular movement
and its neighbouring communities, especially
Twifo Wamaso, have to go for palm
kennel husks to use as bitumen before
drivers can access the roads,” he stated.
He said the Highway Authority had
asked the communities to stop paving the
roads with the husks, stopping it would
make the roads unmotorable.
Nana Agyeman called on the President,
the Minister of Highways, the MP
for the area and the DCE to act quickly
to save lives and also aid the transportation
of farm produce such as plantain,
cassava and cocoa to available markets to
help grow the country.
One of the elders of Twifo Wamaso,
Nana Osei Kwadwo, said the elders and
chiefs of the community had been agitating
for the construction of the road for a
long time now but to no avail.
Nana Osei lamented the bad effect the
road had had on the
community, narrating
how many pregnant
women had lost their
babies and lives in their
quest to access healthcare
elsewhere using the
bad roads.
Some drivers told the
DAILY HERITAGE
that “we have to visit
the mechanical shop
every two days because
the road is so bad that
sometimes you have to
drop passengers on the
way because the vehicle
cannot go further.”
One of the drivers,
Akwasi Amoah, said the
passengers complained
of huge lorry fare of
GH¢6.00 from Twifo
Praso to Twifo Wamaso,
but explained that because
of the nature of the road “if we don’t do
that, we can’t maintain our vehicles
whenever they go faulty.”
He said the situation was so bad that a
taxi which is made for four passengers,
excluding the driver, had to add extra two
passengers, a situation he said caused
rapid tear and wear of the vehicle.
An aspiring Assembly member for
Twifo Wamaso, Maame Afriyie, who organised
a communal labour to repair
some portions of the road, appealed to
the assembly and the government to help
construct the road to reduce carnages.
Some angry residents reminded the
government to come to their aid by constructing
the roads if not they would
chase out any politicians who would
come to the town for political campaigning.

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MTN Ghana launches ‘Brighten
your community’ campaign
BY ROSEMOND BOATENG ADDAI
Rosemond.adjetey@yahoo.com
MTN GHANA
has launched
‘Brighten your
Community’
campaign to enable
its customers
to have control to choose
and contribute to the development
of their communities.
The campaign, which began on
December 2, 2019 and ends on
December 9,, 2019, will allow customers
to choose a project they
want to implement in a community
of their choice via MTN’s social
media handles.
Mrs Georgina Asare-Fiagbenu,
Senior Manager, Corporate Communication,
MTN Ghana, explained
that the company declared
this year as the ‘Year of the Customer
’, hence its Board had given
the approval to give its customers
the opportunity to directly choose
a project.
“‘Brighten Your Community’
initiative is a national campaign
and all MTN customers are eligible
to participate in it. Customers
are our key stakeholders and have
contributed to the successes of
MTN. They are also the ultimate
beneficiaries. Indeed when we invest
in the communities, we do it
with the national mind and so the
benefit goes beyond our customers,”
she said.
She said the campaign is heavily
driven on MTN’s social media
handles such as Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram.
According to the Senior Manager,
the foundation is devoting an
amount of GH¢750,000.00 to be
invested in the three areas of the
foundation, which are education,
health and economic empowerment.
She added that the three communities
which would come top at
the end of the competition would
be allocated GH¢250,000.00 each
to implement the projects.
Mr Wisdom Kwashie, Digital
Marketing Manager, explained that
the social media campaign would
be in three phases and each phase
involved an online poll which
would last for five days.
He said “voting for a region
will commence by navigating the
web URL. Results for the top
three regions will be collated and
shared the following week on our
social media.”
He added that the second
phase would involve voting for the
three categories, namely education,
economic empowerment and
health, for each of the top three
regions.
Mr Kwashie pointed out that
the final projects will be highlighted
on MTN social media
pages and the audience will determine
how much funding each
projects would have to receive.
•Mrs Asare-Fiagbenu, Senior Manager,
Corporate Communication, MTN Ghana
“For each like, comment and
share each project receives, we will
allocate GH¢10.00 to that project.
So, if we receive 10,000.00 accumulated
likes, comments and share
for project A, we will allocate
GH¢ 10×10,000.00 to project A,
but not exceeding
GH¢250,000.00,” he explained.
&Env.
Child life expectancy projections cut by years
BY JAMES GALLAGHER
YEARS HAVE been
knocked off official
projections of children's
life expectancies
in the UK, an
Office for National
Statistics (ONS) report shows.
A baby girl born in 2019 is now
expected to celebrate three fewer
birthdays on average, than under
previous calculations.
Official 2014 data thought that
a girl would make it to 93.6. Now
the figure is 90.4.The report also
slashed the likelihood of children
reaching 100.
What's going on
Although life expectancies have
been and are still improving, experts
say previous estimates were
too high.
The improvement is much
smaller than previously thought, as
part of a widely acknowledged
slowdown in life expectancy since
2011.
In 2018, life expectancy growth
•Child life expectancy projection will be missed
stalled for the first time in more
than 30 years.
This has led statisticians to reevaluate
their assumptions about
future improvements in life expectancy,
resulting in the figures released
now.
The ONS report calculates the
impact of this less-rosy picture on
children's prospects of a long
life.So a boy born in 2019 is now
expected to live for 87.8 years.But
the 2016 data thought he would
reach 89.7 and the 2014 data said
91.1.
And looking to the future, to
children born in 2043, there is a
dramatic drop in the chances of
reaching 100.
The latest report says: 20.8% of
newborn boys are expected to
reach 100, 26.1% of newborn girls
are expected to reach 100. But the
projections two years ago thought:
34.1% of newborn boys would
reach 100, 40.2% of newborn girls
would reach 100IMAGES
Why is life expectancy
stalling?
The ONS said: "There has been
considerable public debate about
the causes of the slowdown in life
expectancy improvements.
"Researchers have suggested a
range of possible explanations for
the slowdown... several factors are
at play, none of which can be singled
out as being the most important
with any certainty."
Many reports, including by Public
Health England and the Health
Foundation think tank, have attempted
to get to the bottom of
the issue.
Why aren't we living
longer?
A lack of a recent blockbuster
moment in medicine could be an
issue.
Life expectancy in the 20th
Century improved with the creation
of the NHS, falls in smoking,
childhood immunisation (the last
case of polio in the UK was in
1984) and medical advances, particularly
for the big killers - heart
disease, stroke and cancer.
But now dementia is listed as
the leading cause of death and it is
incurable.
Dementia: The greatest
health challenge of our time
Public Health England says a
more elderly population - with dementia
and other long-term health
problems - may also be more vulnerable
to diseases like flu.
But there are issues affecting
life expectancy well before old age.
Deaths from drug misuse, with
Scotland having the highest drug
death rate in the EU, are also
quoted.
One of the most politically
charged questions has been around
austerity - the programme of government
cuts that coincides with
the slowdown in life expectancy.
The evidence either way is hotly
contested.
But Public Health England's report
says the poorest people have
felt the impact on life expectancy
the hardest and that "could indicate
a role for government spending".
BBC

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•Kwabena Nketiah Addae 1st(L)
Director of Ghana YMCA and other
executives at the event
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Akufo-Addo scores 90% for
3yrs of governance
• Retired CEPS Commissioner rates
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com
2nd Ghana Tech summit on Dec.13
BY PRINCE ESSIEN
THE 2ND ANNUAL ‘Ghana
Tech summit’ organised by Young
Men Christians Association
(YMCA) has been scheduled to
take place on December 13 and
14, 2019.
The summit, expected to attract
hundreds of entrepreneurs,
investors, government stakeholders
and industry experts, is aimed
at addressing the main challenges
facing humanity via technology
and entrepreneurship.
Addressing a press conference
in Accra, the National General
Secretary of YMCA), Mr
Kwabena Nketiah Addae, explained
that the summit was
launched in 2018 with 100 speakers
and 1,000 attendees featuring
pioneers from leading companies
such as Google, Facebook, uber,
twitter, IBM and Microsoft.
"The summit returns in 2019
with the same lineup of top tier
companies on the new theme
‘Sankofa- go back and get it; redefining
the future of Africa’," he
said.
He also said over 40 media
representatives from Forbes, Inc
Magazine, Fast Company, Black
Enterprise, NY Times and the rest
would be in attendance.
He said the 2019 summit
would welcome 3000 guests, 100
speakers and 88 partners over the
course of two days of Ghana tech
summit and Ghana tech week.
"The Global Start-up Ecosystem
(GSE) network also boasts
the largest tech summit community
in the world, hosting 25-30
programs a year", Mr Addae said.
The summit mainly forecast on
AI tech summit, Blockchain tech,
Space tech , VR. tech, Nano tech ,
Haiti tech , her future, Africa future
, and Europe future summits.
Christine Ntim; Forbes 30
under 30/Host at Ghana Tech
Summit, in an interview with
DAILY HERITAGE’s Essien
Prince’ said the event was a 12-
year initiative of the GSE - the
first and largest digital accelerator
that helps 1,000 companies to
market their product and services
annually across 90 countries entirely
online.
A RETIRED Deputy Commissioner of
Customs Excise and Preventive Service
(CEPS) and Board Member of Exxim
Bank, Mr Peter Kwame Abebrese, has
scored Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
90% in his three years of managing the
country as President.
According to him, the President, in
less than four years, has been able to reduce
the inflation rate he inherited from
his predecessor, John Dramani Mahama,
in 2017, 17.5%, to 7.7% in October
2019.
Mr Abebrese said all indications were
that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP)
government wanted to leave a good
legacy of making Ghana an industrial hub
for which the Nana Akufo-Addo government
introduced the ‘Planting for Food
and Jobs’ programme aimed at making
sure that every region could produce and
feed themselves.
He said the introduction of the free
senior school programme was another
way of ensuring that in the next 10 years,
every young Ghanaian could express himself
or herself well, better the fortunes of
Ghana and raise the bar high between the
educated and the uneducated.
“When it happens like that, many of
the youth will get employment in various
companies because they can freely express
themselves and again it means that
anybody you meet on the street in the
country can at least communicate in the
•Peter Kwame Abebrese, retired
CEPS Deputy Commissioner
English language fluently,” he stated.
Mr Abebrese said the government’s
‘1District 1Factory’ will bring jobs for the
youth in the various districts, adding that
the Nation Builders Corps had already
provided some jobs for the people, and
the government was also working hard to
widen the reach of vocational and technical
education and that if the ‘1 Village 1
Dam’ was fully implemented, it would
also widen the unemployment net.
“If you view all the policies put in
place by this government, nobody should
tell you that Nana Akufo-Addo government
is geared towards building an industralised
Ghana,” MrAbebrese stated.
He, therefore, called on Ghanaians to
rally behind the NPP government to ensure
that all the good policies this government
was initiating would come to
fruition.
2.25 Eurobond case:
S/C orders parties to file legal
submissions in 21 days
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
ASEVEN-MEM-
BER panel of the
Supreme Court adjudicating
the case
of the $2.25 Billion
Eurobond issuance
in March 2017 against the Minister
of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori Atta,
has been reconstituted by Chief
Justice Sophia Akuffo.
The reconstitution of the panel
was as a result of one of the panel
members, Justice Sophia Adinyira,
retiring while Justice Julius Ansah,
who was presiding over it is also
out.
The reconstituted panel is now
chaired by Justice Jones Dotse and
has Justice Nene Amegacher and
Justice Prof Nii Ashie Kotey replacing
Justice Ansah and Justice
Sophia Adinyira.
The rest of the members, Justice
Gabriel Pwamang, Justice Baffoe
Bonnie, Justice Anin Yeboah
and Justice Yaw Appau, all maintained
their membership.
A 21-day-order
In court on Wednesday (today)
when the new panel chaired by Justice
Dotse heard the case, the parties
were directed to simultaneously
file their legal arguments in respect
of the memorandum of issues
agreed upon and set out for determination.
The apex court directed that
they filed them within 21 days. The
case was adjourned sine die (indefinitely).
The Court stated that it had decided
to tackle issues 1 and 2 and
make a determination before they
look at the substantive issues.
The issue 1 has to do with
•Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister
whether or not the Supreme Court
has jurisdiction to listen this matter
and issue 2 has to do with whether
or not CHRAJ had the mandate to
investigate asset declaration and
other matters not captured in the
petition brought before it.
Reliefs
The Group dragged the Finance
Minister, CHRAJ and AG to the
Supreme Court over CHRAJ's investigations
into the $2.25-billion
bond issued in March 2017.
The Group is demanding interpretation
of Articles 284 , 286, including
“A declaration that by
going beyond investigations
to make a pronouncement (of guilt
or otherwise) on the 1st Defendant
in respect of the allegation of
breach of conflict of interest, the
2nd Defendant has contravened
Article 287 of the 1992 Constitution.”

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Sports Minister must apologise to Meteors
THE CONFIRMATION by the
Minister for Youth and Sports, Isaac
Asiamah, that the bonuses due the
national U-23 team, Black Meteors,
for participating in the just-ended
Africa U-23 Cup of Nations
tournament have not been paid is in
itself a shameful admission and one
that should not be accepted by all
those who wish Ghana football well.
“The national under-23 team's
bonuses from the last under-23
AFCON participation are yet to be
paid because we haven't received
our last quarter financing,” Mr
Asiamah is quoted to have said this
at a Meet-the- Press series in Accra
yesterday, adding that “Once the
money is paid, we will settle all that,
including all others we owe.”
Which others is the minister
talking about? It is public knowledge
that apart from the Black Stars,
other national teams, including the
women’s teams, are mistreated. For
instance, whereas the Black Stars
players are paid a fortune for playing
just a game in a tournament, Black
Queens players are denied their
payments for a whole tournament
for months even though we all
know the total amount for a lady
player for a whole tournament is
way far less than a bonus paid to a
Black Star player for just a game.
Are the Black Stars players more
Ghanaian than the rest of our
sportsmen and women? The truth is
that once we continue to mistreat
the junior male players and all our
female players, we would hardly
have national teams that could win
international tournaments.
Besides, we kill the creativity and
ingenuity in the junior male players
as well as the women.
The story of a chartered plane
sending dollars to Black Stars
players and GFA officials in Brazil
is still fresh in the mind of every
Ghanaian. How much did we pay
for even chartering the plane? I
guess that amount could even pay a
chunk of all bonuses due female
players then.
We are in a country where certain
categories of people are described
as serving the nation and so are
given preferential treatment. If the
Black Stars are serving the nation,
whom are the Meteors serving?
It is about time Mr Asiamah
stopped that flimsy excuse of
waiting for his quarterly financing
before paying other Ghanaian
national players for participating in
tournaments. He should satisfy our
other national players by adopting
the same method used by most of
the time to get money ready for the
Black Stars before tournaments kick
off
Ḟor DAILY HERITAGE, Mr
Asiamah should not find any excuse
in the delay of his last quarter
financing and rather see himself as
having failed in his duties and
apologise to the Meteors and others
whose bonuses have not been paid.
Project not to inspire criminals
but decongest prisons
BY KOJO ANSAH
• Apostle Nyamekye reacts to critics
•(From Row) Apostle Eric Nyamekye (M), Chairman of the Church of Pentecost
and other dignitaries
THE CHAIRMAN of
The Church of Pentecost,
Apostle Eric
Nyamekye, has advised
members of the church
to pay no heed to criticisms by some
sections of the pubic who are opposed
to the church’s decision to
construct prison (correctional) facilities.
According to the Chairman, the
decision to construct prison facilities
has been gravely misconstrued since
it is not meant to encourage crime
but to decongest overcrowded
prison facilities in Ghana.
Apostle Nyamekye said this on
Tuesday, December 3, 2019, when
he met ministers and officers in the
Kasoa Area at the Kasoa Central
Assembly auditorium to throw light
on the 5 year strategic vision of the
church, dubbed “Vision 2023 Possessing
the Nations”
As part of the strategic approaches
adopted in realising Vision
2023, the church has partnered the
government in undertaking some
social intervention initiatives, notable
amongst them being the construction
of prisons facilities, which
has been ridiculed and backlashed
by some quarters of the general
public.
Reacting to this, the Chairman
said that “as a church, we are in the
business of seeking and saving sinners.
So essentially sinners are our
clients. It is, therefore, expected that
we would take an interest in facilities
where sinners are kept.”
He further explained that the
construction of prisons by the
church is part of efforts to assist the
government in solving the challenge
of overcrowding in Ghanaian prisons.
“The Nsawam Medium Security
Prison, I am told, was built for 800
inmates, but currently houses close
to 3500 inmates. That is an excess of
about 2700 inmates! If as a church,
we can put up very big and magnificent
auditoriums, which we only use
on Sunday mornings and in the
evenings, and look on unconcerned
as our brothers and sisters struggle
to find a place to lay their heads,
then what kind of followers of
Jesus Christ are we?” he quizzed.
In addition to decongesting prisons,
the Chairman said that the
prison would serve as a correctional
facility where inmates would be
transformed with the gospel message
of Jesus Christ, equipped with
skills and reformed in order for
them to be reintegrated into society
as responsible citizens.
He noted that the church had
taken appropriate steps to give inmates
who have the ability to pursue
education at all levels (basic, secondary
and tertiary) the opportunity to
do so.
He said the correctional centres
will also have workshop and church
auditorium among other facilities
that would contribute to the reformation
of inmates.
Other social interventions being
undertaken by the church in line
with Vision 2023 are the construction
of boreholes, bus stop shelters,
CHPS compounds, police stations
as well as an Environmental Care
Campaign.
The Chairman, therefore, urged
members of the church to own Vision
2023 and commit to ensuring
its effective implementation.

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Teflon Flexx thrills
fans in Tamale, Yendi
BY ERICA ARTHUR
THE NORTHERN Bad
boy, Teflon Flexx, last
weekend thrilled his people
up north with spectacular
performances at
both Tamale Girls Senior High
School and in Yendi to support
Macassio at his event.
The young artiste, born Akaateba
Christopher, who was honoured the
‘Student Artist of the Year’ at the
University for Development Studies,
Wa Campus, and currently the ‘Non-
GAMA Artiste of the Year’, according
to the Greater Accra Music
Awards, was invited by the student
board of the Tamale Girls Senior
High School to perform after he had
left there as an intern.
According to Teflon, “Just like the
President declared this year as a year
of return, I went back to the school
where I was an intern teacher, to get
them entertained with my craft. It
was one of the best performances; I
appreciate their energy and I am so
much grateful”
Teflon preformed his hit songs
‘Oluwa’, ‘Eskebelebe’, ‘Oreo’ and
‘No Foreplay’ at Tamale Girls Senior
High School and later went to Yendi
to support one of his brothers in the
industry, Macassio, at his event.
He performed the songs to the
dancing of an energetic crowd.
Teflon Flexx hails from Upper
East and a Bulsa boy. He has released
songs like ‘Murder’, ‘Eskebelebe’,
which featured Dopenation and
‘Oreo’, which features Macassio, and
other great tunes.
•Teflon
Flexx
JMJ drops ‘Riddim of the Gods’ on Boomplay
BY ERICA ARTHUR
• JMJ
AFTER A successful press engagement
at a soirée held in
Accra, on August 21, 2019,
renowned Ghanaian music producer,
JMJ, partners Boomplay
to officially launch his “Riddims
of the Gods” project, listed as
having over 30 artistes featured
on by him.
Split into a five-genre project,
“Riddim of the Gods”
would ink in history as the first
ever multiple genre project singularly
run by an African producer.
The project cuts across
Rap (Hip Hop), Dancehall, and
the ever blazing Afrobeats,
which is fast selling across the
globe now.
Also laced with the 5-genre
project is what producer JMJ
calls “Diva’s Edition”, a carefully
crafted blend of African
sounds and other fusion genres
to highlight the very powerful
Ghanaian female voices — a
strategy he says is in line with
women empowerment on the
music scene, where the ladies
had their own space to showcase
their creativity under one
beat without competition from
the men.
And then comes a final one
he titled “Big League” — this
last genre category is more of
Ghana’s classic urban musicians
who have run for a space of
between 5 years to 20 years
consistently on the music scene
— creating room for audience
to appreciate veteran and pioneer
voices under a sub-genre
in Ghana called “Hiplife”. All
songs on the 5-genre album
project will be streamed exclusively
on Boomplay Music
(www.boombplaymusic.com).
Ghanaian music heavyweights
with global influences
like Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, and
Samini have all featured on this
body of work. Very key and relevant
musicians like Strongman,
Teephlow, Adina, Edem, Obibini,
Prince Bright of BukBak
duo fame, FeliNuna, Fantana,
Sista Afia, Okyeame Kwame,
Jah Lead, Eshun, Eno Barony,
KurlSongx, Epixode, Jupitar,
and Jah Amber, among others
have been listed.
Born Joshua Raphaelson,
JMJ is one of the highly respected
faces within the country
who has worked with and
recorded most of the big
names in Ghana Music from
singles to EPS and albums. He
has worked on album projects
for Sarkodie, Stonebwoy,
Samini, and the list is unending.
History has it that JMJ produced
the first Riddim album in
Ghana in 2009 called “Trigger
Riddim”, which was very loud;
it featured Samini, Mugeez,
Stonebwoy, Ghetto KB, Iwan,
Lingua Kat, Jah Amber, just to
name a few.
It was this first Riddim
album that encouraged other
Ghanaian producers to also
step forward and produce more
Riddims too. “Xtra Large Riddim”
and “Missile Riddim” are
also some of the previous Riddim
albums produced by JMJ.
He has been active on the
scene for over 15 years recording
and signing artistes under
his belt too. He produced
works for multiple award-winning
albums cum singles by
Samini, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy,
Obrafour, 4x4, Demarco,
Kaakie, Kofi Kinaata, and
Wendy Shay, just to list a few.

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Jeffrey Schlupp
Jordan Ayew
Ayew, Schlupp unbelievable
• Says Cheikhou Kouyate
CRYSTAL PALACE midfielder
Cheikhou Kouyate has heaped praises on
Ghana duo Jordan Ayew and Jeffrey
Schlupp, describing both as 'unbelievable.'
The two starred as Crystal Palace beat
Bournemouth 1-0 with ten men at the
Selhurst Park on Tuesday night.
Schlupp scored the winner -- his second
goal in a row -- with Jordan Ayew
named Man of the Match.
"Ayew was unbelievable. We know
Jordan is a good player, he fights for
everybody, for every ball. He didn’t score
today but he had a very, very good
game," said Kouyate after the game.
"Schlupp is also unbelievable, it’s the
goal he scores every time in training. For
me, I’m not surprised for (sic) this goal -
it’s a very important win tonight and we
must enjoy tonight," he added.
Schlupp came on in the 29th minute
to replace Patrick Van Anholt, who got
injured in the first half to play the left
back role.
"I know this position," Kouyate said.
"I played for Anderlecht at centre-back
and for West Ham. Sometimes for my
country also. I know this position; it’s not
new to me. Some guys, they are surprised
for (sic) me to play centre-back but I
know this position.
"We know every job we’re going to do.
If he [Schlupp] plays left-back or I play
centre-back, we know the job. For me,
the difference today is the mentality. This
is good for the team."
U-23 AFCON:
Black Meteors yet
to receive bonus
• Sports Minister confirms
THE MINISTER
for Youth and
Sports Isaac
Asiamah has confirmed
that the
bonus due the national U-23
team, Black Meteors. for participating
in the just-ended Africa
U-23 Cup of Nations tournament
has not been paid.
“The national under-23
team's bonuses from the last
under-23 AFCON participation
are yet to be paid because we
haven't received our last quarter
financing,” Mr Asiamah said at
a Meet-the- Press series in
Accra yesterday, adding that
“Once the money is paid, we
will settle all that, including all
others we owe.”
It is believed the team has
not been paid their qualification
bonus either.
The tournament served as a
qualification to Tokyo 2020
Olympic Games but Ghana finished
fourth in Egypt and so
failed to qualify for the multisports
event.
It would have been Ghana’s
first appearance at the Olympics
since Athens 2004.
Isaac Asiamah,
Sports Minister