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GFA retains Otto Addo-led technical team to lead Ghana to World Cup
The Black Stars technical team of Otto Addo, Chris Hughton, George Boateng and Mas-Ud Didi Dramani will lead the team to the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
This follows an announcement by the Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Tuesday that confirmed that the quartet will be in charge until the end of December 2022.
Addo will, therefore, be Ghana’s head coach in Qatar, while Hughton will also maintain his role as technical director.
Boateng and Didi Dramani, on the other hand, have also been retained as key members of the technical team that guided the team to qualify for the World Cup.
“The Ghana Football Association has appointed Otto Addo, Chris Hughton, George Boateng and Mas-Ud Didi Dramani as coaches of the senior national team, the Black Stars until the end of December 2022,” a statement from the GFA said.
“The quartet who masterminded Ghana’s qualification to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 tournament will stay on to see to Ghana’s preparation for the world cup, the 2023 AFCON qualifiers and the world cup itself.
“This follows an exhaustive negotiation and engagement with all relevant stakeholders including the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
“The Coaches will soon name their squad for Matchday 1 and 2 of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nation Cote D’Ivoire 2023 qualifiers and the four-nation tournament in Japan.”
Addo and the other members of the technical team will immediately turn attention to the upcoming 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.
Ghana has been paired in the same group with Madagascar, Angola and the Central African Republic (CAR) in the qualifiers for the tournament, which will be hosted by the Ivory Coast next year.
However, the four-time African champions will begin the qualification series in June, with two games to be played.
The Black Stars will host Madagascar at the Cape Coast Stadium on June 1, before taking on CAR four days later.
Meanwhile, Addo’s side will also have to navigate their way through a tricky World Cup group later this year after being paired in Group H, alongside Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea.
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The Member of Parliament for Ofoase Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has disbursed GHS134,000 to 22 students under the latest round of his Scholarship and Bursaries Programme.
According to a statement from his office, the 22 beneficiaries are enrolled in 16 tertiary institutions across the country.
They are studying various courses, including medicine, marketing, law, public health, midwifery, business administration, education, and secretaryship.
The MP’s office commended the beneficiaries, especially the five students currently studying medicine and physician assistantship, encouraging them to remain committed to their studies.
The statement indicated that the scholarship initiative, which began in 2017, aims to support brilliant but needy students from the Ofoase Ayirebi Constituency to further their education. So far, about 700 students have benefited from the program.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Four tricycle operators, popularly known as ‘Pragya’, have been prosecuted and fined GH¢600 each equivalent to 50 penalty units by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation Court for obstructing public roads at the Agbogbloshie Market.
The offenders, who were arrested by Public Health Officers of the AMA during a routine enforcement exercise, pleaded guilty to the offence and were subsequently convicted by the court.
The four operators were among the 21 offenders recently arrested at the Agbogbloshie Market for various sanitation and public order violations, including selling on open drains, obstructing walkways, and trading at unauthorised locations.
Speaking after the court proceedings, the Head of Public Health at the AMA, Madam Florence Kuukyi, said the court was lenient with the offenders since it was their first appearance, hence the fine, and warned that subsequent offenders would face stiffer penalties, including imprisonment.
