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All set for Mfantsipim-Adisadel fun games on Sept. 9
Two of Ghana’s prominent senior high schools, Mfantsipim School and Adisadel College will face off during the 16th Mfantsipim-Adisadel Fun Day Games (MAFDG) set for Saturday, September 9 at the Ghana Armed Forces Sports Complex in Accra.
To games, to be held under the theme “Beyond the Rivalry: Uniting through Sports,”forms part of efforts to foster unity between the two oldest boys’ schools in the history of senior high education.
The objectives, according to the organisers, include mobilising resources towards the development of the schools, renew and build friendships, and also create networking opportunities while fostering healthy competition and promoting sportsmanship.
It would also be used to strengthen the bond between the two schools and their communities.
Participants would be engaged in tennis, seven-a-side football, basketball, board games, a jama session and health screening.
The event since 1992 has been held 15 times and attracted a host of old boys from the two schools together with their lady counterparts from Wesley Girls High School and Holy Child School in Cape Coast, Mfantsiman Girls in Saltpond and St. Monica’s School in Mampong who would be expected to participate in this year’s event.
Speaking at the launch, the Co-chairman for the event, Mr Seth Dzordzorme said they were excited to witness the games again this year as it offers an atmosphere to foster unity.
Both schools and their affiliates, he said had prepared feverishly and look forward to healthy competition.
“It would not only be exciting but keenly contested as many would battle for the bragging rights at the end of the day,” he said.
He called on all old boys and the public to join them exercise and have fun, interact and share ideas towards the development of their communities and the country at large.
BY MICHAEL D. ABAYATEYE
Ghana Tourism Authority is leading Ghana’s participation at ITB Berlin, which opened in Berlin with a vibrant national pavilion highlighting Ghana’s rich cultural heritage, tourism destinations and investment opportunities.
March 5 has been designated as Ghana Day, a special platform to promote Ghana’s languages, cuisine, Kente, festivals and business prospects to the global tourism community. The stand has already drawn strong interest with traditional arts and crafts displays, immersive multimedia presentations and popular Ghanaian snacks.
Seven private-sector players are exhibiting alongside government officials as part of efforts to deepen trade partnerships, expand market access, and attract investment across the hospitality, heritage tourism, ecotourism, and creative arts sectors.
Ahead of the official opening, the Ghana delegation also engaged young Ghanaian investors in Germany in collaboration with V Afrika-Verein and the Ghana Embassy, strengthening diaspora investment linkages and highlighting opportunities within the tourism value chain.
Ghana’s coordinated presence at ITB Berlin 2026 reinforces its strategy to position the country as the Gateway to Africa and a competitive destination for leisure travel and global investment.
The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh Dompreh, has expressed concern over delays in the release of the District Assemblies Common Fund, warning that the situation is stalling development across the country.
On his facebook page, he described as a matter of urgent national importance, the Minority Chief Whip pointed to what he sees as a growing crisis of unpaid contractors, abandoned projects, and halted infrastructure works in many districts.
He noted that several communities are grappling with half completed schools, unfinished health facilities, abandoned markets, deteriorating roads, and stalled sanitation projects.
According to him, many contractors who have executed projects for district assemblies have not been paid, forcing some construction firms to demobilise from sites while workers lose their jobs.
He stressed that the District Assemblies Common Fund is not a discretionary allocation but a constitutional requirement under Article 252 of the 1992 Constitution, intended to support development at the local level.
In his view, years of delayed releases and accumulated arrears have weakened district development financing and disrupted projects meant to improve living conditions in communities.
He further argued that some payments made in recent years were largely the settlement of old debts rather than funding for new or ongoing projects, a situation he believes has affected contractor confidence and local economic activity.
He described the issue as more than a budgetary challenge, characterising it as a development emergency and a governance concern.
He therefore urged the appropriate authorities to pay outstanding DACF arrears, settle contractors who have completed their work, and ensure that transfers to districts are automatic and predictable.
He maintained that decentralisation can only succeed when district assemblies receive adequate and timely funding to carry out development projects.
He emphasised that stalled projects directly affect ordinary citizens, since they rely on such infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, sanitation, and economic activities.
He called for renewed attention to grassroots development, insisting that national progress should not be concentrated only in major cities but extended to all communities.
By: Jacob Aggrey
