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Dakar 2023: Sports presenter Fire Lady makes donation to Black Bombers ahead of Olympic qualifiers
Sports journalist with Asempa FM, Mavis Avornyo popularly known as Fire Lady has donated packs of mineral water and assorted bottled soft drinks to Black Bombers and Hitters ahead of Africa Olympic Boxing qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal.
The gesture was made when she paid a working visit to the team’s camping base at the Trust Sports Emporium-Hostel & Gym at Korle-Gonno in Accra.
“I am here to feel your preparation and readiness towards the upcoming Africa Olympic Boxing Qualifiers in Dakar-Senegal. It is my prayer that my token will inspire the whole team well to win more gold medals and qualify for the elite global sports show- Paris 2024” she said.
Receiving the items on behalf of the team, head coach and trainer of the National Boxing team, Ofori Asare was full of praise and thanks to the Fire Lady with a promise to reciprocate the gesture with the needed laurels from the team.
He called for more philanthropic and corporate support for the team as they ready themselves for the Dakar challenge.
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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
Richard Appiah, the footballer who killed two children and stored part of their bodies in a fridge at Abesim in the Bono Region in 2021 has been handed a lifetime sentence.
This was after a five member panel of judges at the Accra High Court returned a verdict of guilty against the convict.
Appiah, 32, also a draughtsman would spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of murder.
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BY MALIK SULLEMANA
