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GFA Foundation commemorates World Blood Donor day with Blood Donation Exercise
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The GFA Foundation has organized a Blood Donation exercise to celebrate World Blood Donor Day.
The life-saving exercise, which was held at the Home of Football (GFA Head Office), was in partnership with the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge Hospital) to stock its blood bank with safe and efficacious blood and blood products.
The event was graced by the General Secretary of the Football Association, Prosper Harrison Addo and two Deputies, Ama Brobbey Williams and Mr. Alex Asante.
Members of Supporters’ Unions, Club officials, students, staff of the GFA and its corporate neighbours, including the Ghana Tourism Authority, a section of the general public and the media checked their relevant vitals and donated blood.
The Blood Donation campaign manifests the GFA Foundation’s mission of positively impacting the lives of people through support for national and international development initiatives and goals.
This year’s edition was dubbed the “2nd Pint” because this is the second time the GFA was celebrating the International Day with a Blood Donation drive. The first edition was celebrated last year along with the Ghana Tourism Authority.
Since 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO), its partners and communities across the world, have celebrated 14th June as the World Blood Donor Day and this year, the celebration was under the theme “20 years of celebrating giving: Thank you, blood donors”.
The Director of the GFA Foundation, Malcolm Frazier Appeadu, indicated that the annual lifesaving campaign was the Football Association’s contribution to developing a safe, adequate and readily available blood service in Ghana.
“The blood donation exercise is a way to manifest to Ghanaians that indeed we care about the communities and truly the GFA CARES,” he added.
A Senior Medical Officer of Public Health at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Dr Emmanuel Addipa-Adapoe said blood was very vital in the treatment of jaundice in newborns, complications during pregnancy and childbirth, severe anemia in children etc. “I thank the GFA and all stakeholders for their support for the Greater Accra Regional Hospital,”he went on to say.
Donors, after the donation exercise, received donor cards and other souvenirs from the Ghana Football Association and the medical team from the Accra Regional Hospital.
The Blood Donation Campaign has become a permanent feature on the calendar of the GFA Foundation.
Asante Kotoko head coach Eric Tinkler has admitted his side had to dig deep to secure their first win over Heart of Lions in 11 years.
Kotoko edged the Kpando-based side in a tough encounter, ending more than a decade without victory against Lions yesterday at the Baba Yara SportsStadium.
Speaking after the game, Tinkler said:
“We made things very difficult for ourselves. You can see Heart of Lions are a good team; they created chances, but we managed the game, and we created our chances.
According to him, ” Overall there is still a lot of work we have to do defensively. We struggled even when we played against 10 men.”
“Today we won ugly, but we will take the three points and move on,” he concluded.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme
The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has criticised Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie over comments commending state-owned enterprises under the current administration.
She made the statement during her address at the 2026 Ghana Bar Association Conference in Ada.
The GBA President said the recent commendation and comparison of a state institution by no less a person than the Chief Justice left much to be desired.
“We do not want to believe that what happened was a fulfilment of Matthew 12:34, that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks,” she said.
The comments relate to remarks made by Chief Justice Baffoe-Bonnie during working visits to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) on Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
At MIIF, the Chief Justice praised the institution’s performance and said developments there had left him wondering what Ghana had been doing over the past eight years.
“I must congratulate you… we wonder; some of us keep wondering what really we have been doing in the past eight years,” he said. At SSNIT, he contrasted current operations with previous plans to sell assets like the Labadi Beach Hotel.
The remarks have drawn mixed reactions. The Judicial Service said the observations were made in good faith and were not intended to undermine judicial independence.
However, civil society groups and faith-based organisations have raised concerns.
CDD-Ghana said such commentary creates a perception of political bias and risks breaching the Code of Conduct for Judges, while the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference said the Chief Justice could have commended the institutions without political comparisons.
By Edem Mensah-Tsotorm
