Clubs given deadline to submit
accounts
Clubs given deadline to
submit accounts
Accra (Greater Accra) 11 September 2001 - The Minister for Youth and
Sports, Papa Owusu-Ankomah has directed all premier league clubs to present
their annual accounts to the Auditor General’s department as a precondition for
their participation in the premier league.
The
clubs must also submit their annual returns to the registrar general’s
department by the end of next month as a precondition for their continued
participation in the premiership.
Though
football clubs went professional some eight years ago, their administrative
set-up does not represent their professional status.
Most of
the clubs have not been able to attract corporate sponsors because they still
run their clubs in ways that can be best described as unprofessional.
They
have failed all these years to submit their returns to the appropriate quarters
as business organisations are run.
The
former Youth and Sports Minister, E.T. Mensah who spearheaded the
professionalism of the premiership’s call for all clubs to be listed on the
stock market has since not yielded any positive results. – Joy FM
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Accra (Greater Accra) 11 September 2001 - The global peace games for youth and children, celebrated world-wide and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in November 1988, would be staged in Ghana on Friday, September 21, at the Tema SOS Village.
The Decade programme, which kick-starts this year, would focus on and develop the leadership skills of children and youth in the mission of global friendship, non-violence and peace.
It would also involve children and youth in making decisions about their lives. Kojo Quarshie, Programme Director of Play Soccer, an NGO funded by FIFA and one of the four organisers, said the idea is to inculcate in the children, the importance of a peaceful world through games and to forestall any future war.
He said the programme would include a cultural display and a play to highlight the effects of war and why the need to have a peaceful world. "It would combine sports, music, education and any other activity for the purpose of involving children and youth to achieve the targeted results", he added
The other organisers are the UN, FIFA and the SOS.
According to the UN programme, countries are to organise the events within the month of September, preferably on the 11th, which is the International Day of Peace.
Quarshie, who has been associated with soccer administration in the country for a very long time, said even though the programme is supposed to be nation-wide, it is dependent on the response they would get from their targeted sponsors.
He said almost every financial institution and some selected companies in the country have been written to, and expressed the hope that it would receive favourable response.
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Accra (Greater Accra) 11 September 2001 - Nii Ankrah returned 135 net to win this year's Gulder Open golf championship played at the Achimota Golf Course in Accra on Sunday.
J. Akakpo took the second position with 137 net, Francis Agbemoor was third with 138 net beating Owusu Ansah on countback, Sam Bannerman-Wood placed fifth with 139 net, while Isaac Kuyor came sixth with 140 net.
Yoo Mira-Bae won the Ladies event with 129 net, Valentine Manteaw was second with 142 net beating Florence Etwi-Barimah on countback, Margaret Anderson was fourth with 144 net, also beating Adelaide Owusu-Adjapong on countback.
About 150 golfers took part in the two-day 36-hole event, opened to amateur golfers throughout the country, and sponsored by Ghana Breweries Limited (GBL).
Mr Sammy Adetola, Vice Captain of the Achimota Golf Club praised the company for sponsoring the event for seven consecutive years now.
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