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7Great Princes school to hold sports festival
The Seven Great Princes Academy schools in Dansoman and Lartebiorkorshie will hold a four day sports festival at the El-Wak Sports Stadium and the Dansoman branch of the school.
The competition will be held on February 6-9.
Participants will compete in five disciplines, namely Fill-in-the-bottle, spoon and lime, sack race, tug-of-war, musical chairs, table tennis, basketball and Scrabble.
The competition will, however, start at the El-Wak Sports Stadium with football and athletics featuring boys and girls soccer competition while athletes compete in 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 4x100m and 4x400m races.
Mr Theophilus Armah, Director of sports at the school, explained that basketball and table tennis will also feature prominently at the Dansoman campus of the school.
Accordig to him, “We are looking at starting the year with sports to make the students fit and healthy.”
Through that, he hoped talents would be fished out for the national cause.
He added that the event will also be an occasion to celebrate the upcoming African Games to be hosted by Ghana in March.
“Awards , trophies, and certificates will be awarded to deserving winners,” he stated.
The competition which is an annual event will see El-Wak Stadium hosting the first two days , while the Dansoman branch of the school hosts the remaining two days.
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Kurt Edwin Simoen-Okraku arrives in Nairobi for CAF meeting
President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku has arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, ahead of the Executive Committee (EXCO) meeting of the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF).
The Ghana Football Association boss is attending the meeting in his capacity as the President of the sub-regional bloc, the West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Zone B.
The high-powered meeting, to be chaired by CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe, will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, 16th September 2024.
After the meeting, Dr. Motsepe will brief the media on Monday, September 16, 2024, at 13h00 local time (10h00 GMT) at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
Areas to be covered in the briefing will include the CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2027, TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship and other up-coming CAF events.
President Kurt Edwin Simeon-Okraku arrived in Nairobi on Sunday September 15, 2024, for the top level CAF meeting.
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All you need to know about GFA borehole project
GFA Borehole Strategy – Facts
1. The GFA made a specific request to FIFA for support for playing infrastructure
2. The title of the project was the GFA Borehole Project. The intent of the project derives from this title and is unambiguous.
3. The GFA has never applied for any project from FIFA for maintenance of pitches (of national stadiums)
4. The focus of the FIFA grant was the construction of boreholes and provision of accessories, including but not limited to, water tanks to facilitate the provision of water to improve the watering of pitches for our Game Centre strategy – RFAs, DOL and GPL clubs .As captured in all reports and documentation covering the project, this FIFA Grant was primarily for the construction of Boreholes and water reservoirs for watering of pitches.
The project was not for the maintenance of pitches in our national stadiums.
5. Because of the number of clubs playing at the Tamale Sports Stadium at the time, a decision was taken to place one of the water tanks and borehole in that facility.
6. The GFA borehole strategy is a public strategy that was approved by the Executive Council and approved at the GFA Congress.
For ease of reference, find below some of the public statements on the borehole project:
GFA Communications
