tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23322713949664748712024-02-19T01:25:30.851-08:00MY "IGNORANCES"SHARING MY THOUGHTS, VIEWS AND IGNORANCES WITH YOU EVER SINCE...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-4962765171776628302016-06-20T21:58:00.001-07:002016-06-20T21:58:09.606-07:00Hearts of Oak confirm terminating Kenichi Yatsuhashi's contract by mutual consent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Accra Hearts of Oak have confirmed terminating coach Ke<span style="background-color: transparent;">ninchi Yatsuhashi’s contract by mutual consent.</span></div>
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This comes after the Japanese American gave the phobians an option to grant him a 25-day leave or terminate his contract for him to undertake a training course in India next month.</div>
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The Phobians chose the option of ending his stay at the club following a critical assessment of the situation.</div>
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Kenichi was going to miss 5 Ghana premier league matches if the 25-day leave had been granted.</div>
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The above statement from Hearts reveals the reasons for the coach to part ways with the club after just six months in charge.</div>
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young fighters retiring early or suffering serious brain injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">AIBA's executive committee
unanimously voted to add headgears to amateur competition in April 1984 but in
June last year, it banned the use of headgears.However, Tagoe owner
of the Will Power Boxing Gym, believes that this practice is dangerous, calling
for the re-introduction of headgears for amateur boxers.He insists that
all the amateur boxers under his tutelage will fight with headgears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">He said: “It is a very bad
decision; these youngsters are not yet professionals and might not get to that
level because of the injuries they will sustain in their youth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“As a professional boxer, I got
paid to be hit on the head but some of these amateurs start as early as
17 years, just imagine them taking a few heavy punches directly to the head for
no money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">“My new project with Goldstar
Airlines aims to find talented amateur fighters between the ages of 15 and 17.
We were at the Jamestown Roundabout last Sunday, this week it will be Gbese
also in Accra, and all the amateur fighters will wear headgears for adequate
protection”, Tagoe stressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Tagoe also contended that the
practice of professional boxers engaging in strenuous sparring sessions when
they were not preparing for fights was another practice that had to be
discouraged.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">McDon
Multimedia Promotions, promotors of the intended “No Retreat, No Surrender”
bout between Bukom Banku and John Napari are determined to find a new opponent
for Banku after his opponent was declared unfit by an official of the Ghana
Boxing Authority (GBA).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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undefeated duo of Banku and Napari were set to clash for the WBA International
Cruiserweight championship at the Accra Sports Stadium on October 3 until GBA
medical officer, Dr Samuel Armah Acquaye last Friday ruled out Napari after a
medical examination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“During the
examination, I found out that Napari was unfit to fight so I ruled him out. He
came to me and I advised him that he couldn’t fight not only in this fight but
for some time till he cures himself,” Dr Acquaye told Accra based radio station
Starr FM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decision represents a huge set-back for Napari (18-0-0), who was unavailable
for comment but had earlier expressed his delight with making a return to the
sport after a two-year absence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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McDon Atitsogbe, CEO of McDon Promotions says he is unperturbed by the
development and has declared that his outfit has already begun the search for a
new opponent who will take on Banku on a new date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Atitsogbe said:“The GBA has not called-off the fight, the fight is definitely
coming on and we are just changing Banku’s opponent. I don’t want to declare
the name of the new opponent until everything is sealed; Banku will still fight
but not on October 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“Napari was
just declared unfit, I think he has some issues and it will affect his health
if he fights. We should just respect the medical and move on, people say he can
still fight but personally if he has been declared unfit we have to let go and
move on “, he added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Graphic Sports sources, former Black Bomber Maxwell Amponsah alias Black
Wolf leads Ugandan slugger, Hamza Wandera and Nigerian brawler, Michael Gbenga
in the race to replace Napari with Ghanaian cruiserweight contender, Prince
George Akrong being an outsider.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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related development, the GBA has denied ruling-out Napari from fighting adding
that a decision will only be made after a meeting with all the interested
parties on Tuseday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Napari to go for a medical and as at now we have not received the results.
Officially the GBA Board has not decided anything; an announcement will only
come-out on Tuesday", said GBA spokesperson, Gifty Naa Darkoa Dodoo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-60575562984747575652014-09-08T15:28:00.001-07:002014-09-08T15:30:23.850-07:00A PROFILE OF SOME OF MY WORKS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
They are on a cool website called journalisted.com. The website helps me keep track of some of my online articles that have been published over the past year.<br />
Check it out here - <a href="http://journalisted.com/kweku-zurek">http://journalisted.com/kweku-zurek</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-56062181928248659012014-09-01T05:24:00.004-07:002014-09-01T05:27:57.254-07:00‘Last 150 metres did the trick’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the company of the Ghana contingent who arrived at the Kotoko Airport last Saturday to a rapturous reception, Martha said she drew on her reserves of energy to sprint past the leading pack and eventually pull away from the chasing bunch from the final 150-metre mark, much to the surprise of the crowd.</div>
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“They were surprised at my victory because Ghana is known for producing short distance runners and not middle or long distance runners. But I bet you, the last 150 metres was the most difficult”, she told the <em>Graphic Sport</em>s with a beaming smile.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVZCfmqlAhaW5dBZvS8Dj0YR0FW2wlHW4NL-lND5fPmUXEOk218PhOePvPXGjJ2JEI19999b3e82i-_bqonF1xHZnSS4db6Y4E72aujRvmAr6CHp9fXfPahCOqM3tsU_H8c3mK-gu6R-j/s1600/100_3645.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVZCfmqlAhaW5dBZvS8Dj0YR0FW2wlHW4NL-lND5fPmUXEOk218PhOePvPXGjJ2JEI19999b3e82i-_bqonF1xHZnSS4db6Y4E72aujRvmAr6CHp9fXfPahCOqM3tsU_H8c3mK-gu6R-j/s1600/100_3645.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>A 17-year-old former Aduman Senior High School student, cut a big slice of sporting history in a time of 2:04.90 minutes to beat the much fancied Hawi Alemu Negeri of Ethiopia and Germany’s Mareen Kalis to second and third place respectively and in the process set a new national record in the two-lap race.</div>
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Martha’s historic feat was the nation’s maiden Olympic gold medal at any level and it makes her a prospective candidate for a scholarship to join 15 other Ghanaian athletes already studying in American colleges.</div>
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The Olympic gold medalist also issued a passionate plea to the government to give more support to athletics.</div>
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Later in an interview, an ecstatic Prof Dodoo attributed Martha’s performance to experience that she gained from participating in various competitions, adding that her achievement in Nanjing was a stepping stone to better things.</div>
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“What Martha did in China was unbelievable. She ran a mature race and that came from the number of events she had run in before then.</div>
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“She went to the African Championships in Morocco where she lost to Ethiopia’s Negeri finishing in third place and before that, she was in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games. Those events helped her development and she has made the nation very proud,” Prof Dodoo said.</div>
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Kotoko were drawing 1-1 with Allies in the second-half of extra time and the tie looked destined for a penalty shoot-out when Bancey struck in the 115th minute to hand the Porcupine Warriors victory.</div>
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The 24-year-old told Graphic Sports that, the goal was all about anticipation and stamina not beauty.</div>
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“Last year we lost painfully in the final of the FA Cup to Medeama SC at the same venue, so we were determined not to fail again.</div>
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“This is the most important goal of my career as we couldn’t afford to go through the penalty shoot-outs. With that goal, my teammates and I made history by winning the first double for Kotoko” he added.</div>
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“The goal was a team effort and we used our experience and superior stamina levels to defeat Allies, Bancey stated.</div>
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The striker also distanced himself from rumours that had linked him to Sudanese club, Al Meirrekh, stating that he has a year left on contract with Kotoko.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-90220763305469524472014-06-09T09:08:00.000-07:002014-06-09T09:15:48.633-07:00Kotoko win MTN FA Cup<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kumasi Asante Kotoko made history at the Accra Sports Stadium yesterday after defeating Inter Allies 2-1 in the final of the 2013/2014 MTN FA Cup to complete their first-ever league and cup double.<br />
The game was as close as the scoreline suggests, with Kotoko needing an opportunistic strike in the dying embers of the game as Seidu Bancey capitalised on a goalkeeping blunder in the 115th minute to score the match winner which secured them their eighth FA Cup trophy .<br />
Kotoko opened the scoring in the eighth minute through winger Richard Mpong, who pounced on a weak header from Inter Allies defender, Stephen Owusu Ansah, and raced with the ball into the opponents’ half before firing an unstoppable shot past goalie Osei Kwame.<br />
The Porcupine Warriors continued to dominate the exchanges in the first half with Allies content with occasional counter-attacking forays.<br />
Allies returned a rejuvenated side in the second half and Coach Herbert Addo made his first substitution with Dauda Diop replacing centre-back Baba Mensah in the 50th minute.<br />
The dominance of the league debutantes paid dividends when Talla Ndiaye levelled the tie with a sublime volley after a fortunate deflection in the penalty box.<br />
Kotoko striker, Bancey, had a penalty appeal waved off by referee William Agbovi in the 69th minute before Allies replaced goal-scorer Ndiaye with Simon Martey in the 73rd minute as both sides ended normal time level.<br />
In the first half of extra-time, Kotoko midfielder Michael Akuffo came close to scoring when his sublime free-kick rattled the crossbar after substitute Prince Baffoe was felled outside the penalty box.<br />
Bancey’s 115th minute winner broke Allies’ hearts and sent Kotoko faithful into delirium when he reacted quickly to fire home after goalie Osei Kwame had parried a fierce drive from his Kotoko teammate Jordan Opoku.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-57950068199057240532014-06-02T03:49:00.003-07:002014-06-02T03:49:48.298-07:00 Akaminko in US for surgery by Kweku Zurek.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5N-fXeFXTZsgyeNmMV0ghMYRuouZlDzEsRsfZsQqLdU6LpYrPh_ikDaCKHf0YASisWwZnV5LiQJtm3X_FWzJIQIwpbNdSpp_GbjV3f4HQLNC7BlbcsEgZIXICd3eg5pRG4X0RMa3Gi8O/s1600/r.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5N-fXeFXTZsgyeNmMV0ghMYRuouZlDzEsRsfZsQqLdU6LpYrPh_ikDaCKHf0YASisWwZnV5LiQJtm3X_FWzJIQIwpbNdSpp_GbjV3f4HQLNC7BlbcsEgZIXICd3eg5pRG4X0RMa3Gi8O/s1600/r.jpeg" height="230" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ghana defender Jerry Akaminko last
Saturday was only a few minutes from making the final Black Stars' 23-man squad
for the 2014 FIFA World Cup when he injured his left ankle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Ghana-Netherlands friendly in Rotterdam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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though ruled out of the mundial will travel with the squad to the United States
to undergo surgery on his fractured left ankle after he landed awkwardly in an
aerial challenge in the 90th minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Baba, confirmed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Akaminko would miss
the tournament after a medical examniation on the ankle in Rotterdam last
Saturday night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;">“X-rays have revealed that there
is a fracture to his left ankle joint-a fracture of the fibula bone. What will
have to be done is surgery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If surgery is done and depending on his
rehabilitation we will give him at least three months to be able to fully
recuperate and start playing”, Baba stated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the World Cup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It is unfortunate that Jerry has
got to face this,” Appiah told www.ghanafa.org.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Looking at the training he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had with the team we had lots of hope for the
World Cup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;">“All we have to do, apart from the
support we will offer him is to pray for him to come back stronger.”, he
stated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;">The president of the Ghana
Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, has also expressed his sympathy to the
defender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This is a bitter blow for Jerry
and the entire Ghana team. When he went down yesterday I felt something in my
stomach. We all feel very sorry for him,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-7301403220709609742014-06-02T03:33:00.001-07:002014-06-02T03:33:30.103-07:00Accam gutted! by Kweku Zurek<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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disappointment at being left out of the Black Stars 23-man squad for the World
Cup in Brazil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The 23-year-old was axed together with Leicester City’s Jeffery Schlupp
and the injured Jerry Akaminko but he believes his exclusion was because he was
not given the opportunity to convince Coach Kwasi Appiah in the friendly
against Holland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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page said, “It's been an honour to be part of the national team. I'm
disappointed not to have been selected for the final squad, and not have the
opportunity to prove myself against Holland, but that is finished now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and my focus is now 100 per cent on Helsingborg’s next game against Falkenberg.
God knows best!”, he concluded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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competitive debut for the Stars after receiving two call-ups including a
starting role in a 6-1 drubbing over a local select side in a pre-World Cup
friendly in Accra. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-79045697789187109722014-05-25T10:47:00.001-07:002014-05-25T11:05:06.769-07:00FANS COUGH-UP CASH... TO WATCH BLACK STARS TRAIN by Kweku Zurek @gskzurek on Twitter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Black Stars fans who thronged the Accra Sports Stadium last Wednesday to watch the team train were left stranded outside the walls of the stadium after security personnel demanded they purchased tickets for the First Capital Plus Premier League clash between Accra Hearts of Oak and Inter Allies later in the day before they would be permitted into the stadium.<br />
The fans were caught off-guard as the security insisted they were only enforcing a directive from the Hearts management who feared the fans would remain in the stadium to watch the league match without paying.<br />
An estimated 400 fans, eager to watch Ghana’s provisional World Cup squad at train, were compelled to pay GHc4 for the Hearts-Inter Allies match tickets to gain access to the stadium.<br />
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Muheeb Saeed, Public Relations Officer of Hearts, told Graphic Sports that tickets sale for last Thursday’s 28th week game was due to begin at 12 noon and if fans were allowed to have free access to the stadium before gates officially opened, attendance to the game would be disrupted.<br />
“We are not cashing in on the Black Stars; our position is that it will be impossible to eject fans after the Stars finish training around 12.00pm. So we are asking the fans to co-operate by purchasing the tickets which entitle them to a Hearts reserve team clash against Allies and the league game itself,” he explained.<br />
However the move backfired as a few fans stayed behind for the Hearts - Allies. Hearts won the game 1-0.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-14328483811076416212014-05-25T10:30:00.001-07:002014-05-25T10:30:59.241-07:00UNDERCARDS OF BANKU-POWERS JUDGEMENT NIGHT BILL BY Kweku Zurek<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The undercards of the Bukom Banku-Ayitey Powers, Judgement Night bill which came-off last Thursday night at the Accra Stadium did not disappoint, with all six contests including a first round stoppage-ending in Technical Knock-Outs (TKO).<br />
The night got-off to a brilliant start in the first bout of the night which saw nigerian boxer, Gifted Chiori who is based in the USA recording a sixth-round TKO over his Ghanaian opponent, Daniel Adjei Sowah in a bout that was scheduled for eight rounds.<br />
The light middle weight bout between, Obodai Sai and Nigerian, Abolaji Rasheed continued in the same vein with Rasheed the aggressor. In round three, Rasheed opened a cut on Sai’s eyelid which bled profusely for the remainder of the fight.<br />
But, Sai under the tutelage of Nii Djanie Kotey dominated the remaining rounds which sent Rasheed backing into the ropes. In one of such moments in round seven, Sai connected with a flurry of unanswered uppercuts and hooks but the Nigerian was saved by the bell.<br />
However, Rasheed failed to respond to the bell for round 8 handing Sai the win by TKO.<br />
In arguably the fight of the night; an eight round bantamweight contest between Manyo Plange and Albert Commey. The former olympian, Plange handed Commey a lesson in the sweet science of boxing. He constantly punched his opponent with cheeky ease while evading all his feeble attempts at being hit.<br />
In round four, Plange continued to hararss his opponent, backing him into a corner and landing solid combinations. The bout came to an abrupt end when referee Michael Neequaye saved Commey from further punishment with the bout being ruled a TKO in favour of Plange.<br />
The eight-round middle weight contest involving Sadiq Musah and the undefeated, Ahmed Saraku ended abruptly in round one with the referee, Erasmus Owoo stopping the bout in one of several bizarre refereeing decisions which characterized the bill.<br />
After Musah failed to respond to several powerful blows to his head from Saraku, referee Owoo stopped the bout to the displeasure of Musah who clearly wanted the fight to continue leaving Saraku to win by TKO.<br />
The National Bantamweight Championships between Galley Cudjoe and Prince “Octopus” Djanie was marred by another contentious decision by referee Emmanuel Brenya which handed Dzanie victory in round 6 by TKO.<br />
Cudjoe had earlier lost a point in round 2 for a low-blow with Djanie dominating the other rounds, the bout was however stopped by a combination of the referee and a towel thrown-in by Cudjoe’s corner.<br />
In the last bout which preceded the entry of Bukom Banku and Ayittey Powers to the ring, Maxwell Amponsah landed a huge right hook to George Banson’s face which sent him sprawling onto the canvas ending their national light heavyweight championships bout.<br />
Banson failed to recover from that blow with the fight being ruled a TKO victory for Amponsah.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-21368956444632640942013-09-19T06:46:00.000-07:002013-09-19T06:46:21.079-07:00GOAL-KEEPING WORRIES FOR GHANA AHEAD OF CRUCIAL EGYPT TIE. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ghana managed to draw the one team all Ghanaians didn’t want to meet; the Pharaohs
of Egypt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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view in Ghana is that, our friends from the north of the continent apart from
being great footballers engage in gamesmanship and will even cheat all in an
effort to win a football game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Black Stars recently welcomed some exiled and temporarily retired players back
into the squad for their victory against the Chippolopolo of Zambia but the
presence of such players did little to paper over the cracks of the defensive
aspects in coach Kwesi Appiah’s team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghana’s
number-one goalie Fatau Bauda recently made a transfer to South Africa, where
he joined Orlando Pirates only to find himself perpetually benched because South
Africas second-choice goalie; Senzo Meyiwa is currently in the form of his life
at Pirates. Dauda is actually yet to make his debut at the Buccaneers and
against Zambia he showed jitters every time he came out of his goal to claim or
parry a cross. His performance on the day was that of a keeper who is very
rusty and lacking match practice.</span></div>
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IF, lost his place in the build-up to the last AFCON to Dauda. The
Norwegian-born goalie is currently injured (groin strain) and a date for his
return has not yet been set. Kwarasey conceded two goals in the last match he
started for Ghana against Turkey (he was withdrawn at half-time and Razak
Brimah who plays club football for CD Guadalajara made his debut).</span></div>
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third-choice goalie, Razak Brimah was having a brilliant game in goal during
the recent friendly against Japan till the Blue Samurai’s turned on the style and
he was left picking three-balls from his twine in the second half. He released
Asamoah Gyan with a long throw from his own half for the striker to grab the
equalizer against the Turks on his debut but he also made some schoolboy errors
against Japan <i><span style="color: #666666;">(a game where Ghana fielded a “B side”)</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The
lack of quality goal-keeping options has led to calls for the return of the
veteran Richard “OLELE” Kingson, the former Wigan Athletic and Blackpool goalie
recently secured a one-year deal with Cypriot club Doxa Katokopia. After 18
months out of football with problems both on and off the pitch, It could be
argued that Richard Kingson lost his place in the squad due to his
club-lessness as much as his age of 35years (unlike in Egypt, in Ghana a player
is on borrowed time as soon as he hits 30). Kingson is currently playing active
football and could be set for a swansong in Brazil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">Former Black Stars and Accra Hearts of Oak goalie, Sammy Adjei has indicated a willingness to play for the Stars even though he is clubless at the moment. Adjei grew frustrated with the Black Stars after being frozen-out on the bench due to the wonderful form of Richard Kingson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Several
goalies are on the fringes of the squad chiefly amongst them the World U-20
winning goalie Daniel Adjei who has very happy memories from Egypt where he
became a world-champion with the Black Satellites. He was a player who received
many call-ups without making many starts but the call-ups dried up when he made
a move to PSL-side Free State Stars. He received a baptism of fire on his PSL
debut and hasn’t yet locked down a starting slot</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span></div>
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is also some un-tested goal-keeping talent in the Glo-Premier League; Foli
Adade <span style="color: #666666;">(Medeama SC)</span> and Isaac Amoako
<span style="color: #666666;"><i>(Kumasi Asante Kotoko)</i></span> but both have no chance of being given a starting berth
against Egypt due to their inexperience on the international stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Black Stars really need an active, competent goalie and fast if they are to
have a chance at making it to Brazil.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-30899352391656031282013-09-08T13:15:00.000-07:002013-09-08T13:15:06.670-07:00COPPER-BULLETS DON’T KILL but BLACK-STARS DO SHINE.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">So the former area champions arrived in GH after much ceremony and were promptly dispatched by the Black Stars</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: grey;">(as if it was ever in doubt, though I was a bit disappointed by the scoreline)</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The match reminded me of a grudge much I had in my child-hood at Girls-School park in La,Accra. The game was between the guys from my compound house were I still live and the guys on the other side of the park. In the build up to our game the other guys engaged in trash-talking like the Zambians did and were on our backs during the whole week till the Saturday came. I remember in the early stages I hassled one of their players got the ball back and passed to my brother who scored the first goal. I cant remember the final scoreline, we won the game but weren’t very excited by the final score.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">Before the Copper bullets arrived they wanted to engage Ghana in that <i><span style="color: grey;">“Ayittey Powers-Bukom Banku”</span></i> type beef, firstly they cried wolf to FIFA, wanted to land at an airport where it was not possible to land because international flights don’t land there and rehabilitation works are on-going (for a nation that lost their Copper generation or is it golden in a plane crash one would have thought they would be eager to do the right thing). The propaganda machinery of the Zambian FA were in full flight trying to make this match a grudge match when there was no need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">I am tired of describing their antics, so on to the match.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The match wasn’t vintage Black-Stars; Gyan was poor (can be excused because he wasn’t a 100% fit but Sunzu owned him on the day), the centre-back pairing of Boye and Mensah were jittery <i><span style="color: grey;">(IN FACT THE WHOLE DEFENCE MADE ME NERVOUS)</span></i> and Fatau Dauda reminded me of Almunia coming out to claim crosses <i><span style="color: grey;">(It’s sad that Ghana’s number 1 is a consistent bench-warmer in SA)</span></i>. But a team that has players like Kwadwo Asamoah, Dede Ayew in its starting 11 and a Michael Essien <i><span style="color: grey;">(who had a massive cameo)</span></i> on its bench should and must always have enough for Zambia on any day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The first goal came when John Boye some-how managed to keep a ball from going to touch and playing it across the face of goal for the dimunitive Abdul Majid Waris to head it past a hapless Kennedy Mweene. The second goal was individual brilliance from Kwadwo Asamoah, left with all the space in the middle of the pitch, the Juventus–man(has a Zambian ever played at Juve?) lashed in an unstoppable, scorching drive that left Mweene with no chance of keeping it out. The Zambians pulled one back through Sinkala from a beautifully worked corner routine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">In the post-match interview the Zambian coach Herve Renard was much more gracious in defeat than I expected him to be, he even shared a hug with Asamoah and wished Ghana well. He spoke and acted like a man who wouldn’t mind returning to Ghana in a different capacity as head-coach in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">I felt a bit sorry for him, not because he looks like a movie-star but because it would have been more of a fight if the Zambian FA had been interested in keeping their house in order <i><span style="color: grey;">(i.e. arriving on time, accepting the GFA’s offer of a transit flight to Kumasi and having a decent training session on the grass at Baba Yara).</span></i> If Zambia is anything like the football-loving country that Ghana is, Mr. Bwalya and Mr. Mwanza should have some serious questions to answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">Zambia knocked us out of an African Cup <i><span style="color: grey;">(and lifted the trophy)</span></i>, they also beat us in a World Cup qualifier but this wasn’t enough reason for them to consider themselves equals</span><span style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">(we have four AFCONS and a World Cup quarter-final berth under our navels).</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">The Zambians are working very hard to portray themselves as the most oppressed team in African football with various allegations, chiefly CAF managing to keep them out of the Confederations Cup by organizing another AFCON because apparently CAF deemed them not “fashionably-pretty” enough to represent the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px;">To my Zambian brothers, I hate to burst your bubble but I think a Zambian proverb describes it best; “YOU CAN SHARE THE SAME BED BUT NOT THE SAME DREAM” <i><span style="color: grey;">(not really a Zambian proverb but I couldn’t resist)</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-50609283695215016502013-08-23T02:45:00.000-07:002013-08-23T02:45:10.216-07:00IMPLICATIONS OF KEVIN PRINCE BOATENG’S RETURN.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1goal.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Kevin Prince Boateng’s
letter rescinding his retirement from international football has been accepted
by the Ghana FA who have also welcomed his Milan team-mate Muntari back into
the fold.</span></b></div>
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quality attacking option back in midfield. The competition for places in Kwasi
Appiah’s midfield is going to be especially fierce with both Milan players
returning and Dede Ayew’s awaited return.
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ghana normally lines up in a 4-2-3-1 formation with
Gyan either leading the line or playing in the centre of the 3 attacking midfielders
<i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(the hole)</span></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If Appiah hands him a call-up, it would mean Asamoah Gyan
moving up to the centre-forward role permanently and KPB either playing as a 10
or trequartista behind Gyan like he did to devastating effect behind the Swede;
Ibrahimovic for Allegri’s Milan during their Scudetto triumph. For a team
lacking in goal-threat, he can help Gyan by shouldering some of the scoring
burden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He could also partner Kuban Krasnodar’s Rabiu Mohammed
in front of the back 4 where he would be the more attack minded of the two
defensive midfielders and drive the team forward from deep; sort of like
Paulinho at the Confederations Cup when he partnered the much more defensive-minded
Gustavo in Brazil’s midfield. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The “BOA” is competent on the right flank and can put
in a decent shift if required, though he struggled when he played there against
Congo in the only match he played in Ghana during his first spell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fans and Black Stars players the wrong way because the cynical lot will point
to the fact that he used Ghana to get a good deal by playing in the World Cup
and left when we needed him most. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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crucial matches away from qualifying for the<span style="color: red;"> </span>mundial
in Brazil, this may be seen by some as too convenient. But “the Prince” would
know that in football, the only way to silence your critics is to put in good
performances on the pitch <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(unless you
are as lucky as Rafa Benitez)</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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World Cup, we need all the quality talent we can find and who are willing to
play for us, like it or not KPB is quality and at the moment he is willing to
play for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with KPB;<b><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <i>4-2-3-1 ── Kwarasey (GK) - Opare (RB), Johnathan Mensah (CB), J. Boye
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just sounded, your </span></b><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">favourite</span></b><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> team has won the
trophy, but after a very </span></b><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">gruelling</span></b><b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> game you can’t or must
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with, that is if you can compare Ghana’s historic election petition to a heated
football derby. As the date; August 29<sup>th</sup> draws closer and hinging on
whether the Judicial Services call-off their strike scheduled for the 27<sup>th</sup>,
everyone from hip-life artistes, pastors and even “politricksians” <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(the main source of the tensions) </span></i>have added
their two pesewas to the call for peace often entreating supporters of the
various parties to be measured in their actions and inactions on that day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It is an open secret that the main protagonists in the
hearing will never come to blows themselves so most of the efforts at lowering
tensions have been aimed at their party sympathizers. Like a Champions League
final the players will never fight at full time but rather a half-wit somewhere
in the “third world” would either run-over opposing fans with his car or cause
harm to himself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My team will be playing that day; my beloved Couch
Party, we are the team comprised of individuals that don’t get actively
involved in the game <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(politricks)</span></i>
but will always be there or thereabouts; sort of like my beloved Arsenal. I can
hear your mind screaming “but if you don’t vote, people will decide for you”,
to that I say why should I bother when the value is always going to be the same
<i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(sort of like how in Egypt they traded Mubarak
for Morsi and now they are stuck with the army)</span></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I enjoyed the chutzpah displayed by Justice Atuguba
when he gave the political class in Ghana a “hair-dryer” that SIR (Alex not
John) would be proud of given that it was done in full glare of the whole
country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">They (the political class) are so adept at manipulating
their followers to the extent that at times it seems like mind control. These
so-called followers literally don’t have a pesewa to their name and often
struggle to put their children through a free education Junior High School
whilst the same ruling class messes up the educational system and fly their
spawn to “paradise” for education. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We live in times where we have become so scared of words
like “war” to the extent that a harmless game such as “tug of war” is called “tug
of peace” and now you can’t watch TV without seeing a message about peace and
rightly so. Ghana is surrounded by neighbors who have been through this experience
and it was not pleasant, in effect; GHANAIANS DON’T WANT TO BE REFUGEES! Tensions are rising; the sort of tension a
football fan will feel before kick-off whilst lounged on his couch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">And whilst Ghana is about to sneeze, the U.S. have
already caught a cold and issued their now customary travel-alert. Some
Ghanaians are offended by this and wonder why Ghana </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">didn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> issue a travel alert
when the Tsarnaev’s were on the rampage in Boston or when the towers fell on
September 11. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I don’t want to predict what will happen that day but come
what may, there might be vigorous, overzealous celebrations from the winners
and the losers won’t take it lightly and it might all boil over. But just as
with the election that lead to this petition and with most elections I can
remember, the sensible Ghanaians will always outnumber the very few, slow,
gullible ones and peace will always prevail in my motherland. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">In Egypt, the revolution </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">didn't</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> work so well; so maybe
Ghana will blaze the trail with this election petition which-ever way it goes.
I hope the Couch Party wins though. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-79881370624983100092013-08-21T03:55:00.000-07:002013-08-22T05:40:20.783-07:00THE PRESSURES OF WASSCE; the story of Master Samuel Kwame Kissi <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The WASSCE results
were released earlier this month and I felt the customary-tension such results
releases have on the individual even though I wrote mine way back in 2008</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
have yet to meet a SHS graduate who didn’t feel the pressures of this pivotal
moment in one’s life and make no bones about it, it’s very crucial. It is also
very true that what you accomplish in your youth goes a long way to determining
what you will be in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It
is the period where life really starts depending on the grades you get. Some
might think I am being melodramatic but the final year in SHS is very stressful
for everyone that has been through it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
recall listening to the news with my mother when it was announced that a final
year SHS student had taken their own life and she asked which kind of pressures
that students face that could lead them to taking their own life. I didn’t
speak up because I didn’t want to scare her but it’s a very pressuring feeling
knowing that 8 papers and how well you do in them could lead to what kind of
future you will have. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In
this country, we are conditioned with the mantra of “go to school, learn hard
and find a good job”. It is also very rare that you meet successful people in
Ghana who didn’t pass those 8 papers very well <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(passing
and passing very well are very different things)</span></i>. But as Ghana waits
for her first Bill Gates the fact is, of my mates who didn’t pass those papers
and are very successful now, most are engaged in cyber fraud a.k.a. <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Sakawa</span></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
late Samuel Kwame Kissi <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(who offered
science like me)</span></i> , formerly of my alma mater St Thomas Aquinas SHS
passed his exams but didn’t pass them very well because he wanted to pursue
Medicine and got the respectable grade of aggregate 17 <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(which
included an A1 in Integrated Science and C4 in Biology)</span></i>. This may
have led to Kwame Kissi taking his own life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">According
to the Headmaster of Aquinas, Kwame was an average-student who did better in
the WASSCE than he did in both mocks before the exam but the entry requirements
meant he had no chance of pursuing Medicine especially given the admission
pressures on Universities this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kwame
according to his housemaster was a humble student who could not bypass a
teacher without offering a greeting. I don’t want to blame anybody but was he made
aware that he could write a remedial and with a little effort still pursue his
dream. Or was it that maybe he couldn’t deal with those conversations that
those of us who don’t make it the first time have to endure with mates,
conversations about varsity life where they all contribute with campus stories
of their own and you feel left out because you have no such stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At
this point all I can do is speculate and as Kwame's mother declined comment we
cannot get an insight into his life at home. Given that the incident occurred
whiles he was not in school, no definite conclusions can be drawn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>my 3Sc2 class of 2008</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yes,
there were counsellors when I attended Aquinas but I never felt like I could go
and discuss such issues with them or my friends<i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">
(through no fault of theirs obviously)</span></i>. It’s also not very
encouraging when some teachers take it upon themselves to be prophets of doom
by telling stories like “how in the future you might see your own mates and hide
depending on how well you do”. I suppose such teachers can find better ways of
motivating students than scaring them into submission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
am at the end of this piece but I don’t know how to end, if anyone wrote an exam
and is feeling down about his/her grades all I can say is; <b>LIFE IS NOT A RACE COS IF IT WERE WE WOULD ALL HAVE BEEN BORN ON THE
SAME DAY</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Written with extracts from an
interview on Peace FM on the 20<sup>th</sup> of August 2013 at 12:00p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-1355985622519684992013-08-19T02:25:00.000-07:002013-08-22T05:40:51.240-07:00WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BUY AN ACER IN GHANA… well at least an ACER ASPIRE S3.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>ACER ASPIRE S3 and LCD FLAT CABLE</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">So earlier this year, I was trying to write my dissertation
when my Acer broke down. After some
research on the inter</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">net, I found that it
was a common problem that most Acer Aspire S3 have <i><span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">(the
screen turns white when opened at 90 degrees)</span></i> and plus machines
break down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I thought I was eligible for a warranty because I had been
using the laptop for just about 7months, but to my horror I found that it had
already been registered to someone else and the warranty was up. Thing is, I
remember registering this same serial number with Acer on the internet when the
laptop was bought <i><span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">(I wasn’t told that it was
already registered)</span></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was therefore resigned to having it repaired at a cost to
me. Acer has 2 partners in Ghana; <b><i>Redington</i></b>
and <b><i>Compudist</i></b>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I headed off to <b><i>Redington</i></b> and was asked to leave the
laptop for an appraisal after which “I would be called” <i><span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">(I
insisted on being called because I didn’t have a laptop so couldn’t check my
mail)</span></i>. I didn’t receive the call, I went back the next day to
enquire; guess what? They sent the mail. I was told my laptop had <i><span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">“a burnt chip in the motherboard”</span></i> and the
whole board would have to be replaced, at this I told the technician that the
laptop works fine when it is connected to a plasma TV so it can’t be the
motherboard at which he quickly replied that <i><span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">“Oh,
then it is the screen and it would cost 1,384GHC”</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Decsription<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amount (GHC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1203.480<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Value Added Tax<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: azure; height: 21.15pt; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">180.520<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Total<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1384<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I felt that was too much for a laptop that was bought at 1,200GHC
and it didn’t make any type of sense to pay over the retail price when I can
buy a brand-new notebook at the same price.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, I continued my search to <b><i>Compudist</i></b>, where I was
told that I had a damaged LCD FLAT CABLE that Acer doesn’t sell alone <i><span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">(it comes with the screen)</span></i>. So I would have
to purchase a new screen which would cost over 1,000GHC. I was advised to
discard the laptop and buy a new one that wasn’t Acer. In fact, I was informed
that <b><i>Compudist</i></b>
have stopped dealing in Acer products because of the troubles they get from
their customers after making sales. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX3ahMSrQOH0_0gDLvbADFVcXFzVAtXgGQMhumcopZriKM-t5miFLwjoKd0OgBfYeYE7TaZ0Q-VS-Qgs7NiXW3CtCf4RzeZ7Rcxa-_HOmPeZ0soS7vOXZ6XGSHEgPHCBnPrrzwGVsIXYVb/s1600/atory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX3ahMSrQOH0_0gDLvbADFVcXFzVAtXgGQMhumcopZriKM-t5miFLwjoKd0OgBfYeYE7TaZ0Q-VS-Qgs7NiXW3CtCf4RzeZ7Rcxa-_HOmPeZ0soS7vOXZ6XGSHEgPHCBnPrrzwGVsIXYVb/s400/atory.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking to an insider at <b><i>Compudist</i></b> he asked me <span style="color: #7f7f7f; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 128;">“why I bought an
Acer?”</span>. I replied that it was a gift at which he said Acer is all about
affordability and beautiful designs not durability. He added that Acer hopes at
providing people with their first laptops so that when they decide to buy a new
laptop they remember their first laptop and buy an Acer again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t understand why Acer won’t make only the LCD cable
solely available as it seems to be the part that breaks down most often on the
Aspire S3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I finally had only that cord in the laptop replaced at
250GHC at Rocket-Tech. The advice from the people at Rocket-Tech was to sell it
quickly and get something more durable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If Acer won’t make spare parts available at a reasonable
cost in Ghana what’s the point in wasting your “hard earned third world country
money” on their products?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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EPISODE. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-69851789310605129582013-08-12T02:02:00.000-07:002013-08-12T02:02:23.103-07:00KWESI APPIAH CRACKS THE WHIP BUT AT WHAT COST? by Kweku Zurek – Tweet me @arsonv<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo-5bl0MbtUmC2tcWymRbCLF9sfpf4o1DY2Qt1NRAJgUUrm4NmPaVoAsmRu_FB5Ulw332-NoiveqFllyDzLgGRoheX-sgB11zaWuRIAhuSMJGnBz7NviTgd2pzLFTe-idfX9kWxCTNOgEQ/s1600/THE+RILL+STORY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo-5bl0MbtUmC2tcWymRbCLF9sfpf4o1DY2Qt1NRAJgUUrm4NmPaVoAsmRu_FB5Ulw332-NoiveqFllyDzLgGRoheX-sgB11zaWuRIAhuSMJGnBz7NviTgd2pzLFTe-idfX9kWxCTNOgEQ/s640/THE+RILL+STORY.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>From L-R Dede, Jordan, Appiah, Muntari and KPB </b></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Kwesi
Appiah </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(Nicknamed Silent Killer for the
way he blacklists players from his squad)</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> named his 21-man squad for
Ghanas’ friendly against Turkey handing out three debuts. Four names that are
conspicuous by their absence from the squad are Sulley Muntari, Kevin Prince
Boateng and the Ayews(Jordan and Andre).</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">GHANA V TURKEY Kick
off-21:30 pm [7:30GMT] at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By
their exclusion Appiah aka Silent Killer is making a statement to the effect
that he is the boss of this team and all players will accord him the maximum
respect <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(Whether he is a white-man or
not)</span></i>. Even Andre and Jordan who received “presidential pardons” have
been asked to write to the GFA rescinding their retirement and copying their
clubs so as to avoid a club versus country row over future call-ups <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(Apparently the pardons were granted on condition that they
wrote an apology letter).<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>BENCH!</b></i></td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">I DON’T EXPECT JORDAN
TO BOTHER WRITING BECAUSE HE STILL WON’T BE GUARANTEED PLAY-TIME<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kevin
Prince Boatengs’ return was interceded by Yaw Boateng Gyan<span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <i>(Black
Stars management committee member /NDC Executive/family friend)</i></span> but
he must also write a letter to the GFA copying his club AC Milan before he can
be called back into the squad. Meanwhile Muntari who displayed some petulance
after being substituted during a World Cup qualifier against<span style="color: red;"> </span>Lesotho must also write an apology letter before
returning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGHsJrMnDVPO1lA7dyRH21mXWj7uZwIw225BixYkCUnmiCezFtkmjCgUMAqIR1VPhz6pTx0_MKWldDJTPO8xq-N_RSx2QSFJOlaMqDciJjS887XhTtpovUORSvty0qWzt7HOSwYBeprZr/s1600/Appiah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGHsJrMnDVPO1lA7dyRH21mXWj7uZwIw225BixYkCUnmiCezFtkmjCgUMAqIR1VPhz6pTx0_MKWldDJTPO8xq-N_RSx2QSFJOlaMqDciJjS887XhTtpovUORSvty0qWzt7HOSwYBeprZr/s200/Appiah.jpg" width="158" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>SILENT KILLER </b></i></td></tr>
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<b><i><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">NOW IT’S CLEAR TO
EVERYONE THAT KWESI APPIAH HAS A FIRM PAIR BUT AT WHAT COST?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">To
me, born in 1990 some of the best football I have ever seen the Black Stars
play was at the 2010 world cup where Dede Ayew, KPB and Muntari <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(who came-off the bench to start and star against Uruguay
with that rocket)</span></i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span>were in devastating form and it can be argued that
along with Gyan they led us to that quarter-final berth. In my view that squad
was the best team Ghana has had in the past 30 “trophyless” years. Make no
mistake about it because when Dede, Muntari and KPB are fit and on form they
will walk into any Ghana squad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has a World Cup qualifier against Zambia next month in Kumasi. This friendly
date on Wednesday was the last chance for the Black Stars to fine-tune their
set-up for that crucial tie but rather in the lead up to this game the house
doesn’t seem to be in order with calls for players to write officially to
rescind their retirement and the Stars goalie Fatau Dauda warming the bench in
South-Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GFA spokesperson Ibrahim Saanie Daara, admitted on Joy FM that there are a lot
of issues in the Black Stars camp before adding that not every issue must be
played out in the press <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(the Chippolopolo might never have a better
opportunity to beat Ghana)</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ranking-AFRICA (JULY)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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962pts<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
Black Stars are currently ranked 24<sup>th</sup> in the world; 34 places ahead
of Turkey (ranked 58th), this means that the rankings points gathered from
playing Turkey and Zambia (ranked 60th) will contribute to whether Ghana will
be amongst the top-5 teams in Africa come September. <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(Septembers’
FIFA rankings will be used to determine the seeded teams for the final round of
Africa's 2014 World Cup qualifiers)</span></i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">.</span> I thought Appiah would
have rather used this period for tweaking his team but he has handed out 3
debuts to Spain-based goalkeeper Razak Braimah, midfielder Yussif Raman Chibsah
and striker Emmanuel Banahene <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(These 3 have
no chance of seeing play-time against Zambia)</span></i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Silent Killer should remember that, football fans <span style="color: #666666;"><i>(especially Ghanaian football
fans)</i></span> are very fickle but it is very difficult to argue with a successful coach
<span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(<i>unless you are an interim-Benitez coaching a
Chelsea)</i></span>. He is enjoying overwhelming support from the GFA hierarchy
who have continuously backed his every move till date but If <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(GOD FORBID!)</span></i> Ghana fails to qualify for the
world cup, heads will roll and the heads won’t be that of the GFA hierarchy but
his. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will be nothing silent about his killing as he will be constantly bombarded on
radio call-ins before the axe will finally drop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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OLD-MEN ARE WATCHING THE SOAP PLAY-OUT WITH BATED BREATH</span></i></b><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>TONY MONTANA</i></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">In the movie Scarface (I think), the lead
character Tony Montana played by Al Pacino has a case in court which he will
surely do time for, Tony some-how beats the case with the help of a very good
lawyer.</span></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">It’s a Monday afternoon (5<sup>th</sup> August
2013) around 2pm and I have just got home from a trip where my “trap didn’t
catch the <i>bayla”</i> and also I didn’t get
<i>the “3 points”</i>. I switch on the TV to
watch a little early 2000s programming <i>(in
2013)</i> and surf my way to the news on GTV.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In an interview session, a policeman with a name tag <i>(plate)</i> bearing the name <b>YOHUNO</b> has just made a statement along
the lines of <b><i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">“we
feel like giving up when accused persons can afford 12 lawyers… if they didn’t
do it then how come they can afford 12 lawyers?”. (Might not be his words
exactly but very, very, very close).<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>DCOP YOHUNO </i></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am very shocked at the sound of this and I feel the
interviewer should probe a bit more but she doesn’t and lets it slide because a
lawyer would join them later via a not too clear telephone-line to counter that
point. Later on, I google <i><span style="color: #a6a6a6; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 166;">“police-man
yohuno - ghana”</span></i> and up pops the identity of the police officer; </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">DCOP
Christian Tetteh Yohuno, Greater Accra regional Police Commander. The DCOP
should have let his PR officer earn his keep but maybe he looks better on TV
than the PR guy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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THE GHANA POLICE GET PROMOTIONS? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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under <b><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Article 19</span></b> <b><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(2) c</span></b> and<b><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">
f </span></b>guarantees the accused persons’ right to innocence until being
proven/pleading guilty and also the right to defending himself in court either
in person or by a lawyer of his choice (the constitution uses lawyer and not
lawyers). In <b><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Artcle 32</span></b> <b><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(1) e</span></b> and <b><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">f</span></b>,
an article that deals with the detention of persons under “Emergency Law” the
accused “shall be afforded every possible facility to consult a lawyer of his
own choice…” (Still lawyer not lawyers). In f it adds that “at the hearing of
his case, he shall be permitted to appear in person or by a lawyer of his
choice (still… lawyer not lawyers). As to the “lawyer and lawyers” bit, it
might either be; semantics or the denotation/connotation of the word or its usage
that I am not getting but if you want to be a stickler, IT also uses “HE” and
not “SHE” when referring to accused persons.</span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">WHAT
HAPPENED TO BEING INNOCENT UNTIL BEING PROVEN GUILTY BEYOND ALL REASONABLE
DOUBT?</span></i></div>
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competent legal counsels contribute to making an accused person guilty?”
Perhaps the DCOP would like it very much if every accused person couldn’t
afford counsel and would have to rely on legal aid i.e. the state affording
him/her a lawyer </span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(and with my luck he will get
the slowest horse in the legal stables in GH)</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">.</span></div>
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LAWYER IS ONLY AS GOOD AS HIS BRIEF.</span></i></div>
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<i style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The DCOP added that he cringes at what is becoming an all too familiar
scene where 1 state attorney gets pummeled by 12 very competent lawyers of an
accused person </span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(Zimmerman anyone? Plus it’s
very difficult for journos to fit all those names in the story)</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">. The DCOP was too quick to lay the blame at the doorstep of the state
attorneys, what if the evidence gathered by the Police is not good enough to
secure a conviction even if the state attorney was a lawyer from a John Grisham
novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">DCOP Tetteh Yohuno made mention of another situation that had me
baffled, but in a different way. He told
of a situation where an accused person plead guilty to a criminal charge but
the case has still been in court for 3 years. I can’t understand why a case
where the accused has admitted guilt will last in court for 3 years but I don’t
find it unbelievable</span><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">
(after-all the wheels of justice grind slowly but still they grind and this is
GH).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">He added that it feels like the police keep arresting the same
“criminals” over and over again because convictions are never made. I have always been worried about the
investigative procedures of the Ghana Police </span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(it’s not quite like watching CSI but it’s not very easy
conducting investigations in Accra,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">if you like ask the “crack”
American team that were brought to investigate the market fires)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. As to arresting the same “criminals” over and over again it can create
vigilante cops who will adopt a shoot to kill policy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(or in an ideal world a
super-hero like The Punisher, who will be cop by day and vigilante at night)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> which won’t be good for any of us because it won’t afford us a chance
for Lady </span><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">(or
is it Mother, why isn’t this sexist?)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> Justice to prevail.</span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">NOBODY
LIKES BEING SNITCHED ON</span></i></div>
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<i style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In order for the police in Ghana to be able to put </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">criminals</span><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> (who are really guilty)</span><span style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"> behind bars they
need the help of the citizens of the land because like it or not we live with
these people. We all want to be able to sleep peacefully at night and also
don’t want trigger-happy vigilantes patrolling our streets. So, every once in a
while we must snitch on our criminal </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">neighbours</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #262626; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(but please
don’t follow them around like Zimmerman).</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-69768361760931337162013-08-06T03:49:00.000-07:002013-08-06T03:49:31.800-07:00THIRD WORLD PROBLEMS: INTERNET HOTSPOTS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">A WI-FI<span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span>hotspot is a site that offers<span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></i><span style="color: grey; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access" title="Internet access"><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Internet
access</span></i></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">over a<span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></i><span style="color: grey; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_LAN" title="Wireless LAN"><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">wireless
local area network</span></i></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(WLAN) through the use of a<span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></i><span style="color: grey; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(computing)" title="Router (computing)"><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">router</span></i></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">connected to a link and to an<span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span></span></i><span style="color: grey; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider"><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">Internet
service provider</span></i></a></span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">.</span></i></b><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Are
there any WI-FI hotspots in Accra? This is the question I puzzled my puny
little mind with on a Thursday afternoon with my trusted WI-FI connection on<i> No Internet Access. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Why
would I bother asking such a vague question”, you might ask. This is because to
me a computer without an internet connection is the same as having a
type-writer that happens to be a TV set <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>( you know,
the old un-smart TVs that had a TV/VCR combo which I still use)</b></span>,</i>
thing is; to me the internet is very expensive!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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very difficult to survive my world without the internet; some have even gone to
the extent to argue that<i> “the internet is
to this generation what alcohol was to the last”</i>. I would not go as far as
describing our “senior learned colleagues” as alcoholics but there is something
quite magical about not having to leaf through dozens of pages to get to that
one line you need to check the veracity of something you are writing <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>(provided you know where to look on the WWW)</b></span></i> or
finding inspiration on the web or watching porn in a Cameron-free country
whilst you combat your “writer’s block<i>” <span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>(convenient
excuse eh)</b></span>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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to the internet expense part, I have a modem and on a very good day it would cost
me 15 cedis for a 30-day 1.2Gb package <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>(on a not very
fast link despite the speed they promised in the ad)</b></span></i> or 1 cedi per
hour at that mosquito infested<span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <i>(no privacy)</i> </span>den
that serves as an internet café. What I hate about my modem is that my money
doesn’t expire so why does my data have to expire after 30days even if I don’t
race through it within that period and about the café it’s simple I can’t take
the internet home so I either have to use all the data or come back within a
seven day period after which my code would have expired. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>I am very excited about GOOGLES’ PROJECT LOON which aims to
give affordable internet access to the 4.8billion people who cannot get online
by using “WI-FI balloons”.</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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know of three places that I can describe as Hotspots, the first of which I can
connect to because of work-related reasons I have their code, the second
because even though their connection has a pass-key their security is not too
tight so every once in a while you can skip through, the third used to be
internet paradise really; their connection is faster than my café there is a
glorious outdoor breeze, shade and there used to be a charging slot which has
been disconnected <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>(which is why it no longer
qualifies as paradise)</b></span></i> due to abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this day and age <i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><b>(GH cliché alert)</b></span></i> of
economy and austerity, it is crucial for the individual to be able to save
pesewas in every way he/she can. For myself being like the secretaries who only
make 30-minute calls whilst in the office I have found free internet as a means
of saving money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to elicit response from readers of this post as to places they would describe
as hotspots in Accra and also for them to indicate whether they are password
protected or otherwise. I am not sure what our good old document from 1992 <b><i><span style="color: grey; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">(the constitution)</span></i> </b>has to say about using an
internet connection in 2013 without permission but feel free to share your
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">I am sitting at a table with a “senior-journalist</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">”(things Ghanaians say)</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> and we are both
surfing the internet via free WI-FI and in between my endless downloads and his
research he imparts some pearls of wisdom to me regarding the profession.
Suddenly three familiar women</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">(girls
really, that I know from school)</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> walk in and join us at the table. They know
my very-chatty senior colleague so they started to chatter away, unpacked their
lap-tops and commenced with the connection abuse</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">(there is nothing “free-er” than free internet, well except…errr free
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and had one of those incoherent <i>“chick-convo’s”(at
this point I’m thinking just shut >insert-expletive< up already).</i> My
paranoia goes through the roof when one exclaims <i>“so you are chatting with her too”(referring to the last member of the
trio)</i> at which point they all burst out laughing. This chatting online
while sitting at the same table was not a one-off incident as I had the same
experience with two </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Muslim</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> chicks at that same
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fear social networking<i>(technology)</i>
just took gossips to another level. What happened to personal face-to-face
interaction or whispering something into a comrades’ ear. Honestly I felt they
were chatting on Facebook and my “overly-inflated ego” tells me they were
chatting about my “honourable self”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I can take texting someone across a room so you don’t
have to scream and look like a retard in a crowded room but I think it’s just
plain rude when someone so-overtly talks or has a secret conversation in the
midst of people. I think this was just karma getting back at me because I
recall being at a bus-stop once with a female colleague of our not so noble
species and checking my phone every two-seconds because it was a
Champions-League night and <i>Real</i> were
up against <i>Barca</i> she was quite pissed
because <i>“I wasn’t paying attention”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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have gotten smarter and people have gotten stupider”(please feel free to quote
me here)</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> many have felt the need
to update their <i>statuses</i> whilst
crossing the road, read their <i>WhatsApp</i>
messages in class or <i>tweet</i> nonsense
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IMAGINE JUSTICE ATUGUBA CHECKING HIS TWITTER MENTIONS WHILST DELIVERING THE
VERDICT!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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the issue at hand but rather very </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">important</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
topics like; the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">colour</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> of the sky<i>(STILL BLUE)</i> or one of those enlightening
conversations people start when they are inspired<i>(e.g. ECG or GWCL , how about neither or maybe the AMA).<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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communications device but all I am saying is; we should all have some mutual
respect for the people we interact with in-person because they are much more
important than the guy who was asking about your “mastoids” on </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Twitter</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> whilst you read the news. </span></div>
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The run-up could be described as slow, lazy, languid, nonchalant or all of the above and the keeper and all others present had to wait an aeon before the ball hit the twine. This was the scene I witnessed at a kids kick-about behind my house. The football game had gone to a penalty shoot-out and one of the kids had just dispatched his penalty in the manner described above, this set my mind racing and wondering where I had first seen such a penalty. Then the kid raced away in delight screaming “Pogba, Pogba…” then it hit me, I had watched Paul Pogba’s dispatch two penalties in similar fashion at the World Youth Championships in Turkey. At that time I remember thinking to myself “now every-one will take a penalty in a similar manner”(that was too optimistic but hey that’s the way I felt at the time) and call it “The Pogba”. “The Pogba” can be described as a Roberto Carlos free-kick but in “sloooooooooooooooooooow” motion. </div>
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<b style="text-align: justify;">THE SCORPION KICK</b><i style="text-align: justify;"><b>(José René Higuita Zapata)</b></i><span style="text-align: justify;"> - in a friendly against England in 1995 at the old wembley stadium Colombian goalkeeper Higuita nicknamed El Loco(The Madman) created this save. After an aimless ball by Jaimie Redknapp, Higuita produced this stop; according to him he did so because he saw the linesman raise his flag.</span><br />
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<b>THE PANENKA<i>(Antonin Panenka)</i></b> - ‘darting very quickly towards the ball, letting people expect a strong shot, stopping brutally when transferring weight onto the back foot, hooking the ball with a spoon-like shot, and using a sort of lob, whose slow, swirling trajectory completely fools the opposite goalkeeper’. This description is given by Jean-Philippe Réthacker in France Football, on the day after a Euro 1980 qualifier between Czechoslovakia and France (2-0, on 4 April 1979), where Antonín Panenka fooled Dominique Dropsy. It gained worldwide attention when he used in the Belgrade final of the 1976 European Championship which gave Czechoslovakia the title against the great team of the Federal Republic of Germany. For those with short memories think Candreva( Italy v Spain in the recent Confederations Cup). </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><b>THE RABONA<i>( Ricardo Infante)</i></b>- the rabona is a method of kicking the football whereby the kicking leg is wrapped around the back of the standing leg—effectively with one's legs crossed. The first rabona was performed by Ricardo Infante in a game between Argentinian teams Estudiantes de la Plata and Rosario Central in 1948. Apparently the first filmed rabona was performed by Pelé in the São Paulo state championship in 1957. In the 1970s this move was simply called a "crossed-kick."</span></div>
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<b>THE STEP-OVER<i>(Robbie Cook)</i></b> - according to Wikipedia the step over (also known as the pedalada, the Denílson, or the scissors) is a dribbling move, or feint, in football, used to fool a defensive player into thinking the offensive player, in possession of the ball, is going to move in a direction he does not intend to move in. The move was reportedly invented by Robbie Cook who was famous for it and who was nicknamed "Absolute Playa" in the late 1990's early 2000's. The move has since been over-used and over-prostituted by players such as Ronaldo. Denilson and C. Ronaldo.<br />
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<b>THE MARSEILLE TURN<i>(Maradona/Zidane)</i></b> - The Marseille turn, also known as the 360(in Ghana), the Maradona, the Roulette and the Gringo is a specialised dribbling skill in football. It is sometimes known as the 360 turn, the Marseille Roulette, Rolie Polie or the Piroman. Zinedine Zidane popularized this move and the skill is referred to as “Zidane in Ghana”.<br />
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<b>THE CRUIJFF/CRUYFF TURN<i>(Johan Cruijff)</i></b><i> </i>- The images above are of the famous moment when the Netherlands and their Total Football took on Sweden in the second Group 3 game of the 1974 World Cup. The man to feel sorry for is Sweden rightback Jan Olsson. Cruyff plants his left foot and fakes to cross with his right, but instead uses his right to drag the ball behind, turn 180 degrees and accelerate away from poor Jan Olsson, with the poor Swedish defender left resembling a drunk who’s misplaced his housekeys.(from the WorldCupBlog).<br />
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THE DIVING HEADER(Pablo Bartolucci) - The diving header requires getting both feet off the ground, and a jump towards the football. You should be almost horizontal as you head the ball, using your forehead as always. Generally, take off is from only one foot, because the diving header is usually attempted on the run. The diving header requires bravery(ask John Terry how Diabys’ boot tastes), co-ordination and good anticipation. Bartolucci is credited with inventing this technique in Argentina.<br />
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THE BICYCLE KICK(originator disputed) - bicycle kick or scissor kick is a physical move made by throwing the body up into the air, making a shearing movement with the legs to get one leg in front of the other without holding on to the ground. The move can either be done backwards or sideways. Performed in ball games, when the move is done with one leg high over the head to reach the ball (located in the original head height).According to Inverting The Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson “the bicycle-kick was invented in Peru in the late nineteenth century; most seem to credit Ramón Unzaga Asla, a native of Bilbao who emigrated to Chile and first used it in 1914 (hence the use of term chilena throughout Spanish-speaking South America, unless that refers to David Arellano, a Chilean who popularised the technique on a tour of Spain in 1920); while others follow Leônidas, the Brazilian forward of the thirties, in attributing it to Petronilho de Brito. Weirdly, the former Aston Villa chairman Doug Ellis also claimed to have invented the bicycle-kick, even though he never played football to any level and was not born until ten years after the first record of Unzaga performing the trick.”</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">MARIANELLA/THE VOLLEYED BACK-HEEL(Juan Evaristo) - Imagine a back-hell but only in mid-air. Evaristo and his brother Mario became the first siblings to appear in the world-cup final.</span><br />
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Special mention goes to <b><i>Awana Diab</i></b> who scored the final goal for the United Arab Emirates in their 6-2 win over Lebanon by back-heeling the ball into the back of the net from the penalty spot. I have yet to see another player try his penalty that’s why I didn’t put him in.</div>
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According to Charles H. Duell(Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899) or The Book of Facts and Fallacies" by Chris Morgan and David Langford (1981), “Everything that can be invented has been invented”. They all said this in the 1980’s but look at society now. I look forward to footballers of my generation like Pogba to invent more footballing techniques.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-70139465762633652622013-07-19T07:59:00.001-07:002013-07-19T07:59:24.093-07:00ASSIGNMENT ; AS THE DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS OF NIVEA, DEVELOP PROMOTIONAL STRATEGIES USING THE 6(SIX) FORMS OF IMCs FOR THE NIVEA RANGE OF PRODUCTS.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">According to doctor Diana Howard of the International Dermal
Institute in her article titled “When razor meets skin:A scientific approach to
shaving”, the average mans’ beard grows two(2)
millimetres per day and there is ample opportunity to develop different skin
problems during shaving. “As a matter of facts if the average man starts
shaving at age 13 and continues until he is 85 years old and assuming he spends
allof 5 minutes each day, he will devote over 6 monrhs of his life to just
shaving his beard”. Most men after shaving their beard experience skin
conditions such as rashes, razor-bumps, skin irritation, ingrown hairs,
sensitization and inflammation that results in pre-mature aging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">As a result NIVEA one of the worlds best selling producers of
skin care products with over 100years in the skin care business introduces NIVEA
SKIN ENERGY Q10 SHAVING GEL to solve most shaving related skin problems by
using </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">skin’s own Coenzyme Q10 to produce a
high performing gel that; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a close and comfortable shave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the condition of the skin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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protect against cuts and irritations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This
shaving gel uses NIVEA FOR MEN’s expertise to create a close and comfortable
shave which not only helps protect against irritation but, with added coenzyme
Q10, also helps improve the condition of skin! For A truly multi-purpose shave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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target market for the product (NIVEA SKIN ENERGY
Q10 SHAVING GEL) are men who shave and are above the age of eighteen(18) years. The most effective promotional strategies
using the six (6) forms of INTEGRATED MARKETING CONCEPTS for promoting the NIVEA SKIN ENERGY Q10 SHAVING GEL are;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Sales Promotion:
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">is when all marketing acivities are
combined in an attempt to stimulate quick buyer action or immediate sales of a
product. In the first month of sales NIVEAS team will offer retail buyers extra
boxes of NIVEA SKIN ENERGY Q10 SHAVING GEL to entice customers to buy the
product by using buy 1 get 1 free promotions. We will convince trade
customers(wholesalers and retailers) to add the product to their existing line
of shaving products of which they will benefit from a 20% discount on every 5
boxes purchased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Personal Selling</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">: is a form of person to person communication whereby
salespeople inform, educate and persuade prospective buyers to purchase the
company’s products or services. The Nivea sales-team(sales people) will make
house to house calls which will be aimed at persuading prospective customers to
buy the product by providing the customers with information about how to use
the products and the benefits derived from using it. The salespeople will
also enjoy a 15% commission on the
sales of the products they make, this wll energize the sales effort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Advertising</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">: is any paid form of non personal presentation and promotion
of ideas, goods and services, which uses the media with an identifiable
sponsor. The most effective mass communications media for an advertising
campaign for this type of product are magazines; a full page spread in Enjoy
Accra magazine, a 30 second television advert, billboards on the principal
streets of Accra and pop-ups on the internet pages of popular social networking
website facebook. Flyers of the product
will also be distributed to hotels, all in an effort to create awareness(price,features,benefits
purchase points) of the product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Sponsorship Marketing</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">: is the
practice of promoting the interests of a company and its brands by associating
the company or one of its brands with a specific event. NIVEA SKIN ENERGY Q10 SHAVING GEL will sponsor
the ghanaian soccer league. The sponsorship will take the form of naming
the “man of the match” of the various
matches the “NIVEA SKIN ENERGY Q10 SHAVING GEL man of the match”. The most
outstanding player will receive a NIVEA hamper and also an amount of money.
This will be done in order to associate the product with the best footballing
talent in the country and also appeal to the male demographic who are mostly
interested in football.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Publicly/Public
Relations (P.R.)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">: is non
personal communication to a mass audience but the company does not pay for
advertising time or space. Publicity usually assumes the form of news items or
editorial comments about a company’s products or services. The P.R. department
of NIVEA will send press releases and articles about the special benefits
derived from using the product and how the special ingredient Q10 works and
also before and after success pictures of men who shave with the product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Point of
Purchase/ Point of Sale Communications</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">; they are displays, posters, signs and a variety of other materials that
are designed to influence buying decisions at the point of purchase or point of
sale. Nivea will provide displays, posters, signs and product stands to large
retailers for use in their retail shops and also for further distribution to
their customers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">REFERENCES;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.nivea.co.uk/products/mens-care/skin-energy/Revitalising-Shaving-Gel-Q10"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">http://www.nivea.co.uk/products/mens-care/skin-energy/Revitalising-Shaving-Gel-Q10</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://www.dermalinstitute.com/us/library/16_article_When_Razor_Meets_Skin_A_Scientific_Approach_to_Shaving.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">http://www.dermalinstitute.com/us/library/16_article_When_Razor_Meets_Skin_A_Scientific_Approach_to_Shaving.html</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">Advertising and
IMC principles and practice by Moriarty,
Mitchell, Wells.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18228233958393386702noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332271394966474871.post-78314665784461627532013-07-09T07:24:00.000-07:002013-07-09T07:24:27.640-07:00KUPER AND SZYMANSKI’S GUIDE TO THE TRANSFER MARKET <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The transfer market is the arena
in which football players are available for transfer to clubs.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In their aptly-titled football manual <i>SOCCERNOMICS</i>, Stefan Szymanski (a sports
economist) and Simon Kuper (a journalist) outline a simplistic 12-step guide to
the transfer-market. In this article I outline 10-steps that still pertain to
the current transfer market these steps can be found in Chapter 3(GENTLEMEN
PREFER BLONDS-How to Avoid Silly Mistakes in the Transfer Market);<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b></div>
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new manager wastes money on transfers; don’t let him</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.-there
is a tendency in football when a new manager arrives at a new club to clear-out
all existing players of the previous manager and sign his own players. In football
a manager in any part of the world is considered lucky if he can have 3 years
at a club. So never leave transfer issues to managers as you will be stuck with
the dead wood long after they are gone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Use
the wisdom of crowds</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.- the wisdom of the
crowds deals with how many individuals sanction a transfer i.e. the transfer of
a player. They cited the example of Lyon(2002-2008), where club president
Jean-Michel Aulas, the technical director Bernard Lacombe(who was the club
coach between 1996 and 2006 but was given this role because Aulas wanted to
keep him forever than lose him after he lost four matches) and whoever was the
current club coach also sat-in during such transfer meetings ensuring that
individual biases were disposed off when trying to sign a player. “Lyon’s
method for choosing players is so obvious and smart that it’s surprising all
clubs don’t use it. The theory of the “wisdom of crowds” says that if you
aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much
more likely to arrive at the best opinion than if you just listen to one
specialist. For instance, if you ask a diverse crowd to guess the weight of an
ox, the average of their guesses will be very nearly right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stars of recent
World Cups or European championships are overvalued; ignore them.- </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stefan
and Simon argue that “The worst time to buy a player is in the summer when he’s
just done well at a big tournament. Everyone in the transfer market has seen
how good the player is, but he is exhausted and quite likely sated with success.”
They agree that clubs make these sorts of transfers because the clubs demand it
and also it is a marketing gimmick to the fans; “Buying a big name is a way of
saying, “Yes, we are a big club.” It gives the sup porters the thrill of
expectation, a sense that their club is going somewhere, which may be as much
fun as actually winning things. Buying big names is how these clubs keep their
customers satisfied during the three-month summer shutdown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Certain
nationalities are overvalued.-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
“Clubs will pay more for a player from a “fashionable” soccer country. American
goalkeeper Kasey Keller says that in the transfer market, it’s good to be
Dutch. “Giovanni van Bronckhorst is the best example,” Keller told the German
journalist Christoph Biermann. “He went from Rangers to Arsenal, failed there,
and then where did he go? To Barcelona! You have to be a Dutchman to do that.
An American would have been sent straight back to DC United.” A wise club will
buy unfashionable nationalities—Bolivians, say, or Belarusians—at discounts”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Center forwards are
overvalued; goalkeepers are undervalued.-</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
Center forward is the most overpriced position in the transfer market.
(Goalkeeper is the most underpriced, even though keepers have longer careers than
outfield players).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Gentlemen prefer
blonds: identify and abandon “sight-based prejudices.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">- On a random soccer pitch you are most likely to pay
notice to a player with an outrageous Mohawk, a player wearing colourful boots
or a blond. “At least one big English club noticed that its scouts kept recommending
blond players. The likely reason: when you are scanning a field of twenty-two
similar-looking players, the blonds tend to stand out (except, presumably, in
Scandinavia). The color catches the eye. So the scout notices the blond player
without understanding why. The club in question began to take this distortion into
account when judging scouting reports.”<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The best time to
buy a player is when he is in his early twenties</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.- In soccer, brilliant teenagers tend to disappear soon
afterward. “Here are a few recent winners of the Golden Ball for best player at
the under-seventeen World Cup: Philip Osundo of Nigeria, William de Oliveira of
Brazil, Nii Lamptey of Ghana, Scottish goalkeeper James Will, and Mohammed
al-Kathiri of Oman. Once upon a time they must have all been brilliant, but
none of them made it as adults. (Will ended up a policeman in the Scottish
Highlands playing for his village team.) The most famous case of a teenager who
flamed out is American Freddy Adu, who at fourteen was the next Pelé and
Maradona. Only a handful of world-class players in each generation, most of them
creators—Pelé, Maradona, Wayne Rooney—reach the top before they are eighteen.
Most players get there considerably later. You can be confident of their
potential only when they are more mature.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sell any player
when another club offers more than he is worth.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> sell any player if another club offers more than he is
worth. This is what Aulas means when he says, “Buying and selling players is not
an activity for improving the soccer performance. It’s a trading activity, in
which we produce gross margin. If an offer for a player is greatly superior to
his market value, you must not keep him. Before Essien’s transfer, Aulas spent
weeks proclaiming that the Ghanaian was “untransferable.” He always says that
when he is about to transfer a player, because it drives up the price. In his
words, “Every international at Lyon is untransferable. Until the offer
surpasses by far the amount we had expected.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Replace your best
players even before you sell them</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.-“
Lyon knows that sooner or later its best players will attract somebody else’s
attention. Because the club expects to sell them, it replaces them even before
they go. That avoids a transition period or a panic purchase after the player’s
departure. Aulas explains, “We will replace the player in the squad six months
or a year before. So when Michael Essien
goes [to Chelsea for $43 million], we already have a certain number of players who
are ready to replace him. Then, when the opportunity to buy Tiago arises, for
25 percent of the price of Essien, you take him.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Help your players
relocate</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.- the most clear example
is of Nicholas Anelka’s protracted transfer to Real Madrid. “Real had spent $35
million buying him from Arsenal. It then spent nothing on helping him adjust.
On day 1 the shy, awkward twenty year old reported at the club, and found that
there was nobody to show him around. He hadn’t even been assigned a locker in
the dressing room. Several times that first morning, he would take a locker
that seemed to be unused, only for another player to walk in and claim it. Anelka
doesn’t seem to have talked about his problems to anyone at Real. Nor did anyone
at the club ask him. Instead, he talked to France Football, a magazine that he
treated as his newspaper of record, like a 1950s prime minister talking to The
Times. “I am alone against the rest of the team,” he revealed midway through
the season. He claimed to possess a video showing his teammates looking gloomy
after he had scored his first goal for Real after six months at the club. He
had tried to give this video to the coach, but the coach hadn’t wanted to see
it. Also, the other black Francophone players had told Anelka that the other
players wouldn’t pass to him. Real ended up giving him a forty-five-day ban,
essentially for being maladjusted. Paranoid though Anelka may have been, he had
a point. The other players really didn’t like him. And they never got to know
him, because nobody at the club ever seems to have bothered to introduce him to
anyone. As he said later, all Real had told him was, “Look after yourself.” The
club seems to have taken the strangely materialistic view that Anelka’s salary
should determine his behavior. But even in materialistic terms, that was
foolish. If you pay $35 million for an immature young employee, it is bad
management to make him look after himself. Wenger at Arsenal knew that, and he
had Anelka on the field scoring goals. Milan: best club ever. AC Milan is
organized in a way you can’t believe. Anything is done for you: you arrive, you
get your house, it’s fully furnished, you get five cars to choose from, you
know the sky’s the limit. They really say: we’ll take care of everything else; you
make sure you play really well. Whereas unfortunately in a lot of clubs, you
have to get after it yourself. . . . Sometimes you get to a club, and you’ve
got people actually at the club who take profit from players.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Alternatively, clubs could just stick with the
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deliberately by a sane person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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deliberation, it may be either voluntary or involuntary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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without her consent.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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relations) and companionship from his/her partner.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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bodily harm.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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person.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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state of affairs which must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is
illegal or illegitimate.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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making an application or motion in court without the other party of the case.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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punished by fines and minor jail times e.g. petty theft, traffic violations
e.t.c.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Felony:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a serious offence such as rape, murder, treason e.t.c.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Defilement:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
illegally and unlawfully having sexual relations with a minor.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Acquittal:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
when a trial has run its full course and the accused is declared innocent by
the court.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mens rea:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the motive/intention with which an action or crime is committed.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Indictment: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a
written accusation with evidence of the crime with which the accused is
charged.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">15.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Injunction:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a court order by which an individual is either required to perform an act or
restrained from performing an act.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">16.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Certiorari: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it
is used to quash or kill proceedings going on where there is lack of fairness
in the lower courts or false judgements.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Prosecution Witness: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a
witness brought into a trial by the prosecution to help establish the guilt of
the accused.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">18.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Writ of Summons: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">is
a document issued by a court which orders a person to respond/answer to a legal
complaint within a specified time. The writ also commands a person to appear in
court.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">19.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Libel: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to
publish false information with aims to tarnish the reputation of an individual.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">20.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mandamus: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it
is issued by a superior court and commands an inferior body or an individual to
perform or refrain from performing a particular act.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">21.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Actus Reus: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
actions that comprise the physical components of a crime. <b> </b>It is an element of criminal
responsibility along with mens rea. <b> </b> <b> </b> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sovereign:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
having one’s own authority or being exempt from external authority.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Prohibition:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
when you are barred or stopped from performing or not performing an act.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">24.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Specific Performance:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
when you are held by a court to perform your obligations under a contract.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">25.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Plaintiff: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
person who sues, the complainant, prosecution e.t.c. The person who brings the matter to court,
the party who believes he or she has been wronged and comes to the court for
justice.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">26.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Guilty but Insane:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the person has committed a crime and has been found guilty by a court but the
person is not responsible for his/her actions as a result of mental health
problems. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">27.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Alternate Dispute Resolution (A.D.R): </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">using other resolution methods or approaches other than
the courts such as mediation, negotiation and conciliation to resolve a
dispute/conflict. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;">28.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Self Cognizance Bail: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in criminal cases where an accused person stands as
surety for themselves or is granted bail in a case as a result of what the
individual might stand to lose as a result of absconding. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Affidavit:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a written statement of facts made under oath and administered by a person
authorized to do so by law e.g. commissioner of oath or notary public.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Statement of Claim:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a document used in civil cases written to make allegations against the accused
and filed in court.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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