{"id":3073,"date":"2019-03-15T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2019-03-15T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:47:36","slug":"gnpc-boss-k-k-sarpong-heads-new-black-stars-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/15\/gnpc-boss-k-k-sarpong-heads-new-black-stars-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"GNPC boss K.K Sarpong heads new Black Stars committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, \nDr. Kofi Kodua Sarpong has been appointed to head a five-member \ncommittee to to manage the activities of the senior national team, Black\n Stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asante_Kotoko_S.C.\">Kumasi Asante Kotoko<\/a> Chairman will be assisted by Deputy  Youth and Sports Sports Minister, Perry Okudzeto, according to a  statement signed by Spokesperson of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/normalisation-committee-denies-7-2-million-afcon-budget\/\">Normalisation Committee<\/a>, Dan  Kwaku Yeboah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee will among other things, supervise the activities of  the Black Stars, and collaborate with the technical team to facilitate  all arrangements to ensure the team gets the best of preparations for  the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/africa\/46788780\">Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This forms part of the N.C\u2019s grand agenda to ensure Ghana\u2019s \nsuccessful participation at the tournament scheduled for later this \nyear,&#8221; the statement noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other members of the committee are former Ghanaian footballer, \nIbrahim Sunday, Mr. Francis Asenso-Boakye and Madam Abena Osei Asare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aftermath of the Anas&#8217; expos\u00e9 management committees of the various national teams were disbanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: myjoyonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Kofi Kodua Sarpong has been appointed to head a five-member committee to to manage the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/15\/gnpc-boss-k-k-sarpong-heads-new-black-stars-committee\/\" title=\"GNPC boss K.K Sarpong heads new Black Stars committee\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[524,363],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa-cup","tag-kotoko"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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