Ghana’s main sporting personalities are anticipated to converge on the Accra Worldwide Convention Centre (AICC) the place the glamorous forty seventh SWAG Awards ceremony can be staged.
The forty seventh version of the SWAG Awards, which occur on Saturday, January 28, 2023, have Joseph Paul Amoah, Andre Dede Ayew, Mohammed Kudus, and Arsenal star Thomas Partey all in rivalry for prime gongs.
Hearts of Oak attacker Daniel Afriyie Barnieh is within the working to retain the Residence-based Footballer Award of the Yr prize – an award he gained ultimately 12 months’ occasion. Nevertheless, he could have ex-Ashanti Gold ahead Yaw Annor and Asante Kotoko goalkeeper Danlad Ibrahim to beat. In final 12 months’s version, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games medalist Samuel Takyi bagged the Sports activities Persona of the Yr and Novice Boxer of the Yr awards. In the meantime, the 22-year-old is absent from this 12 months’s record of nominees which suggests a brand new champion can be topped on the large night time in Accra.
Sprinter Joseph Paul Amoah, newbie boxer Abraham Mensah, and Ajax Amsterdam star Kudus are the three candidates who might replicate the feat achieved by Takyi in December 2021.
Twenty-six-year-old medical practitioner Dr Kwabena Adu Poku, has been named because the 2022 Chess Participant of the Yr, whereas Kelvin Alphous can be topped the Badminton Participant of the Yr for the second 12 months working.
The race is, much more hottest for the Athlete of the Yr award with prime weapons Benjamin Azamati and Joseph Paul Amoah in an open contest for the prize.
Within the feminine class, tripler jumper Abigail Kwarteng and USA-based Deborah Acquah together with excessive jumper Rose Yeboah are all gunning for the large award. Kwarteng (triple jumper) and Acquah (lengthy jumper) who each competed on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, UK are in pole positions for the accolade.
Nevertheless, home-based Rose Yeboah boasts of a wealthy voting constituency that has been left impressed together with her supply. Yeboah, who gained the Prospect of the Yr Award on the 2019 version and gained Gold for Ghana in the course of the 2022 Africa Athletics Championship, can be hoping to mount the rostrum as soon as extra.
Police Officer Grace Mintah has been nominated for the Feminine Armwrestler of the Yr Award.
Through the launch of the awards, the Sports activities Writers Affiliation of Ghana, SWAG, introduced the factors for nominations for the forty seventh Awards again in August 2022.
Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has pledged his help for the longest-running awards scheme within the nation. The previous Buckingham College scholar has already supplied money help of GH¢50,000 to the awards with GH¢10,000 every going to the Sports activities Journalist and Feminine footballer of the Yr classes.
Main Ghanaian mining agency Adamus Sources Restricted has change into a joint headline sponsor along with MTN Ghana to the forty seventh Awards with SES HD Plus, Betway, Stanbic Financial institution, Ghana Gasoline, Gyata Cement, Tobinco Pharmacy, Ghana Freezones Authority, Twellium Industries, Particular Ice and others.
High visitor for the SWAG Awards embrace Nana Ehunabobrim Prah Agyensaim VI, President of the Owirenkyi Conventional Council, Assin Kushea, Mr Mustapha Ussif, Minister for Youth and Sports activities, Dr Akuffo Dampare, Inspector Common of Police, Mr. Kwame Asuah Takyi, Comptroller Common of Ghana Immigration Service, former athletes and gamers, leisure celebrities and lots of extra with Ghanaian Afropop and Afrobeats singer Wendy Shay, budding comic O.B. Amponsah, gospel artiste Perpetual Didier, and younger singer Ashley Chuks all performing on the occasion.
The awards recognises, rewards and honours excellent achievements of deserving Ghanaian sportsmen, sportswomen, groups and officers in varied disciplines (i.e. the crème de la crème individuals, who convey glory and honour to themselves and the nation).
It additionally recognises the contribution of people and organisations that contribute positively to the event and promotion of Ghana’s sports activities. It’s also a platform for interplay between these sports activities stars and influential members of society, for stocktaking and agenda-setting, to speed up Ghana’s sports activities growth.
The forty seventh MTN/Adamus SWAG Awards will likely be proven stay on HD+ Decoder Rating Channel 151. – www. swagghana.com
Ghana would win eight years later to change into the primary and solely African nation to take action.
He has held quite a few high-profile positions within the corridors of soccer. Nevertheless, till his beautiful demise, Lepowura Jawula was the chairman of the Ghana Premier League (GPL) Organising Committee, a member of the CAF Inter-Membership Committee and board member of the RTU – a membership’s whose return to elite soccer in 2001 he spearheaded – after eight years within the doldrums. Alhaji Jawula, who was a former Chief Director of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Railways, Ports and Harbours in addition to the Ministry of Well being, was the current Lepowura of the Kujolobito Gate of Lepo-Kpembe within the Kpembi Conventional Space in Gonjaland, Northern Area.
He additionally served because the Vice Chairman of the Ghana 2008 Nations Cup Native Organising Committee (LOC).
Born in 1949 by Kpembiwura Jawula Ababio, a former CPP social gathering chairman and the one baby of his mom, Lepowura Jawula attended the College of Cape Coast the place he learn English and Economics for his first diploma earlier than graduating with Grasp’s diploma from the College of Ghana, Legon, in African Literature and Social Coverage.
– Lepowura Alhaji Jawula
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