GENERAL NEWS: Akufo-Addo to firm-up school reopening after Cabinet meeting on December 30

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  President  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo  is receiving briefings from  COVID-19  Technical Taskforce on limited school re-openings and would make a firm decision on school reopening in January 2021 after a Cabinet meeting on December 30, 2020. Addressing a news conference in Accra on  COVID-19  Updates on Tuesday, Information Minister,  Kojo Oppong Nkrumah , said the  COVID-19  Taskforce would work throughout the Christmas period to brief the President and analyse the impact of the  COVID-19  pandemic on students, during the limited school re-openings in July, August, September, and October, this year. Government in July allowed final year students in the tertiary education institutions to complete their semester courses and wrote their exit examinations. The final year senior high school students also returned to complete their term courses and wrote the West African Examination Certificate (WAEC), while the final year Junior ...
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SPORTS NEWS: Cricket fans stump up cash for Iceland national team.

Iceland's cricket team is not among the heavyweights of the game, but thanks to the generosity of an online community of cricket lovers, fundraisers will hope the crack of leather on willow could be heard more and more in the north Atlantic nation's volcanic landscape.
Yet to play its first international fixture - set to be against Switzerland in the UK in July - the amateur side, founded in 2008, has been crowdfunding money to cover its costs.
Members of the 70,000 strong r/Cricket subreddit answered the north-Atlantic nation's call for support, raising more then £2,100 in a fortnight.
The forum has now become the official sponsor of the Iceland team and its tours to the UK for the next two years.
The Iceland side will be hoping they can one day replicate the success of the country's football team, which qualified for the European Championships in 2016 and beat England in the first knock-out round of the tournament.
Plus, the team's Twitter account is not above the occasional dig at more established cricketing rivals.
"Because you raised £2,000, the r/Cricket community is now the official sponsor of the Iceland cricket team and its tours to the UK, in 2018 and 2019," Kit Harris - who started the crowdfunding campaign on behalf of the Iceland cricket team - wrote on Just Giving.
Harris promised further prominence for the Reddit cricketing community if the appeal reaches £2,500.
Members of the Cricket subreddit were quick to celebrate the news. Reddit user thesatansvalet first contacted Kit Harris to propose the idea.
"Congrats to the whole community," they posted on r/Cricket after the target was reached.
"We have done something amazing thanks to all the generous people who donated towards this crowdfunding campaign.
"Now comes the fun part where we get to decide what we want to write on their jerseys."
Early favourites to be suggested by the community include "Ice Garry", a play on words aping the well-known call of "Nice, Garry," by Australian international wicketkeeper Matthew Wade to teammate Nathan Lyon (nicknamed Garry).

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