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Ghanaian midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang Badu has agreed to a contract extension with Italian club Udinese. The 25-year-old has signed a four-year deal which will extend his stay at the club until 2020, the club announced. Badu was reported to be on the move this summer with Middlesbrough and stoke City showing keen interest in the box to box midfielder. This deal appears to have ended all speculations surrounding the player this summer. The U-20 World Cup winner joined Udinese in 2010 from Ghanaian lower division side Berekum Arsenal and has proven to be one of the most important players at the club. He has made over 120 appearances and scored 10 goals since joining the Zebras. He had loan spells with Ghana Premier League giants Asante Kotoko and Spanish side Recreativo de Huelva before joining Udinese in 2010.

                        ‘Beast of No Nation’ star Abraham Attah isn’t a tourism ambassador yet, his management has revealed. According to Mr Attah’s manager, Mawuko Kuadzi, the Ministry is yet to officially sign the actor on as an ambassador. The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare, in March this year revealed that the ministry is looking at making Abraham Attah Ghana’s tourism ambassador. The Minister, speaking at the launch of the 11th Kwahu Paragliding Festival at the Odweanoma Mountains in Kwahu, noted that the young actor had made Ghana proud and deserved to be celebrated. Five months after the announcement, the Ministry is yet to put pen to paper. Mr Kuadzi speaking at a press conference to officially announce that the child star will start donating 10,000 pairs of Toms footwears, said Abraham is yet to be a tourism ambassador of the Ministry. “We haven’t signed anything with the Ministry

A contempt case brought against the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Commandant and Commander of the Ghana Military Academy (GMA) will be heard on September 1. This follows an order by the Tema High Court that the three respondents be served personally before the case can be heard. The Court also directed the matter be brought to the notice of the Head of Directorate of Legal Service of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). The plaintiff, Emmanuel Akabagre, is citing the respondents for contempt for their refusal to reinstate him into the GMA following a court order on March 24, 2016. The judge said the plaintiff is to be reinstated in the academy and subject to such academic and other qualification required for his commissioning. The legal team for the CDS and other two respondents made up of Mr Nelson Ayamdoo and Captain M Osman indicated that it will be making a preliminary legal objection to the hearing of the contempt application. Meanwhile, Mac-Diamond Nyamekor, who represen