Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola is known to be interested in the 34-year-old, whom he knows from their time together at Barcelona.

Speaking to Italian media on Wednesday, Juventus chief executive Beppe Marotta said that Alves had “expressed a desire to try a new experience”.

Marotta said Juventus hoped to reach a “mutual termination” with Alves.

He wished the Brazilian good luck for the future.

Alves has only been with Juve for a year, winning Serie A and reaching the Champions League final.

Prior to that, he had spent eight seasons at Barcelona. The first four of those were under Guardiola, a period when the pair shared in two Champions League triumphs and won La Liga on three occasions.

City do not have an experienced right-back after releasing out-of-contract duo Pablo Zabaleta and Bacary Sagna.

Guardiola has been linked with Tottenham’s Kyle Walker as well as Alves, who he bought for Barcelona from Sevilla for £23m in 2008.

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Source: BBC

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She described as sad, revelations by the Auditor General’s annual reports that 80 percent of the procurement malpractices are centered on sole sourcing.

[contextly_sidebar id=”BxUG2YIU8AVjk2Hcqw9OYTI6rDvQFNZa”]Addressing the press on Friday, Adwoa Safo, who is also the Member of Parliament for the Dome Kwabenya constituency said the Akufo-Addo administration will rely on open competitive tendering to correct what she described as anomaly in the procurement act.

“From 2012 to 2014 when I was on the public accounts committee, about 80% of their recommendations to parliament are procurement malpractices… So I think that if the law is there, you need also a policy direction. And I think that, that is the first step that the president has given us in his state of the nation address.”

“His [President Akufo-Addo] policy direction is that this government is going to adopt open competitive tendering, so that there is openness, transparency, accountability, value for money and competition is opened to everybody including Ghanaians,” she noted.

The New Patriotic Party administration accused the Mahama administration of having a voracious appetite for sole sourcing of contracts which were inflated at times.

The NPP argued that, sole sourcing allowed corruption, and benefited a privileged few in the NDC government.

Adwoa Safo is a professional lawyer with specialization in Procurement Law.

She once worked as the first legal officer of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) for two (2) years, and was very instrumental in the formulation of the proposals that formed the basis for the creation of the Appeals and Complaint Panel of PPA, and the change of the name Public Procurement Board to Public Procurement Authority.

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By: Godwin A. Allotey & Sixtus Dong Ullo/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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The Deputy Minister observed that most of the non performing  contractors have hoarded so many projects to themselves that they are unable to complete them.

This he said derails government’s efforts of improving the lives of its people.

“Like I said earlier, this public fund; its people’s money. So if you are a contractor and you are given a project to execute and you think you have a lot at hand to do, you relinquish it and let a more serious contractor take over. Because you can’t sink public fund into a project and leave to hanging like that”
John Oti Bless made the observation during a day official tour of the northern part of the Volta Region on Friday.

On the tour, it was revealed that a District Assembly Office Complex which was to be constructed to replace the old one in Jasikan has been abandoned by the contractors, water sand company limited.

The Chief Executive of the Jasikan District Mr Killian Abrampah said there have several failed attempts to bring the contractor back to continue works on the 1.3million Ghana cedis project.

Similarly a district hospital project awarded to Sabu Constructions Limited in Kadjebi has been stalled since 2011 without the contractor showing any sign of resuming work anytime soon.

The Chief Executive of Kadjebi Mr Jacob Asogonde lamented he met the project upon resumption into office in 2013 and had since been making efforts to bring the contractors back to site.

He said the 29500 Ghana cedis project is to provide the health needs of over 70,000 people in the district.

He lamented the district does not have its own hospital and residents would have to depend on Mary Theresa Hospital belonging to the Catholic Church, situated at Dodi Papase, about 30 kilometres away from the district capital.

The minister who shared in the concerns of the chief executives directed them to commence processes towards the abrogation of those contracts and entreated other Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives [MMDCEs] to do same for projects that are unduly delayed in the locality.

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By: King Nobert Akpablie/Citifmonline.com

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