The Real Madrid and Portugal forward beat Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Paris St-Germain’s Neymar to the honour.

Ronaldo, 32, helped Real to a Champions League-La Liga double in 2016-17.

Lieke Martens of Barcelona and the Netherlands won best female player, Real Madrid’s Zinedine Zidane was named best men’s coach and Netherlands’ Sarina Wiegman the best female coach.

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud received the Puskas award for the best goal of 2017 for his ‘scorpion kick’ against Crystal Palace in January.

Celtic won the fan award after they honoured the club’s 1967 ‘Lisbon Lions’ with a stunning 360-degree card display on the 50th anniversary of their historic European Cup win.

Best Fifa men’s player – Cristiano Ronaldo

This was the second edition of the Best Fifa Football Awards, with Ronaldo the first recipient of its main prize in January, at the start of what was another hugely impressive year for the forward.

As well as scoring two goals in Real’s 4-1 win over Juventus in the Champions League final, the Portuguese also found the net 25 times in 29 appearances as his club won La Liga for the first time in five years.

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Source: BBC Sport

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According to him pricing of petroleum prices is out of the control of the politician. ‘’Is high time we all accept some few things, pricing is out of control of the politician; please if you can’t do it, don’t talk about it,’’ he said.

This comes on the back of a warning from the chamber of an imminent shortage of petroleum products in Ghana due to government’s failure to pay  the about GHC1.5 billion it owes the chamber .

According to the BDCs, they will soon not be able to supply petroleum products due to government’s inability to pay the bulk oil distribution companies (BDCs) from subsidies.

Speaking on Citi FM‘s news analysis and political programme, The Big Issue, Mr. Hosi warned that Ghana has ”less than a week” of fuel in store.

”We have less than a week now; I am pretty sure early next week we should be seeing no petrol here and there…,” he said.

He further stated that government cannot continue to subsidize for petroleum products when it does not have the money for it. ”You can’t come saying that you want to subsidize when you don’t have the funds for it; you don’t order what you can’t pay for,” he added.

Mr. Hosi advised government to stay out of the business of subsidizing or pricing and charge the right prices for fuel.

”The way to sort this thing out is to make sure we don’t keep bleeding; government should please stay out of pricing and charge the right thing so that people can have the product,” he noted.

The CEO of the chamber called for all the full implementation of the automatic adjustment without interference.

“It is important that as politicians, as a people we are honest about petrol pricing. No politician has control over petrol pricing. Those days are over,” he added.

‘’The subsidy is not sustainable; government hasn’t got the capacity, hasn’t got the fund for it,’’ he said.

He revealed that banks have denied them [BDCs] lines of credit because of the rising debt level.

Fuel prices were maintained after the national petroleum authority reviewed them on Monday.

The Bulk Distribution Companies (BDC’s) are a function of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) whose primary mandate is to wholesale petroleum products and also to import finished products to augment finished output.

By: Evans Effah/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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