Boakye-Yiadom played 80 minutes for Red Star Belgrade in their 1-0 loss to Arsenal. He came close to adding to his 31 goals this calendar year but his first half header hit the woodwork. Eventually, Olivier Giroud got Arsenal’s winner after 85 minutes.

Boakye-Yiadom was subbed due to an injury but he confirmed via a tweet that it was not major and he was looking ahead to the return clash in England.

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Patrick Twumasi, who played 90 minutes, was luckier than Boakye-Yiadom on the night as he scored twice for Astana in their 4-0 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Astana’s forward from Ghana Patrick Twumasi celebrates a goal during the UEFA Europa League Group A football match between FC Astana and Maccabi Tel-Aviv FC at the Astana Arena stadium in Astana on October 19, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / STANISLAV FILIPPOV (Image credit: STANISLAV FILIPPOV/AFP/Getty Images)

He got a first half penalty and a close-range finish in the second  before Junior Kabananga got two more to help Astana win the match.

Joseph Attamah Larweh played 90 minutes for Istanbul Basksehir in their 3-1 loss to Hoffenheim. He featured at centre-back but could not save his team from going down to their second loss of the competition.

Kassim Nuhu saw 90 minutes for Swiss side, Young Boys, in their 2-2 draw with Dynamo Kiev. With the result, Young Boys failed to win their first away match in the UEFA competition in 12 attempts.

Former AshGold defender Kadri Mohammed played 90 minutes for Austria Vienna as they lost 3-1 to Rijeka of Croatia. Mohammed’s team is now 4th in the group and is yet to win a match in the competition.

Mohammed came up against fellow Ghanaian, Maxwell Acosty, who played 79 minutes for Rijeka.

All these players are expected to play for their teams when the competition returns on November 2.

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By: Nathan Quao/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Government contracted the Ghana Publishers Association to supply books to various secondary schools in the country at a cost of 32 million dollars.

Government has however refused to pay for distribution of the books by the Association.

The publishers involved in the distribution include Winmat Publishers Ltd., Approachers (Publishers) Ghana Ltd., Sedco Publishing Ltd. and Adwinsa Publications (Gh).

Although the Chief Director at the Education Ministry, Enoch H. Cobbinah last year ordered the GETFund to pay these publishers, it has refused to do so.

The Association  noted that though they had fulfilled their part of the bargain by supplying text books to secondary schools in the country, government had refused to pay them.

Speaking to Citi News, the Executive Secretary of the Association, Fauna Frimpong said majority of the publishers are running out of business now, hence their decision.

Mr. Frimpong stated that the Association had “exhausted every avenue just to get the Ministry to heed to its concerns.”

“We have done everything that we can…what the Ministry is doing is way below the belt,” he added.

According to him, government had only paid 18 percent of the amount owed the Association, adding that the amount can only cater for the interest that has accumulated over the loan government took in executing the contract.

He therefore stated that the Association has resorted to seeking a legal action to have their concerns addressed

By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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