{"id":278882,"date":"2016-12-22T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278882"},"modified":"2016-12-22T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:02:27","slug":"black-queens-protest-unpaid-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/black-queens-protest-unpaid-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Queens protest unpaid bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Black Queens are currently at the Ministry of Youth and Sports to meet the Sports Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, over unpaid bonuses after the 2016 African Women\u2019s Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana finished third in the tournament but the players are yet to be given bonuses from the tournament and from previous assignments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278886 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG-20161222-WA0015-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"img-20161222-wa0015-768x432\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team met with GFA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi on Tuesday but no solutions to the non-payment were found.<\/p>\n<p>They therefore decided to march to the Sports Ministry to get a solution to their problems. Black Queens forward Samira Suleman spoke to Citi Sports\u2019 Daniel Koranteng and she said that the non-payments went back as far as two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not received any monies not only for the 2016 African Women\u2019s Nations Cup but also for the Rio 2016 Olympic Game qualifiers and the 2015 All-African Games. This problem really stretches back in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278884 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG-20161222-WA0013-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"img-20161222-wa0013-768x432\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the All-African Games, the players were each given USD 5,000 in a temporary payment by President John Mahama after they complained of not being paid their bonuses for winning the gold medal in the football final against Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The full compliment of their bonuses is yet to be paid to the team. The team is set to meet the Sports Minister on Thursday to discuss the issues.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Daniel Koranteng\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Black Queens are currently at the Ministry of Youth and Sports to meet the Sports Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, over unpaid bonuses after the 2016 African Women\u2019s Cup of Nations. Ghana finished third in the tournament but the players are yet to be given bonuses from the tournament and from previous assignments. The team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":278887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[1479,14451,3],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Queens protest unpaid bonuses - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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