{"id":415728,"date":"2017-09-07T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/07\/nii-lantey-better-sports-minister-than-elvis-asiamah-songo\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:00:25","slug":"nii-lantey-better-sports-minister-than-elvis-asiamah-songo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/07\/nii-lantey-better-sports-minister-than-elvis-asiamah-songo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nii Lantey better Sports Minister than Elvis Asiamah \u2013 Songo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday,  7 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/22144848.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nii Lante Vanderpuye S\" title=\"Nii Lante Vanderpuye S\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Sports Minister, Nii Lante Vanderpuye<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1504785625_564_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Sports journalist, Patrick Osei Agyemang, popularly known as Countryman Songo, has said Nii Lantey Vanderpuye stands tall amongst Elvis Afriyie Ankrah and Isaac Asiamah as Sports Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the vociferous journalist, the current Sports Minister, Mr Asiamah, is not performing as he should. \u201cOur Sports Minister is only talking, he\u2019s doing too much talking\u2026 the minister is not performing, he\u2019s only talking,\u201d he told Bola Ray on Accra-based Starr FM.<\/p>\n<p>Songo, who is an avid critic of the senior national team, Black Stars, reiterated his belief that the team, its head coach Kwesi Appiah and officials at the Ghana Football Association, were wasting taxpayers money.<\/p>\n<p>His comment comes as Ghana is struggling to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia after picking five points from four games and sits third in Group E.<\/p>\n<p>Presented with a list of Mr Vanderpuye, Mr Ankrah and Mr Asiamah, and asked to choose which man was most capable of running Ghana sports, Mr Osei Agyemang said, \u201cNii Lantey is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNii Lantey Vanderpuye wanted the truth\u2026 Nii Lantey is fantastic, he stands tall. He thinks like me, he fires like me in a very professional way and he\u2019s a sports man. Amongst them all he is a sports man and a journalist too so he knows the job and he knows what to do when it comes to boxing, athletics and when it comes to football. 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