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Another Friday morning, another opportunity to recap an extremely busy week. On Monday, we went down memory lane, celebrating the great Komla Dumor.

We remembered the stellar example he set personally and professionally, and, with the BBC's announcement of an African Journalism award in his name, we embraced his legacy as an international broadcasting icon, whose candle continues to burn around the world a year and a day after his sudden passing.

On Tuesday, we decided to find out how Ghanaians felt about the fact that our darlings, our heroes, the focus of all our national pride, our beloved Black Stars, had lost against Senegal in the opening game at AFCON 2015. So we hit the streets to discover that… nobody seemed to care. Actually, that's not true. Some people cared. They were happy that our team had lost. Can you believe it? Who would have thought that Ghanaians would turn their backs on a team of world-cup-flopping, coach-insulting, president-snubbing, money-grabbing, dollar-kissing, own-goal-scoring, official-slapping, movie-inspiring commission-ignoring, disgrace-justifying, poor-performing national disgraces like our Black Stars?

Nana Agyeman and Fireman Songo were on the show to share their thoughts on their latest non-performance, and the discussion revealed many other crucial issues: 1. our local football is dying, and dragging our international football down with it; 2. something about becoming a Youth and Sports Minister suddenly makes you allergic to sharing your budget with the taxpayers providing you with the funds; 3. Asamoah Gyan is a lot more important than we realised - even his malaria parasites have the power to change a nation's fortunes; and 4. the best place to properly prepare for a tournament in one of the hottest parts of the world at the hottest time of the year, is one of the coldest parts of the world at their coldest time of the year.

On Wednesday, the Finance Minister stopped by for a chat. He's suddenly got a clever new idea to create a mitigation account where they can start paying in all the lovely money we are saving as a result of the tumbling world price of fuel, and their decision not to pass down the full benefits to Ghanaian consumer. This mitigation account would continue to clear the debt to BDCs, and once that debt is cleared, it would continue to store up the excess money for a rainy day, so that if the fuel prices go up again beyond Government's pegged barrel price of 99 dollars, they can then use the money in this account to subsidise fuel again.

I tried to understand what that would mean for you and I, Ghanaians who are sitting around waiting for the NPA and Government to finish paying their debt to the BDCs so we can also enjoy cheaper prices on fuel and everything else which is affected by fuel pricing. If we decided to go ahead with this account, would it mean the price reductions being enjoyed around the world will NEVER be passed on to the consumer?

We also talked about ghosts. The kind that you and I are paying every month to haunt us. We talked about that KPMG report. Mr Terkper made a valid point that the report was actually commissioned by government, which challenges the logic of critics who suggest that the Finance Ministry, or the Controller and Accountant-General are complicit in the Ghost name scam.

Yesterday, we tried to understand the cause of all these long delays by prosecutors in preparing for court cases. We tried.

We also resolved a very thorny issue of Religion versus the Law, Somewhere in the Western Region, a WAEC official refused to photograph a young Muslim girl for exam identification purposes, unless she removed her veil. This sparked a potentially disturbing debate, but luckily, I got both parties on the phone and resolved the matter in less than ten minutes. It was a simple misunderstanding, probably caused by some lone individual trying to enact his own unilateral wet dream of intolerance. Anyway, all is well now, an investigation will be launched into the incident and everything is back to normal. Radio gets results.

Today, we're wrapping up a busy week with a busy show. Lots and los of our friends are stopping by throughout the morning to talk about all sorts of fascinating things. Our big conversation later on tries to answer this question: are men intimidated by successful women? You will really love the gang I've pulled together to chew at this one. More about them later, so stay with us for the duration.

My name is Kojo Yankson, and it's been a week of Football, Finance, Faith and Feminism.

GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!

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