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Ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter backs call to ‘stay away’ from World Cup

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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday backed calls for fans to “stay away” from FIFA World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Donald Trump and his administration at home and abroad.

Blatter was the latest international soccer figure to call into question the suitability of the United States as a host country in a post on X that supported Mark Pieth’s comments from an interview last week with the Swiss newspaper Der Bund.

Pieth, a Swiss attorney specializing in white-collar crime and an anti-corruption expert, chaired the Independent Governance Committee’s oversight of FIFA reform a decade ago. Blatter was president of the world’s governing body for soccer from 1998 to 2015. He resigned amid an investigation into corruption.

Penalty fine for overloaded trucks to increase to GH¢50,000 from GH¢5000 – Roads Minister

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The Minister for Roads and Highways, Mr Governs Kwame Agbodza, has said the government was revising regulations to increase the penalty for overloaded trucks from GH¢5,000 to GH¢50,000.

The minister described the current fine as too low to serve as a deterrent to offenders.

Speaking in an interview with GTV on Monday [January 26, 2026], Mr Agbodza said the existing maximum penalty does not reflect the cost of damage caused to roads by overloaded vehicles.

“You cannot have a penalty of GH¢5,000 when the damage you are doing is GH¢50,000. You have to increase the penalty,” he said.