 In 2012, he was named the thirty-second most influential Ghanaian.An undercover investigation led by "The Telegraph" and Channel 4 accused Nyantakyi and other officials of the Ghana Football Association of match-fixing.According to this investigation, the accusations 'involved just international friendlies; World Cup matches would not be affected by the suspicions' Nyantakyi denied the match fixing allegations by saying that "the report of the newspaper or the media house is entirely not accurate" because "there is really no cause for alarm as far as I am concerned because nothing untoward has happened involving me or the Federation."