In the last few weeks, hooliganism has notoriously smuggled its way into the spotlight in Ghana football and raised a lot of concerns about its potential to destroy domestic competitions.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Retired National Footballers Endowment Fund, Prof. Kwame Karikari says plans are far advanced to launch the fund in July to bring relief to all retired footballers.

The Chairman of the Strategic Committee of Accra Hearts of Oak, Vincent Sowah Odotei, has admitted that finishing fourth at the end of the first round of the Ghana Premier League offers little consolation to him after their superb start to the campaign.

Achimota School boys last Friday lost 1-3 to Kings College from Nigeria in the football event which drew the curtain on this year’s cross-country sports competition at the Achimota School sports field.

Youth Olympic gold medallist, Martha Bissah, has been suspended indefinitely by the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) for indiscipline and bringing the name of the association into disrepute.

Suddenly, the weather has cleared and the moon that had been hidden from the dark clouds is shining and attracting all to come out in the moonlight shouting and dancing for joy. 

The Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, Kaoru Yoshimura, last Thursday donated martial arts equipment worth $4,200 to  practitioners of kendo - a new form of martial arts he introduced in Ghana  last year.

An 18-year-old jockey, John Adjetey, last Saturday stunned fans at the Accra Turf Club when he defeated experienced riders to win the Division 4A race during the Third Day Whitsun Race Meeting.

The new-look CAF club competitions will include quarterfinals for the first time and have one less qualifying round, the African football body said yesterday.

Starting next year, the group stages of the annual Champions League and Confederation Cup competitions will expand from eight clubs to 16.

There is uncertainty hanging over the GN Bank Division One League (DOL) with fears that its title sponsor the GN Bank is considering suspending its sponsorship in the wake of recent acts of hooliganism at a number of league centres. 

The Black Stars began residential camping at the Alisa Hotel yesterday after a full-scale training at the Accra Sports Stadium in preparation for their 2017 Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Mauritius away on Sunday.

The maiden national U-13 gala tournament ended last Saturday with New De Clem FC emerging as winners of the competition after beating City Power FC 4-3 on penalties.

A Serbian Olympic shooting instructor, Nemanja Mirosavjev, has predicted a great future for  shooting as a sport in Ghana, after opening an eight-day training session for the national team, the Black Snipers, at the Armed Forces Rifle Range in Accra.

The captain of the Black Stars, Asamoah Gyan, has expressed his satisfaction with the progress of work on the artificial football pitch at Accra Academy Senior High School which he is currently undertaking at a cost of $200,000. 

Controversial boxer Braimah Kamoko, alias Bukom Banku, says he is taking a brief hiatus from the sport to concentrate on politics, but has promised to return to the ring stronger next year for a potential cracker against Bastie Samir.

The undefeated boxer, whose strange decision to bleach his skin sparked off public criticism and fears about its health implications, and says he  would stop bleaching next year to return to the ring.