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A scene at last Saturday’s league matches

Table Tennis League: Immigration ride on

 

A thrilling encounter between the Ghana Navy and the Army marked the second week of this year’s Ghana table tennis league at the Media Centre of the Accra Stadium last Saturday.

  IGP John Kudalor (arrowed) and his entourage addressing players of Police Ladies during half time

IGP pledges support for Police Ladies

The National Women's League had an unlikely spectator in the Inspector General of Police (IGP) John Kudalor, who showed up to watch his team, Police Ladies, against Soccer Intellectuals at the Police Depot park on the opening day of the season last Saturday.

Faustina Adokor Allotey - One of the junior weightlifting prospects for the country

Migrants excel at weightlifting championship

The Migrants Weightlifting Club of the Ghana Immigration Service last Saturday won the "Best Club" award after winning four gold medals at the Indomie Junior and Youth Weightlifting Championship at the Accra Stadium. 

Faustina Adokor Allotey — One of the junior weightlifting prospects for the country

Migrant steal show at Indomie Junior Weightlifting Championship

 

Migrants Weightlifting Club of the Ghana Immigration Service last Saturday won the "Best Club" award after winning four gold medals at the Indomie Junior and Youth Weightlifting Championship at the Accra Stadium.

National women's league

Women’s league kicks off on a high

This season's National Women's League (NWL) got off to a flying start with last season's finalists, Hasaacas Ladies and Ampem Darkoa Ladies finishing as the biggest winners on match day one.

Ampem Darkoa stated their intentions of what they intend to achieve this season with an emphatic 7-1 win over debutants, Subayo Golden Ladies, while Hasaacas Ladies beat LadyStrikers 4-0 in their match at Takoradi last Saturday.

Ping pong League: Navy thrash Army 3 - 0

A combat between two heavyweights in the ping-pong fraternity saw the Ghana Navy thrash their Army counterparts 3-0 in the ongoing Table Tennis League staged at the Media Centre of the Accra Stadium last Saturday.

Godwin Attram

Attram tips Kotoko to win League

Newly appointed coach of Accra Great Olympics, Godwin Attram, has tipped Kumasi Asante Kotoko as favourites to win this year’s Premier League despite the Porcupine Warrior’s poor start to the season.

Jockey J Lamptey (left) steadily moving away from opponent E Charway.

Mr K shines again

It was all thrills at the Accra Turf Club’s Whitsun Race Meeting last Saturday as Mr K from the Omar Sattout stable emerged winner of the main race, the Division 3B Invitation Race. 

Our reporter, Beatrice Laryea, interviewing winner of the invitation race, Jockey Joseph Lamptey.

Mr K wins Whitsun Race

Sattout Omar stable’s Mr K, was once again the runaway winner in last Saturday’s Division 3B invitation race of the Whitsun Race Meeting, winning by almost four lengths for her first overjoyed trainer Samuel Bampoh Botchway at the Accra Turf Club (ATC) at Ashaley Botwe, near the University Farms. 

Mariatu Bah receiving her prize from Mr Tei, while Peace Akwei (right) and Beatrice Vetsch-Bempong look on 

Bempong wins Achimota Monthly Medal

Seasoned golfer, Beatrice Vetsch-Bempong, left the Achimota Golf Club as the winner of this month’s Ladies Monthly Medal prize.

Kotoko coach, Michael Osei

Kotoko call Tumu bluff. Hearts no match at Samreboi

 It was a sweet and sour saga for giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Hearts of Oak, last Saturday as Kotoko called the bluff of Tumu Real 24 Hours FC in their backyard only for the Phobians to be bundled out by Division One Samartex in their MTN FA Cup round of 32 thriller at Samreboi.

Hearts coach Kenichi Yatsuhashi issuing instructions to his players

Kenichi worried over unpaid salaries

Hearts coach, Kenichi Yastuhashi, has revealed that salaries and bonuses of his players and technical staff have not been paid for months now, a situation which could affect morale in the Phobian camp.

 Players of Al-Ahly Shendi training at the Lizzy Sports Complex yesterday.
. Picture: SAMUEL TEI ADANO

Strand sure of Medeama win

The head coach of Medeama Sporting Club, Tom Christian Strand, says he is confident his team will be the ultimate winners of their second-leg game against Sudanese side Al Ahly Shendi, which will be held at the Essipon Stadium on Wednesday.

President John Dramani Mahama

Prez Mahama to grace Whitsun Race today

Hundreds of spectators are expected to throng the Accra Turf Club this afternoon as horse racing activities return to the club for horses in Divisions 4C, 4A, 3B and novices.

The event, dubbed “Whitsun Race Meeting”, is under the distinguished patronage of President John Dramani Mahama.

It begins at 1.30p.m and will attract a flat rate of GHC2.

The meeting will witness horses such as Let Them Say, Rule of Law, Young Man, Korle Gonno Boy and Omo Ni Ole, ridden by some talented jockeys, battle for honours. 

Kotoko face MTN FA Cup test today

Giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, face daunting task to eliminate little known Division One side, Real 24 Hours FC, to consolidate their hope of annexing the MTN FA Cup title when the two teams meet today at the Tumu Park in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region.

 Aside the current turbulence in the camp of the Porcupine Warriors, they also have expressed discomfort in travelling up north to face their opponents on a grassless pitch which they explained had the potential to harm their players.

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