Ghana Football Association (GFA) president, Kwesi Nyantakyi, says the association has no case to answer to parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over a $1,242 debt the ministry of the Foreign Affairs claims the football regulatory body owes it.
Ghana's Black Queens yesterday received the cedi equivalent of $6,000 each being payment of their outstanding winning bonuses for previous qualifiers.
The amount covered the Queens’ double win over Zimbabwe in the second round of the Olympic qualifiers.
Ghana’s senior female football team, Black Queens, yesterday beat their Tunisian counterparts 4-0 in the final round of the African Women’s Championship (AWC) played at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The Queens have qualified with an aggregate of 6-1, having secured a 2-1 away win in the first leg played in Tunis, a week ago.
Marshalls University College last Sunday proved a hard nut to crack as they walloped the Royalty Elite Academy team 34-20 to emerge champions of the Royal Collegiate Basketball Tournament held at the Aviation Social Centre in Accra.
High jumper, Regina Yeboah, last Saturday, became the second locally-based athlete to qualify for the 2016 African Athletics Championships after clearing a height of 1.76 metres at the third edition of the Ghana Athletics Association Championship held at the El-Wak Stadium.
Security forces have sealed off the main office of the crisis-hit Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) in the capital Abjua, BBC Sport has learnt.
Soldiers and riot police are manning the entrance of the building.
Accra Hearts of Oak after losing to Wa All Stars last week gave their supporters something to cheer about as they ended the winning spree of Techiman City at home, holding them to a goalless draw.
Kumasi Asante Kotoko on Sunday put the smiles back on the faces of their supporters when they handed 10-man Liberty Professionals a 3-1 defeat in their Premier League encounter at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.
A supporter of Accra Hearts of Oak was last Saturday severely beaten by angry Techiman City supporters hours before the kick-off to the big game between the two sides at Techiman.
The victim, identified as Nat Dodoo, is the General Secretary of Chapter 158 of the National Chapters Committee of Hearts supporters at Techiman.
Fourty Senior High School students were last Saturday selected in the African Youth Basketball Organisation (AYBO) scouting camp, which was held at the Aviation Social Centre (ASC) in Accra.
The student athletes were selected from over 100 contenders after they displayed vigorous basketball skills to the admiration of the organisers of the event.
The Minister of Youth and sports, Nii Lante Vanderpuye and former Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah joined Joy FM’s Lexis Bill and hundreds of people from all walks of life to undertake a walk up the Aburi mountain last Saturday morning in the maiden ‘Walk with Lexis’ fitness campaign.
More than 20 participants last Saturday completed a one-week llife-guard training course at the University of Ghana Swimming Pool Centre, Legon, in Accra.
The workshop, organised by the Ghana Life-Saving and Diving Association (GALDA), is aimed at drowning prevention and safety in the pool.
Participants included managers of hotels, swimming pools and athletes trained on how to save a life in the pool and how to keep it safe in deeper waters.
The Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF) has inaugurated a five- member advisory council to advise the executive board, assess its performance as well as connect the federation to corporate bodies to enhance a mutual co-operation between the GTF and its partners.
It is chaired by Kwaku Sakyi Addo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber, who is also a Black Belt in taekwondo.
Since the end of the 2014/2015 Premier League season, there have been unnecessary wranglings over the number of referees, both middle and lines, who should be enlisted to handle matches of the top leagues this 2015/2016 football season.
The wranglings were so intense that it took the intervention of the GFA President Kwasi Nyantakyi to solve. This was quite unnecessary if the system had been allowed to work.
Fact is, Ghana’s football had benefited from a perfect long-standing tradition of refereeing recruitment, training and administration in the country. The Referees Association of Ghana (RAG) has always been responsible for referee recruitment, training and development.
Leading mobile telecommunications company, Vodafone Ghana Limited, has been named the headline sponsor of the Unity Match which aims to maintain peace before and after the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections on November 7.
According to a statement released by the organisers of the event, Primeval Media, the two-leg friendly match slated for June 8 and June 11 in Accra and Kumasi respectively, had since been renamed the Vodafone Unity Match.
