The Accra Turf Club begins its Whitsun Race Meeting this Saturday, April 16 with four races open to horses in divisions 4C, 4A, 3B and novices to be run under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana.

The first race of the day, which begins at 1.30 pm, will feature five horses in Division 4C competing over a distance of six furlongs.

The horses are Let Them Say, owned by Mr Issaka Yartey, Rule of Law by Mr Philip Amuzu, Young Man also owned by Philip Amuzu, Korle Gonno Boy by Jara Stable and Omo Ni Ole by Nii Yemo Odoi.

The leadership of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), led by President Ben Nunoo Mensah, has called on the Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, to support his outfit's bid to unearth young talents in the sport.

Mr Nunoo Mensah paid a courtesy call on the minister last Monday to brief him on the upcoming National Weightlifting Youth Championship at the Accra Sports Stadium and also took the opportunity to invite him to the competition.

European scouts last week stormed the Legon Ayax Park for this year’s "7th Best in Ghana soccer fiesta" in search of talents.

An annual event organised by sports and event management consortium, Protons Sports Limited, it provided the opportunity to showcase Ghanaian soccer talents. 

Club of the moment, Wa All Stars, and stubborn Techiman City will sell out a thriller to Upper West soccer fans this Sunday in an MTN FA Cup encounter.

Before that interesting encounter, however, troubled Kumasi Asante Kotoko, will play as guests of Division Two Real 24 Hours FC at Tumu on Saturday, while Accra Hearts of Oak visit Samartex, a Division One side.

West Ham are considering a £6million summer move for Aston Villa forward Jordan Ayew.

Manager Slaven Bilic wants two new strikers for next season with Diafra Sakho to be made available for sale.

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.