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.

Female athlete Flings Joyner Owusu-Agyapong became the fourth Ghanaian athlete to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil when she dipped below the 11.32 seconds qualifying mark in the 100 metres dash at the 2016 Miami Hurricane Alumni Invitational held last Saturday at the University of Miami, USA.

Ghana's senior female football team, the Black Queens, plan to beat Tunisia again when they meet in the final leg of their African Women's Championship (AWC) qualifier in Accra tomorrow.

The Queens earned an important away victory in the first leg played in Tunis last week, coming from a goal down to win 2-1 and are hoping to repeat the feat at the Accra Stadium tomorrow.

A basketball scouting camp, which forms part of the annual Ballers’ Camp is underway at the Aviation Social Centre with about 500 students athletes from basic, second cycle and tertiary schools being drilled to secure sporting scholarships abroad.

The Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) won the 3rd Vice Chancellor’s Challenge Cup held at Tarkwa last week.

The competition was organised in three categories — female male students and staff.

In the female category, Faculty of Engineering (FoE) ladies beat their counterparts, from the Faculty of Mineral Resources and Technology (FMRT) on penalties  to claim the top prize.  The winners took home trophies and cash awards while the runners-up received consolation cash prizes. 

Black Stars coach, Avram Grant, will lead the local Black Stars to face Japan’s U23 team in an international friendly in May this year.

Coach Grant will be assisted by his deputy, Maxwell Konadu, who is also the head coach of the home-based national team.

The Israeli trainer is currently on a trip to Europe to monitor players and he is expected to return to the country at the end of the month.

The Ghana Fencing National team last Wednesday received a morale-boosting visit from the Minister of Youth and Sports, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye ahead of their participation in the 2016 Olympics Games qualifiers on April 10 in Algeria. 

During the visit to the National Fencing Academy in Tuba, near Kasoa, the minister encouraged the fencers to give of their best for the country and assured them of the support of his ministry and the entire nation

Club of the moment, Accra Hearts of Oak, will trek to the Nana Ameyaw Park in the heart of Techiman on a revival mission as they face Techiman City tomorrow. 

Hearts are determined to atone for their first loss of the season after crashing at home to Wa All Stars last Sunday.

The Phobians’ performance lately has won back many of their dejected followers but following a 1-3 loss to All Stars, Kenichi Yatsuhashi and his charges went back to the drawing board to correct their mistakes and bounce back strongly.

Like a spoilt child at a candy-store, Avram Grant, head coach of the senior national men's football team, the Black Stars, continues to act juvenile, if reports of him rejecting his bonus payment in cedis is accurate. 

Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s fall from grace faces a critical test on Sunday as they seek to bounce back from their recent poor form at the expense of Liberty Professionals at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.

The craze for motorbikes is fast catching up with footballers and it has become virtually odd for a player not to ride one.

Coach David Duncan’s tribulations in the midst of the uncertainties about his job at Kumasi Asante Kotoko still linger and could be worse in the coming days if his assistant, Michael Osei, who has been handed temporary responsibility as caretaker coach, succeeds in his rescue mission on Sunday.

The Porcupine Warriors face Liberty Professionals at the Baba Yara Stadium in a fixture that the Oseikrom Boys have always handled with ease, yet victory could finally sound the death knell on Duncan’s troubled stint with Kotoko.

Medeama Sporting Club are capitalising on the presence of former Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah and his assistant Prince Owusu in The Sudan to ensure an impressive away outing against Al Ahly Shendi in their Orange CAF Confederation Cup one-eighth first leg encounter at the Shandi Stadium at 17.00 GMT on Sunday.

The two Ghanaian coaches, currently handling Sudanese side, FC Khartoum, are expected to furnish Medeama with some vital information about their opponents to arm them ahead of Sunday’s tie, which the MTN FA Cup champions are bent on winning.