Traditional wrestler, John Dekagbe, took silver at the just ended second Africa Zurkhaneh Sports and Koshti Palkivani championship in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The one-week Africa ranking competition climaxed last Tuesday at the Ethiopian capital.
The young wrestler was Ghana’s only representative at one of the continent’s largest wrestling competitions which featured over 20 countries.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential candidate for 2016, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday gave 11 surviving members of Ghana’s 1965 AFCON team an early Christmas gift when he presented GH¢25,000 cash to them.
The money was meant to redeem a pledge the NPP Presidential candidate made to the team at their Golden Jubilee fund-raising dinner on December 3, 2015 at the Sun Lodge Hotel.
Nana Akufo-Addo personally handed over the cash to five members of the 1965 AFCON team who paid a courtesy call on him at his residence in Accra.
The members - Reverend Kofi Pare, John Bortey Naawu, Dodoo Ankrah, Wilberforce Mfum and Reverend Osei Kofi were in his house to express their gratitude for his immense support during their Golden Jubilee celebrations which came off on December 3 and 4, 2015.
The race for the 2015 African Player of the Year Award of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has been narrowed down to a three-horse affair for Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Gabon.
Ghana’s midfield sensation, Andre Ayew, who plays for English Premier League side, Swansea City, has again been shortlisted to contend with last year’s winner, Yaya Toure of Cote d”Ivoire and Manchester City fame and Gabonese sensation, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Borussia Dortmund.
This brings back memories of the 2011 edition in Accra which saw Toure snatching the prestigious prize away from Ayew in front of his countrymen.
The Lepowura of Kpembe in the Northern Region, Alhaji Mahamadu Nurudeen Jawula, has added his voice to the call by some football pundits to make the outgone members of the Ghana Football Association Executive Committee to refund part of the $15,000 they took home as ex-gratia in November this year.
According to Alhaji Jawula, currently chairman of the FA’s Club Licensing Committee, although he had nothing against the payment of the ex-gratia, the quantum was offensive as it exceeded the approved figure by congress four years ago.
He said the figure approved was $2,604 for each member and, therefore, asked that the receipients should be made to refund some.
Former Black Stars prolific left winger and coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s youth side, Kofi Abbrey, has been granted permission to travel to London for a short holiday to refresh his career.
Abbrey, who was a member of the Black Stars squad which won gold at the AFCON tournament in 1982 in Libya libya, is scheduled to leave for London tomorrow morning.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, he said Kotoko had granted him permission to be away for five months.
He said he would take advantage of the period to visit friends and family members, especially his daughter and grandchildren who reside in London.
Abbrey, considered as one of the best left wingers Ghana has ever produced, first played for Sekondi Eleven Wise in 1977 when he, together with John Smith Bannerman and others defeated city rivals Hasaacasin a memorable match to win the national gala trophy.
He then pitched camp with Hasaacas in 1980 and tormented opposing defenders and was later adju
Rene Gameli Kwami and Esther Antwi last Saturday ended the golfing year on a high with victory in Group A of the maiden Carloking Open Championship at the Celebrity Golf Course at Sakumono, near Tema.
Kwami, a member of the Achimota Golf Club, scooped the crystal trophy in the one-day 18-Hole Medal Play competition with a net score of 69 in the men's category, while Esther returned a net score of 74 to pip her nearest rival Mercy Werner on countback to the Ladies top prize.
Esther was followed closely in the Ladies Group A by Mercy, who finished ahead of the former Lady Captain of the Tema Country Golf Club, Adelaide Owusu-Adjapong.
Alex Oppong from Dansoman was last Saturday crowned winner of the annual Hunters National Pool Tournament at the Accra Stadium after defeating Emmanuel Asiedu in the final.
An elated Oppong attributed his victory to hard work, saying, "I deserve this honour because I really worked for it."
Oppong took home a pool table and a trophy as first prize, while Asiedu received a flat screen television set for finishing as runner-up.
Richard Appiah also finished third and took home a refrigerator.
In a post-tournament interview with the Daily Graphic, the event coordinator, Nudzor Agbanu, noted that this year's tournament had been successful but challenging, considering the time frame.
Ghanaian football legend Charles Kumi Gyamfi (C.K. Gyamfi), who died on September 2, 2015, will be laid in state at the forecourt of the State House in Accra at 7 a.m. on Friday.
The state burial will mark the start of the final funeral rites of C.K. Gyamfi, which include a memorial service which will take place on Saturday at the Okorase Methodist School Park at 10 a.m.
The memorial service will be followed by a thanksgiving service, which will take place at the Rev. Joseph Clegg Memorial Methodist Church, Kaneshie, Accra, on Sunday, December 20, 2015.
Also known as Nana Kumi Gyamfi I for being the Guantoahene of the Benkum Division of the Akuapem Traditional Area, he died at the Cocoa Clinic in Accra at the age of 85.
The sponsor of the Division One League, GN Bank, has urged the Ghana Football Association (GFA) to organise a stakeholders meeting to take stock of the challenges that affected the league and devise means to make it more competitive, attractive and sustainable.
Controversial fighter Braimah Kamoko, alias Bukom Banku, has beaten a hasty retreat and posted a video vowing to fight old foe, Michael Ayittey Powers Okine, at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on December 26.
The 36-year-old undefeated boxer earlier withdrew from the bout, citing health and personal reasons with speculations rife about his assertions that sponsors, JoyDadi Industries, and promoters, Landmark Promotions, favouring Powers to defeat him, which led to his boycott of the bout.
King Solomon FC offensive midfielder, Samudeen Ibrahim, was last Saturday crowned the Player of the Season in the Division One League (DOL) at the maiden awards night organised by sponsors of the league, GN Bank, to recognise excellence in that division.
Taekwondo practitioners, Augustus Agbozo and Eunice Adedapo, from the Accra Polytechnic taekwondo Club, emerged the best male and female fighters respectively at this year’s Korea Cup Taekwondo Championship held at the D J Hithramani Sports Hall at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The 32-year-old Ivory Coast midfielder becomes only the third player, after Nigerians Nwankwo Kanu and Jay-Jay Okocha, to receive the honour twice.
Football fans voted for Manchester City's Toure, who first won in 2013, ahead of Yacine Brahimi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Andre Ayew and Sadio Mane.
"I am very proud. To receive this dedication from the fans is unbelievable," Toure told BBC Sport.
Twenty taekwondo clubs have been selected as winners of the “I Love taekwondo” contest which was launched by the Korean Embassy in September, this year.
The clubs are, Accra Polythecnic Taekwondo Academy, Astoria, Demonstration School for the Deaf Taekwondo, Hill View, Madina Taekwondo and Marpro Taekwondo Clubs.
The rest are Meghis, Our Lady of Mercy Senior High School, Pippas, Power Kix, Prixmax Warriors Martial Arts, Queenscourt Taekwondo Academy, Ramgoon, Solomon Bennett Memorial Taekwondo, Sos-Hermann Gmeiner School, State School For The Deaf Taekwondo, Sunyani Taekwondo Club, Tema Technical Institute Taekwondo, Wam Taekwondo Academy and Prisons Taekwondo Club.
The founder of Owerriman Football Club, Nana Batafo Acheampong Nti, has challenged the technical team and players of Champion Club, Ashgold, to be adequately motivated by the $1.5 million budget support by management on their CAF Champions League campaign by putting up a splendid performance to win the trophy for Ghana in many years.
While tasking the technical team to collaborate with management to organise series of warm up matches that will put the players in good shape prior to the CAF Champions League preliminary rounds, he said it was equally important for the players to exhibit exemplary discipline on and off the pitch to enable them to achieve the ultimate goal.
“Ghana has been recognised as a football country worldwide for many years, but the CAF Champions League trophy has eluded us on countless occasions, hence the need for Ashgold to be more focused in this campaign to enable them to win the trophy for Ghana”, Nana Acheampong, who is also the Konongohen
