The 4 Garrison Officers Mess Tennis Club in Kumasi has inaugurated what is regarded as Ghana’s first international standard tennis club house with first-class furniture.

The GH¢350,000 one-storey facility comprising offices, entertainment and rest rooms where players can relax and watch live international tennis matches, would also allow the club to host international competitions.

The Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has assured the President of the Confederation of African Football Ahmad Ahmad of government's continued support in developing sports in Ghana.

The Vice President tweeted his support for the African football governing body after a meeting with CAF boss Ahmad on Friday at the Flagstaff House in Accra on Friday.

Ghana striker Jordan Ayew has revealed how Swansea City's frontmen are looking up to "big brother" Wilfried Bony.

Ivory Coast star Bony is pushing for the first Premier League start of his second stint as a Swan having impressed in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup win at Reading.

Rangers striker Joe Dodoo scored on his debut for League One Charlton Athletic - but we've heard that before.

Joe Dodoo could not have made a better start to life as a Charlton Athletic player. It took just 22 minutes for the Rangers loanee to open his account for The Addicks with a cool finish in their 4-3 win at Oldham Athletic at the start of the month.

Ghanaian player Bernard Tekpetey has been banned after he was sent off for his reaction to alleged racist provocation from rival supporters during an Austrian Cup match.

The Austrian league’s disciplinary committee said that Tekpetey, who plays for top-flight club Altach on loan from Germany’s Schalke 04, was handed a two-match ban for unsporting behaviour in the match away to third tier Union Gurten.

The second match of the 20-year-old’s ban has been suspended for six months, the committee said in a statement.

Former skipper of Kumasi Asante Kotoko and a member of the Black Stars, Opoku Afriyie, has admonished footballers to learn and perfect the art of goal scoring as a way of improving their value and also make the Ghana league more attractive.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Graphic at his Kumasi base, the football legend gave a damning verdict on Ghana’s topflight league, saying it lacked the “flavour” to attract football fans to the stadiums, primarily because strikers lacked the instincts and art to score goals which was the life blood of the game.

Ghana’s coach Paa Kwesi Fabin has named his strong final 21-man squad for the FIFA U-17 World Cup to be held in India next month.

The Black Starlets boss named the squad just hours after playing Mali in a pre-World Cup friendly at their training base in Abu Dhabi., United Arab Emirates.

Confederation of African Football (CAF) President, Ahmad Ahmad, alongside his lieutenants are in town to hold an Executive Committee meeting on Saturday to deliberate on pertinent football matters confronting the continent.

Accompanied by the Second vice President of CAF, Constant Omari, Mr Ahmad  was met on his arrival at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra yesterday by Ghana Football Association (GFA) President, Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi, and acting GFA General Secretary, Alex Asante.

West Africa rivals, Ghana and Nigeria will on Sunday, clash in the final of the sub-regional tournament, the WAFU Cup after both sides won their semi-final matches at the  Cape Coast Stadium on Thursday.

Ghana’s Black Stars B beat Niger with an emphatic 2-0 to set up this mouth-watering final against Nigeria, in what will be  a replay of the final Group A game at this competition, to draw the curtains on what has been an enthralling competition.

The D.G. Hathiramani Hall of the Accra Sports Stadium was set agog last Saturday when the female side of Team Coach Addo clashed with Ghana Army in a sixth week fixture of the second round of the Stanbic Bank-Graphic Sports National Table Tennis League.

The President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), Mr Ben Nunoo Mensah, has sought audience with the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Dr Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, to set the tone for Ghana’s maiden participation in the World Islamic Solidarity Games scheduled for Istanbul, Turkey, in 2021.

To this end, the GOC and the Islamic community in Ghana led by the National Chief Imam have agreed to begin the necessary paper works to pave way for Ghana to become a member of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), organisers of the quadrennial games.

Organisers of the maiden edition of the Head of State Invitational Golf Tournament slated for October 6 at the Achimota Golf Course have vowed to contribute towards the development of the country by bringing together business leaders to lay the foundation of $50 million worth of business.

In an address at the launch of the competition today in Accra, the President of the Ghana Golf Association, Mike Aggrey, said stroke play format contest will be contested by 90 carefully selected leaders of industry, who will use the opportunity to explore business opportunities.

Black Stars B deputy skipper, Amos Frimpong, has attributed his side's 0-2 defeat to Nigeria in the ongoing West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Cup tournament to injuries to key players.

Frimpong, who himself sustained an injury during last Monday’s last Group A game, believes the team were ready to bounce back in the semi-finals tomorrow.

Accra Hearts of Oak midfielder, Thomas Abbey, has urged the public to desist from castigating Coach Maxwell Konadu for his decision to play some of his players out of position in the ongoing WAFU Nations Cup.

Abbey, who was adjudged the NASCO Man-of-the-match in their 2-0 win over Guinea last Thursday, noted that Coach Konadu’s decision was rather helping the players to discover their potentials and skills, as well as challenging them to give of their best.

Accra Hearts of Oak say it would take more than a fortune for arch-rivals Kumasi Asante Kotoko to price out their revered midfielder, Winful Cobbinah, from the club.

Cobbinah, together with teammate Thomas Abbey, have become the main targets of some local clubs, with media reports suggesting the Porcupine Warriors were ready to break the bank to lure the duo to the Garden City.