Kenya has been stripped of the right to host the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) following a Confederation of African Football (Caf) executive committee meeting in Accra.
The decision was announced at a media conference after a one-day meeting headed by Caf's president Ahmad.
Ghana's Black Stars B have a fine opportunity to win the West African Football Union (WAFU) Cup of Nations as hosts if they defeat arch rivals Nigeria in the final tomorrow evening at the Cape Coast Stadium. Kick-off is at 6: 30 p.m.
The local-based senior national side have their destiny in their hands and just a win away from being crowned West African champions with $100,000 winner’s prize up for grabs.
Four separate races will highlight this year’s Homowo Festival Race Meetings scheduled to come off today and September 30 at the Accra Turf Club at Borteman.
The event, which is under the distinguished patronage of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is expected to bring together a large crowd, including horse owners, jockeys, race officials and the media for fan-packed activities.
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has stressed that although the government does not intend interfering in the management of football at the national level, it will create the enabling environment aimed at ensuring that such management inure to the benefit of Ghanaians.
Towards that end, he said, the government had very high expectations of the administrators of football in the country because, “we want to make sure that football does well and is governed properly and so we will do everything in our capacity to support the development of football.”
Benin and Niger will battle for the bronze medals at the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations when they meet in the third-place playoff tomorrow at the Cape Coast Stadium. Kick-off is at 14:00 GMT.
Both teams had high hopes of claiming upset wins in their semifinals, but they succumbed to heavyweight opponents and will have to lift themselves for this match, which will serve as a curtain-raiser for the final.
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.
