Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, and his backroom staff can now heave a sigh of relief as the Ministry of Youth and Sports has promised to settle all salary arrears owed them in due time.

The ministry’s assurance follows the confirmation of a receipt of $750,000 last Wednesday from the headline sponsors of the national team, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), as part payment for the $1.5m sponsorship package approved by the board for sports development.

Medeama skipper, Joseph Tetteh Zutah, has described Sunday's Premier League encounter with Aduana Stars at the Tarkwa T&A Park as a revenge mission for last season's 0-1 defeat.

Zutah, who is expected to lead Medeama in their titanic clash against Aduana Stars, said the Mauves and Yellows were ready to derail their opponent’s title hopes by beating them convincingly.

The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will be held in June and July, the Confederation of African Football has confirmed.

The captain of the Black Stars, Asamoah Gyan is known for living an extravagant lifestyle and in the past confessed to splurging $20,000 on a baby shark.

The former Shanghai SIPG forward also owns a fleet of luxurious vehicles and a $3 million mansion at Weija.

However, he is also a humanitarian at heart with his Asamoah Gyan Foundation carrying out a number of charitable projects in the country.

All is set for the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Super Bantamweight bout between Ghana’s Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe and Argentinian strongman Nicholas Javier Chacon at the Bukom Boxing Arena this Saturday, July 22.

Hundreds, including former President Jerry John Rawlings and the Minister of Youth and Sports, Isaac Kwame Asiamah on Tuesday joined Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan to commission an AstroTurf project at the Accra Academy campus.

The first phase of the project, christened the Asamoah Gyan Sports Complex was completed at a cost of GH₵700,000 and includes a fenced AstroTurf pitch with floodlights. It will also have a tartan track and sports hall upon completion.

The Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, has eulogised the editor of the Graphic Sports, Mr Felix Abayateye, for his commitment and dedicated service to the company.

Presenting a book titled “Leading Culture Change in Global Organisation” to the retiring sport editor, Mr Ashigbey said the veteran journalist had rendered an unbroken service to Graphic and Ghana for the past 34 years.

Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, is expected to round off his US scouting exercise on Sunday after monitoring a few more Ghanaian players in action for their clubs this weekend.

So far, Coach Appiah appears satifisfied with the talents he has spotted during his two-week tour of the US as he plans to travel to Columbus tomorrow, before crowning it all in New York on Sunday.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko captain, Amos Frimpong, says his teammates are still traumatised by last week’s fatal accident and it will be difficult psychologically for the team to return to the pitch as had been predicted by their coach, Steve Polack.

Frimpong told the Graphic Sports in a telephone conversation yesterday, that beyond the bruises and injuries that needed time to heal fully, the team’s psychologist also had a big task to get the players mentally fit before returning to play.

The Premier League fireworks continue on Sunday as clubs struggle to a mark in the last seven games of the season in exciting fixtures.

Title chasers, Aduana Stars, will have the opportunity to go on top of the log when they travel to Tarkwa T&A Park to face Medeama in a fierce battle.

Italian giants Inter Milan have reportedly made firm steps to re-sign their former youth player Alfred Duncan.

Sassuolo, who first signed the Ghana international from Inter, have slapped a €20 million price on the combative midfielder.

Ghana’s number one seed Wisdom Na-Adjrago proved his mettle last Friday as he thumped Kwabena Ofosu Bamfo 7-6, 7-6(2) to win the final of the 2017 National Ranking Tour Four before a sizable crowd at the tennis arena of the Accra Stadium.

The victory makes Na-Adjrago the third player to have won the ranking title back-to-back after George Darko (2015 National Ranking Tour One and Two) and Bernard Armaah Ashitey (2016 National Ranking Tour Five and Six).

Less than a week after the tragic accident at Nkawkaw involving the team bus, Coach Steven Polack has thankfully taken his first few steps at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), where he’s been on admission since Thursday.

The coach, with the help of crutches, moved around the award with under the careful watch of five medical personnel at the hospital. His movement or walking albeit with crutches, comes as good news especially after his successful surgery on Friday.

Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) moved to the summit of the Sapholda Hockey League men's standings with a 7-0 demolition of Legon Knights, overtaking Trustees at the top.

The GRA lads capitalised on two-point leaders Trustees not being in action to displace them with an effortless thrashing of the Legon Knights youngsters on Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.

A former teacher, John Yaw Frimpong Manso, a citizen of Agogo in Asante Akim,has invented an indoor soccer game designed to generate the interest of the youth  in the game of football, educate and entertain them to appreciate the rules of the game and its technicalities.