The government has pledged to maintain its focus on the fair distribution of financial resources to ensure no sporting discipline benefits to the detriment of another.

According to the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide, the practice where some sporting disciplines were given priority at the expense of others have stifled the lesser-known ones of the needed resources to develop and, therefore, needs to change.

Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will move to the top of the Sapholda Hockey League men's standings with a victory against Legon Knights on Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.

The GRA lads who have 17 points after seven matches will move past one-point leaders Trustees (who have a game in hand) if they defeat the whipping boys of the league Legon Knights who do not have a point to their name despite already playing seven matches.

Youth and Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah on Thursday visited players and officials of Kumasi Asante Kotoko on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital  (KATH) to wish them speedy recovery after they were involved in an accident last Wednesday night at Nkawkaw.

He was accompanied on the visit by the chairman of GHALCA, Mr Kudjoe Fianoo, and the Director General of the Ghana National Sports Authority, Mr Daniel Sarfo Mensah.

The Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) is rallying for national support for Kumasi Asante Kotoko following last Wednesday’s tragic accident at Nkawkaw to make them both psychically and psychologically ready to compete in the Ghana Premier League.

 The team’s equipment officer, Thomas Asare, died on the spot while several others got injured when the team’s bus ran into a stationary tipper truck loaded with fertiliser at Nkawkaw in the Eastern region.

The management of Ghana Premier League club, Kumasi Asante Kotoko have confirmed the death of the Deputy Equipment Officer of the club, Kofi Asare following Wednesday's tragic accident involving their team bus at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region.

The accident occurred around 9:45 pm when the team bus which was returning to Kumasi after a 1-0 loss to Inter Allies on Wednesday ran into a stationary vehicle.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed condolence to the management and players of the Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club over Wednesday night’s accident that led to the death of its Deputy Equipment Officer.

The President in a tweet Thursday morning said “Saddened by the news of the accident involving players & officials of Kotoko. My heart goes out to the team; speedy recovery to the injured.”

Accra Hearts of Oak striker, Thomas Abbey, scored a brace to help his side defeat Berekum Chelsea 2-0 at the Accra Sports Stadium yesterday and regain the third position on the Premier League log.

Abbey capitalised on a through ball by Winful Cobinnah in the 41st minute to give the Phobians a well-deserved half time lead.

Disgraced US football official Chuck Blazer has died at the age of 72, his lawyers say.

Blazer, who was banned from all football activities for life in 2015, had been suffering from cancer.

Ghanaian footballer Solomon Nyantakyi has confessed to the double murder of his mother and sister after he was arrested by the police in Italy on Wednesday morning.

The former Parma midfielder massacred his mother and sister with dozens of stab wounds on Tuesday afternoon in the family home in Via San Leonardo in the city of Parma.

Exchequers served a warning to their Sapholda Hockey League men's division rivals on Saturday by battering Reformers 7-0 at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.

A brace by national star Elikem Akaba set Exchequers on their way to a comfortable victory before his teammates Daniel Bempah, Sylvester Aporti, Emmanuel Ankomah, Samuel Mensah and Elorm Akaba scored.

The management of Ghana Premier League giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko has assured fans of the club and sympathisers that personnel of the team are "generally fine" after their bus was involved in an accident at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region.

The team were on their way back to Kumasi after a 1-0 loss to Inter Allies on Wednesday afternoon at the El-Wak Stadium in Accra in a matchday 22 Ghana Premier League match.

Swimming prodigies, Abeiku Jackson and Kaya Adwoa Forson head a 23-member contingent comprised of athletes and officials who will depart Accra on Saturday to represent Ghana at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas.

According to the Chef de Mission, Mawuko Afadzinu, Team Ghana will be represented by 12 athletes and 11 officials at the Games which take place between July 19 to 23 at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre in Nassau.

A Ghanaian footballer based in Italy, Solomon Nyantakyi, has been arrested for the alleged murder of his mother and sister on Tuesday night in the city of Parma, Italy.

 The former football prodigy with Italian side Parma is the major suspect in the double murder of his mother and young sister who were killed by stabbing at home.

Coach Yusif Abubakar of Aduana Stars has slammed striker Derrick Sasraku for excusing himself from the match against Liberty Professionals last Sunday.

He said the striker took part in the club's training sessions throughout the week but surprisingly asked to be excluded just a day before the match with Liberty Professionals.

Responding to a question in a post-match interview about the absence of the player in the said match, Coach Abubakar said, “I know he reported sick.

The coach of Tema Youth, Edward Nii Odoom, has blamed the management of the club for the 1-2 defeat to Ebusua Dwarfs last Saturday.

He said management’s failure to secure the release of his key players in the Black Stars B team contributed greatly to the 2-1 defeat to the visitors.

Nicholas Gyan and Joseph Esso scored for Dwarfs, while Mohammed Tawfiq got Tema Youth a consolation.