Women's top seed and defending champion, Sarah Adegoke, strolled into the semi-finals of the ongoing McDan Open Championship after a 6-2, 6-0 demolition of the Ivorian challenger, Kouadio Amandine, yesterday at the Accra Stadium.
Top seed Thomas Setodji and former champion Jeff Bagerbaseh are poised for a head-on collision in the final of the ongoing McDan West African Open Championship.
Although the competition was still in the quarter-final stage at the time of going to press yesterday, both players have been the stand-out performers after three days of tennis action at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), Ben Nunoo-Mensah, has called on the various federation heads to be transparent in their dealings with stakeholders to help attract corporate sponsorship.
Mr Nunoo-Mensah explained that transparency is the only means of creating a reputable brand out of the various federations that are least financed by government.
Kwasi Appiah's first official assignment as the new Black Stars coach begins on Monday when he embarks on a major scouting mission of the two most successful clubs in the country - Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko - at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Appiah begins his second stint with the Stars on May 1, the same day rivals Hearts and Kotoko clash in the first leg of the Ghana: 60 Years On President's Cup at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Tributes have been paid to former Gabon international Moise Brou Apanga who died on Wednesday from a suspected heart attack.
The 35-year-old collapsed during a training session with his Gabonese club FC 105 Libreville.
Newly-promoted Newcastle United will make a final decision whether to sign Ghanaian winger Christian Atsu in May.
The Magpies can activate a clause and make the Ghana winger’s stay at St James’ Park permanent, but Rafa Benitez will first weigh up whether Atsu is good enough to be part of Newcastle’s Premier League campaign.
Former Ghana and Bayern Munich defender, Samuel Osei Kuffour, will bury his mother, Gloria Abena Ateah Osei Kuffour on Saturday, April 29 in Kumasi. Madam Ateah passed away aged 70, last February after a short illness in Kumasi.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched this year’s edition of Ghana’s Fastest Human athletics programme with a promise to support the GNPC-sponsored competition with eight autographed trophies to be presented to winners at the finals.
Former men's champion Jeff Bagerbaseh moved into the quarter-finals of the 2017 McDan West African Open Championship after defeating compatriot Pascal Ziyab 6-1, 6-3 at the Accra Sports Stadium yesterday, to set up a clash with Bernard Dugbah.
West Africa Football Academy maintained their lead at the top of the Ghana Premier League standings after defeating Liberty Professionals 2-1 today at the Sogakope Park.
The win, WAFA's seventh consecutive victory on the bounce was secured courtesy a brace by Komlan Agbégniadan at the Sogakope Park on Wednesday afternoon. Liberty skipper Samuel Sarfo scored a late consolation for the visitors.
Ghana’s Black Stars could face financial challenges following the Parliament of Ghana’s rejection of a budgetary allocation by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to cover the company’s annual sponsorship of the senior national football team.
The situation leaves the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in a dilemma as GNPC since 2013 has been the Stars’ Headline Sponsor who paid the national coach’s salary and also supported some activities of the team.
Incoming Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah has held closed-door talks with President Nana Akufo-Addo. The meeting precedes Appiah's official announcement as coach of the senior national team.
Former All Africa Games doubles gold medalist, Wisdom Na-Adrago, survived a scare to progress to the next stage of the ongoing McDan West African Open tennis competition after a hard-fought 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Benin's Theophile Sedogo.
The clash between Na-Adrago, who won gold at the 2015 AAG in Congo Brazzaville and his Beninois opponent lasted a gruelling two hours and 25 minutes under the scorching sun at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Men's top seed Tomas Setodji has already decided how he will spend the $3,000 cash prize if he wins the 2017 McDan West African Open Championship.
The confident Togolese says he came to Ghana to win the competition and will leave no stone unturned in his bid to win the 2017 McDan Open Championsip because he will use the money to fund his career as a budding tennis prospect.
There will be a whopping GH¢50,000 cash prize at stake for the winner when bitter rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante clash for the Ghana@60 President's Cup in May.
According to the organisers, the latest instalment of the longstanding rivalry between Ghana's most successful clubs will be held over two legs, on May 1 and May 28 at the Accra Sports Stadium and Kumasi Sports Stadium respectively.
