The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) has settled the bills of former national welterweight champion, Isaac Aryee, who recently underwent an emergency surgery on a broken neck at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
Kwasi Appiah took charge of his first game last Wednesday when his local Black Stars side thrashed lower division side, Accra Lions 5-0 in a trial match at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence at Prampram.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that when Jordan Ayew joined Swansea City there was absolutely nothing in the way of fanfare to herald his arrival.
The Ghanaian sealed his move to the Liberty Stadium on transfer deadline day, with Neil Taylor plus £5million — heading in the opposite direction to Aston Villa
Work is to resume by the end of July this year on the abandoned Amasaman Community Sports Complex in the Ga West District of the Greater Accra Region.
To pave the way for the resumption of work on the abandoned project, the Ghana OIympic Committee (GOC) is already working in earnest to ensure all the requisite documents on the project site are ready.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Isaac Kwame Asiamah, has given the assurance that the ministry would help to properly secure the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) land on which OlympiAfrica was putting up a community sports facility at Amasaman in the name of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC).
He said the project, when completed, would be for the benefit of the entire country and therefore even though the land origionally belonged to the MOFA, he would liaise with the GOC to secure the land properly.
Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, will be the Special Guest of Honour at the 42nd Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Awards Night to be held in Accra.
The MTN-SWAG Awards, scheduled for Saturday, May 27, 2017 at the Banquet Hall of the State House, would attract the crème de la crème of Ghana sports and corporate heavyweights.
The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has renewed its relationship with the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) by supporting the 42nd MTN-SWAG Awards with GH¢30,000.
The package, which includes cash and products, is to ensure the successful organisation of the longest running sports awards scheme in Ghana.
Premier Club, Accra Hearts of Oak, after their run of impressive results in the top flight, will turn their focus on the MTN FA Cup Round of 32 home assignment against Kotoko Royals FC at the Accra Stadium on Sunday in an attempt to avoid an upset.
Hearts have honoured six straight matches without a loss and will hope to replicate a similar feat in the MTN FA Cup when they lock horns with the ambitious Division One side from Akim Oda who are keen on making it to the Round of 16 stage of the competition.
Coach Mas-Ud Didi Dramani and Mercy Tagoe-Quarcoo have been named as the new coach and assistant coach respectively of the female senior national football team, the Black Queens.
The vice president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr George Afriyie, let the cat out of the bag last Wednesday when he launched the Sanford Women’s FA Cup.
New Ghana coach Kwasi Appiah made a winning start to his second stint as head coach of the Black Stars leading the local Black Stars to a 5-0 friendly win over lower-tier Accra Lions on Wednesday at Prampram.
Mr Ernest Thompson, a member of the Black Stars Management Committee, says that the targets set for Coach Kwasi Appiah are ‘realistic, feasible and achievable.’
Ghana Football Association (GFA) vice-president, Mr George Afriyie, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Mr Francis Assenso, have been appointed as co-chairmen of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 2017 West Africa Football Union (WAFU) tournament to be hosted by Ghana.
Kwadwo Asamoah won a third successive Coppa Italia title after Juventus defeated Lazio 2-0 on Wednesday.
The Ghana international was an unused substitute for Juventus who strolled to victory courtesy goals by Dani Alves and Leonardo Bonucci.
Ghana became the first team to qualify for the semi-final at the Total U-17 African Cup of Nations Gabon 2017 after securing a 5- 0 win against hosts Gabon at the Stade de Port Gentil.
In-form striker and captain, Eric Ayiah and midfielder Emmanuel Toku scored a brace each while second-half substitute Patmos Arhin added the other goal for Black Starlets' second win in as many matches in Group A following Sunday’s 4-0 win against Cameroon.
Sanford World Clinics, sponsors of the women’s FA Cup competition in Ghana, has increased this sponsorship money for this season’s competition from GH¢200,000 to GH¢225,000.
