The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GEODRILL Ghana Limited, Dave Harper, has promised to offer Ghanaian athletes who win gold at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia a $10,000 prize.

Ghana has won a total of 57 medals since the inception of the Games in 1930, 15 out of which have been gold, with the last being the golds which were won by Ignisious Gaisah and Majeti Fetrie at the Melbourne Games in 2006.

Ghana’s Black Starlets are a win away from making the semi-finals of the ongoing Africa U-17 Cup of Nations when they lock horns with hosts Gabon at the Stade de Port-Gentil later today.

After thrashing giants Cameroun 4-0 in their opening game last Sunday, the Starlets will automatically qualify for the FIFA U-17 World Cup to be staged in India in October if they beat Gabon.

Newly-appointed Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, is bent on leaving a rich legacy by building a formidable team that can last for the next decade.

To ensure that, he intends to create competition in the team as the first step towards reviving the fortunes of the Black Stars.

Former Black Stars skipper, Stephen ‘Tornado’ Appiah, has been given a new role as the Technical Coordinator of the senior national team with a long-term view to grooming him into an expert for the nation.

The new portfolio, according to new Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, is to empower the former Hearts of Oak and Juventus midfielder to become a great help to the nation in the near future.

Kwasi Appiah has been officially unveiled as the head coach of the senior national team, the Black Stars after he began his two-year stint on May 1 earlier this month.

As widely speculated, Appiah has made some changes to the technical staff of the team with former internationals, Ibrahim Tanko, Stephen Appiah and Richard Kingson joining the backroom staff.

Former Ghana international, Maxwell Konadu has been demoted in the coaching set-up under new Black Stars coach James Kwasi Appiah.

The long-term assistant coach of the Black Stars is now the 2nd Assistant Coach of the team as his previous post has been handed to former Cameroon assistant coach, Ibrahim Tanko.

StarTimes, the media rights holder for the Ghana Premier League, has agreed to give free decoder kits and two months subscription for the winners of this year’s Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) awards to be held on May 27.

Ghanaian winger David Accam has been named in the Major League Soccer (MLS) team of the week.

Accam, 26, was included in the team after registering a goal for Chicago Fire in the 4-1 mauling of Seattle Sounders over the weekend.

Ghana's quest to win medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games next April in Gold Coast, Australia has received a GH₵25,000 boost from the Australian High Commission in Ghana.

The sum was presented to the Ghana Olympic Committee by the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Andrew Barnes on Monday in Accra.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, has expressed optimism that the funding deficit of sports programmes will soon be consigned to the past following the inauguration of a 13-member Technical Committee to oversee the creation of a National Sports Fund.

According to Mr Asiamah, the committee, headed by his deputy, Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, has been tasked to review and put in place an institutional framework that will explore alternative revenue streams aside from the national budget that will be used to cater for all the 43 sporting disciplines in the country.

Zonal defending champions, Ampem Darkoa and Hasaacas Ladies began their campaign in this year’s National Women’s League (NWL) with emphatic wins as the competition kicked off over the weekend.

Ampem Darkoa beat Lepo Ladies 4-2 in their game at the Ohene Ameyaw Park at Techiman, while Hasaacas Ladies won 3-1 against visiting Samaria Ladies at Bompeh Park, Takoradi.

Ghana's Under-17 male football team, the  Black Starlets were in imperious form on Sunday thrashing their Cameroonian counterparts 4-0 in their group opener at the 2017 CAF U-17 AFCON.

The comfortable victory was secured courtesy braces by skipper Eric Ayiah and striker Ibrahim Sulley.

Michael Essien and Persib Bandung missed an opportunity to move top of Indonesia Liga One on Saturday night after being held to a 0-0 draw at Didier Zokora's Semen Padang.

The two African legends went head-to-head from early in the second half when Essien came off the bench for Persib. But neither the former Ghana star nor Ivory Coast icon was able to help his new team break the deadlock, though Zokora was the busier of the two players.

The point means that Persib stays in second, below leaders PSM, while Semen Padang is in 10th.

The wife of Ghanaian football star Michael Essien, Mrs Akosua Puni Essien was left disappointed with her Italian third division club, Calcio Como as they failed to progress beyond the first round of playoffs for promotion to the Italian Serie B.

Como's promotion hopes were crushed after a 2-1 loss away at Piacenza on Sunday at the Stadio Leonardo Garilli.

Defending champion Immigration Service clawed their way back to the top spot after emphatic 3-0 wins against Team Coach Addo and Ashaiman Club in the ongoing Stanbic Bank-sponsored Table Tennis League being staged at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports of the Accra Sports Stadium last Saturday.

In the first round matches of  Week Two fixtures, Synergy lost 2-3 to Team Coach Addo, while SmartLine@Emefs beat Madina Stars 3-0 before Police lost 0-3 to Tesano Spinners.