A memorial service has been held at the Accra Sports Stadium in honour of the 127 football fans who lost their lives 16 years ago in the aftermath of a football match between Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
The lives were lost after Hearts scored two late goals to pip their bitter rivals Kotoko 2-1 in a Ghana Premier League mid-week tie on May 9, 2001.
The President of the Ghana Football Association Kwesi Nyantakyi, has described his confirmation as the first vice-president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), as an honour, as well as a responsibility to ensure that the flag of Ghana is yet raised high in world football.
Ghana will commemorate the 16th anniversary of the May 9 Accra Sports Stadium disaster today with a wreath-laying ceremony which starts at 8.30am at the Accra Sports Stadium.
This will be preceded by a short memorial service at the RLG Hathiramani Sports Hall where the Minister of Youth and Sports, Isaac Asiamah is expected to be in attendance.
(CNN) - Footballer Sulley Muntari has said he would be the "No.1" supporter of any organized player boycott in protest against what he believes are increasing incidents of racism in the sport.
Last week the Ghana midfielder, who plays for top-flight Italian team Pescara, said he was "treated like a criminal" after receiving a one-match ban, which was later rescinded, for objecting to being racially abused during a Serie A game.
The Minister of Youth and Sport, Isaac Asiamah, has revealed that the Black Starlets will receive $1,000 as winning bonus per match during the Africa U-17 Championship in Gabon.
The team’s new package was arrived at after dialogue between the ministry, the Starlets management officials and the playing body. It represents a reduction from an initial $3,000-a-match the players receive at international competitions.
A former national welterweight champion Isaac Aryee needs GH₵14,000 to undergo surgery on a broken neck, the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) has disclosed.
Freshman Martha Bissah's gold medal in the 800 meters and a silver-medal performance by sophomore Taejah Robertson in the 100-meter hurdles highlighted the final day of action for the Norfolk State women's track and field team at the MEAC Outdoor Championship on Saturday on the campus of North Carolina A&T.
The N.C. A&T women won the outdoor championship with 155 points, 31 ahead of runner-up Hampton. The NSU women finished tied with Bethune-Cookman for seventh place. Both tallied 54 points.
The Honorary Consul of Ghana to Italy, Massimiliano Colasuonno Taricone, played an influential role in overturning the one match ban on former Black Stars player and Pescara midfielder, Sulley Muntari.
The new Confederation of African Football (Caf) President, Ahmad, says he has refused to accept a salary from African football's governing body.
His election in March ended Cameroonian Issa Hayatou's 29-year reign.
Hundreds of people in Kumasi, including members of the national Rugby team led by the Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) president, Herbert Mensah, embarked on a two-hour brisk walk through some principal streets in the metropolis to mark the 16th anniversary of the May 9 football tragedy which claimed 127 lives at the Accra Sports Stadium in 2001.
Ghanaian-born professional basketball star Ben Bentil last Saturday took 94 young players through some important drills in the game at a clinic at the University of Ghana basketball court at Legon after which outstanding players were selected to form an all-star team to be groomed further.
Bentil, who played for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the US, with assistance from other coaches like Ben Cechini, screened hundreds of young players aged between 14 and 21 from academies and clubs in the Greater Accra Region who stormed Legon for the clinic which lasted over five hours.
Ghana will compete in seven disciplines to represent the country at this year’s Commonwealth Youth Games to be held between July 19 and 23 in the Bahamas.
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has selected athletics, swimming, judo, tennis, beach volleyball, boxing and cycling with 14 athletes -- two from each federation -- representing the country in their respective sports.
The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi has been appointed the 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
Mr Nyantakyi's nomination for the post was validated by the CAF Executive Committee on Monday morning during its first meeting under the reign of recently elected CAF President Ahmad Ahmad in Manama, Bahrain.
Ghanaian winger Christian Atsu has won the English Championship title with Newcastle United after his side thrashed Barnsley 3-0 on Sunday.
Ayoze Perez, Chancel Mbemba and Dwight Gayle scored in a comfortable victory, but it was Jack Grealish's 89th-minute equaliser for Aston Villa at Brighton which sealed the Magpies' title.
Kumasi Asante Kotoko were unable to delight their owner and life patron, the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on his birthday after they succumbed to a 2-0 loss at Accra Great Olympics on Saturday afternoon.
The Porcupine Warriors had played six consecutive league matches without victory but were confident of ending that barren run on the Otumfuo's birthday today (May 6) against fellow strugglers, Oly at the Accra Sports Stadium.
They were also looking to appease their fans after a humiliating 3-1 loss to bitter-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak in the President's Cup first-leg held at the same venue on Monday.
