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.
The Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Pius Hadzide, and the Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Mr Robert Sarfo Mensah, yesterday visited the national U-17 soccer team, Black Starlets,
Accra Great Olympics striker, Abel Manomey, says his side will deepen the woes of visiting Kumasi Asante Kotoko when the two clash at the Accra Stadium this afternoon.
Sulley Muntari has had the one-match ban he received after protesting against racist abuse overturned, says world players' union Fifpro.
National top seed and ace ping-pong player Felix Lartey says the Immigration team will win this season’s national table tennis league scheduled to begin later this month.
He also disclosed that the team after winning the league would compete in the Africa Club Championship tournament in Morocco.
It has now been confirmed that a former assistant coach of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun, Ibrahim Tanko, will be Coach Kwasi Appiah’s main assistant during his second stint with the Black Stars.
This was the fallout of a proposal the new Black Stars coach submitted to the Ghana Football Association (GFA) last Tuesday.
The United States have now confirmed an international friendly with Ghana in July in preparation for the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup which takes place across the United States from July 6-21.
The United States, who beat Ghana 2-1 in the opening group game of the Brazil 2014 World Cup, will play Ghana for the first time on Ghana's Republic Day on July 1 at the Pratt and Whitney Stadium in East Hartford, Connecticut, a week before they open their 2017 Gold Cup campaign against Panama on July 8.
Ghanaian defender Harrison Afful is unsure which country his newborn son will represent when he grows up.
Afful's wife, Roberta delivered their second child, Kendrick, on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio in the USA and even before the youngster starts walking his father has already been quizzed about which country he will represent if he becomes a footballer.
