The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Speedsters Club has been launched at the Silva Platta Restaurant in Accra with the selection of three budding athletes to initiate Ghana’s search for the champion who is capable of becoming World or Olympic Star by 2020. Reks Brobby, founder of Ghana’s Fastest Human which has given birth to … Read more
Ghana’s weightlifting team, Black Cranes, have arrived from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth and Commonwealth Junior and Seniors Weightlifting competitions that was held in Penang, Malaysia. The team which comprised of Forrester Osei, Christian Amoah and Richmond Osarfo won numerous medals for the country in various categories of the competition. The team was met … Read more
Fans in Tamale were made to pay a fee of GHC1 to watch the Black Stars train ahead of their opening World Cup qualifier against Uganda in the Northern region. Black Stars training session has always been free but according to footballmadeinghana.com, the Sports Ministry and National Sports Authority collaborated to decide against allowing fans … Read more
Radio presenter, Charles Osei Asibey, has been appointed acting President of the newly-formed Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF). He is expected to drive operations of the new sporting regulatory body until it holds a substantive congress. The Ghana Armwrestling Federation was formed early this year by Osei Asibey, himself an Executive Committee Member of both the … Read more
A former Deputy Sports Minister, O. B. Amoah, has accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of misappropriating funds that should have gone into the development of sports infrastructure. The Akuapem South legislator was of the view that his party would do better in the area of sports if voted into power in the December … Read more
The CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Alex Mould, has defended his outfit’s continuous association with the senior national soccer team, the Black Stars, describing it as the best brand in the country. GNPC is currently the headline sponsor of the Black Stars, doling out US$3 million annually as a sponsorship package for the … Read more
The Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Mr. Joe Kpenge has revealed that national football teams are not factored in the sports budget released to the Ministry of Youth and Sports, yet the funds are not enough to support the other federations. He made the revelation on Class FM in Accra when he … Read more
Power supply to the Accra Sports Stadium has been cut by the Electricity Company of Ghana over unpaid bills. The Accra Sports Stadium in 2015 owed the ECG bills worth GH¢240,000 and were placed on a payment plan of GH¢24,000 per month to enable them to clear the debt but reports indicate that managers of … Read more
Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has revealed that players of the Black Stars nearly called off their training at the Accra Sports Stadium on Monday because of the disastrous state of the pitch, insisting they will look for an alternative venue if the pitch is not improved on Tuesday. The sports ministry’s failure to pay the … Read more
Commissioned in 1960 to host football matches in the Greater Accra region, the famous Accra Sports Stadium, which is located between the former seat of the Government of Ghana and house of the legislature, the Christiansburg Castle, and Parliament House respectively, has gone through a lot in its five decades of existence. It has been … Read more