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The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) and the Commonwealth Games Association of Ghana (CGA) say their outfit will welcome any investigation into deportation of some 50 supposed Ghanaian journalists who traveled to Australia with the country’s delegation to cover the Commonwealth Games. This comes after the Ministry of Youth and Sports had requested National Security to investigate the debacle. The Sports ...

Aduana Stars Head Coach Yusif Abubakar insists their CAF Confederation Cup qualifier against Fosa Juniors isn’t over, despite their 6-1 first leg mauling of their Malagasy opponents on Sunday. A brace each, from Sam Adams and Elvis Opoku, led Aduana to a massive comeback win in front of a jubilant home crowd at the Nana Agyemang Badu Park, after Fosa ...

AshantiGold head coach Charles Akunnor has lauded his side’s tactical supremacy after they claimed a 2-0 victory against Asante Kotoko in the Adansi derby. The first half was cagey as the Porcupine Warriors kept the free-scoring Miners at bay with their defensive tactics. But the Miners men opened up their opponents in the second half and defeated them courtesy goals ...

The Ministry of Youth and Sports has requested National Security to investigate the deportation of some 50 supposed Ghanaian journalists who traveled to Australia with the country’s delegation to cover the Commonwealth Games. The said journalists were deported after failing to answer basic questions posed by Australian officials about their profession. Most of them did not also have basic journalistic ...

Asante Kotoko head coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin, did not hide his displeasure at his team’s 2-0 loss to league leaders, AshGold, in Week 5 of the Ghana Premier League. The Porcupine Warriors went into game seeking to get another win after beating Eleven Wonders in Week 4 but they fell to goals from Samed Ibrahim, who headed home strongly from ...

PEP GUARDIOLA is worried about Manchester City’s mental fragility ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League re-match with Liverpool. The City manager admits his devastated stars could be haunted by their capitulation in the Manchester derby as they bid to retrieve a 3-0 first leg deficit from the first leg at Anfield. City’s Premier League title coronation party was wrecked when they ...

Later this morning, Ghana’s Hor Halutie will run in the final of the women’s 100m event in the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Australia. She made it to the final after qualifying as one of the fastest losers from the semi-finals on Sunday. Halutie was the only Ghanaian to progress to the final of the athletics event after Gemma Acheampong, Flings ...

Manchester United midfielder Ander Herrera has denied deliberately spitting on the Manchester City badge at Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Television footage shows Herrera spitting on the large badge on the floor at the entrance to the tunnel at the end of the first half. United were 2-0 down a the time but came back to win 3-2. It is understood ...

Aduana Stars were ruthless at home in the first leg of the CAF Confederation Cup Playoff with a 6-1 victory over Fosa Juniors of Madagascar on Sunday. The defending Ghana Premier League champions had fallen into the CAF Confed Cup after losing to ES Setif in the CAF Champions League qualifiers and they wanted to give themselves a good advantage ...

A high-level delegation of the Federation International of Football Association (FIFA) arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday to consider lifting the five-year ban on Libyan stadiums, a spokesman of the Libyan Football Federation (LFF) said. “A high-level delegation arrived today in the capital Tripoli for a three-day official visit to make a comprehensive technical report on the technical ...