Jamaican sprints sensation Usain Bolt reminds me of Ghana’s Mike Ahey, one of the finest athletes the West African state has produced. The antics and mannerisms of Bolt are quite similar to those of Ahey in his hey days in the 60s. He added colour and splendour to track and field just like the affable Bolt is doing. Both have similar height except that Bolt has more flesh on his body. more »

I still hold the view that the Ghana Premier League Board missed a fine opportunity last Sunday to stage a fitting coronation for the 2008-2009 marathon league. The planned ceremonial match this weekend between champions Accra Hearts of Oak and former city rivals Accra Great Olympics is to my mind a poor fixture to climax such an exciting league season. more »

Even though Ghana could not make much headway in the just ended Africa hockey championship which she hosted, sports fans are fascinated by the excellent construction of the modern stadium that hosted the tournament. For the records, Ghana won women’s silver and men’s bronze. more »

The chairman of the Ghana Premier League Board("PLB"), Welbeck Abra-Appiah, says he expects a crowded league programme next season in view of the Africa Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. “We would have to complete the league before the World Cup begins”, he told a radio interviewer in Accra moments after the last matches of the 2008-2009 league on Sunday that saw Accra Hearts of Oak winning their 20th league title with an expected 2-0 win over bottom club Sporting Mirren at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra. more »

The seeming struggle for power in the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) is completely uncalled for. It looks like we have two presidents in the person of Benson Baba who has headed the GOC for the past 13 years and Prof Francis Dodoo who was elected at a controversial GOC Congress a couple of weeks ago. more »

It is unfortunate that the exciting premier league should be marred by crowd violence at some centres towards the end of the tournament. This habit of irate fans destroying stadium seats at the least provocation must be stopped. It is most unsporting and those who destroyed chairs at the Obuasi Len Clay Stadium during the Ashgold-Asante Kotoko penultimate league match on Sunday should be found out and punished. more »

The word change is a very powerful entity in the political vocabulary in my country, Ghana. In the 2001 general election, the then opposition New Patriotic Party won the polls with the popular slogan of “positive change”. Eight years later the opposition National Democratic Congress adopted the slogan “Change for a better Ghana” and they won albeit narrowly. Surely there must be something magical about this word change. more »

Mrs. Theodosia Okoh, the Octogerian artist, may be famous for designing the national flag of Ghana, but sports lovers will remember for the pioneering role she played in popularizing the game of hockey in the country. more »

This is definitely not the first time the premier league, the passion of the nation, is going to the wire with the two most famous clubs in the country, Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak chasing the Golden Fleece in a neck to neck affair. With only three more games to end the season, only two points separate Hearts and Asante Kotoko from the top of the table. The amazing thing is the sudden turn around of fortunes in the second round of the proceedings when the first round pointed to a straight forward win for Accra Hearts of Oak. more »

June 30th is a date I will never forget. To be precise, it was June 30th 1982 in London. I had just completed a 12-week course in journalism at the Thomson Foundation Editorial Centre then at Elephant and Castle in Southeast London and had decided to spend an extra week or two enjoying a little bit more of life in London. more »