{"id":233362,"date":"2016-07-22T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233362"},"modified":"2016-07-22T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:40:13","slug":"sports-ministry-seeks-sponsorship-for-ghana-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/sports-ministry-seeks-sponsorship-for-ghana-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Ministry seeks sponsorship for Ghana Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Youth and Sports has confirmed that it is actively seeking sponsors for the Ghana Premier League.<\/p>\n
The league has been without a headline sponsor following the decision of Capital Bank to terminate its contract with the Ghana Football Association after 2 years.<\/p>\n
A number of clubs have threatened to pull out of the league as they are over burdened with the cost of operation.<\/p>\n
The Ghana Football Association is the body mandated to seek sponsorship for the Ghanaian top flight league but have been unable to achieve any success in their endeavors.<\/p>\n
The league however, has ten more match days before it wraps up for the season.<\/p>\n
The Ministry\u2019s spokesperson Otor Plahar confirmed that initial talks have been held with a number of corporate bodies.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs things stand now no deal has been reached with any organisation but the Ministry is making moves in that direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have spoken to a number of corporate bodies who can come on board to help the Ghana League.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been the vision of the Minister Nii Lante Vanderpuye to help grow football through the league and also help the lesser funded sports,\u201d he told Citi Sports<\/strong> on Thursday.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By:Benjamin Nketsia\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ministry of Youth and Sports has confirmed that it is actively seeking sponsors for the Ghana Premier League. The league has been without a headline sponsor following the decision of Capital Bank to terminate its contract with the Ghana Football Association after 2 years. A number of clubs have threatened to pull out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":233363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n