Category: Sports

Dakuku: Nigeria Can Sustain Greatness, Create Millions Of Jobs Through Sports
August 6, 2019 No Responses

Dakuku: Nigeria Can Sustain Greatness, Create Millions Of Jobs Through Sports

The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, says sports has a big place in the country’s development equation, as the spirit of fairness and unity, which sporting events evoke, is a vital ingredient...
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Continental Tyre Sponsors Total Africa Cup Of Nations
May 21, 2019 No Responses

Continental Tyre Sponsors Total Africa Cup Of Nations

International tyre manufacturer, Continental has announced that its Tire Division is to be Official Sponsor of the Total Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) until 2023, as part of a five-year agreement signed with the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF). &nb...
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Angola beat Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets In Third-Place Match
April 27, 2019 No Responses

Angola beat Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets In Third-Place Match

All hopes of seeing Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets end their campaign at the U-17 Africa Cup of Nations on a high note have been dashed. The Nigeria U17s were beaten 2-1 by their Angolan counterparts in the third place match on...
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Battle For WJC Begins In Ghana
April 7, 2019 No Responses

Battle For WJC Begins In Ghana

It is a record entry for this year’s African Junior and Cadet Championships holding in Ghana and it serves as qualification for the ITTF World Junior Championships (WJC) with 21 African teams slugging it out for the limited slots available...
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Federer Wins 100th ATP Title
March 3, 2019 No Responses

Federer Wins 100th ATP Title

Roger Federer has won his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Tennis Championships – 6,600 days after winning his first in Milan. The 37-year-old Swiss – a 20-time Grand Slam champion – beat Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4 6-4. Federer&#8...
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Arena Athletics Academy Gets AFN license, To Organize National Triangular Athletics In June
February 7, 2019 No Responses

Arena Athletics Academy Gets AFN license, To Organize National Triangular Athletics In June

Arena Athletics Academy has announced that it would host a Triangular Athletics Meet in June, 2019 following the recent meet hosting licence granted it by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria to organize national track and field competitions across the country....
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Buhari Congratulates Super Falcons
December 2, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Congratulates Super Falcons

President Muhammadu Buhari warmly congratulates the Super Falcons of Nigeria on their victory over the Banyana Banyana of South Africa Saturday in the final match of the 11th Africa Women Cup of Nations (AWCON), Ghana 2018. The President expresses particular.....
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Heritage Bank Restates Commitment To Youth, Sport development
November 19, 2018 No Responses

Heritage Bank Restates Commitment To Youth, Sport development

Heritage Bank Plc has restated commitment to improved youth and sport developments in the country, thereby attaining rapid growth in these areas, through sponsorship of sporting activities in tertiary institutions. The MD/CEO of Heritage Bank, Ifie Sekibo affi...
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History Beckons As Georgia Oboh Makes LET Qualifying School finals
November 6, 2018 No Responses

History Beckons As Georgia Oboh Makes LET Qualifying School finals

Few weeks after competing at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, teenage golf sensation – Georgia Oboh at the weekend Morocco moves closer to making history after qualifying for the finals of the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School....
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Parliament Bans Sports Betting
October 26, 2018 No Responses

Parliament Bans Sports Betting

Albania’s parliament on Thursday passed a law banning sports betting and other forms of gambling in the country from 2019.  According to the parliament, the measure is to tackle addiction among gamblers and match-fixing in sport competitions, while also pro...
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FIFA Gives Nigeria, Ghana Deadline
August 15, 2018 No Responses

FIFA Gives Nigeria, Ghana Deadline

World football governing body FIFA on Tuesday said it would go on to suspend Nigeria and Ghana from football activities if they failed to comply with its instructions by Monday. FIFA, in a statement by its Media Office, said it...
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ITTF Unveils Seeding Lists For 2018 Nigeria Open
July 30, 2018 No Responses

ITTF Unveils Seeding Lists For 2018 Nigeria Open

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has unveiled the seeding list for the 2018 ITTF Challenge Seamaster Nigeria Open holding on August 8 to 12 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim  Balogun Stadium in Lagos. Also, 12 undergraduates from Nig...
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Lagos To Come Alive For NTTF National Junior League
July 16, 2018 No Responses

Lagos To Come Alive For NTTF National Junior League

Hundreds of junior players across the country will converge in Lagos from July 27 to August 4 for the annual Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) National Junior League which will herald Africa’s elite tournament – ITTF Challenge Nigeria Open. For...
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Croatia Stops Russia
July 8, 2018 No Responses

Croatia Stops Russia

Russia’s remarkable World Cup run ended in a heart-breaking quarter-final defeat on penalties as Croatia bounced back from a late extra-time equaliser to set up a last-four meeting with England. Defender Mario Fernandes, who had brought his side level th...
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