By Akeem Busari Encomiums have been pouring for Edo Queens, Nigeria’s representatives at this year’s CAF Women’s Champions league. The team lost 1-3 in the semi-finals of the championship to TP Mazembe of Congo and would now face FC Masar in the third place match. Speaking on the valiant efforts and eventual ouster of the team, National Chairman of Nigeria …
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The atmosphere, Monday at the Basketball stadium in Port Harcourt, was electrifying and full of glitz and glamour, associated with top class sporting events, and that was what was on display at the 2024 NBBF Men’s Premier Basketball League final 8 championship. Expectedly, the final 8 series which brought together, the top 4 teams in each of the Atlantic …
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By Akeem Busari The Sam Okpodu Sports and Educational Foundation (SOSEF), Monday, donated a set of 22 pieces of complete jerseys to Ighogbadu Primary School, Warri, the winners of the recently concluded Zenith Bank sponsored Headmasters football tournament in Delta State. The Chairman of SOSEF, ex international Sam Okpodu, was represented by one the trustees of the foundation in …
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By Akeem Busari One of Nigeria’s foremost female football promoter and investors, Ayodele Thomas, has congratulated the management and team of Nigeria’s representatives at the ongoing CAF Women’s Champions league, Edo Queens, for beating defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns 2-1, to qualify for the semi-finals stage of the championship. In his statement, Thomas, the CEO of TopPro Sports Management Company, …
Continue ReadingBy Akeem Busari The National Chairman of Nigeria and Africa’s foremost football fans group, Nigeria Football Supporters Club, Ambassador(Rev). Samuel Ikpea, has sent a thank you message to members of its Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire members chapter for cheering the Super Eagles to seal its qualification for next year’s AFCON championship. “I must commend you for cheering our Super …
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By Akeem Busari As preparations intensifies ahead of the eagerly anticipated 1st Ajegunle City Youth Marathon, the epochal event has continued to receive and enjoy widespread of supports and endorsements from highly placed individuals within the Ajegunle community. The latest endorsement for the event, which is set to be a benchmark for community youth, sports and social engagement, …
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By Akeem Busari The newly-found form of Ikorodu City FC, in recent matches of the ongoing NPFL season, has continued to elicit excitements and commendations from football administrators, stakeholders and soccer fans in Lagos State. In his latest congratulatory message to the players and officials of the team, Chairman of Lagos State Football Association, Hajji Gafar Liameed, once …
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By Akeem Busari The Abesan community and its axis of Lagos State came alive on Sunday, when the finals of the 2nd edition of Musa Kida Basketball Competition held at the Abesan Mini-Stadium. The first game of the day was between JF Warriors who defeated Heat Kings 14-12 to win the third place in the boys category. While …
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It was another victorious outing for Nigeria on the continental stage as the national U16 female basketball 3v3 team, claimed gold medal in Dakar, Senegal at the DAKAR EN JAUX 2024 Festival. The Nigerian girls who had earlier claimed a silver medal in Accra, Ghana during the All Africa Games, defeated host country, Senegal 11-8 in the final to …
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Football History was made Saturday in Lagos, as the first batch of 100 grassroots football coaches graduated as certified coaches from the National Institute For Sports (NIS), in the specialised one-month training course facilitated by Lagos State Football Association and inconjunction with Africa’s leading sports training centre, the NIS. Speaking during the epochal event, Professor Olawale Moronkola, the Director-General/ …
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