Gender Mobile Initiative and Ekiti FA team up for Mental Wellness
Gender Mobile Initiative, a youth-led non-governmental organization, collaborates with the Ekiti state football Association for a ‘Football for Mental Wellness' event taking place on Friday, 23rd September, 2022. ‘Football for Mental Wellness' is part of the implementation of the in-school sensitization and peer educator training on ‘Adolescent Mental Wellness’. In-School adolescent girls will be playing the engaging game of football to...
NBBF NATIONAL LEAGUES: NBBF Releases List Of Basketball Teams
The Nigeria Basketball Federation has moved a step further towards the reactivation of its national programmes coming up few weeks from now. In its latest move, the NBBF via a letter signed by its Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Njoku, has informed all Chairmen and Secretaries of State Basketball Associations to gear up for the coming programmes by updating the requirements for...
Indian High Commissioner felicitates with Flamingos
The High Commissioner of India to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Gangaharan Balasubramanian on Thursday hosted players and officials of the U17 Girls’ National Team, Flamingos at the India High Commission in Abuja. Players and officials of the team, which will represent Africa at the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup being hosted by India 11th – 30th...
Lagos To Host Nationwide League One Super 8 Tourney On October 3
The much anticipated Nationwide League One (NLO) will kick off in the sports city of Lagos, Surulere, from 3rd to 8th October. Secretariat of the nation's third-tier domestic league announced via its media department that the Legacy Pitch, National Stadium in Surulere will host the six days. Eight teams of Smart City FC (Lagos State), Madiba FC (Lagos State), FC Ebedei...
National Division One League Set To Commence In October As Ocheho Praise Sponsor, Edo State Government
The National Division One Handball League 2022 will now hold this October in Benin City, Edo State. The National Division One League 2022 will shoot off from October 9th through to the 16th the same month. The second tier league organised by the Handball Federation of Nigeria and is proudly sponsored by the Edo State government, is a promotional league...
Igali’s Election Into World Wrestling Body Excites Gov Diri, Hails State Schools Performance At World Basketball Championship
Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has expressed delight over the recent election of the Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Daniel Igali, into the United World Wrestling Bureau. The governor, who was out of the country, spoke on Thursday morning at the Samson Siasia Sports Complex in Yenagoa shortly after the weekly health and fitness exercise tagged Prosperity Walk....
ISF WORLD SCHOOL BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 2022: Nigeria Defeat Hungary, Turkey In Opening Matches
...Kida excited, urges them to do Nigeria proud Nigeria’s representatives at the 2022 World School Basketball Championships - Bayelsa’s duo of Bishop Dimieari Grammar School and St Jude’s Girls Secondary School, Amarata, Wednesday in Belgrade, Serbia, began their campaigns on a bright note with victories over Hungary and Turkey. It was the boys’ team of Bishop Dimieari Grammar School that took...
NBBF Releases Programme Of 2022 Activities
The Nigeria Basketball Federation has concluded all necessary arrangements for the commencement of its various activities for 2022, including the national leagues. In a 2-page letter which was addressed to all State Basketball Associations and clubs, signed by NBBF Secretary-General Mr. Peter Njoku and made available to the media, it states; As you all are aware, the 21st National Sports...
International Allstars Friendly Match: Nigeria Tackles Rwanda For Bragging Rights
One of the leading All-stars Football Clubs, in Lagos, Elite 5-A Side Football Club based in Amuwo-Odofin area of the state, are expected to jet out to Kigali, Rwanda, Friday for a 4-day business retreat and friendly leisure football encounter that would see the Nigerians tackle Cercle Sportif De Kigali in an international friendly encounter, that throws up a...
Abba Yola Receives Pan-African Icon Of Sports Renaissance Award
Alhaji Abba Abdulahi Yola would be the cynosure of all eyes, Friday, as he receives the prestigious Thomas Sankara Leadership Prize for Pan-African Icon of Sports Renaissance Award. Ciroman Yola, as Abba Abdulahi is fondly known is currently, Chief of Staff to Minister for Youth and Sports Development, Chief Sunday Dare. Widely acknowledged as a vastly experienced sports administrator, the...
