TAKE ME SERIOUS; OPEYEMI BOASTS AHEAD GOTV BOXING NIGHT 20

Highly rated bantamweight boxer, Opeyemi ‘Sense’ Adeyemi, has boasted that he will be the next national champion in his weight division after his fight with Sadiq Adeleke at GOtv Boxing Night 20, which holds on 12 October at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos. The 19-year old, who was voted best boxer at GOtv Boxing NextGen Search...

Nigeria Pillar of Sports, Chief Donatus Agu-Ejidike, Promises Robust relationship with FRCN

The Nigerian Pillar of Sports, Chief Donatus Agu-Ejidike, has vowed to keep partnering with the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, in the area of grass-root Sports Development. Agu-Ejidike who together with a prominent member of the office of the Nigeria Pillar of Sports, Bayour Issah, received the Zonal Director and members of his entourage, made the pledge today, during...

Dare calls for Support, urges ANOCA to help Nigeria’s capacity building programme

Youth and Sports Minister, Sunday Dare has urged the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) to help Nigeria in achieving its capacity building programme. Speaking when an ANOCA delegation, led by its president, Mustapha Berraf, paid him a courtesy call in his office yesterday, Dare thanked the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) for bringing the ANOCA team to him,...

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Gov Okowa in cloud nine as Delta wins Fifth National Youth Games in Ilorin

Team Delta made history again by winning the fifth National Youth Games in Ilorin yesterday, Monday to make it five wins out of five competitions. They won the multi-sports youth development Games for the fourth time in 2018, after garnering a total of 67 medals, made up of 27 gold, 24 silver, and 16 bronze. But yesterday in Ilorin, Team...

16 teams to play Zenith Bank Conference Playoffs

16 teams have qualified for the National Conference Phase of the 2019 Zenith Women Basketball League after the conclusion of the group games across four venues. Nigerian Army Amazons who remained unbeaten after 12 games in the North West Division booked a place in the Savannah Conference alongside Kaduna Angels who finished with 22 points. Taraba Hurricanes with 7 wins out...

NYG 2019: Featuring overage athletes amounts to killing talents – Gafar

Oluwatoyin Gafar, the Director-General (D-G) of the Lagos State Sports Commission (LSSC), has described those featuring overage athletes at age-group events as talent killers. Gafar said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin. He said that no athletes from Lagos State that participated at the 5th National Youth Games in Ilorin were outside the...

Heineken Launches ‘Better Together’ Campaign as UCL Returns

The Heineken House in Ikoyi Lagos and other centres across the country will definitely be a beehive of activities as the UEFA Champions League returns tonight. Heineken the proud sponsors of the competition have named its newly launched campaign for the competition ‘Better Together.’ The ‘Better Together’ campaign, another masterpiece from the international Premium Brand highlights the true football spirit where...

NFF hunts for African opposition, after sealing Eagles/Brazil

The Nigeria Football Federation is working hard at sealing a match with an African team for the Super Eagles, after announcing on Monday night that the three-time African champions will play Brazil in a friendly in Singapore on Sunday 13th October. Nigeria and Brazil will tango in a much –anticipated encounter at the Singapore National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore on Sunday,...

CHAN: Amapakabo to lead Eagles to Lome on Friday

Imama Amapakabo, head coach of the U23 National Team, will lead the Home-based Super Eagles, known as Eagles B, to Lome on Friday for the first leg of a 2020 African Nations Championship qualifying fixture against the Sparrow Hawks coming up on Sunday. As a way of preparing the U23 boys for the 3rd U23 AFCON finals holding in Egypt...