NBC explains decision to support Lagos Yacht Club’s boat race
The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) has explained its decision to sponsor the annual Lagos Yacht Club Boat Racing Competition, which holds at the Lagos Yacht Club, Onikan, Lagos. Speaking shortly after the end of this year’s competition, the National Marketing Director, Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Limited, Mr Patrick Tyler revealed that the decision to support the competition is in line...
COUNTDOWN TO UK TRIP FOR SUPER CUP: Buruj CEO Says, ‘We Want To Expand Frontiers To Aid Our Players’ Evolution’
Teams from more than twenty countries from across the world will gather in Manchester, United Kingdom, for this year's edition of the English Super Cup as well as the Welsh Super Cup in Cardiff and Buruj Sports Academy is one of the few teams from the continent of Africa who will feature. Having featured and starred in previous tournaments organised...
Federal High Court adjourns SPIP case against NFF officials till September 26… No bench warrant against NFF President Pinnick
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday adjourned till 26th September 2019, a case brought against some top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel (SPIP). The NFF officials have continued to deny any wrong-doing and have insisted the case brought by SPIP is baseless, mere persecution and an abuse of court process,...
Breaking News: Four Nigerians qualify for Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Nigeria’s participation in the table tennis event of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games has been confirmed on Monday, July 1 at the 2019 Africa Para Table Tennis Championship holding in Alexandria, Egypt as four players secured their places in Japan. Victor Farinloye will be debuting at the games after Nigeria sealed his place in the men’s Class 8 after emerging...
NCC League gets six new investors as top stars collect N.3m sign-on fees
The NCC Tennis League has attracted six new teams’ sponsors for the 2019 edition, just as the top 10 players, men and women, are guaranteed N300, 000 each as sign-on fees from promoters. Speaking at the just concluded CBN Championship in Abuja, the director of the International Tennis Academy (ITA), organisers of the event, Godwin Kienka, said some of the...
Quadre wins CBN Senior Tennis Championship
Teenage sensation Oyinlomo Quadre at the weekend crowned her fairy tale run at the CBN Senior Tennis Championship with success in the ladies’ singles of the event, which ended at the weekend. The African number two had along the way defeated older and more experienced players to get to the final, where she defeated tournament’s number two seed, Christy Agugbom,...
Miss Football Nigeria launched, targets 80m Nigerians
Miss Football Nigeria, new beauty pageantry targeted at getting more support for local leagues as against foreign ones has been launched in Nigeria. The pageantry officially called Queen Of Nigeria Football is an initiative by Miss Football Nigeria with a focus on beauty, football, entertainment, and youth empowerment. According to the National Director, Media and Publicity Mr Gambo Jagindi, the...
Bet9ja BBNaija season 4 begins with 21 housemates
The long-anticipated fourth season of the Big Brother Naija reality show kicked off on Sunday with 21 housemates. This is the highest number of housemates so far as 2017’s ‘See Gobe’ had 14 housemates and 2018’s ‘Double Wahala’ had 20 housemates. The first housemate introduced was Avala, a 30-year-old from Ogun State who said she was in the show for the...
Gov. Dickson Classics: Popoola best discovery in women wrestling
A 14-year-old secondary school student in Ondo State, Rebecca Popoola, was on Sunday identified as the best discovery in women wrestling at the ongoing Gov. Dickson National Wrestling Classics in Bayelsa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Popoola won a gold medal in the 36kg women wrestling. She also got a monetary reward for being the best discovery in...
AFCON 2019: Madagascar spank Eagles 2-0 to win Group B
Lowly –rated Madagascar shocked Nigeria 2-0 as an awful performance by the Super Eagles handed the Indian Ocean islanders leadership of Group B and condemned the three-time champions to ignominious second place and a probable encounter with the Black Stars of Ghana in the Round of 16. In what would forever remain a day to forget in Nigerian Football, the...
