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  • Olympics 2024: Favourite debutant, Richardson cruises into 100m semis with ease

    Olympics 2024: Favourite debutant, Richardson cruises into 100m semis with ease

    Sha’Carri Richardson made a strong impression in her Olympic debut by winning her opening-round heat of the women’s 100m with a time of 10.94 seconds, advancing to Saturday’s semifinal round.

     

    Richardson had a solid start and surged ahead of the other sprinters around the 30-meter mark, cruising the rest of the way. Patrizia van der Weken of Luxembourg finished second with a time of 11.14 seconds.

     

    Running in the first of eight heats on Friday morning, Marie-Josée Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast clocked the fastest time in the opening round at 10.87 seconds. Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce recorded the second fastest time (10.92 seconds).

     

    Richardson advanced to the semifinals with the fourth fastest time among all qualifiers. As the U.S. Olympic track and field trials champion in the event, she holds the world’s top time this year at 10.71 seconds.

     

    Richardson is the favorite to win the 100m at this year’s Paris Olympics, being the defending world champion and arriving with significant momentum. Additionally, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson withdrew from the event earlier this week.

     

    All three American sprinters advanced to the semifinals. Melissa Jefferson posted a time of 10.96 seconds to place second in the third heat, while Twanisha Terry won her sixth heat with a time of 11.15 seconds.

     

    Richardson, Jefferson, and Terry are training partners in Florida. Terry expressed the benefits of having teammates by saying, “Having other teammates here to train with, to have that extra support, and to push each other is great. When one of us is down, the other two might be up. It’s a great feeling to have moral support aside from our coach and family.”

  • African Athletics Championship: Amusan falls ill, withdraws from competition

    African Athletics Championship: Amusan falls ill, withdraws from competition

    Nigeria female  hurdler, Tobi Amusan didn’t defend her women’s 100m hurdles title at the 2024 African Athletics Championship due to illness.

    Amusan had aimed to win her third straight gold medal in the event but had to withdraw at the last minute.

    Recall that Amusan came tops in the women’s 100m hurdles in 2018 in Asaba and two years ago in Mauritius.

    Had she competed and won, Amusan would have joined Maria Usifo and Glory Alozie as the only athletes with three consecutive African titles in the women’s 100m hurdles.

    Nigeria’s Adaobi Tabugo has already qualified for the final.

    Team Nigeria won two gold medals on the first of the competition on Friday.

  • [BREAKING] Tobi Amusan wins gold in 100m hurdle, breaks Commonwealth Games record

    [BREAKING] Tobi Amusan wins gold in 100m hurdle, breaks Commonwealth Games record

    Nigerian Tobi Amusan wins gold in 100m Women’s Hurdles with a new Commonwealth Games Record.

    Amusan is also the first World Champion to win Gold in the event and the first Nigerian athlete ever, dead or alive to be crowned champion at all levels of athletics in the same year.

    She posted a games record of 12.30 secs to retain the title she won in Gold Coast Australia four years ago.

    Amusan is now the world record holder as well as the commonwealth record holder for 100m hurdles

    Amusan was one of the favourites to get the gold at the tournament following her impressive showing at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, the United States, which saw her break multiple records to
    win Nigeria’s first gold at the World Championships.

    “The goal is always just to execute well and get the win. So the world record is a bonus. I knew I had it in me but I could not believe it when I saw it on the screen after the semis.

    “Before the final, I just tried to stay calm and to do my best. I took a deep breath knowing that I have some goals to accomplish and it worked pretty well. I knew it was very fast but not this fast,” Amusan
    said after her final victory.

    Coming up behind here were Bahamas’s Devynne Charlton (12.58secs) who took silver and England’s Cindy Sember (12.59secs) who took bronze with both some notable distance behind the eventual winner.
    With this result, Nigeria has now won 10 gold medals and 31 medals in total.

    Team Nigeria are now just one behind the gold medal record set by the 1994 team (11 gold medals) at the Commonwealth Games and six behind the total medals record (37 medals)

  • Bauchi govt approves N100m for Quranic recitation competition

    Bauchi govt approves N100m for Quranic recitation competition

    Bauchi State Government has approved the sum of N100m for the 36th National Quranic Recitation Competition.

     

    The approval was announced by the State Governor, Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, on Saturday while inaugurating a 57-member Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the competition held at the Banquet Hall of the Government House.

     

    According to the Bauchi State government, there is no plan to abolish the Tsangaya system of education.

     

    Mohammed further assured to provide the necessary support to enable the Committee to carry out the assignment without any hitch.

     

    The Governor said: “The selection of competent, experienced and knowledgeable people of proven integrity to serve as members of the local organizing committee is to ensure the full success of the event.”

     

    He noted that the terms of reference of the Committee are to ensure the successful hosting of the Musabaqa in collaboration with Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto; to form sub-committees to monitor the conduct of the event and ensure the provision of adequate security, healthcare and welfare services to the judges and the participants.

     

    Mohammed asserted that others are to liaise with individuals, corporate organizations and all stakeholders within and outside the state to solicit for their contributions to compliment funding of the programme, make a fair, realistic and detailed budget of the financial implication of the event, ensure judicious utilization of funds provided as well as to submit a comprehensive report within two weeks after the completion.

     

    “As we all know, the Musabaqa is a process of training the Muslims, particularly the younger ones, the correct reading, recitation and the memorization of the Glorious Qur’an with its translation. The hosting of the 36th edition of the National Musabaqa by Bauchi State Government in collaboration with Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto is an opportunity to organize the best ever national Musabaqa.

     

    “I want to assure that, Bauchi State Government would do its best to ensure that the 36th edition of the National Musabaqa would for a very long time be remembered as the most successful,” he said.

     

    He used the medium to disclaim a rumour that his administration is planning to abolish Tsangaya schools, saying that the state government is only against street begging by Almajirai.

     

    The Governor added that Tsangaya and other modern Qur’anic schools are an avenue for learning Islamic knowledge where delegates that participated at various levels of Qur’anic competitions are produced.

     

    In his remarks, the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee and former Grand Khadi of Bauchi State Sharia Court of Appeal, Abdullahi Yakubu Marafa, called for teamwork among the Committee members for the success of the assignment.

     

    “Your Excellency, we are grateful to you for finding us worthy to serve in this committee and we are going to ensure justice, fairness in the discharge of our responsibilities for the success of the event,” Marafa added.

     

    He assured that the Committee will operate in line with the terms of reference, in order to achieve the objectives of the setting of the Committee, which will in turn, result in the successful hosting of the competition in the state.

  • Being £100m man sounds… – Jack Grealish

    Being £100m man sounds… – Jack Grealish

    Manchester City midfielder Jack Grealish is happy to carry his £100m price-tag.

    In a season where he plays European club football for the first time and hopes to be a regular with his country, Grealish is thriving amid the pressure of a huge price-tag.

    “I think it sounds good,” he said, speaking to ITV, when asked about being England’s first £100m player.

    “I’m happy with it, I like it.

    “It’s something to be proud of really isn’t it. For City to have spent that sort of money (£100 million) on me shows how highly they value me.”

  • Disney owes me $100M – Wizkid

    Disney owes me $100M – Wizkid

    Nigerian singer Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known professionally as Wizkid, has claimed that Disney owes him a whooping $100M.

    Though TheNewsGuru, TNG could not verify if the claims were true, or Wizkid was simply joking on Twitter at the time of filing this report, he made the claims amidst the release of ‘Black Is King’ on Disney+.

    Taking to Twitter not quite long, Wizkid stated that Disney owes him a whopping $100 million. He wrote;

    “Good day to wake up! Disney owe me $100M !! “

    Earlier, Beyonce teased the video for ‘Brown Skin Girl’ her Award-winning song featuring Wizkid, Saint JHN and Blue Ivy.

    On November 11, 2019, news broke that Nigerian superstar and Beyonce had started shooting the music video for fan-favorite, ‘Brown Skin Girl.’ Shooting commenced on October 31, 2019.

    On Instagram, Beyoncé shared that the film is meant to “celebrate the breadth and beauty of Black ancestry,” and acknowledged that its release takes on new significance in the current climate.