Tag: sports
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Sports cancelled as traumatised New Zealand mourns shooting victims
A raft of top-class sports events were cancelled in New Zealand on Saturday as a traumatised nation started burying the dead from the worst peacetime mass killing in its history. A lone gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 20 at two Christchurch mosques on Friday in a shooting which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern…
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FIFA council to vote on new club World Cup
FIFA council members are set to vote on whether a revamped version of the Club World Cup would be held annually or every four years, according to Sky Sports News. Proposals for an expanded version of the competition, which currently takes place annually, are being discussed at the Fifa council meeting in Rwanda on Thursday…
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Dogara says National Assembly will commit itself more to repositioning sports
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday in Abuja promised that the National Assembly would deploy all within its legislative powers to reposition the sports sector in Nigeria. Dogara, while speaking at a one-day National Sports Summit organised by the House Committee on Sports, said the repositioning was necessary in the interest…
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‘Sports knows no colour’ — ITTF media officer
The Media Officer of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), Mr Olalekan Okusan, said on Saturday that the ongoing Challenge Seamaster Nigeria Open was helping to build a mutual relationship between participating countries. Okusanya made the remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the 5th edition of…
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Nigerian Navy pledges support for grassroots sports in Niger Delta
The Nigerian Navy has pledged continued support for grassroots sports in host communities as part of plans to curb youth restiveness and insecurity in the Niger Delta. Commodore Idi Abbas, the Commander of Naval Anti-Piracy Task Group, Port Harcourt, gave the pledge on the side-lines of a friendly football match organised by the Navy in…
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Commonwealth 2018: Arco Group celebrates Joy Udo-Gabriel’s shine in Australia, reinstates sponsorship deal
Arco Group Plc, a leading oil, and gas servicing firm in celebrated the impressive outing of Nigerian athlete, Joy Udo-Gabriel at the just concluded Commonwealth games in Australia, where she won bronze medal in the 4 × 100m women relay. Recall that in 2016 the company in its display of commitment towards developing sports in…
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Okowa performs ground breaking of sports university
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa today performed the ground breaking ceremony of a sports university known as Sports, Technology Arts and Research Sciences (STARS) University, in Idumuje-Ugboko, Delta state. The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner for Higher Education, Mr Jude Sinebe, said, “this ground breaking event is a call to service’’. Performing the ground breaking,…
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Sports reforms to drive job creation, youth development in Edo – Obaseki
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration’s vision to reform sports is aimed at creating jobs and curbing restiveness among youths. The governor made the submission during a dinner organised to unveil the new logo, jersey, team bus, technical team as well as manual for the rebranded Bendel Insurance Football Club (FC)…
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Africa can create jobs with sports – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday called on African leaders to exploit the potentials of sports to create job and promote peaceful coexistence. Buhari, represented by Solomon Dalung, Minister of Sports and Youth Development, stated this at the opening ceremony of the United World Wresting African Championships in Port Harcourt. He said that sports could also…