Lagos State had a remarkable outing at the NSF National Scrabble Festival in Ogun State, winning the individual and team games. African Scrabble champion, Enock Nwali who is a student of Human Kinetics and Health Education in the University of Lagos won the individual event after claiming 20 wins and a draw for a cumulative points of 1220 from 28 rounds of games. Another Lagos player,...
Nigeria's table-tennis star, Aruna Quadri is back in top 20 of the International Table-Tennis Federation (ITTF) world rankings. Quadri gained three steps to occupy the 19th spot while African Games gold medallist, Omar Assar also moved one step forward to 16th in the ITTF ranking. Meanwhile, Quadri started his campaign at the ITTF World Cups in Macao with a convincing 4-0 (11-6), 11 -4, 11-6, 11-6)...
Nigeria’s sole flagbearer at the ITTF World Cup, Quadri Aruna saw off Puerto Rico’s Daniel Gonzalez 4-0 in his opening group game in the early hours of Tuesday. The 35-year-old Nigerian, drawn in Group 15 of the Macao 2024 tournament alongside Gonzalez and Portugal's Marcos Freitas, cruised to 11-6, 11-4, 11-6, 11-6 win over the Puerto Rican. Aruna, who remains the first and only African to...
Nigeria will be back in action in June when the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers return to the front burner, but the Super Eagles are yet to have a substantive head coach. The three-time African champions are scheduled to face South Africa on June 7 in Uyo before taking on Benin Republic in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire a few days later but they do not have their...
Former Nigeria striker Emmanuel Emenike might have quit professional football but he continues to give back to his community with the launch of a state-of-the-art medical facility in Owerri, Imo State. The Emenike Hospital in Owerri joins a wide range of businesses the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner has built in the South-East region of Nigeria which include the EE29 Hotel and Suites. Over the...
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