The Nigeria Football Federation has mourned the death of the former head coach of Nigeria Women’s Under-20 team, Dan Evumena. The demise of the former Delta Queens FC coach was announced on Tuesday evening after he was reported to be in a coma at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Asaba, Delta State. Evumena was said to have been hospitalised before Christmas last year with the sickness...
Delta State have been awarded the hosting rights of the seventh National Youth Games by the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth Development. The games will take place hold next month in Asaba on the back of hosting the National Sports Festival in December which the state dominated by winning 320 gold medals. The choice of picking Delta was reached during a virtual meeting of relevant...
Imo State athlete Chukwuemeka Igboanugo passed away during his boxing fight at the 2022 National Sports Festival in Delta State on Tuesday. Igboanugo was competing in the 81kg category and he died after he was knocked out by his opponent from Anambra State with efforts to resuscitate him proving abortive. Igboanugo was reportedly unconscious and could not get up after he was hit in the chin....
Ese Ukpeseraye of Delta State added to her impressive medal collection at the 2022 National Sports Festival as she claimed her eighth gold medal in cycling. She had previously won six individual gold medals in the 200m, 500m, 1km time trial, 80km road race, elimination race and individual time trials as well as the mixed relay and 3km team pursuit events. Oyo State's Tawakalt Yekeen took...
Morufat Folarin grabbed headlines at the ongoing 2022 National Sports Festival after winning three gold medals in weightlifting for host state Delta on Monday evening. She won gold in the women's 55kg snatch ahead of Christiana Ollorina of Rivers State and Blessing Andrew of Kwara State. In the Clean and Jerk 73kg category, Folarin took her second gold while Ollorina took another another silver while Olarinoye...
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