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Top West African basketball clubs confirmed for Louis Edem Invitational in Lagos

Top West African basketball clubs confirmed for Louis Edem Invitational in Lagos

ASPAC basketball club and Energie basketball club from Benin Republic, and Ghanaian top sides Customs Braves and Spintex Knights are set to compete in the 2024 West African Championship, organised by Louis Edem Foundation at the National Stadium indoor hall in Lagos. The championship will take place from March 31 to April 7 2024. It was initially scheduled to take place in Abuja in order to...

Jailed Mamoutou Toure re-elected as Mali FA President

Jailed Mamoutou Toure re-elected as Mali FA President

Mamoutou Toure has been re-elected as the president of Mali Football Federation (FEMAFOOT) despite being in prison custody for alleged embezzlement of funds.  Toure who has been at the helm of the Malian football governing body since 2019, was re-elected during Tuesday's general assembly in Bamako after accruing 61 votes from a possible 63, with one invalid vote and one abstention.  The 66-year-old is currently in...

Delta State confirmed as National Youth Games host

Delta State confirmed as National Youth Games host

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...

Ghana-born Davies scores Canada’s first-ever World Cup goal

Ghana-born Davies scores Canada’s first-ever World Cup goal

Ghana-born Alphonso Davies etched his name in Canadian folklore by becoming the first-ever male footballer to score for Canada at the FIFA World Cup. The 22-year-old also holds the record for the fastest goal in Qatar so far with his 68-second header against Croatia; it is also the fastest goal in a group-stage match at the World Cup since Clint Dempsey scored for the USA after...