Category: Sports

*Team wins first game in Sahara Conference By MOHAMMED ABDULLAHI, Dakar The coach of Nigeria’s Basketball Premier League reigning champions, Ogoh Odaudu has promised Nigerians qualification to the 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL) playoff finals in Kigali as Rivers Hoopers defeated home team, AS Douanes in their first game of the ongoing Sahara Conference in […]

*Kano Gov, Sports Minister, NASS Sports Committee Chairmen, others for awards By; AHMED KAGANA AMSHI,  Damaturu The highly anticipated SWAN Full Council Meeting is set to take place in the ancient  Kano City, Kano State. The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) Chairman, Alh. Lurwanu Idriss Malikawa Garu, the Village Head of Garu of Bici Emirate Council, […]

*Bolaji tipped to win gold at Paris Paralympics 2024 Games By; JOSEPH ODOEKWU Nigeria Para Badminton player, Mariam Bolaji has won a gold medal to make history at the Spanish Para Badminton International 2024 Level 1 tournament in Toledo, Spain. Bolaji beat World number 5 Mandeep Kaur from India 2-0 (21-17, 21-17) to clinch the […]

By JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON The Coach Felix Academics and Sports Foundation Intensive Academics Clinic at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna  ended with a bang at the weekend. Speaking with our correspondent yesterday,  Founder and Head Coach of Coach Felix Academic and Sports Foundation, Kaduna, Osiebe Felix Onoriode said the intensive holiday academics and sports clinic was […]

By JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has warned its erstwhile National President, Dr Honour Sirawoo, to as a matter of urgency, return all documents and property of the association in his possession. SWAN in a letter dated April 17, 2024 to Sirawo by its Secretary-General, Amb. Ikenna Okonkwo, said the […]

By JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON One coach who has made a mark in his career in Nigeria as a football coach, is Benue born Coach Lawrence James Ekele. He has done just not himself proud, but his state of origin and country. Kick starting off his career at the prestigious National Institute for Sports (NIS) in Lagos […]

As the second  edition  of Kaduna Sallah Slam, Beach Volleyball Competition serves off, over 30 male and female teams are participating. A statement signed by the Media Rep, Okpani Jacob Onjewu Dickson said that the competition, organised by the  Kaduna State Beach Volleyball Association (KADSVA) championship dunked off on Wednesday at the Beach Courts of […]