Tennis
11 Dec
Ikoyi Club (1938) has provided one of the best end of the year competitions for badminton players this season, with 32 of the country’s best stars ready to rumble for monies ranging from N500, 000 to N100,000.
6 Dec
Dubem Amasiani had to deploy all the tools in his tennis arsenal to overcome his national teammate, Joel Michael, in his first-round robin match in the Boys 14s at the Chevron Junior Masters, which served off yesterday at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club.
5 Dec
Amadi Umeh showed why he is currently the country’s best home-based player, at the weekend, when he defeated hard-fighting Rilwan Akanbi to win the Third Quadri Aruna Open Table Tennis Championship.
4 Dec
Jide Diya and Yewande Banjoko have won the men and women’s categories of the Bluechip Technologies Table Tennis Premier Tournament, which ended at the Ikoyi Club at the weekend.
2 Dec
Following the conclusion of the preliminary round of the Third Quadri Aruna National Table Tennis Open, the event is now set for the knockout stage of the competition holding at Eko Club in Lagos.
29 Nov
Teams from across the country will begin their quest for laurels at the third Quadri Aruna National Table Tennis Open Championship, which serves off today at Eko Club, Lagos.
27 Nov
The top 64 players (boys and girls) in the U-15 and U-19 categories will compete at the First Daniel Ford International Elite Youth Invitational National Table Tennis Championships, which will hold from December 21 to 22 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall ...
23 Nov
Organisers of the yearly Aruna Open Table Tennis Tournament have disclosed that the third edition of the competition will begin on November 29 and end on December 3 at Eko Club, Lagos. The tournament, which started as a cadet championship, has grown to become a national open for senior, junior and cadet players within and…
14 Nov
Nigeria table tennis star, Quadri Aruna, has been listed as the 15th player to qualify for the season-ending World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals Championship, which features the top 16 players in the world. The event will hold from January 3 to 5, 2024 in Doha, Qatar. The Nigerian will be making his third appearance at the WTT Finals.…
4 Nov
Novak Djokovic edged out Holger Rune on Friday to avenge his defeat in last year's Paris Masters final and reach the last four, while Stefanos Tsitsipas set up a meeting with Grigor Dimitrov.
20 Oct 2023
American tennis great Billie Jean King called this week for a combined women and men's World Cup of tennis and for players to wear shirt numbers, to keep growing the sport.
17 Oct 2023
Four teams, including MFM, Air Warriors, Bayelsa Whales and Nigeria Customs basketball clubs will, today, begin their campaign for the Zenith Bank Women’s Basketball League title at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos.
Sport
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said that it would unveil a new coach for the Super Eagles early next week. The Super Eagles have been without a coach since Portuguese, Jose Peseiro, left the job after leading the team to second position
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Unless urgent steps are taken by the Federal Government, the nation’s hope of making an appreciable impact at the fast-approaching Paris 2024 Olympic Games may have wane.
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At the end of AFCON 2023, that was in February 2024, José Peseiro, the Portuguese Manager that took the Super Eagles to Cote d’Ivoire became history. His contract was not renewed by the Nigeria Football Federation
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Nigerias from all walks of life, including top footballers and ex-players, yesterday, paid their last respect to the late Coach Godwin Ihijegbe Izilien with a valedictory football match at the Samuel Ogbemudia, Stadium, Benin City.
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From AFCON 2023, Nigeria gave a new and interesting definition to ‘winning’. The country’s national team, the Super Eagles, for four weeks, provided the glue that united the country at a time when the country was going through difficult times
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Delta Queens FC of Asaba will not be defending their Super Six title this year. This is as a result of the club poor performance in the 2023/24 Nigeria Women’s Professional Football League, which will end this week.
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Nigerian Boxing Federation (NBF) President, Gen. Kenneth Minimah (Rtd), the country’s first world boxing champion, the late Hogan ‘Kid’ Bassey and national team coach, Tony Konyegwachie, are among boxing personalities to be honoured today in Lagos by the Ministry of Sports, in collaboration with Yucateco Boxing Promotions. According to the promoters, the event, which is…
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I have just made up my mind to attend the Paris Olympic Games this summer.It will be my first time at the Olympics and not as an athlete. In 1976, at the Montreal Olympics in Canada, I attended as an athlete but did not participate.
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Mikel Arteta has urged Arsenal to prove they have the mental strength to bounce back from a painful spell that wrecked their Champions League challenge and dented their Premier League title bid.