NUGA
29 Nov
Mr Emeka Ogbu, the President of the Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA), is dead. Prof. Mohammed Bawa, the Acting President of the association, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Jos. Bawa said that Ogbu died on Monday after a brief illness. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogbu was the Director of…
11 Nov
The host of Nigerian University Games Association (NUGA) 2026, University of Calabar (UniCal) has announced MediaVision as the sole and exclusive marketer of the event.
28 Jun 2023
Unless Corporate Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Sports come to Nigerian University Games Association’s (NUGA) rescue, the country will not participate in this year’s World University Games scheduled to hold from July 28 to August 8 in Chengdu, China.
9 May 2023
Students from 41 universities across the country have arrived in Benin, Edo State, to fight for spots on Nigeria’s squad to the World University Games scheduled to hold in Chengdu, China, from July 28 to August 8, 2023.
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The 23rd Senior African Athletics Championship scheduled for Douala, Cameroon in June, may offer Nigerian relay teams and some individual athletes the opportunity to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Nigerian budding footballers, who want to combine their sport career with education, now have the opportunity as English Championship side, Coventry City Football Club, has provided that chance for the skilful lads.
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Greenfield Leasing Services Limited’s Executive Vice Chairman, Jacob Erhabor, has won the maiden CEOs Golf Tournament sponsored by African Reinsurance Corporation at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938.
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Over 1,500 athletes representing 13 companies in the oil and gas sector will participate in the 19th Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Games beginning in Abuja on April 21. The event ends on April 27.
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Failure of the last administration to put its money where its mouth is has stalled the rail rehabilitation work on the eastern corridor, three years after its flag-off.
Findings showed that the project, estimated to cost $3.2 billion, has become a hard sell to investors.
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Ahead of today’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the main opposition’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), governors elected on the party’s platform yesterday rose from a meeting and declared that they won’t discuss change of leadership for the party.
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An angry mob of travellers, yesterday, lynched personnel of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Kaita Local Council of Katsina State.
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River State chapter of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) and Nollywood practitioners, yesterday, paid a solidarity visit to Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, seeking support for the family of late Precious Chimaobi Ofurum, popularly known as Junior Pope, who is an indigene of the state.
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Less than two weeks after a peaceful election of its officials, a leadership crisis may have erupted in the AlaIgbo Development Foundation (ADF), as its founding National President, Emeritus Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, yesterday, announced the suspension of eleven officials of the organisation
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Stakeholders in the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta region have picked holes in the global call for an energy transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy, saying that the process and intentions of the West should be interrogated before African countries embrace it hook, line and sinker.