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Nigeria’s women beach volleyball team defeated Cameroon 2-0 to win the gold medal at the Camtel International Beach Volleyball Championship, which ended in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

The pair of Tochukwu Nnourge and Francisca Ikhiede emerged victorious over their Cameroonian counterparts 21-14, 21-13 in the female category of the beach volleyball competition.

In the male category, Team Nigeria lost 2-1 (19-21, 21-16, 15-11) to Central Africa Republic in an intriguing final encounter.

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First Bank Basketball Club emerge winner of the  Zenith Bank Women Basketball League title 2018 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos.

First Bank Basketball Club defeated Dolphins by 84 to 66 points, winning all the four quarters of the game to retain the Zenith Bank Women Basketball League title with Nkem Akaraiwe declared as the most valuable player.

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Alex Adewale and Kafayat Omisore have emerged champions of the men’s and women’s singles of the Puma ITF Wheelchair Tennis Futures 2018 in Abuja.

Adewale, a London 2012 Paralympian defeated Kenyan top seed, Peter Naveh 6-1, 6-0 while Omisore also got the better of Jane Ndenga of Kenya 6-3, 7-6 (3).

The duo of Alex Adewale and Wasiu Yusuf won the doubles final with a comprehensive 6-1, 6-0 scoreline over Peter Naveh and Collins Omonde of Kenya while Kafayat Omisore paired Kemi Oluwasegun to beat Kenya’s Jane Ndenga who partnered homegirl Foluke Shodehinde to clinch the women’s doubles title.

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Yemisi Olatunji and Sodiq Taiwo have emerged winners of the OTrafford PSA National Closed Satellite Squash Tournament 2018 at the 82 Division of the Army Officers Mess, Marina, Lagos.

Yemisi defeated her younger sister Busayo 11-7, 11-8, 11-3 to win the OTrafford PSA National Closed Satellite Squash Tournament women’s title.

In the men’s final, Sodiq Taiwo, who defeated top player Lanre Abdulrahman in the semi-final, bounced back after losing the first set to defeat a hard-fighting Idowu Enemakure 12-14, 11-1, 11-6, 11-8.

The winner of the male category Sodiq received $1,000 for his effort while Yemisi got $500.

The Chairman of OTrafford Squash Club, Aderemi Adeseun, while presenting the winners with their awards, urged all other squash clubs to organise more PSA sanctioned tournaments to enable Nigerian squash players amass ranking points.

Anuoluwapo Opeyori and Dorcas Adesokan emerge champions in the men and women’s singles categories respectively of the Rivers Governor’s Badminton Championship, held at the Alfred Diette Spiff Civic Centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The pair of Enejoh Abah and Peace Orji won the men’s mixed doubles event after defeating Yunusa Momoh and Ramatu Yakubu 2-0 (21-17, 21-6), while Jimka Ifraimu and Ola Fagbemi overcame Clement Korobakpo and Isaac Minaphee 2-1 (20-22, 17-21, 23-21).

Anuoluwapo Opeyori and Dorcas Adesokan receive the top prize money of ₦300,000 after emerging winners.

Total prize money of ₦7.02 million was at stake at the championship, which is a new height in the history of badminton in the country.

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Winners have emerged at the maiden Lagos All Sail Boat Race in three water racing categories of rowing, jeskying and boat racing.

The 2018 Lagos All Sail Boat Race kicked off at the BICS Jetty venue of the Championship in Lekki, Lagos with a horde of skilled rowers from the 36 states of the federation including the FCT, Abuja taking to the waters to compete.

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Georgia Oboh becomes a full member of the Ladies European Tour (LET) and thereby is the first and youngest Nigerian to accomplish the historic feat.

The 17-year-old carded 72 on the fourth day of the LET Qualifying School at the Lalla Aicha Tour School at Amelkis Golf Club in Casablanca, Morocco to make the top 60 from the field of 115 competing at the Q –School.

The qualification will accord her with playing privileges for the 2019 season.

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