Category: Sports

Ibadan Excellers have emerged winners of the Little League Nigeria 2019 Baseball Tournament at the Oval Pitch Section of the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Ibadan Excellers prevailed over the Akure Owena team from Ondo State with a score of 12 to 5 to emerge winners of the 2019 edition of the United States (U.S.) Consulate-supported tournament.

Toluwani Hassan from Akure Owena team was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the tournament.

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Mercy Akide-Udoh, former Nigerian football player, has been named Regent University athletic department’s ‘coach of the year’.

Mercy Akide-Udoh, who has just completed her first season as head coach of the university’s women’s soccer program, was an unanimous choice for the award, voted for by all the coaches of the Virginia beach-based varsity in the United States of America.

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Deborah Pam and Istifanos Peter have emerged winners of the female and male categories respectively in the 11th edition of the Ibadan City Marathon race.

The marathon was organised by West Midland Communications, owners of Splash FM/Lagelu FM radio stations and supported by several other partners.

Deborah Pam, an NSCDC officer (Nigeria Security and Civil Defence corps), had emerged winner of the female category, having completed the 42 km race in two hours, 58 minutes and 13 seconds.

Deborah Pam became a four-time winner, having emerged winner of the same category in the fifth, seventh and tenth editions of the Ibadan City Marathon race.

Istifanos Peter, who had only emerged runner-up in the male category of the ninth edition, emerged winner after completing the race in two hours, 44 minutes and 36 seconds.

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Team Nigeria has emerged overall winner of the 2019 All Africa Challenge Trophy (AACT) at the Ikeja Golf Club Lagos.

The country’s lady golfers with a gross score of 493 in the 54-hole finished the tournament outstandingly, which featured players from 10 African nations. The lady golfers also emerged winners in the individual event.

Nigeria’s Alaba Adetunji was in her best form as she won the individual best score with a gross of 246 (85, 80, 81). Evelyn Oyome was second best with 247 gross (80, 81, 86) in the three-day tournament.

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Nigeria’s blind women Falcons Team have won the 2019 Africa Women Blind Football Training Camp and Games held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.

Nigeria’s blind women Falcons Team defeated a selected Africa Blind Women  Football Team 2-0 picked from Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Ghana.

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Winners have emerged in the second edition of the three-day National Media Shooting Workshop and Competition held at the Nigerian National Shooting Range, Package B, National Stadium Complex, Abuja.

Georgina Adegbie, a sport reporter with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) won gold medal in the female category of the Air Pisto. Adegbie came first position with 25 points to win the gold medal of the air pistol competition.

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Team Nigeria has emerged winners of the female category and also retained their crown as continental champions at the 2019 African Wrestling Championship held in Hammamet, Tunisia.

Nigeria finished tops with 195 points, hosts Tunisia was second with 177 points, Egypt came third with 160 points, Algeria recorded 83 points to finish fourth while Senegal completed the top five with 57 points.

Nigeria registered ten female wrestlers for the 2019 African Wrestling Championship but only nine got busy on the mat and produced 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. Esther Kolawole couldn’t compete in the women’s 55 kg category after hurting her knee in training.

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