Category: Sports

Team Nigeria has emerged overall winners of the 2016 ITF West/Central Africa U-18 and Under Circuits Championship in Lome, Togo with four gold and one silver medals

Prince Adejoro Olateru-Olagbeji combined with Tony Unuavworho to win the men’s doubles title at the just concluded 2016 Lagos Country Club Tennis Festival

Nneka Ogwumike who plays for Los Angeles Sparks as a forwarder has been awarded the Women’s NBA Most Valuable player of the year award for her fine displays in the USA women’s basketball league this season.

Nigeria striker Kelechi Osunwa has emerged as the all-time top scorer in Sudan after he netted 33 goals including four hat-tricks, five braces and five Man-of-the-Match awards with six rounds of matches left to be played this season

Winners have emerged in the Rio 2016 Paralympics [Nigeria].

Nigeria closed the Rio Paralympics with eight golds, two silvers and two bronze medals to finish 17th in the medal table and top among African countries.

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11 years old Marylove Edwards emerge third at the 2016 ITF/CAT 12 & Under Talent Identification Programme in Morocco.

Marylove beat her Kenyan opponent 6-1, 6-1 in the third-place match after losing 7-5, 6-7, 4-6 to her Moroccan opponent in the semi-final.

The tennis competition which held between August 26 to 28 recorded participants of over 80 players from 25 countries.

Marylove who is being managed by creative talent agency, Temple Management Company was sponsored on the trip by Zenith Bank PLC.

She was born on March 18, 2005 and started playing tennis at the tender age of four under the guidance of her father, Eddy Edwards while she was coached by Nigeria junior tennis head coach, Mohammed Ubale.

Before her trip to Morocco, the Ishan, Edo State-born champion won last year’s U-14 CBN Junior Tennis Championship and the NNPC Junior Tennis Masters.

Hakeem Olajuwon is inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame