Category: Sports

Team Nigeria made history at the 2025 Africa Basketball Festival (ABF) by clinching their first-ever title after defeating Ghana, Liberia, and China.

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Right to Smile FA, O&A Sports Academy, and Wazbak Queens were crowned champions at the seventh edition of the Cohesion Football Tournament, which concluded after two days of pulsating grassroots football action on December 17, and December 18, 2025, at the Union Bank Stable, Surulere, Lagos.

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Timothy Daniel: Military impunity wastes another life By Punch Editorial Board on January 11, 2026 – Recommended Nigerian Newspaper Report 13

IN the early hours of January 1, as fireworks lit the skies and families across Nigeria ushered in the New Year with hope and prayers, Timothy Daniel, 13, lay lifeless on the ground in Ete community in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

His blood and brains splattered onto the ground, courtesy of a single, cold-blooded bullet to the head from a soldier’s rifle.

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Winners have emerged at the 2025 Rise Superball Youth League in the basketball, volleyball and futsal events.

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Musa Bala Sati (male) and Hope Lebe Mbeabuari (female) have emerged winners in the 2026 Opobo Marathon held in Opobo Town, Rivers State, with athletes from across the country competing in the annual road race.

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Unique Open University (UOU), Ojo, Lagos, has emerged as the overall winner of the maiden Nigeria University Flag Football Tournament, following a thrilling exhibition event organized by the Nigeria Collegiate Flag Football League (NCFFL) — an initiative of the Nigerian American Football Association (NAFA).

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Canice Abua and Mohammed Khadijat have emerged winners of the 2025 Dr Joseph Ikyaator National Tennis Open organised by the Orseer Ikyaator Foundation.

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