Bayelsa Queens has won Nigeria’s first CAF Women Champions League medal at the 2022 CAFWCL after a third place finish.
Bayelsa Queens of Nigeria defeated their counterparts from Tanzania, Simba Queens, 1-0 in the third-place match at the Stade Moulay Hassan in Morocco on November 12, 2022.
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Febisola Olanipekun has emerged winner of the Division B title of the 2022 Malta International Scrabble Opens (MISO) which ended on November 7, 2022 in Malta.
Febisola picked the second tier title as she recorded a result of 18 wins and 7 losses with a cumulative spread of 784 points ahead of England’s Jack Mitchel who also recorded same score but with a lower cumulative points of 369.
James Wilkie of Scotland came third with 16 wins and 9 losses with a cumulative point of 1080.
Yusuf Otubanjo has emerged winner of the 2022 Europa Conference League Goal of the Group Stage for Pyunik at home to Slovan Bratislava.
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Maisaje Vera-Yohanna and Elizabeth Nuhu have emerged winners of the 2022 Lagos Women Run in the Open and Veteran categories respectively.
The 2022 Lagos Women Run was held on November 12, 2022 at the at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Lagos.
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Nigeria has won a total of twelve medals comprising nine gold and three silver at the Para Powerlifting 2022 African Open Championships in Cairo, Egypt.
At the end of the four-day event on 30 October 2022 held at the Dr. Hassan Moustafa Sports Hall, the Nigerian para powerlifters created three world records and two African records.
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Tobi Amusan has become the first Nigerian athlete in history, to be nominated for the World Athletics 2022 Athlete of the Year of Award.
The 25 year old’s name was among the 10 women athletes released on 12 October 2022 by World Athletics as nominees for the Women’s World Athlete of the Year 2022 award.
The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) football team has emerged winner of the 2022 Ships and Ports Maritime Cup Competition held on 28 October 2022.
The NPA defeated the Nigerian Navy team by a lone goal in the final event.
This is the second time the NPA team would lift the Maritime Cup. The team first won the trophy in 2018.