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Onuachu Paul of KRC Genk has emerged winner of the 2021 Ebony Shoe Award recognizing him as the best African player in the Belgium football top-flight.

The striker saw off competition from Club Brugge’s Clinton Mata (Angola) and Genk’s Theo Bongonda (DR Congo) to the prize to succeed Dieumerci Mbokani – who represents Royal Antwerp.

The Ebony Shoe prize is an annual award given to the best African player in the Belgian Pro League.

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Ese Brume has set a new Personal Best (PB), National/Nigerian Record (NR) and African Record (AR) of 7.17 meters (1.1m/s) in the long jump event at the Chula Vista Field Festival in the United States of America on May 29th, 2021.

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Paul Onuachu has emerged winner of the Belgian Pro League Player of the Year award and the Golden Boot Award for the 2020/2021 season.

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Rilwan Akanbi and Fatimo Bello emerge winners of the 2021 Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) National Championships in the male and female categories respectively.

The event was held at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.

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Nigerian winners have emerged at the 2021 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships.

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Divine Oduduru has emerged winner of the men’s 200 meters race at the UNF Invitational in Florida, USA with a race time of 19.88 seconds (+1.6m/s).

With this achievement, he becomes the 2nd fastest man in the world this season.

He beat Cravont Charleston to the win as the latter came in 2nd in 20.16 seconds, while Jo’Vaughn Martin got 3rd in 20.22 seconds.

After running 19.88 seconds over 200 meters, Divine Oduduru returned a Season Best of 10.05 seconds (+1.5m/s) to finish 3rd in the men’s 100 meters at the UNF Invitational. He finished behind his training partners, Trayvon Bromell in 9.88 seconds, the fastest in the world and Andre de Grasse in an identical 10.05 seconds.

Eniola Bolaji has emerged Gold winner at the 2021 Spanish Para Badminton International Championship, which held on May 16, 2021 in Cartegena.

Eniola made history as the first African to reach the final and win gold at a major para badminton international championship.

She achieved the feat by beating Ukraine’s Oksana Kozyna 18-21, 21-14, 21-18.

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