Kano State have emerged winners of the 2019 World Polio Para-soccer tournament in Abuja.
Kano defeated neighbours, Katsina 2-1 in a keenly contested battle to lift the giant trophy.
In the third place match, former champions, Kaduna were held to 2-2 draw by Nasarawa in regulation time before scoring the decisive penalty to win 3-2.
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Team LASU (Lagos State University) has won the 1st Africa University Badminton Championship in Mauritius.
LASU finished with a total of nine (9) medals comprising of five (5) gold medals and four (4) silver medals to be on the top of medals table.
The Sunshine Spikers of Akure and the Nigeria Police Female team (Super Force), have emerged champions of the National Volleyball League Division one in Bauchi.
University of Calabar, Malabites emerge champions of the 2019 Higher Institutions Football League (HiFL) defeating defending champions UAM Tillers (5-4) on penalties in Lagos on the 26th of October 2019.
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The Nigeria Scrabble national team has won the 2019 World English Scrabble Players Association Championship (WESPAC) title in Goa, India.
The World English Scrabble Players Association Championship (WESPAC) featured 30 countries and 145 players. Nigeria, represented by 11 players and officials retained the WESPAC Country Trophy after achieving the feat in 2015.
The four-day event also saw two Nigerians in fifth and 10th positions in the over all individual ranking at the championship, just as the other Nigerian players were ranked among the top 30 spot.
Nigeria’s national rugby league team have won the inaugural Middle East Africa Rugby League by beating Morocco 38 to 16 in the final of the championship played at TBS Cricket Ground, Lagos.
The championship, the first of its kind in Africa, featured four countries, including Ghana, Cameroun, Morocco and host Nigeria.
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Olufunmilayo Gabriel and Yemisi Olatunji have won the maiden edition of the Apapa Club Open Squash Championship, which featured some of the best players from across Nigeria.
The Apapa Club Open Squash Championship, which is a Professional Squash Association (PSA) ranking event, impressed as Gabriel defeated Nigeria’s number one male player, Sodiq Taiwo 3-1, while Yemisi Olatunji defeated her younger sister, Busayo, to win the female category.