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NNL Super 4 gets date, Remo Stars Stadium
By our reporter The Nigeria National League (NNL) has confirmed that the 2026 NNL Super 4 tournament will take place at the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne, Ogun State, from May 1 to May 8. The tournament will determine the overall champion of the 2025/26 NNL season, following the completion of the league campaign. This…
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FIBA World Cup: France holds off D’Tigress rally to win 93-86
By Editor France secured a 93-86 wire-to-wire victory over Nigeria in a Group A fiercely contested match at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournament in Lyon, France event on Sunday, March 15. France established an early lead and maintained control throughout, never trailing at any point. The game remained very competitive all through…
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Wahid Oshodi becomes Africa’s first director on World Table Tennis Board
By Editor Nigeria’s Wahid Oshodi has made history with his appointment to the board of World Table Tennis (WTT), the commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The announcement came during the ITTF Executive Board meeting on March 1, 2026, at WTT Headquarters in Singapore. Following portfolio allocations, ITTF President Petra Sörling and…
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Abia Comets stage comeback victory over Gateway
By Emmanuel Chinedu Abia Comets Football Club of Umuahia showed a lot of resilience in the second half, after coming from behind to secure a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Gateway FC, in a Southern Conference A Matchday 14 encounter, on Saturday, at the Enyimba International Stadium, Aba. The hosts didn’t start the game on a…
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Badagry Grammar School Bags CAF Football Initiative
By our reporter The First Phase of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) School Development Programme concluded in Lagos State, with Badagry Grammar School being the last beneficiary. This initiative, supported by CAF and implemented through the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), is aimed at fostering football development among pupils and equipping them with the essential…
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Police Conference funds not diverted, says conference organiser, Shina Philips
By Editor Lenders Consult International Limited has stated that the company and its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Dr Shina Philips, did not divert funds meant for the organisation of the Conference and Retreat for Senior Police Officers. The company stated this on Saturday, March 14 in response to a report published on March 3, 2026,…
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Super Eagles legend, Henry Nwosu, is dead
●Segun Odegbami mourns teammate By Pius Ayinor The Nigerian sports community has again been thrown into mourning following the death of former Super Eagles midfielder Henry Nwosu. The skilled attacker was a member of the team that won Nigeria’s first Africa Cup of Nations in 1980 in Lagos. He was 62 years old. The former…
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How landmark XE Jet Partnership has pushed D’Tigress up to global heights
Nigeria basketball specialist, Pius Ayinor, sheds light on the new XE Jet and D’Tigress partnership Africa’s most celebrated women’s national basketball team, Nigeria’s D’Tigress have over the past decade emerged as a global force in women’s basketball, winning multiple African championships and elevating Nigeria’s international reputation in the sport. They took it to the highest…
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63% poverty is Tinubu’s scorecard – ADC
By Editor The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has described recent reports that Nigeria’s poverty rate has risen to 63% after the removal of petrol subsidy as the real scorecard of President Bola Tinubu and a consequence of his ill-defined neoliberal economic policies. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the…
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Tinubu’s plea goes unheeded on Ebonyi’s river of blood (1)
Tunde Odesola Sometimes, words create accidental rhyme where meaning does not. Etymologically, ‘Moses’ and ‘Osmosis’ are not related, even though they sound similar, and both bear a sense of ‘passing through’. Osmosis, a Greek word, literally suggests water passing through a boundary, just as Moses, the Anglicised version of Moshe, a Hebrew name, means “to…
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