Sports
Vice Chairman of Lagos State athletics association, Yusuf Alli, has declared that the 10km Festac half marathon, would be used as a benchmark, to select athletes for the Lagos City Marathon. He made the remark over the weekend in Festac, after an inspection tour of the routes earmarked for the 10km half marathon. The technical […]
NBA legend, Kobe Bryant and Daughter Gianna reported dead in LA-area helicopter crash.
YOKOHAMA — They started carving South Africa’s name into the Webb Ellis Cup with five minutes of the match remaining. This was as destructive a performance as you’ll ever see in the sport as South Africa suffocated and out-muscled England to win their third Rugby World Cup. The true impact of this World Cup win […]
The Federal and Lagos State Governments will go on with the concession of the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos to turn it into a viable asset for the country.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu made this known shortly after a joint inspection of the National Stadium and the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, with the Minister of Sports,Mr. Sunday Dare.
REPORT BY KIKELOMO IFEKOYA The need to encourage inigeneous football clubs to thrive in Nigeria has again been brought to the fore. This time, it is the Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat who lent his voice to the campaign while he recievied the executives of the Western Nigeria Football Forum that were […]
England international and Liverpool defender Joe Gomez is to have an operation on the leg fracture he sustained against Burnley in December. The twenty-one-year-old Three-Lions centre-back was taken off after twenty-three minutes following a challenge with Clarets captain Ben Mee. He was initially ruled out for up to six weeks and is expected to feature […]
Dirk Schlegel and Falko Götz: The East Berlin footballers who fled from the Stasi
Femi Akintola
November 6, 2019