Category: Sports

The Cable Asisat Oshoala, Super Falcons striker, is the joint top scorer in the women’s Spanish Primera Division. The 27-year-old Nigerian achieved the feat despite missing three months of the season due to recurring injuries. She scored 20 goals in 19 league appearances for Barcelona Femeni and will share the award with Geyse Ferreira of Madrid CFF, who netted 20 goals in 27 appearances. Oshoala is now the first African woman to win the highest goalscorer gong in the Spanish Primera Division since it began in 2011. The feat was…

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Kunle Adelabu -School gets new Prefects Fatom School located in Igbogbo in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, held its 3rd Inter – House Sports on Friday, April 7, 2022, with the Blue House emerging the champions. The House, named in honour of a young politician, community developer and entrepreneur, Mr Aro Moshood Abiodun, popularly called ‘AMA’, emerged winners of the sporting events held at the Police Barracks Playing Ground, along Igbogbo Road, Ikorodu. At the end of the sporting events which involved several…

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Wale Jagun & Gabriel Eweje The Grace Skies School has held its Bi – Annual Inter – House Sports 2022 which was very colourful and filled with fun and excitement as several dignitaries and parents graced the occasion. At the sporting event, which held at the newly commissioned Ita – Elewa Youths Sports Centre, Ikorodu, on Friday, April 1, 2022, students and pupils of the school located within the highbrow Elepe Estate, Gbasemo, Ikorodu, had a great fun –filled, fulfilling and enjoyable moment as they engaged in various interesting sporting…

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Kunle Adelabu Igbogbo community in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, has secured the right to host the Round two of the 2022 Nigerian Beach Soccer League. The announcement was made today by the national body of the league. According to the Chief Host who is the team manager of the Igbogbo Beach Soccer Team, Prince Ademola Ogunlewe, the Igbogbo Town Stadium will host the games which will be played between Tuesday, March 15 and Saturday, March 20. “The development was communicated to me…

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Kunle Adelabu The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo  – Olu, on Thursday, March 10, 2022, commissioned the 480-seater capacity Ita – Elewa Sports Centre, which was completed months back. The governor was joined by his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Her Excellency, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire and the representative of the Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Rep. Babajimi Benson who is the facilitator of the project. Sanwo – Olu also commissioned the Ita – Elewa Youth Centre, which was a…

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Kunle Adelabu Two time winners and 2021 runners – up in the Bolowotan Gold Cup, has proved that they deserved to be a seeded team in this year’s edition of the biggest football tournament in Ikorodu Division by coming from a goal down to beat their opponents, Ezego FC,  3 -1 in the opening match of the 14th edition of the competition. The match, which was well attended, was played at the Police Barracks Playing Ground, Ikorodu, on Monday, February 7, 2022. The tournament is organized by the Ikorodu Divisional…

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Kunle Adelabu -Opening match kicks – off Monday between NTAB FC and Ezego FC Another edition of the Bolowotan Gold Cup is here as 40 teams and football academies within and outside Ikorodu Division are ready to do battle as this  year’s tournament promises to be  the biggest ever in the history of the competition The tournament, which will be played at the Police Barracks Playing Ground, along the Ikorodu/Igbogbo Road, Ikorodu, will commence on Monday, February 7, 2022, with a seeded team, NTAB FC hosting Ezego FC in Group…

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Kunle Adelabu Residents of Ikorodu on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, commended the Lagos State Government for creating a viewing centre for the ongoing African Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Ikorodu to enable them watch live matches of the 2022 Nations Cup. Many residents on Saturday, January 15, 2022, watched the match between Nigeria and Sudan at the biggest football tournament in Africa holding in Cameroon, at the Ita – Elewa Youth Centre which host the sporting facilities facilitated by the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Defense and the representative…

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