Category: Sports

Kunle Adelabu Fans and football spectators had a fulfilled day watching the two opening matches of the football tournament organized to mark the 33rd lgbogbo Day which commenced Monday, October 25, 2021. In the first match played at the Igbogbo Stadium between Oluwo Amoju FC and Adeyanlu Estate FC, the home team won 2 – 1. Oluwafemi Kolawole scored for Oluwo Amoju FC in the 30th and 33rd minutes, while Orisan Oluwaseun scored the only goal for Adeyanlu Estate FC in the 10th minutes. In the second match, Awobo FC,…

Kunle Adelabu 16 teams across the Igbogbo Kingdom are set to compete in the football competition of the 33rd Igbogbo Day Celebration with group matches commencing on Monday, October 25, 2021. The draw ceremony for the fixtures of the competition was held at the Adeboruwa Pavilion on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. All the matches would be played at the Igbogbo Stadium with Oliwo Amoju FC and Adeyanlu Estate FC playing in the opening game. The Chairman, 2021 Sport Sub – Committee of the Igbogbo Day, Mr. Faniyi Tolulope O.,  said…

Kunle Adelabu & Gabriel Eweje (Photographer) The 7th edition of the Oba Kabir Shotobi Independence Day Mini – Marathon, an annual 10 kilometer race initiated/sponsored by the Majority Leader, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, has come and gone but the memories of the beautiful outing still linger. THE IMPACT’s lenses was able to captured the movements of Master Ayinde Luqman (706), the 15 – year-old SSS 2 student of Ikorodu Grammar Senior School, Ikorodu, who emerged winner of the male category with 44 minutes and 43 seconds,…

Kunle Adelabu, Mariam Okiye (Trainee) & Gabriel Eweje (Photographer) -Royal fathers, guests, athletes commend organizers for creating platform to develop talents Winners in both male and female categories of the 2021 Oba Kabir Shotobi Independence Day Mini – Marathon have revealed how they emerged victorious in the 10kilometre race held in Ikorodu on last Friday. Master Ayinde Luqman (706), a 15 – year-old SSS 2 student of Ikorodu Grammar Senior School, Ikorodu, emerged winner of the male category with 44 minutes and 43 seconds, while Miss Odufolakun Rebecca (392), also…

Wale Jagun This year’s edition of the Oba Kabir Shotobi Independence Day Mini – Marathon promises to be a great and interesting outing as many of the participants have said that they are not just going to participate but also aiming for the star prizes. Some of them spoke with THE IMPACT during the medical screening that ended last Saturday at the Ikorodu Constituency Office of Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, the initiator and sponsor of the annual race. This year’s edition would be the 6th since its commencement about seven years…

Kunle Adelabu All is set for this year’s annual Oba Shotobi Independence Day Mini in Ikorodu as winners in both female and male categories in the last edition are set to defend their titles. The duo of Ifeanyi Alloy John, a student of Imota Senior Grammar School, and Akanbi Muslimat, 16 year senior secondary school student of Luwasa High School, Ijede, who are the champions of the male and female categories of the race in 2019 respectively, attended the unveiling of the 2021 logo and trophies for the race,  to…

Our Editor Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, became the cynosure of the global soccer lenses on Wednesday, as Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was joined by the President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, at the opening round of the maiden Aisha Buhari International friendly tournament. Nigeria’s Super Falcons played against Mali’s Les Aiglonnes in the international tournament hosted by the Lagos State Government at Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Onikan. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare, Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick,…