Category: Sports

Wale Jagun -Tournament records upset as top rated young player placed third There was an upset yesterday, at the ongoing IKODASS Indoor Games Youth Championship as the third best U -15 player in the state and number one Scrabble player in Ikorodu Division settled for the third position in the male category, while Soaga Mayowa emerged champion of the Scrabble game with 4 (plus 617) points. The event, which held at the Dreamland RHODA Youth Centre, Abiodun Ogunleye Street, Solomade, Ikorodu, also saw Miss Adisa Emmanuella with 2 (- 256)…

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Wale Jagun About 100 U – 17 youths across Lagos State are set to participate in the maiden edition of the IKODASS (Ikorodu – Oga Development Association) Indoor Games Championship which will be held in Ikorodu between September 4 and 9, 2021. The championship commenced yesterday (Saturday, September 4), with accreditations of participants at the Ita – Elewa Youth Centre, Ikorodu, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. The Eroz Place, located at 71, Borokinni Street, Aga, lkorodu, will also host some of the games. Participants will be competing in four games –…

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Kunle Adelabu Engr. Monsuru Oladipupo Akanbi, the Chairman of the Lagos State Scrabble and Monopoly Association, has revealed that the driving force behind popularizing the games and going to the grassroots is to have divisional and state leagues for Scrabble and Monopoly in the state. He made the revelation in an interview with THE IMPACT during the Ikorodu Divisional U -15 Scrabble and Monopoly Tournament for students, which was held at the Asiwaju Olorunfunmi Basorun Hall, Oreyo Community Grammar School, Igbogbo, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. Engr. Akanbi also added…

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Kunle Adelabu The Lagos State Sports Commission (LSSC) has revealed its plan to stage Community Games among the 20 Local Governments (LG) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDA) in the state. The Director – General of the State Sports Commission, Mr Oluwatoyin Gafaar, made the revelation in his office on Wednesday,August 18, 2021, when the Chairman of the Ikorodu – Oga Development Association, Mr Rotimi Erogbogbo, and his team paid him a visit. He said that the intention of staging the games, which he said would come up next…

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Kunle Adelabu -Abraham Abayomi emerges winner in Monopoly game -Tournaments meant to collect data, get talents for the National Youth Games trial – Association Chairman The emerging Scrabble prodigy and sensation, Master Michael Ogbonna, a student of the Ikorodu Senior Grammar School who came third in the State Scrabble competition held at the Teslim Balogun Stadium last week, has won the Ikorodu Division phase of the tournament. He confirmed his dominance of the game in the division on Thursday (yesterday) at the U -15 Scrabble and Monopoly Tournament for students…

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Kunle Adelabu It was a rousing ovation for Akintoye Yemisi Eunice who became a FIFA badge referee earlier this year, as sports and football families, particularly in Ikorodu and Lagos State, honoured her in Ikorodu on Sunday, August 15, 2021. She was unveiled as an ambassador of Ikorodu for her exploits as a referee who has brought honour and pride to the Ikorodu (Football) Referees Society and for joining the elite club of FIFA badge referees. Akintoye, who is now officiating in the Nigerian Premiership League, has been away in…

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Kunle Adelabu A former highest ranking national junior Chess player and 500 level medicine student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Master Ogosi Raphael May, has emerged the winner of the second edition of the Danhypro Chess Tournament. The championship was held at Pedachess Educational Limited, Ipakodo in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, between Friday, August 13 and Sunday, 15, 2021. The young champion won the tournament with 8 points and went home with N120, 000 prize money. The invitational tournament, which…

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Wale Jagun The Chairman of the Ikorodu – Oga Development Association (IKODASS), Mr Rotimi Erogbogbo, has congratulated Master Michael Ogbonna, a student of the Ikorodu Senior Grammar School, who emerged the third-place winner in the just concluded U-15 Scrabble tournament. The tournament was organised by the Lagos State Scrabble and Monopoly Association and was held at the Press Centre of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the IKODASS Chairman, Mr Erogbogbo congratulated the young scrabble player for making Ikorodu proud among other…

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