Category: Sports

Wale Jagun -Plans to stage tournament in five divisions      With the National Youth Games slated for October, the Lagos State Scrabble and Monopoly Association is not leaving anything unturned in getting quality grassroots scrabble players to represent the state at the tournament. The association held an U – 15 tournament at the Media Center of the Teslim Balogun Stadium on Thursday, 12th August, 2021, to select representatives for the state. According to the association, similar tournaments will be organized in the five divisions to detect good scrabble players…

Kunle Adelabu As the two finalists of the 13th edition of the Bolowotan Gold Cup set for an epic final on Sunday, August 15, 2021, organisers of the tournament, the Ikorodu Divisional Football Association (IDFA) has assured that all hands are on deck to stage an entertaining match that will mark a befitting grand finale of the tournament which kicked off three months ago. So far, 62 matches have been played from the opening match to the Semi – final stage while a total 148 goals have been scored. Seun…

Kunle Adelabu -Residents commend Sanwo-Olu, Sports Commission The ongoing reconstruction of the Igbogbo Township Stadium into a modern sporting facility will have a standard football field, tartan track and 1,200 sitting capacity. The arena, situated along Old Agbele road (now Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Way), will also have facilities for other indoor and outdoor games. Engr. Ibukun Oludare, the Engineer of Peculiar Ultimate Concerns Limited, a Delta State based construction company handling the project, revealed this to THE IMPACT on Wednesday (yesterday). We gathered that the company also handled the…

Wale Jagun The Director-General, Lagos State Sports Commission, Oluwatoyin Gafaar Bolowotan, has unveiled the Commission’s plans at selecting student athletes across the six education districts in the State. The DG said that the Youth Games, which is scheduled to hold in Ilorin, Kwara State, from 10th-20th October, 2021, will feature only Pupils from State Public and Private Schools. In a release by the Commission on Friday (yesterday), the Lagos Sports DG, who made the revelation during a Zoom Meeting with Association Chairmen on Friday, also said that the Associations will…

Wale Jagun -We aim to develop champions for Ikorodu As part of its youth development and engagement activities, the Ikorodu – Oga Development  Association (IKODASS) will, in September this year, stage an indoor games championship for youths in Ikorodu. The sporting event, tagged, ‘IKODASS Indoor Games Youth Championship’, will accommodate U -17 participants and will be held between Saturday, September 4 and Saturday, Saturday 11, 2021, at four centres – Ita Elewa Youth Centre, Eroz Place, Crystal Club and Rhoda Youth Centre. Games that intending participants will be entering for…

Kunle Adelabu After about two months of good and artistic football engagements among 32 teams, F.A Victory FC has proven that its emergence as the Champions of the 12th edition of the Bolowotan Gold Cup was no fluke and that the team is ready to repeat the feat as they have reached the final of this year’s edition . The cup holder beat another good team, Greater Height FC 1 – 0 in the first semi final match played at the Police Ground Playing Ground on Monday, July 26, 2020,…

Kunle Adelabu The last four teams in the ongoing 13th edition of the Bolowotan Gold Cup 2021 will play in the semifinal matches slated for Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th, July, 2021, at the Police Barracks PlayingGround, Ikorodu. In the first semi-final scheduled for Monday (tomorrow), the defending Champions, F.A. Victory FC willhost Greater Height FC at 3pm. F.A. Victory FC beat Sharon FC 4 -0 in one of the quarter final matches to proceed to the semi final whileGreater Height FC beat TCCG FC away by 6 – 5…

Kunle Adelabu Adebax FC and Eazigo FC, yesterday, picked up the two final spots for the quarter final stage of the on going 13th edition of the Bolowotan Gold Cup in lkorodu, as the remaining in the tournament are ready to fight for the semi final tickets. In the first match played yesterday, Adebax FC continued their winning streak in the competition as they beat Planet FC 2 – 1. The second match of the day between Eazigo FC and Golden Dollars FC, which was also the last to be…