Category: Sports

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…

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…

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…

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…