Category: Sports

Ethiopian Athlete, Sintayehu Legese, on Saturday won the 2019 edition of the Lagos City Marathon. PM NEWS reports that Legese, who finished the race with a time of 2:17:26 won the grand prize of $50,000. The second runner up, Joshua Kipkorir from Kenya had a finish time of 2: 18:16 while the third runner up William Yegon also from Kenya had a finish time of 2: 19: 04. Both second and third placed runners are expected to go home with $40, 000 and $30, 000.

The Ikorodu-born and Nigerian female striker, Azeezat Oshoala has completed a loan move to Barcelona women until the end of the season.   BBC reports that the 24-year-old joins from Chinese champions Dalian Quanjian, while the league is in its off-season.   The former BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year and The three time CAF Women footballer of the year is keen keep in shape ahead of June’s World Cup in France. Oshoala has been with Quanjian since February 2017 after she left English side Arsenal Ladies.   She won…

The Executive Chairman, Lagos State Sports Commission, Dr. Kweku Adedayo Tandoh has charged newly inaugurated Boards of 40 Sports Associations in Lagos State to scout for more talents from the grassroots in order to develop more sporting activities in the State.   Tandoh, who stated this while inaugurating the Board of Chairmen and Members of the Sports Associations at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Sports Hall of Teslim Balogun, Surulere, added that the crop of people chosen to serve in the various associations are people of proven integrity.   He said…

The Boards of 40 Sports Associations in Lagos State will be formally inaugurated on Monday, December 3, 2018, at 10 am. The Inauguration which will take place at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Sports Hall, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere will be conducted by Dr. Kweku Adedayo Tandoh, Executive Chairman Lagos State Sports Commission. The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode had recently approved the reconstitution of the Boards of the Sports Associations for four-year terms, excluding the Lagos State Football Association. The appointment of the Chairmen and Members of the…

Our Reporter Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday stated that sports remain a veritable tool to engender the unity and cohesion the nation actually needs while receiving the Torch of Unity to herald the forthcoming 19th National Sports Festival coming up in Abuja next month. Speaking at the Lagos House in Alausa, Ikeja after receiving the torch, the Governor said he was glad that the Festival after the last edition hosted by Lagos in 2012 was staging a grand comeback, adding that the State would send a strong…

Kunle ADELABU -Oreyo Senior Grammar School, Igbogbo, emerges overall best Ikorodu division is gradually  moving towards bringing back the golden era when it dominated the sporting circle in the state and produced star athletes for many states across  the country, as three schools from the division topped the medals  table at the just concluded maiden edition of the Channels Television U-17 Track & Field Classics.   The 2-day track and field event, which held at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere and organized by Channels Television,  was a ‘Catch-them-young’ competition …