Category: Sports

Kunle ADELABU & Uthman AGBOOLA (SIWES Student) -To confer Ayangbure with Grand Patron on Sunday Ikorodu All Stars Football Organization, on Thursday, October 25, 2018, received royal blessings from His Royal Majesty, Oba Kabir Adewale Shotobi, Adegorushen V, the Ayangbure of Ikorodu and the Vice Chairman, Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs, for its 30 years anniversary celebration.   Members of the organization had visited the revered monarch in his palace in Ikorodu as part of week-long programmes scheduled for the landmark celebration.   Mr Lanre Olabinjo, the President…

Kunle ADELABU & Uthman AGBOOLA (SIWES Student) Ikorodu All Stars Football Organization, a footballing association founded in 1988 to facilitate opportunities for professional players in the community to play professional football for various clubs in the country and abroad, has clocked 30 years and members are rolling out drums to celebrate the feat.   The unique celebration kicked-off on Sunday, October 21, 2018, with a Special Church Service at Patriarch Bolaji Johnson Methodist Cathedral Church, Ita-Elewa, Ikorodu.   Members of the association, who were looking sportive in their track suit…

Kunle ADELABU, Tawakalitu ASHIMI, Aminat Sulaimon, Yetunde ANIPOLE, Uthman AGBOOLA, Azzez MATANMI Affigbo Esther, 16 years student of Luwasa High School, Ijede LCDA (Overall Winner of the race):   IMPACT: How do you feel emerging the overall winner?   Affigbo: I feel happy being the overall best athlete in this year’s edition. It’s not by my power but the grace of God Almighty. He is the One that bestowed the talent on me and I pray to Him to help me in going higher.   IMPACT: You won the female…

Kunle ADELABU & Seun AJAYI Esther Affigbo, a 16 years old Senior Secondary School student of Luwasa Senior Secondary School in Ijede Local Council Development Area (LCDA), in Ikorodu Division, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, has emerged the overall best marathoner and winner of the female category of the 2018 edition of Oba Kabiru Shotobi Independence Day Mini-Marathon.   The race, which was the fourth edition in the series, attracted 270 participants from no fewer than 58 public and private secondary schools across the Ikorodu Constituency I and II.   The 7.3…

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Saturday said the State Government will fully support the setting up of a Lawn Tennis Academy in the State that would make the annual Lagos Open International Tennis Championship attract the global attention that it truly deserves.   Governor Ambode, who spoke at the finals of the 2018 Lagos Open Championship held at the Lawn Tennis Club in Onikan, Lagos, said the State Government has held talks with the State’s Lawn Tennis Association to open up an academy with state-of-the-art facilities that would…

  The organizers of the Oba Shotobi Independence Day Marathon have postponed this year’s edition, scheduled to hold tomorrow (Monday) to Saturday, October 13, 2018. It was gathered that the 7.3km race which has been staged for four years was shifted because of the rescheduled primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State The Chairman of the Planning Committee of the 4th edition of the race (the race was changed from Hon. SOB Agunbiade to Oba Shotobi Independence Day Mini-Marathon in its second year in 2015), Mr Akeem…