Category: Sports

The Lagos State Government has commended residents for their good conduct at the eight World Cup Viewing Centres throughout the period of the just concluded 2018 FIFA World Cup. Chairman of Lagos State Sports Commission, Dr. Kweku Adedayo Tandoh, in a statement on Tuesday, said throughout the one month period the Centres were up and running, residents conducted themselves orderly and enjoyed the 64 games. Tandoh also thanked Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for his great wisdom and insight in approving the setting up of eight World Cup Viewing Centers across the…

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Kunle ADELABU Former Green Eagles player, Isa Sofoluwe, has commended the Lagos State Government for initiating viewing centres across the state during the just concluded 2018 World Cup in Russia.   The former ex-international, who is now involved in youths academy and development programmes, spoke with THE IMPACT  yesterday (July 15) at the Ikorodu Viewing Centre located within the premises of the Ikorodu Town hall, during the final match of the World Cup between France and Croatia which ended in 4 – 2 in favour of the former.   “The…

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After a month of action-packed matches from the 2018 World Cup in Russia which were beamed live at viewing centres in Ikorodu and other parts of Lagos, which provided a stadium-like environment, the biggest football tournament came to an end yesterday with France beating Croatia 4 goals to 2, to lift the cup. We captured some of the memorable moments during the final match:

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Wale JAGUN & Kunle ADELABU -Stakeholders call for stadium development, investment in sports, development of school sports, others at sports summit The representative of the Ikorodu division on the board of the Lagos State Sports Commission, Prince Hakeem Gbolade Olukunga, has revealed that there is going to be a mega Ikorodu Sports Summit later in the year. He made this revelation at the Ikorodu Division Sports Summit organized by the “Strike Team for Akinwunmi Ambode” (Ikorodu) and Change Alliance Leadership Group, at the Ikorodu Town hall on Thursday, July 12,…

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Kunle ADELABU & Seun AJAYI Sports administrators, politicians and residents of Ikorodu have commended the state government’s decision to set up viewing centres in Ikorodu, which provided a stadium-like environment, for the viewing of the matches at the ongoing World Cup in Russia. The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode,  made approval for additional two viewing centres at Ikorodu Town Hall, Ikorodu, and Badagry Grammar School, Badagry, to add to the originally approved six centres across the state. The originally approved centres are Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Campos Mini…

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Kunle ADELABU Prince Hakeem Olukunga, a Board Member, Lagos State Sports Commission, representing  Ikorodu division, on Thursday, June 28, 2018, led members of the Ikorodu Division Football Association (IDFA) and others in joining the family of late veteran goalkeeper, Pa Lawal Sulaimon, popularly called ‘Rigogo’ in paying tributes to the deceased at the 8th day Fidau prayer.   Ikorodu soccer family was thrown into mourning mood following the death of the veteran goalkeeper in the early hours of  Wednesday, June 20,2018, at 73 years   He was buried on the…

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Kunle ADELABU The Ikorodu soccer family, on Friday, June 15, 2018, was again thrown into mourning mood following the death of another soccer star, Sodiq Somefun, who many have descibed as a player fantastic player. It was gathered that Sodiq died after a brief illness. Sodiq, who was popularly called ‘Makalele’ or ‘Origin’ because of his creative style of play as a midfielder, was the captain of the Excel Academy Football Club, a 174 Battalion based Club in Odogunyan, Ikorodu.   He recently led the Excel team to lift the…

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Nigeria may not be favourites for the World Cup, but they seem to have won fans over with their new kit for Russia. Three million people pre-ordered replica shirts, according to the Nigeria Football Federation, and shoppers queued outside Nike’s flagship store in London on Friday to try to get their hands on the clothing. The home and away shirts, priced at £64.95, were sold out on the sportswear giant’s website soon after they were released. Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi is among the players who modelled the kit, which was first…

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Wale JAGUN Real Madrid defeated Liverpool 3-1, to retain their European Champions League in the final played at NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine on Saturday Liverpool goalkeeper’s errors played major roles in their defeat at the home Dynamo Kiev Bale scored two goals, one of which was a magnificent overhead kick that put Madrid 2-1 up in the 64th minutes Madrid capitalized Loris Karius blunder to opened scoring in the 51st minutes of the final. The Liverpool goalkeeper had threw the ball to Benzema’s foot which the striker did…

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