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Veteran golfer, Monday Ikhureigbe, is the maiden champion of the Obama Kitty Group Challenge, played over two days, last weekend, at the Benin Club Golf Section (BCGS), Benin City, Edo State.

Bells University has won the Covenant University at 20 Novelty game played to commemorate the establishment of the school. Team CUALA narrowly missed out of the final to finish in the third position.

As part of efforts to develop badminton from the grassroots, Ikoyi Club 1938 sponsored participants to Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for a two-day national teens coaching programme, which introduced the children to the basics of the sport.

To improve his performance and aid his rise in World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), Ibadan Golf Club-based (IGC) prodigy, Jubril Akande, has intensified his training ahead of the ninth Awa Ibraheem Junior Golf Championship.

After narrow losses to Chinese Taipei and Bulgaria in their second group matches of the ongoing World School Basketball Championships holding in Serbia, Nigeria’s Bishop Dimieari Grammar School and St Jude’s Girls Secondary School are looking to bounce back to winning ways against Turkey and Chile in their third games of the tournament today.    …

Organisers of the South-South Kickboxing Championship, tagged ‘Battle of the Mangrove Season Five,’ have promised an unforgettable experience for athletes and officials billed to attend the event billed to hold from September 27 to October 2...

Hertha Berlin winger Jean-Paul Boetius is set to have an operation after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, making him the fourth Bundesliga player this year to receive such a diagnosis.

Manchester United on Thursday announced a net loss of £115.5 million ($130.4 million, 132.2 million euros) for the 2021/22 season even though revenues rose to £583 million as coronavirus restrictions eased.

Floyd Mayweather says that Sunday's exhibition boxing match against Japanese mixed martial artist Mikuru Asakura will be an "easy payday, easy cheque, easy opponent".

Naomi Osaka's woes deepened when the struggling former world number one pulled out of her home Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo complaining of abdominal pain on Thursday.

Joe Aribo has made the decision to withdraw from representing Nigeria in upcoming international fixtures because the midfielder wants to ‘rest,’ reports scottishdailyexpress.co.uk.

Nigeria's quest to maintain its recent dominance over Algeria received a big boost, yesterday, with the arrival of the remaining two players, Francis Uzoho and Ebube Duru, to the Super Eagles’ camp in Constantine.