Tennis
9 Nov
The Iraqi team at the ongoing Valuejet Para Table Tennis Open Championship have been the cynosure of all eyes as they bestrode the Molade Okoya Thomas Hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, shoving all opposition aside.
7 Nov
Some of the best table tennis players from across the world have arrived in Lagos for the sixth Valuejet Para Table Tennis Open, which serves
4 Nov
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), at the weekend, outclassed Lagos State in a thrilling final game to win the First Senato
1 Nov
Nigeria’s efforts to find replacements for tennis stars like Haruna Quadri, Funke Oshonaike, and the rest will receive a boost as the maiden Senator Abiru Mixed Team Table Tennis Championship got underway, yesterday.
30 Oct
Daniil Medvedev is still searching for his first ATP tournament victory this year after the world number five lost to Australia's Alexei Popyrin for the first time in his career at the Paris Masters on Wednesday. Medvedev won the Paris title in 2020 but has not found the indoor tournament to his liking in recent…
28 Oct
A mother’s love was bang on target, PEP talks from her mother, Mrs. Aina motivated Goodnews Aina, to her first triumph at the 2024 NNPC-SNEPCo Junior Tennis Championship, at the weekend, in Warri, Delta State.
24 Oct
The newly elected African Table Tennis Federation (ATTF) Executive Council has signed a pact with Ethiopian Airlines to develop the sport in the continent.
21 Oct
Naomi Osaka's season appears to be over after she said she will not play at next month's Billie Jean King Cup finals because of injury. The four-time Grand Slam singles champion said in Tokyo on Sunday that she had ruptured abdominal muscles. "I thought I strained my back, but I did an MRI in Beijing…
19 Oct
Tommy Paul ended Stan Wawrinka's run in the Stockholm ATP tournament with a 6-3, 6-2 win in the semi-finals on Saturday. Wawrinka, the 39-year-old three-time Grand Slam champion who has now slipped to 217th in the world, had beaten Andrey Rublev in the quarter-finals on Friday, his first win against a top-10 opponent for over…
18 Oct
Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka rolled back the years on Friday as the 39-year-old ousted top seed Andrey Rublev to reach the Stockholm semi-finals. Wawrinka, currently ranked 217th in the world, battled past seventh-ranked Russian Rublev, 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/5) to notch his first win over a top-10 player this year. The Swiss player…
18 Oct
Tournament number two seed, Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna, has been forced to withdraw from the Men’s Singles event of the ongoing ITTF Africa Championships in Addis Ababa due to a thigh injury and fatigue.
Sport
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Nigeria stunned the competition at the inaugural World Boxing Council (WBC)-Africa Boxing Union (ABU) amateur championship in Lagos, winning 10 of 11 bouts. The tournament, held from Feb. 6 to 8, saw 42 boxers from eight African countries compete. Nigeria’s boxers dominated across all weight categories, securing impressive victories. In the 52kg bout on Saturday,…
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Bayer Leverkusen dropped eight points behind league leaders Bayern Munich with a scoreless draw at Wolfsburg on Saturday. Bayern's 3-0 win over Werder Bremen on Friday, their seventh straight league win, upped the ante on Xabi Alonso's defending champions, who host the leaders next Saturday. Alonso named a weakened starting lineup with Florian Wirtz, Patrik…
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Manchester City needed a late winner from substitute Kevin De Bruyne to beat Leyton Orient 2-1 and reach the FA Cup fifth round on Saturday after the third-tier side threatened to shock the Premier League champions. Jamie Donley's audacious long-range effort that came back off the bar and rebounded in off City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega…
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Pep Guardiola denied Friday that Manchester City spent big in January in case the club are hit with a transfer embargo for alleged Premier
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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored his first Paris Saint-Germain goal and in-form Ousmane Dembele bagged a brace as the Ligue 1 leaders eased
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The Lagos State government has concluded plans with Circuits of Africa to develop a premier Formula l-standard race track in the state. This initiative aims to position Nigeria at the forefront of global motorsport events while driving economic growth
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Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assured sports stakeholders that his government will continue to intervene to get the sector’s critical infrastructure in good shape as part of its sports development efforts.
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Clearwater Farms, a prominent equestrian business, is set to make its Lagos debut at the 2025 Lagos International Polo Tournament, underscoring its ambition to expand Nigeria’s equestrian landscape.
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United Kingdom-based sports recycling charity, Lord’s Taverners has donated sports kits and equipment worth over N30million to Community Sport and educational Development (CSED) Initiative.