World Games Athlete of the Year 2024 -Voting starts The voting period for The Athlete of the Year 2024 Award officially opens today at 12:00 GMT, inviting sports fans from around the world to celebrate and honour the year’s most exceptional athletes. The profile of the 22 nominees, including individual athletes, pairs and teams, representing a wide range of sports, are as follows: Archery – Sara Lopez (COL) Baseball Softball – Women’s Softball Team (JPN) Beach Handball – Lucie Marie Kretzschmar (GER) Canoe – Mads Brandt Pedersen (DEN) Cheerleading – Allison Hoeft & Sydney Martin (USA) DanceSport – Phil Wizard (CAN) Flag Football –…
Author: Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Abdulgafar Oladimeji is a sports writer with over two decades experience in the industry. As a reporter , he has worked with top major Nigerian newspapers, freelancer with newspaper and broadcast media organizations in Africa, Europe and America. He is a well travelled sports journalists reporting major sports events across the globe.
World Athletics Indoor Tour marks 10th year anniversary, raises prize money to USD$7000 The World Athletics Indoor Tour, now in its 10th year, has once again expanded with a packed 2025 calendar featuring more than 60 meetings across all levels. The series will feature nine Gold level meetings, more than any season in the past, kicking off in Astana on 25 January and culminating in Madrid on 28 February. The scoring disciplines on the World Athletics Indoor Tour rotate each year. For 2025 the Gold level scoring disciplines are: Women: 60m, 800m, 3000m/5000m, pole vault, triple jump, shot put…
NLO Drops Abdulgafar Oladimeji Names Muzammil Dalha Yola As North West Media Representative The Nationwide League One (NLO) has appointed Muzammil Dalha Yola as its new Media Representative for North-West Nigeria. He replaces Abdulgafar Oladimeji, who has held the position since 2023. Yola, who is the Assistant Secretary of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Kano State Chapter, was announced as the new representative through a correspondence issued by the NLO Secretariat on its media channels. Olushola Ogunnowo, the Chief Operating Officer of the NLO, confirmed the decision to appoint Muzammil Dalha Yola. In his role, Yola will be…
IOC set to storm Greece March 16, hosts 144th Session at Costa Navarino The 144th IOC Session will be held from 19 to 21 March at Costa Navarino in Greece (the “IOC Session”), with the opening ceremony taking place on 18 March. It will be preceded by a meeting of the IOC Executive Board (EB) on 17 March. IOC media said. The IOC Session and the EB meetings will take place at the House of Events building, in the Romanos Resort in Costa Navarino, in the Peloponnese region of Greece. The Romanos Resort is joined to the Westin Resort, where…
Southeast Asian boost as FIFA Forward support helps launch Cambodia’s generation next The ASEAN Championship is one of the most popular regional international competitions in the world. The biennial tournament is followed widely across Southeast Asia’s massive population drawing some very large crowds in the process. FIFA provides various types of funding to all eleven competing nations through its many development programmes. Two of those participating in the 2024 edition – Cambodia and Myanmar – have sought customised funding on specific areas to benefit the respective national teams. In the case of Cambodia, a youth development programme that is now…
Lebanese football star Celine Haidar awakes from coma two months after Israeli airstrike Celine Haidar, a 19-year-old standout in Lebanese women’s football, has woke up from a coma nearly two months after sustaining a critical head injury during a brutal Israeli airstrike in Beirut. On November 16, 2024, Haidar was at her home in the Al-Chiyyah neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs when an Israeli airstrike targeted the area. She was struck by shrapnel on the right side of her head, resulting in severe injuries that led to a medically induced coma. Her father said in November, that their neighbourhood had…
NPFL: Kwara United eyeing continental football next season The Chairman of Kwara United Football Club, Mr. Kumbi Titiloye has said , he is satisfied with the show put by his lads in the first stanza of the 2024/2025 Nigeria Premier Football League , NPFL season. Kumbi applaud the arrays of young and talented players executing the clubs campaign this season. Kumbi, in a parley session with journalists last Wednesday at the Kwara State Stadium Complex, Ilorin, during the presentation of the Abdul Momoh Ambassadorial Award of Recognition by Abdul Momoh Photography charged the lads to heighten their performance . “We…
Igala Super League Gets New Management Committee The Organizers of the Igala Super League ISL has established the League Management Committee, LMC to steer the affairs of the competition. The new committee is tasked with the mandate to execute the league. The Chairman/Technical Director Abubakar Kamar, while inaugurating the Committee said the objective behind the setting up of the new committee is to ensure that football occupies its place of pride in Kogi East. Adding that the committee have been given the task to also ensure that the League emerge amongst the top notch community football leagues in Nigeria .…
NNL: Barau football club head coach, Salisu Yusuf has been suspended, Rabiu Tata takes over Nigerian National League, NNL debutants, Barau football club has suspended their gaffer, Salisu Yusuf. The club in a media statement issued by the club’s Media Officer, Hamisu Nakowa Gwale, Wednesday said the decision to hang the fate of the former Super Eagles chief coach on the balance was reached at the end of a management meeting held in Kano. The NNL debutants have showed strings of poor runs since the commencement of the league season. Nakowa who fell short of announcing the departure or…
Nigeria appoints 47 years old, former Malian Centre Back, Eric Chelle, as new Super Eagles coach The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has announced the appointment of former Malian Centre back, Eric Chelle as the new Super Eagles coach. NFF media department, Tuesday in a press articles made available to journalists said “The Executive Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation has endorsed the recommendation of its Technical and Development Sub-Committee for the appointment of Mr. Éric Sékou Chelle as Head Coach of Nigeria’s senior men national football team, Super Eagles. “At its meeting held in Abuja on Thursday, 2nd January 2025, the…
