AFC signs MoU with IBIA to strengthen fight against match-fixing The Asian Football Confederation (AFC)’s resolve to protect and safeguard the beautiful game in Asia was further underlined today through the signing of a four-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA). Moving forward, the AFC and IBIA will work closely to detect irregular betting patterns and suspicious activities in football matches across Asia. IBIA, through its Monitoring and Alert Platform, will share real-time data on suspicious betting activity with the AFC, further enhancing the AFC’s abilities to promptly investigate potential match manipulation. The AFC General…
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.
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FIFA announces 2025 events calendar, ready to kick start new club world cup era “The FIFA Club World Cup 2025 will kick off a new era for club football across the world, with the top teams competing to be crowned the official FIFA club world champions. FIFA said . “These regulations will ensure that the best possible conditions are in place in order for all 32 participating clubs and the best players in the world to shine at the highest level.” FIFA Council also unanimously approved a consolidated vote at an extraordinary congress on December to award the 2030 World…
Saudi league champions, Al Hilal still in the lead with 41 matches unbeaten Roshn Saudi League champions Al Hilal rebounded from a goal down in Saturday night’s huge clash with Al Ahli to triumph 2-1 and maintain their 100 percent start to the season. The Riyadh side, unbeaten in their past 41 league outings, went into the final fixture of Matchweek 6 already on top of the table, but moved three points ahead of second-placed Al Ittihad with a spirited fightback in front of a season-record 53,036 fans at King Abdullah Sports City. Mitrovic, though, would soon have…
Liren vs Gukesh : Battle for new World Chess champion starts November 24 By Abdulgafar Oladimeji The World Chess Championship would be staged from November 25 to December 13 , Singapore would serve as the battle ground. The match will be between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju. The match would serve as the decider of who would be the World Chess Champion. The best of 14 games, with tiebreaks if required, the match will take place from 25 November to 13 December 2024.
World Aquatics Swimming Championships holds Dec 10, in Budapest The World Aquatics Swimming Championship would hold from 10 – 15 Dec 2024, in the Hungarian capital city, Budapest. Hungary Aquatics had successfully organized the 2017 and 2022 editions of the World Aquatics Championships and numerous World Cup events. However, the forthcoming World Swimming Championships will mark Hungary’s first time as host of the world championships in a 25m pool. The competition programme is slated to span six days, with morning sessions dedicated to heats and evening sessions featuring semi-finals and finals, all to be held at the revered Duna Arena.
The 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships will be held from 16 to 20 October 2024, at the Ballerup Super Arena in Ballerup, Denmark. It will be the 121st edition of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Women’s Cricket: India ease to victory over Pakistan to boost T20 World Cup hopes India produced a solid all-round display to beat Pakistan in Dubai in a big-stakes encounter at the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 on Sunday. Harmanpreet Kaur’s India needed a win after the loss to New Zealand in their opening game, and they got exactly that against neighbours Pakistan, who were slightly off the boil at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Arundhati Reddy (3/19) and Shreyanka Patil (2/12) starred with the ball as a rebalanced India lineup kept Pakistan tied down in the first innings, for…
WAFU B U20 Tourney final camping : Flying Eagles to relocate to Ikenne Nigeria’s U20 boys, Flying Eagles, will move to Ikenne, Ogun State for a final camping programme ahead of their participation at this year’s WAFU B U20 Championship in Togo. The 2023 FIFA World Cup quarter-finalists will camp at the high-grade Remo Sports Institute for a week before departing for Lome, where they tackle Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire in a three-team Group B, in their quest to defend the title they won in Niger Republic two years ago. Hosts Togo will battle Ghana, Benin Republic and Niger…
Former NFF vice president , Bar Baribote accuses NFF of disinformation, fault moves to amend statues Former vice president of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Victor Baribote has accused the Nigeria Football Federation of misleading the general public in its moves to amend the federation’s statues. Baribote in a statement that has gone viral on social media platforms said “Greetings all, I have perused the Communique of the NFF Ordinary General Assembly 2024, in Asaba Delta State and regret to state as follows . “that point 9 of the NFF communique is disingenuously crafted to mislead the general public, for…
FIFA stand still over Israel football association, Palestine football federation face off, calls for peace By Abdulgafar Oladimeji World football governing body FIFA is in a stalemate in finding solutions to the lingering crisis between Israel Football Association , IFA versus Palestine Football Federation . PFF. IFA was affiliated to FIFA in 1948. PFF had a Provisional affiliation to FIFA in 31 May 1995, became full member in 1998 FIFA has continued to hold its breath from taking a definite decision on the matter involving both football governing bodies. Palestine Football Federation had asked FIFA to suspend or expel of…
