The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has again congratulated the Nigerian male basketball team, D’Tigers, on their second straight Pre- Tokyo Olympics friendly win against World number four, Argentina on Monday. D’Tigers beat the Argentine team by a 23- point margin (94-71) to record their second major upset in three days. “Our […]
The minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has called on the Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, to stop talking and face the job of getting quality results for the team Speaking during his visit to the Super Eagles (home-based) training ahead of the friendly game against Mexico in US on July 3, the […]
The victorious powerweightlifters who came tops at the World Power Weightlifting competition in Manchester have been assured of support to commence early preparations for the Paralympic in Tokyo, Japan. Speaking during a reception for the team at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, described […]
After months of inactivity as a result of the impact of Covid-19 pandemic which brought the world postrate on its knees, sporting activities are getting back on track with Minister of Youth and sports Development Sunday Dare taking over the driver’s seat for the much postponed National Sports Festival and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Moved […]
Host of the 20th National Sports Festival, Edo State, has expressed displeasure over the decision of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to reject the new date fixed for the festival after it suffered a postponement few days to the opening day early this year due to the outbreak of the novel COVID-19 Pandemic. The […]
Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has listed 60 Nigeria’s most outstanding sports to be celebrated at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja as part of the country’s 60th Independence anniversary celebrations. The minister said that the Federal government will use the occasion of the 60 years of the country’s independence to honour sports […]
…promises 150-office complex at Lagos Stadium Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, is hopeful the National Sports Festival could still take place before the end of the year. Speaking with cross sections of journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, the minister said discussions currently ongoing with relevant authorities ahead of returning sports fully in […]
…as illegal structures’ owners groan after demolition One of the popular songs of the late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, is ‘Sorrow, Tears and Blood’, that’s the situation at the moment with the occupants of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos after they were all sent packing from the complex. On June 9, 2020, the Minister of […]
The death of the former Chairman of Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan Chief Bode Oyewole and former board member of the Women Football League Ms. Henrietta Ukaigwe has been described as huge loss to Nigerian Football, their families, the Nigerian Union of Journalists and the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria. According to a statement […]