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President Muhammadu Buhari today Thursday 30th of January, 2019, played host to the Minister Of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare, to flagoff the movement of the Torch Of Unity for the 20th National Sports Festival at State House in Abuja. The President in his speech, reiterated his administration’s commitment to foster an enabling environment for sports at all level. "May I once again reiterate this administration’s commitment to continue to support and provide enabling environment for the development of sports at all level", the President assured. He commended the Federal Ministry Of Youth and Sports under the leadership of the Minister, particularly his doggedness in ensuring the continually following his mandate on keeping the youth busy. "The Federal Ministry Of Youth and Sports Development is the biggest constituency for keeping the youth busy and the Minister is doing a good job in that regard," he said. The Minister in his remarks, t...

His real name may not ring a bell, but once you mention his nickname, hardly would you meet anybody who is anybody as far as the national teams of Nigeria is concerned who do not know him.  Abayomi Ogunjimi popularly known by most people as Bonfrere is the young man who has decided to do thing differently and changed how the supporters’ club operation is done in Nigeria. When next any Nigeria’s national team is playing, especially the senior national team, the Super Eagles, whenever the camera pans to show the Nigerian supporters club cheering the team on, watch out for a fair, agile young man, directing the affairs of the supporters club from the stand, that man is Bonfrere. According to those who know the restless, hardworking and highly cerebral young man, he has been an integral part of the Nigerian football supporters club for more than 20 years, he is said to have been going around the continents of the world with the supporters’ club from a very young age...

Online money transfer company WorldRemit and Arsenal Football Club welcomed the winners of the 2019 Future Stars competition to London. Sponsored by WorldRemit, Chinasa Mandy Ukandu from Nigeria was one of two winners who won an all expenses paid trip to London to take part in a personalised training programme with Arsenal Football Development coaches. The weeklong programme is designed to help Future Stars coaches to assist the children they coach to develop life skills both on and off the pitch. Chinasa coaches boys and girls aged 5 to 16. Together with her friends, she helps provide young people with an opportunity to develop football and life skills at Help the Talent Academy in Lagos State. She completed phase three of the Premier Skills Coach Educators Course (an initiative by the English Premier League and British Council) in 2015. Arriving in London Chinasa enjoyed a week of scheduled activities including attending the Arsenal Vs Manchester City football game, an...

CAF confirms Ahmed Yusuf's reappointment for the sixth term as standing Committee Member ….. My place is Celestial - Fresh The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF), has confirmed the reappointment of Comrade Ahmed Yusuf ‘Fresh’ as the member of its Technical and Development Committee. This reappointment has elongated Fresh's tenure, as CAF standing Committee member for the record(s) of the sixth term. Prior to Fresh’s reappointment as a Committee Member, major shake-ups have been going on in CAF, in virtually all aspects of its structures. The sixth term as CAF's Technical and Development Committee appointee, Ahmed Fresh was ecstatic when he got the correspondence which effected his tenure, yet again as a Committee Member. "I just finished answering call of nature, when I received Caf's document confirming my reappointment, not just as Technical and Development Committee member, but also one of the Nigerian returnees into the African football sys...

Ru nners in the stable of Nigeria’s foremost Marathons and Road Races Club, the High-Altitude Athletics Club of Jos, Plateau State, have vowed to send the men’s’ national record in the full marathon to the athletics archives at the 2020 edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon on February 8, 2020. The current national record of 2 hours .15 minutes was set the Army Officer Abass Muhammed about three decades ago. High Altitude Head Coach Steve Nuhu told journalists on Monday that, “Access Bank Lagos City Marathon is our premium event and there is no better place to set a new national record than our best races as the attention of the world media will be on us” said the Nuhu  With all the nation elite runners like Emmanuel Gyan, Deborah Pam under his stable, Nuhu will not reveal which of the runners is primed to break the national record, “ I won’t talk about that but all I can tell you is that we are coming to Lagos with about 30 runners. 25 are ready now by the e...

The untrue story circulated by Sports Village Square website, where the media outfit, ignorantly accused Chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation Technical And Development Committee, Comrade Ahmed Yusuf 'Fresh' of being unpatriotic as he did not vote reigning Africa Women's player of the year, Asisat Oshoala. Aro Olaoluwa has clarified the unprofessional report of the media outfit. As the SA media to Mr Fresh, it's important the general public know the true nature of what transpired, leading to the voting process by CAF. December 1st, 2019, I received a call from the Communication Department of NFF, regarding the deadline of voting process by CAF. Interestingly, it was the day voting will close, which was Dec 1st 2019.  I was told to remind Mr fresh if he has gotten CAF's email for the voting exercising. I contacted him, and we waited for CAF correspondence to vote, via his email but  we waited for the message from CAF regarding that till 12 midnight o...