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NTF Lauds Tennis Players In Nigeria

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A board member, Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), Yemi Owoseni, last Saturday described the just-concluded Zenith Bank Junior Tennis Master (Nextgen) as a big success.
   Owoseni told Tidesports source in Lagos that the competition undoubtedly produced future stars.
  Tidesport source reports that eight female players and eight male players competed in the maiden edition that began on April 24 and ended April 28 at the National Stadium, Lagos.
    Oyinlowo Quadri defeated Toyin Asogba, 9-1 as Abayomi Philips outplayed Godsgift Timibra, 9-7 to emerge the female and male champions, respectively.
Elated Owoseni said  the sponsors had done much in supporting the programme.
“We want projects like this to give the younger generation the opportunity to be discovered and hopefully transit to the senior levels.
“We are happy about the competition which gave the young players the chance to showcase their talents.
“We hope many other corporate bodies can come to the rescue of tennis and other sports,’’ Owoseni said.
Godwin Kienka, the Coordinator of the tournament, told the players that they did well and proved their quality.
He said that it was big surprise for Philips to emerge the champion in the boys’ category.
“We have seen our young generation of players showcasing the stuff of competing at the highest level.
“Nobody gave Philips the chance to win the tournament; that he did it without losing to the other seven players is indeed noteworthy.
“The next step for this players is the CBN Senior Championships and the NCC Tennis League where they have been spotted by clubs,’’ Kienka said.
Michael Oshewa, Stephen Augustine, Tochukwu Ezeh, Michael Ayoola, Emma Jebutu and Gabriel Friday are the other male players.
Favour Moses, Omolade Aderemi, Omolayo Bamidele, Kasara Adegboyega, Mariam Alli-Balogun, Rebecca Ekpeyong and Oiza Yakubu are the girls.
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Bundesliga: Kane Scores Hat-Trick As Bayern End Winless Streak

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England captain Harry Kane netted a hat-trick to guide Bayern Munich to an impressive victory against Stuttgart.
Kane’s goals, plus one from Kingsley Coman, helped Bayern end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
They faced a tough task against a Stuttgart side who sat back and limited their chances, leading Vincent Kompany’s side to enter the break frustrated and with the deadlock unbroken.
Bayern eventually found a way past Stuttgart’s steely defence when Kane drilled a low effort into the bottom corner from around 30 yards out after Joshua Kimmich overturned possession.

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Dosu Survives Ghastly Accident, Again

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Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, is full of thanks to God after he miraculously survived another life-threatening automobile accident recent at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV.
Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday.
“To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger bus stop to get fuel on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, around 6 p.m. when this MACK truck fully loaded with iron, with registration number LND 470 XX, left the road and crushed my car beyond repairs. Thank God for life,” he stated.
This is the second time the soft-spoken club proprietor will cheat death by a whisker, having been involved in an accident in 1997 that ended his career at 23 and left his spinal cord in bad shape.
He helped Julius Berger win the Nigeria FA Cup in November 1997 shortly a memorable Olympic outing by keeping a clean sheet in the finals against Katsina United. The following year, he was involved in the auto along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, which not only cut his career short but also left him almost paralysed, ending his spell at Serie A club Reggiana.
The former Nigeria international, who also kept goal for Julius Berger FC, said the case has been reported to Isheri Police Station, Ogun State, where the driver is currently detained and the truck also seized.
According to him, the owner of the truck said he can’t fix the badly damaged SUV until after a year.

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Sports Development Going Down In Nigeria – Ex-International

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Ex – Super Eagles of Nigeria, Okwuchukwu Waobikeze has observed that sports development in Nigeria is going down.
According to him, grassroots sports is very important, without it, the administrators cannot get it right. So everybody should key into grassroots sports development, he said.
Waobikeze said this last Wednesday in an interview with sports journalists shortly after the Port Harcourt All Stars Independence football festival (OCTOBERFEST) at the Port Harcourt club, Rivers State.
He explained that for sports administrators to get it right, grassroots development is key. “They should be organising competition at the grassroots level to fish out the young ones for different sporting activities.
“Grassroots sports is very important so the administrators have to go back to the grassroots.
” Sports Development in Nigeria is going down we need to go back to the basics.
“Look at the just concluded Paris Olympics, Nigeria did not win any medal.
” Our football team did not even qualify for the Olympics. We are going down.
” If they should go back to the grassroots, they will get young ones in the games and talents will be developed.
” I started from school games, to youth games before playing for the national team. Now everybody wants to fly board to play professional football and a lot do not know the basics of the game.
” A lot of people did not know the little things about the game, they just want to play. It is not done so,” Waobikeze stated.

Kiadum Edookor

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