Category: Sports

Team Lagos has emerged the best state at the 2017 Asaph Zadok National Scrabble Championship held in Abuja.

Team Lagos retained the title, after five out of their six players emerged as the top six on the scores table.

With the victory, Lagos won a trophy and a cash prize of 100,000 Naira.

Delta and Akwa Ibom came second and third best respectively.

Dipo Akanbi, representing Lagos State, emerged the 2017 individual champion after winning 18 games with an aggregate of +743.

Akanbi, with the victory, earned a trophy and a cash prize of 150,000 Naira

Dayo Tayo, also of Lagos State, came second with 16.5 wins and +346 aggregate and a cash prize of 100,000 Naira.

Moses Peter of Akwa Ibom came third with 16 wins and a +1351 aggregate, for a cash prize of 50,000 Naira.

Olatunde Oduwole, the 2016 national champion and Lagos representative, came fourth with 16 wins and +764 aggregate.

The reigning world scrabble champion, Wellington Jighere, finished 14th on the score table after winning 14 games and +1076 aggregate.

Justice Ayotunde Phillips has been elected into FIFA’s Ethics Committee Adjudicatory Chamber as Africa’s representative prior to the 67th FIFA Congress in Bahrain.

The Committee in full:

Chairman: Vassilios Skouris (Greece)

Deputy chair: Fiti Sunia (American Samoa)

Members:

Asia: Mohammad Ali Al Kamali (United Arab Emirates)

Africa: Justice Ayotunde Philips (Nigeria)

Europe: Aivar Pohlak (Estonia)

North Central America and Caribbean: Margarita Echeverria (Costa Rica)

Oceania: Jack Kariko (Papua New Guinea)

South America: Flavio Zveiter (Brazil)

Sara Adegoke defeated 16 year-old Angel MacLeod 6-4, 6-3 in an all Nigerian affair to win the McDan West Africa Open Championship 2017 held at the Accra Sports Stadium Tennis Court. She wins a $1,000 prize money in addition to silver trophies and products from the supporting sponsors including Twellium Industries, COCOBOD, GNPC and Babolat.

Sara Adegoke becomes the second player to win back-to-back the McDan Open titles equalling Ghanaian player Francisca Nyarko’s record set in 2014 and 2015.

University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has won 150 medals comprising 70 gold, 47 silver and 33 bronze in Judo, Athletics, Taekwondo, Volleyball, Basketball, Scrabble and Tennis to emerge overall winner of the 25th Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Games.

The NUGA Games were held at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi between April 22 and April 29 with a total of 57 contesting universities.

Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria with 16 medals comprising 11 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals followed a distant second while Benson Idahosa University (BIU) came third with 26 medals comprising 10 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze.

University of Lagos (UNILAG) with 20 medals, made up of 9 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze took fourth position.

University of Benin (UNIBEN) was fifth on the medals table while the host institution took the 11th position with 24 medals comprising 2 gold, 10 silver and 12 bronze medals.

Philibus Sharabutu and Hudung Stephen on Sunday emerged the male and female champions of the Splash FM 9th Ibadan City Marathon Race also winning the prize money of Naira 1 million and Naira 700,000 respectively.

Sharabutu, who is from Plateau, emerged the new winner after completing the 42km race in 2 hours 36 minutes 46 seconds.

On her part, Stephen emerged the winner in the female category after completing the race in 3:08.37.

In the male category Pam Iliya emerged first runner-up and Abdulahi Ibrahim was the second runner-up.

In the female category, Elizabeth Nuhu and Kistinwa Stephen were second and third respectively.

Iliya and Ibrahim went home with the prize money of Naira 400,000 and Naira 200,000 respectively, while Nuhu and Stephen went home with prize money of Naira 250,000 and Naira 150,000.

Team Headquarters Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has emerged the best overall winner of the 2017 NAF Inter-Command Combat Sports Competition with 9 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals. The four days competitive sporting activities dubbed ‘Jos 2017’ began on Monday, 27 March 2017 with 6 teams competing for honours.

Team Training Command came 2nd with 8 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze medals while Team Special Operations Command won 2 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals to clinch the 3rd position.
Team Logistics Command came 4th with 2 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze medals, Team Tactical Air Command with 1 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze medals was in the 5th position and Team Mobility Command with 1 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals came 6th.

Special Olympics Nigeria athletes at the 2017 World Winter Games in Austria against all odds gave an outstanding performance winning a total of 20 medals.

Twenty two athletes participated at the Winter Games and nine officials. Special Olympics Nigeria athletes won twenty medals; twelve gold medals and eight silver medals.

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