Bassey, a gold medallist at the 2009 West Africa University Games in Ghana, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that government was not ready anymore to organise local athletics competition
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The speaker expressed sadness over the unfortunate incident, which led to the death of football fans in a viewing centre
The 44-year-old passed away on Friday morning after suffering a cardiac arrest at the Premier League’s club’s training ground the previous day
The match would have sealed the team’s promotion
The 41-year-old former world champion will meet Joshua, 27, in his 29th championship fight at London’s Wembley Stadium as the Ukrainian hopes to regain two of the belts he lost to Britain’s Tyson Fury in November 2015
Ideye, who had gone four games without a goal, scored in the 73rd minute
Just four points now separate the two sides in the table and Spurs could deal another blow to Chelsea’s campaign by reaching the final for the first time since 1991
The striker is the top scorer in the Premier League this season with 24 goals
Paul Clement’s struggling side are currently languishing in the relegation zone, two points from safety but now with just five games left to play this season, starting with the Potters’ visit to the Principality this weekend
Rivers United beat Rayon Sports 2-0 in the first leg in Port Harcourt five days ago, with Emeka Atuloma and Guy Kuemian plundering the goals for the ‘Pride of Rivers’
Three explosive devices shattered windows on the coach as the club was en route to its home Champions League quarter-final first leg against AS Monaco
There will also be a minute’s applause ahead of the game at the national stadium in celebration of Ehiogu’s life
Seven fans were confirmed dead and many injured as an electric cable from a high tension installation fell on the viewing centre where they were watching the match between Manchester United and Anderlecht
The fans were watching the match between Manchester United and Anderlecht when a cable fell on the centre, killing seven of them and injuring 11, according to figures released by the police
In a statement signed the media officer, Igwe Onuoha, the club’s Management said the players were asked to look for other clubs as they could not justify their high rating and wished them well in their future endeavours
With double French Open champion Sharapova currently unranked, all eyes will be on the French Tennis Federation next month
Goffin, who will meet Rafael Nadal or Diego Schwartzman in the semi-finals, had not previously beaten a top-three player
Spurs face Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-finals on Saturday and Lampard has no doubt that one of the keys to the game will be stopping the in-form Alli’s effectiveness
A seven-man electoral appeals committee has also been constituted to consider and decide on all appeals and petitions arising from the elections, if any
LMC’s Head of Special Projects, Harry Iwuala, said Friday in a press statement that this would be a mark of respect for the 30 football fans who died in Calabar, Cross River State