The Kwara chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria put the tournament together to honour one of its former Chairmen, Olajide Fashikun, who died two years ago in Abuja after a brief illness.
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The remains of late Olajide Fashikun, a former chairman of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria in Kwara, was on Thursday committed to mother earth.
The leadership of the Nigeria Basketball Federation is saddened by the sudden demise of one of the foremost investigative sports journalists in Nigeria, Olajide Fashikun.
Barrister Solomon Dalung has expressed deep shock over the death of one of Nigeria’s foremost investigative reporters, Olajide Fashikun, who died in the early hours of Sunday at the Federal Medical Center Jabi, Airport Road, Abuja.
The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed shock and sadness over the death on Sunday morning in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja of renowned sports journalist, Olajide Fashikun.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung on Sunday described the death of Nigeria’s foremost investigative reporters, Olajide Fashikun as a colossal loss to Journalism and the Sports industry.
The NSF is scheduled for the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Fashikun made the pledge on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, on the sidelines of the funds launch in Abuja.
Solomon Dalung, the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, will on September 3, 2018 at the media centre of the National Stadium, Package A launch the Elite Athlete Development grant midwifed by the Nigeria Sports Development Fund Inc.
In a bid to help the nation’s outings at the Olympics to improve, the Nigeria Sports Development Fund Inc will on September 30, 2018 launch a 90 days campaign to raise N900 million for 90 athletes preparing for Tokyo 2020.
According to a statement by the Director General of NSDFI, Olajide Fashikun, the community lottery programme will be sold in all parts of Ondo State and Offa in Kwara State, which has the Ruth Ogbeifo-Balofin weightlifting centre.
These were disclosed in Abuja on Tuesday by Olajide Fashikun, the Director General of the Nigeria Sports Development Fund Inc, at a Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony with Leadway Assurance Nigeria Limited.
The Ondo State Sports Commissioner, Hon. Saka Yusuf Ogunleye, signed the MoU on behalf of the state government, while the Director General of the NSDFI, Olajide Fashikun, and the President of Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau, also appended their signatures to the contractual papers
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Senator Ojudu spoke in his office in Abuja when he hosted the management team of the Fund, led by Chief Mary Onyali
Fashiku said he decided to call for the probe of the NFF leadership “as part of the desired changes which Nigeria’s sports deserves following the years of maladministration and loss of focus by those saddled with the responsibility of developing sports”