The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has congratulated Nigeria’s U-19 Cricket Team, the Junior Yellow Greens, for picking the country’s first ever spot at the Cricket World Cup after topping the weeklong qualifying series held in Windhoek, Namibia at the weekend.
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The Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has called for a review of the curriculum of the Nigerian Institute of Sports.
The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, says the Federal Government will no longer fund the excesses of the sports federation in its bid to reposition sports.
The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has said the six years gap created by the inability to host the National Sports Festival threw up a succession gap in the athletes representing the country at Continental and International Games.
The Nissan-driven ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy last week concluded a two-day tour of Abuja and Lagos between February 11 and 13, 2019.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure the protection of lives of corp members deployed to various states for the general elections.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has described Taiwo Ogunjobi as humble technocrat, who dedicated his life to the administration of football in Nigeria.
The trophy of the International Cricket Council’s World Cup will arrive in Nigeria on Monday for a three-day tour of the country.
The Wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, on Saturday led the All Progressive Congress Women and Youths Presidential Campaign Team on a solidarity walk for the re-election of her husband.
The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, on Monday assured that Nigeria was working hard to ensure that its non-compliance status at the World Anti-Doping Agency was reversed.
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 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.
Solomon Dalung, Minister of Youths and Sports Development, has pledged his ministry’s full support to the Nigeria Hockey Federation in improving the hockey sport in Nigeria and Africa.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has been counting the gains of the just concluded 19th National Sports Festival held in Abuja.
Dalung, who announced this during the closing ceremony of the 19th NSF at the Abuja National Stadium, said Edo State was chosen after a careful assessment of its bid.
Solomon Dalung, the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, on Friday said Nigeria would dominate the wrestling sport with proper investment and training.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, says four states at the moment have submitted applications as prospective hosts for subsequent National Sports Festival.
Dalung told newsmen at the Abuja National Stadium that Nigeria has lost a lot for failing to hold the competition since 2012 when the last edition took place in Lagos.
Dalung, who briefed State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said that in total, 8861 delegates were expected.
The Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, gave the figure at a joint news conference in Abuja with the festival’s chief host, the Minister of the FCT, Muhammad Bello.