Besides, Olatinwo promised adequate supports for the hospital’s football team, Injectors, currently plying its trade in the Nationwide League, to gain promotion to the nation’s Premier League in the shortest possible time.
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Dalung wondered why such an ugly incident had to single out Bekom’s family, who has so far lost three of its members, with another three still battling for life at the Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakiliki, Ebonyi State.
A statement signed by Olawale Alabi, the Secretary-General of SWAN, said “Bekom sad and painful” death occurred on July 16, following the injuries he sustained from a fire incident occasioned by gas explosion.
A sober Dalung said the latest development about the player who has been capped 10 times by the Super Eagles is disheartening and calls for urgent attention
Idris, while receiving a delegation of the SWAN National Executive Committee, which was on a courtesy visit, also canvassed the sports media’s support for ongoing Police reforms
The investiture of Daniel coincided with his 61st birthday and his formal inauguration was done by the SWAN National President, Honour Sirawoo, before hundreds of guests at Daniel’s Asoludero Court residence
The NUJ made the condemnation in a resolution adopted after its congress in Yenagoa, vowing that it had resolved to tackle the issue head-long
Dotun Coker, the Chairman of the Technical committee of Lagos State FA, made this disclosure on Tuesday.
Olawale Alabi, the Secretary-General of SWAN, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja said the deadline was to allow the association’s National Secretariat collate names of applicants
The inability of the association to forward names essentially follows non-submission of valid applications as requested by the AIPS and clearly published by SWAN
This was a fulfilment of the promise made by the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, during the reception of the team following their successful campaign in the 2016 NPFL season
The decision was taken at the chapter’s emergency congress held in Lagos
The Minister made the disclosure on Friday in Makurdi, Benue State at an interactive forum with the Executive Council of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Benue State Chapter
Speaking in Abeokuta, Ogun State at a forum organised by Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Ogun State chapter, Soname attributed the decline in the quality of domestic football in Nigeria to the denial of rights of players
The club also engaged Baba Gana-Naru as Technical Adviser following the exit of the former adviser, Abdul Maikaba, and employed Bwasit Mangut as its chief coach
Sirawoo, who stated this in a chat with newsmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, stressed that 2017 presents an opportunity to build on feasible landmarks witnessed in the past year and create an enduring platform for the growth and development of sports in the country
At the presentation of the certificate of installation at Oduduwa House in Ile-Ife, the Chairman of the chapter, Adeyemi Aboderin, said the Ooni’s choice was in recognition of his advocacy for peace and national unity
A statement from the association’s Secretary-General, Olawale Alabi, on Monday said the group was an illegal contraption unknown to SWAN and the Nigerian Union of Journalists
Thadeous Yilmen of Plateau Radio Television Cooperation, who has served in the previous executive as Chairman, was returned unopposed alongside other members of the executive
A competent source close to the Oluyole Warriors disclosed that the player was hit by stray bullet during the Joint Task Force raid of his village, Okaki in Rivers State