Barely three months to Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Minister of youth and sports federation, Chief Sunday Dare has dissolved all the boards of 31 National Sports Federations and set up caretaker committees to run the fairs of the federation.
This was disclosed in a press statement on Friday in Abuja.
Minister said the dissolution of boards of Federations was inline
with the Olympic Charter which stipulates a four year tenure for all Sports
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Each gold medalist from Oyo State in the just concluded National Sports Festival (Edo 2020) is to get N500,000, silver medalists, N350,000 and bronze medalists, N250,000.
Also, each of the state’s 55 coaches to the festival is to receive
N500,000, irrespective of whether their trainee won a medal or not.
Governor Seyi Makinde made this announcement when he received the
state’s contingent to the festival at the governor’s office, Ibadan, on
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Thousands of revellers celebrated Mardi Gras in Sydney on Saturday night, with pictures showing scenes not witnessed in many other parts of the world since the coronavirus pandemic began.
A reported 5,000 people took part in the parade that was held inside the Sydney Cricket Ground to an audience of 36,000 in the stands, with people seen tightly packed together without the need for social distancing or face masks.
Headline act British singer and superstar Rita Ora stole the show, and around the city countless more partied at pubs and bars, as Sydney's state of New South Wales went 48 days without a local transmission of the virus.
The event is emblematic of Australia's success at suppressing Covid-19, having seen just over 29,000 cases and 909 related deaths among a population of over 25 million people |||READ MORE
Despite the ongoing #EndSARS protest across the country, the minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has insisted that the 20th National Sports Festival slated for Benin, Edo State, will hold.
Dare who spoke through a press statement from his media office, said consultations were ongoing between the ministry, Edo state government, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19, and National Council on Sports to decide on a new date to host the festival.
He described the
news report to the effect that the games have been postponed indefinitely as
fake and unfounded.
“Like we did by consulting with the PTF on Covid-19 when we lifted the ban on non-contact sports and later contact sports, discussions are ongoing to decide on a new date for the Festival. The fake news that the Festival has been postponed indefinitely must have emanated from a false source,” the statement said |||READ MORE
Super Eagles star Victor Osimhen sought the counsel of Juventus legend Pavel Nedved, a move which saved him from signing a bad deal with Napoli.
Negotiations for Osimhen’s move to Napoli dragged on for several weeks before the €71m deal was finalized in late July 2020.
After getting over his initial scepticism on a move to Italy because of concerns over racism, Osimhen’s move to Napoli suffered further delay after he parted ways with his long-term agent Jean-Gérard Benoit Czajka |||READ MORE
DENVER, Co. - John Elway, former Super Bowl-winning quarterback and Head of Football Operations for the Denver Broncos, has laid down some ground rules for the upcoming season of the NFL. According to our sources inside the locker room who may or may not have direct knowledge of what’s going on, Elway is already polishing up his index finger to point at the traitors he’ll fire |||READ MORE
Former Pharaohs of Egypt coach Hector Cuper is disappointed with the decision of the Nigeria Football Federation to hand Gernot Rohr a new contract.
Rohr is on the verge of penning a new two-year contract following weeks of negotiation with the NFF.
Cuper’s Egyptian-born assistant, Mahmoud Ahmed, told Premium Times that the Argentine was waiting to pounce on the Nigeria’s job should Rohr failed to agree a new deal with the NFF |||READ MORE
Super Eagles Alex Iwobi’s Everton has agreed a club-record partnership deal with Danish sportswear brand hummel.
Everton confirmed the deal in a statement released on their official website on Wednesday.
This means hummel will take over from umbro who has been in partnership with Everton since 2014 and will continue the partnership until the end of the 2019/20 season |||READ MORE
South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya has locked her focus into the 200m, no matter the result of her appeal to overturn last year's Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic rocked the sporting globe, Semenya was in a court battle to get the CAS decision that allowed athletics governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), to prescribe hormone-suppressing drugs for any woman with disorder of sex development (DSD) competing in 400m to 1 500m events.
Her last throw of the dice was the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, who had yet to reach a verdict by the time of the global sporting shutdown. In the meantime, Semenya, who outright refused to take the drugs, went to work on the 200m sprint distance |||READ MORE
The Federation of International Football (FIFA) has announced it will announce the host of the 2023 women’s World Cup on June 25 this year.
FIFA made the announced in a statement released on their official website on Friday.
The world football governing body stated that the host country will be announced during its council meeting which will be conducted online |||READ MORE
