Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines Thursday 15th August 2019
Here are some of the Nigeria Breaking News Today Headlines on some of the newspapers.
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target=_blank>FIBA World Cup: D’Tigers depart for China Monday
The country’s men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, will depart for Beijing, China, the venue of this year’s FIBA World Cup on Monday, August 19 to participate in the championship. Secretary of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, Mrs. Adebisi Afolabi, said the D’Tigers who arrived in Lagos on Tuesday from their United States of America camp would use
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target=_blank>Leadway Tennis Clinic enters tournament stage at Ikoyi Club
After nine days of training which has seen kids taken through the rudiments and latest techniques of the game, the Leadway Assurance Summer Tennis Clinic enters competition stage on Thursday with participants scheduled to battle for supremacy in six categories. According to Chris Agbim, the technical director of the programme, 73 players will slug it
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target=_blank>Why I left Arsenal for Everton – Iwobi
Alex Iwobi revealed the desire to make a name for himself and to shake off the ‘youngster’ tag at Arsenal propelled him to join Everton. Iwobi joined the Goodison Park outfit on a five-year deal for a fee of an initial £28 million, which could rise to £34 million with potential add-ons. The Nigeria international,
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target=_blank>ITTF World Cadet Challenge: Nigeria’s Okanlawon makes ITTF Hopes Squad
Things are really looking up for table tennis in Nigeria as youngster Usman Okanlawon has been selected by the International Table Tennis Federation among the 16 players across the globe for the Hopes Squad. Okanlawon’s inclusion was based on his superb outing at the 2019 ITTF World Hopes Week and Challenge in Salalah, Oman. According
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target=_blank>Multi Sports pre-season gets August 24 date
The eighth edition of the Multi Sports International Pre-Season Football Tournament has been scheduled to take place in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, from August 24 to 28. The annual pre-season championship has provided clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League and other leagues in the country opportunity to get proper opponents to prepare them for
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target=_blank>NSA Award targets 10,000 nominations
Organisers of the Nigeria’s most prestigious Nigerian Sports Award (NSA), has set a target of 10,000 nominations to be received for this year’s edition of the award billed to hold on Friday, November 29, 2019 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. Speaking at a media parley in Lagos for the 2019 edition
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target=_blank>Junior cyclists off to Germany for world championship
A 13-man cycling delegation left Abuja today to attend the World Junior Cycling Track Championship in Frankfurt, Germany which runs from August 14 to August 18, 2019, the technical director of the Cycling Federation of Nigeria, CFN, Bashir Mohammed has disclosed. The delegation led by the CFN president, Chief Giandomenico Massari, is made up of eight
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target=_blank>Liverpool win UEFA Super Cup
Liverpool won the UEFA Super Cup on penalties after a shootout victory over Chelsea in Istanbul. Adrian saved from Tammy Abraham with the decisive spot kick to send the Super Cup to Anfield. The match finished 1-1 after 90 minutes and 2-2 following the extra half hour in a topsy-turvy final. Olivier Giroud fired the
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target=_blank>PSG reject bids from Barca, Madrid for Neymar
Barcelona and Real Madrid have made unsuccessful offers for Paris St-Germain forward Neymar, says BBC Radio 5 Live’s Guillem Balague. Neymar’s former club Barcelona are believed to have offered 100m euros (£92.4m) plus Philippe Coutinho. Ivan Rakitic was also discussed with the French club as part of the deal for the 27-year-old Brazil international. Real
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5 police officers shot in US
Philadelphia police swarmed the area near a shooting in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood where five officers have been shot, Sgt. Eric Gripp said Wednesday via Twitter. “Multiple injuries to Officers. 5 PPD Officers Shot – at area hospitals with non life-threatening injuries. Shooting still active,” he wrote. Philadelphia police were first called to the scene for […]
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