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...Sends out notice and invitations for overseas based players ahead of D'Tigers' trip to dreaded Lybia ...Home based players will be part of the crucial qualifiers - NBBF boss, Engineer Kida By Maxwell Kumoye        The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), says it has tipped off preparations and build up for the last and crucial Qualifying Window for the 2025 Men's Afrobasket Championship. FIBA Men's AfroBasket 2025 will be the 31st edition of Africa's most prestigious continental men's basketball championship. The tournament will take place in Luanda, the Angolan capital between the 12th and 24th of August, 2025, for the fourth time after they hosted the event in 1989, 1999 and 2007. Former AfroBasket champions and four-time continental silver medalists, Nigeria, will journey to Lybia to compete in the last and final window of the 2025 FIBA Men’s AfroBasket Qualifiers. Your authoritative and award-winning news channel FIRST ZEALMEDIACAST BLOG, gat...

...The Nigeria sporting media has helped shape athletics - Chief Okowa  By Maxwell Kumoye          The President of the AthIetics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Chief Tonobok Okowa, says all their sponsors, associates, partners, athIetes and officials including the media are their Sports Personality of the Year 2024. Chief Okowa, gave this submission in a chat with newsmen while reviewing the activities of the Federation in the last 12 months and also outlining their plans for 2025. “Without our numerous sponsors led by Premium Trust Bank, our associates, partners, athIetes and the media, athIetics would not have flourished in the out going year and we are deeply grateful to them,” the President of Confederation of African Athletics Zone II said. Okowa says, “Edo State, Delta State and some friends of athIetics made the athletics season thicker in 2024.” "The list of individuals and corporate bodies that have been backing athIetics over the years ...

...We will support her, our prayers are with Brume - Chief Tonobok Okowa  By Maxwell Kumoye      “We are with you during this difficult and challenging moment in your life and we shall equally support you to get on the track again as soon as possible.” These are the words of the President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Chief Tonobok Okowa, while reacting on the car accident of one of Africa's finest and most successful women's long jumper Ese Brume. “We as a Federation were shocked to learn of the car crash that will keep Ese Brume away from the track for some time,” the AFN President said on Friday. Okowa said, AFN will be keeping a close watch on the recovery process of the four time African champion and Olympic Games bronze medallist. “Our Performance Director Victor Okorie, will be updating the Federation on her progress and on our part we shall keep the National Sports Commission (NSC), up to speed with her condition, needs and support...

...With our collective efforts, determination, we will achieve success - Honourable Onoriode Oborevwori ...Former Chairman of the Sports Commission, Chief Tonobok Okowa graced the inauguration ceremony By Azuka Chiemeka and Maxwell Kumoye   The newly appointed Chairman of one of the most proactive and forward looking State run sporting body, the Delta State Sports Commission, Honourable Onoriode Oborevwori, says his reign will certainly add some fillips to the sporting spectrum of the heart beat State. Honourable Onoriode Oborevwori, gave this assurance when the new board of the Delta State Sports Commission (DSSC), was inaugurated in Asaba the State capital in the presence of the former Chairman of the Commission, Chief Tonobok Okowa. Oborevwori said, the board will "hit the ground running" in order to ensure the continued success of Delta athletes, particularly at the forthcoming National Sports Festival in Ogun State, scheduled for January 2024.  He also emphas...

...The aim is to encourage reading culture in an extracurricular competitive exercise - Chief of operations IBI CENTRE, Faruq Baba-Inna By Mishael Emmanuel and Maxwell Kumoye          The zeal, desire and passion coupled with a firing determination to take the sport of scrabble to all nooks and crannies of Nigeria is burning like wild fire among key stakeholders of the mind game. Just last week, the Lagos State Scrabble and Monopoly Association (LASSMA), under the leadership of Engineer Dipo Akanbi, took the ‘TAKE SCRABBLE TO SCHOOLS’ campaign to Atunrase Senior High School, Surulere, where it was embraced with feverish pitch enthusiasm by the students, the School Management Committee and Board of Trustees led by Mr. Adewale Adelowo. In two weeks from now, the ‘TAKE SCRABBLE TO SCHOOLS’ caravan will land at the Rochas Foundation College, in Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State, on the 17th and 18th of this month, courtesy IBI CENTRE. The...