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...To decide on venue today as South South, South West show interest in Classics  ...AFN board member, Okorie completes athletics office, hostel in Ebonyi By Gowon Akpodonor with additional information by FIRST ZEALMEDIACAST BLOG  The five Directors of Sports in the South-East Zone of Nigeria are all yearning to stage the inaugural edition of the Tobias Igwe Memorial Athletics Classics (TIMAC). The Initiator and sponsor of the Classics Victor Okorie made this known on Tuesday in a chat with the Guardian Newspaper in Lagos.   Okorie, a board member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), is sponsoring the Classic in honour of the late Tobias Igwe, who is rated as one of Nigeria’s greatest athletics managers of all time. “All of them want the Tobias Igwe Memorial Athletics Classic to take place in their states, but we have to settle for one venue. Maybe, by next year, it will rotate among the States.”   The AthIetics Classic, which was initially meant...

...Championships to hold in May, 15 countries to participate ...AFN adjusts calendar, reschedules Awoture U-15, U-18 Championships to align with the change  By Maxwell Kumoye     The maiden edition of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), Zone II U-18 and U-20 Championships will now take place in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. The decision to move the Championships to Accra was was taken by the Executive Committee of the regional athletics body.  The President of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), Zone II, Chief Tonobok Okowa, said, “Yes we had initially agreed to stage the competition in Dakar, Senegal but we have to moved it to Accra because of some logistics reasons.” The CAA Zone II President, Tonobok Okowa, who is also a Vice President of Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), and the President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), stated that Ghana is an excellent replacement for Senegal.  “Last year Ghana hoste...

By Oluwatobiloba Zeal-Adepetu Kumoye  The Head Coach of Nigeria female national team, D'Tigress, Rena Wakama, has been named as the Best Basketball Coach by the Continental Olympic Body, the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA). This piece of cheering news was provided to your authoritative and award-winning news channel, FIRST ZEALMEDIACAST BLOG, Tony Obiora Nezianya, the Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Olympic Committee. The 32 year old gaffer received the noble and prestigious award following her impressive performance at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. At the Olympic Games, under Wakama' leadership, D’Tigress became the first African team, male or female, to reach the last 8 of basketball event at the Olympics after beating Canada 79-70. She was also named the Best Coach of the basketball event by FIBA.  It will also interest you to know that, In 2023, she became the first female Head Coach of D’Tigress, and became the first Nigerian N...

...13 oversea base players drawn from 10 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa ...5 Rivers Hoopers players make the cut alongside 3 from Hoops N' Read  By Maxwell Kumoye and Oluwatobiloba Zeal-Adepetu Kumoye       The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), has made public a 24 man D'Tigers' provisional roster for the crucial final Window 2025 Afrobasket Qualifiers scheduled to hold in Tripoli, the Libyan capital later this month.   The roster was made public over the weekend and it include 11 players from 4 clubs in the domestic league with Champions, Rivers Hoopers having the lion share of 5 players. One of the biggest club on the domestic front, Hoops N' Read has 3 on the list while Wisdom Anyaoha and Rayyan AR Salis from Gboko City Chiefs is joined by Customs' shooting guard Ibe Agu. Your authoritative and award-winning news channel FIRST ZEALMEDIACAST BLOG , understands that the 11 home base players will be supported by 13 other players from Eur...