It was indeed a night specially made for Teni has she carted home four awards at the star-studded Headies 2019 Award held in Lagos, on Saturday night. She won the Best Recording of the Year, the Best Pop Single, the Best Vocal Performance and the Viewers Choice Award. Falz won the Best Rap Single and Best Rap Album awards while Burna Boy won the Best Collabo and Artiste of the Year awards. Rema is the winner of the prestigious Next Rated category. 1. BEST RECORDING OF THE YEAR (Non-voting category) 1. Adekunle Gold – Ire 2. Patoranking – Heal D World 3. Brymo – Olanrewaju 4. Teni – Uyo Meyo…
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Delta Force slumped to their first defeat at the ongoing Zenith Bank Women Basketball League National Final 8 with a 42-67pts loss to First Bank. Delta Force tried all they could against First Bank but their offensive prowess was put under check from the determined First Bank players who had a total of 25 defensive rebounds. Okoro Ifunanya with 14 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds and Regina Iornumbe with 14 points provided the platform on which the Elephant Girls built their success. In the second game of the day which was a local derby between two Abuja based sides-…
The management of Mountain of Fire and Ministries Football Club of Lagos have unveiled Tony Bolus as the team’s new head coach following the departure of Fidelis Ilechukwu.Bolus, a former assistant to Imama Amakpakabo at Rangers International FC of Enugu and former head coach of Giwa FC was considered by the team’s management after rigorous screening exercise of top coaches to carry on with the legacy and philosophy of the modest Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) side.The Kogi-born tactician who won the last edition of the annual DK Olukoya Cup in Lagos has penned a deal that will keep him…
The Confederation of Africa Football has appointed a Nigerian Referee, Abel Baba to be one of the officiating officials at the African Cup of Nations that will be held in Egypt later this year The African football Governing body released the names o The African Football Governing body released the names of Twenty-seven (27) Referees and Twenty-nine (29) Assistant Referees that have been selected for a preparatory course scheduled for 28 April to 5 May 2019 in Rabat, Morocco, as part of the build-up to the Total Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2019. The selected match officials, representing 33 Member…
The Nigerian Golden Eaglets inside the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium, this afternoon in far away Tanzania qualified for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, thus becoming the first Africa country to book a place in the competition that will be staged in Brazil later this year. Olakunle John Olusegun’s 21st minute penalty was all the Nigeria team needed to qualify for the competition semi final and also secured U-17 World Cup ticket. Angola U-17 lads who defeated Uganda in their first game were defending for most part of the game as they lost their captain to red card after collecting his…
It was another black Saturday at Kosofe area of Mile 12 of Lagos State, as fire gutted over 20 houses and several shops. Scores of the densely populated community were rendered homeless and some, their means of livelihood went up in flame. The incident, which occurred at Adebimpe Street, saw most of the houses built with wood and corrugated iron sheets reduced to ashes. According to an eye witness, the fire started after the stove a woman named Iya Dada was using to cook food caught fire, forcing her to throw it in front of the house where it exploded.…
A brace from Godwin Aguda helped Rangers International FC registered a 5-2 victory over Remo Stars FC in the Nigeria Professional Football League Match Day 12. Aguda completed his brace for the host on the stroke of fifty minutes and goals from Godwin Aguda, Ajani Ibrahim and Michael Uchebo mean that the flying antelopes got all maximum points in the ongoing NPFL. The Sky Blue Stars scored first in the eighth minutes from a resulting corner kick, Victor Mbaoma headed back and Bright Akpojuvwevwo calmly tap the ball home to give the visitors the early lead. The host pressed harder…