Business Eye

Thursday, 12 April 2012 | Administrator

Match-fixing involves fixing the final result of a game. It can also involve fixing small events within a match which can be gambled upon and may have negligible bearing on the final result of the game.

The existence of match fixing, presupposes that there are usually syndicates that run gambling outfits, either locally or on a large scale interested in influencing the outcome of games. They are usually interested in manipulating the outcome of a game since they will have a prior ...

Zambia as champion of Africa

Sunday, 04 March 2012 | Administrator

There is no doubt that the absence of Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria and South Africa was greatly felt at the just concluded African Cup of Nations (CAN) hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

These ''big boys'' of African football have won the trophy before now and were expected to qualify for the continental tournament, but that was not to be. This development robbed the tournament of the usual prestige and struggle for supremacy associated with it, despite the spirited effo...

Nigeria's U-17 female team to begin camping in Abuja for world cup qualifier against Zambia

Tuesday, 07 February 2012 | Administrator

The national Under-17 female football team, the Flamingoes will resume camping on Friday in Abuja to prepare for the final round of the qualifiers in March for the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup.

The Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Chris Green, said in a statement on Monday in Abuja that the team would be returning to camp from a five-day break to start preparations in earnest for the final round of African qualifiers with the Zambian team for the ...

250 cyclists to feature in 2nd ECOWAS Int'l Cycling Tour

Tuesday, 07 February 2012 | Administrator

More than 250 cyclists from the ECOWAS member countries will take part in the Second ECOWAS International Cycling Tour which will be flagged off on February 15.

According to a statement by ECOWAS on Monday in Abuja, the five-day tour will end on February 19.

he tour caravan is expected to traverse five countries, namely Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire where the competition would terminate.

The race, which will cover a total distance of 450km, would be flagged off at the Natio...

324 Nigerian Athletes To Participate In 10th All-Africa Games, AAG, In Mozambique

Friday, 09 September 2011 | Administrator

The first and second batches of Nigerian athletes and officials to the 10th All-Africa Games, AAG, holding in Maputo, Mozambique, left Abuja on August 26 and 27 for the southern African country,

A statement by Tony Ohaeri, the spokesman of the National Sports Commission, NSC, said that the contingent, comprising 324 athletes, coaches, medical personnel and secretaries of sports federations, left for Maputo from the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, aboard an Air Nigeria aircraft for the Games which ...

"Garden City Games Simply States PH is back" Amaechi

Thursday, 21 July 2011 | Daberechi Okeduru

It is widely accepted without an iota of doubt that the 17 ^th National Sports Festival tagged; ‘Garden City Games’ was a huge success considering that the people of Rivers State have raised the bar, placing the next host Lagos State in a very tight corner to either Retain the Standard set by Rivers or better still take the stakes higher.

The success of the festival is attributed to lots of factors, topping the list is the N17billion investment the Rivers State government budgeted for the games, wh...

17th NSF: Innovators and Entrepreneurs Make Differences

Thursday, 21 July 2011 | Daberachi Nwagbara

The memories of Beijing 2008 Olympics opening ceremony came alive as Africa and the rest of the world were glued to their Television sets to watch the magnificent opening ceremony of Nigeria’s 17 ^th National Sports Festival tagged; ‘Garden City Games’ being hosted by Rivers State Nigeria’s Second Largest Economy and Oil Rich State on Sunday July 4, 2011.

Rivers State is playing host to over 13,000 Sports Men and Women and several thousands of sports fans that have traveled from far and wide to witn...

17TH National Sports Festival : Hosting to Win

Tuesday, 05 July 2011 | Administrator

With a promise to host and win the 17 ^th National Sports Festival, the Rivers State Government is set to organise the best sports festival in the annals of Nigeria’s sports history.

With N15 billion committed to the provision of a new sports complex named after one of the country’s notable footballer and lawyer, Adokiye Amiesimaka, Governor Chibuike Amaechi has demonstrated that he could host the country’s epic sports event with modern facilities without the usual cap-in-hand to the federal governm...

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final

Thursday, 10 March 2011 | Administrator

June 26, 2011-July 17, 2011

The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup finals will be held in Germany with the host nation aiming to win for the third time in a row. Forty-one European teams will compete to join the holders. With the opening match at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. Fixtures will continue in Augsburg, Bochum, Dresden, Leverkusen, Monchengladbach, Sinsheim, Wolfsburg and the Frankfurt Arena, where the final is scheduled to be held. It will be the second time the World Cup has been held in Europ...

2011 World Summer Games

Thursday, 10 March 2011 | Administrator

25th June to 4th July 2011

The thirteenth Special Olympics World Summer Games (Athens 2011) is the world's largest sporting event for athletes with intellectual disabilities, drawing 7,000 athletes from more than180 countries around the world, 3,000 coaches and officials, 25,000 volunteers, 40,000 family members as well as thousands of spectators.

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