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January 9, 2020 WOQT: NBBF lines up two friendly games

WOQT: NBBF lines up two friendly games

The Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF has lined up two international friendly matches for D’ Tigress in an effort to ensure the team’s readiness for the Group A of the Women Olympic Qualifying Tournament billed for February 6-10 in Serbia.

The friendly games will be against two club sides in the Bulgarian league and is been put together on behalf of the NBBF by a former Nigerian national basketball Coach, Vladislav Lucic Lale.

According to the NBBF, Vice President, Babs Oguade who spoke with the Serbian coach, Coach Lale, who worked in Nigeria in the early 1970’s is keen to give Nigeria all the assistance he can to ensure that Nigeria has a good run at the tournament.

Ogunade on his part while looking ahead to the tournament in Belgrade pointed out that Nigerians should not take Serbia, Mozambique and world champions USA for granted.

According to him, the friendly games were arranged because the qualifying tournament “won’t be a walk in the park for D’Tigress.” “Those who think that our opening game against Mozambique will be a walkover must remember that FIBA Africa President is from Mozambique and his girls will come out fighting with everything they have got.

January 9, 2020 NTF rankings: Emmanuel, Quadre maintain top spots

NTF rankings: Emmanuel, Quadre maintain top spots

Sylvester Emmanuel and Oyinlomo Quadre maintained top spots in the latest men and women’s singles rankings released by the Nigerian Table Tennis Federation on Wednesday.

Both players also topped the rankings released in December

While Quadre won all the national titles in 2019, Emmanuel won three out of the four – the CBN Open, the Rainoil Open and the Vemp Senior Open.

He garnered 750 points, ahead of Joseph Imeh, who placed second with 540 points. Abdulmumini Babalola, Thomas Otu and Emmanuel Idoko are the third, fourth and fifth ranked players.

In the women’s ranking, Quadre, who broke into the top three for the first time in July 2019, is runaway leader with 850 points.

Christie Agugbom moved up one place to second with 370 points ahead of Aanu Aiyegbusi who has 320 points to rank third.

Former No. 1 Blessing Samuel is ranked fourth, while Patience Onebamhoin is placed fifth.

January 8, 2020 Femi Falana Has Asked Buhari and Osinbajo To Declare Their Current Assets.

Femi Falana Has Asked Buhari and Osinbajo To Declare Their Current Assets.

Femi Falana has asked President Buhari and Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo to publicly declare their current assets.

 

This was contained a statement signed by FALANA and circulated by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.

 

It will be recalled that SERAP had demanded that Buhari, Osinbajo, and 36 state governors and their deputies publicly declare any updates on their asset declarations submitted to the Code of Conduct Bureau.

 

Falana, in the statement today, faulted the President’s claim for not declaring his assets, saying it contradicted the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended), the Freedom of Information Act and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

 

But the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said President BUHARI is not under compulsion by any law, to declare his asset since his re-election in February 2019.

 

However, Constitutional Lawyer, Malachy Ugwummadu disagrees with the Presidential Spokesman.

 

January 8, 2020 Tinubu Says It Is Too Early To Talk About Zoning For 2023.

Tinubu Says It Is Too Early To Talk About Zoning For 2023.

The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said it’s too early to talk about which section of the country will get the presidential slot for 2023.

 

Tinubu also said that any talks about succession plans, for now, should be discarded.

 

The APC leader spoke with State House Correspondents today after he visited the President, Muhammadu Buhari, for a brief meeting.

 

TINUBU explained that the APC’s government just got a second term, adding that the attention should be focused on good governance.

The former governor of Lagos State is one of the names regularly mentioned as a possible APC presidential candidate in 2023 when power is expected to be zoned to the South.

 

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