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2020 NSF Zonal Qualifier: FCT, Kogi 5 Others Sets To Rumble In Ilorin

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5 years ago

January 16, 2020

Joel Ajayi

The stage is now set for the seven North Central states in the North central Geo- political of Nigeria as hostilities for the qualification tickets of the forthcoming National Sports Festival in Edo state will begins on Monday 20th January.

FCT who are defending champions in Football, Basketball and beach volleyball in the last National Sports Festival in Abuja will compete in four team sports which includes; football, basketball, beach volleyball, and handball.

Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday evening, the Director, FCT Sports Department, Chief Mrs. Dilichukwu Onyendinma said all hands are on deck to make sure that FCT pick all the qualification tickets in the four games they are participating in in Ilorin.

“All the athletes that will compete for FCT in all the games in which we are participating have been in an open camp since last year. We are confident that we will pick the qualification tickets in all the four games because we registered in the games where we have advantage over others.” She told BSN Sports

The zonal elimination competition which will hold in Ilorin, Kwara state involves seven states from the North Central. The states includes; Plateau, Nasarawa, Kwara, FCT, Niger, Kogi and Benue.

The seven states will compete for the tickets in eight team sports; rugby, cricket, beach volleyball, football, basketball, handball, volleyball and hockey.

All the eight games involve men and women teams.

Dilichukwu expresses confident in the team and explains why they are participating in just four team sports in Ilorin.

“We are defending champions in these sports, we won gold in the beach volleyball, football and basketball, we didn’t win the handball gold because of the controversy that surrounded the game in the last sports festival in Abuja. With this statistics, there is no doubt that our athletes are up good enough to make the FCT residents proud in Ilorin.” She concluded

FCT finished 7th on the final table of the 2018 National Sports Festival held in Abuja with 21 gold, 9 silver and 24 bronze.

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CSO Salutes Trump

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2 weeks ago

January 20, 2025

The Gleamer

A Civil Society Organization (CSO) under the aegis of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has congratulated President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.

Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, President of the CSO said this in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.

He expressed optimism over improvement on not just American economy but global economy with the inauguration of Trump.

“This is a man with greater vision of making environment around him great.

“In less than few hours of his inauguration, TikTok is back into existence, this shows how he is going to revive the world economy,” he said.

The ILDC boss who reiterated his confidence in Trump’s Presidency, described him as a man of clues and ideas to drive a stable America and the world at large.

He lauded Trump’s collaboration with global entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in an effort to revitalize America’s economy.

According to him, men and women of ideas flock together, they work together for better society and this is what Trump is doing.

Recall that Donald Trump became the 47th President of the U.S by polling 312 electoral votes Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes in Nov, 2024.

Following the oath of office, Trump will address the nation before he is expected to parade across town to the White House and attend three inaugural balls in the evening

About 200,000 supporters are expected to visit the city to mark the presidential transfer of power.

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