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2022 CAPTAIN’S CUP: SENATOR ANOSIKE RATES EVENT HIGH

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5 years ago

April 22, 2022

The week long 2022 IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja Captain’s Cup will come to a close on Saturday as winners in both Professional competition and Amateur championship will receive their Cash and trophies

The event which started on Tuesday with Caddies event, Professional competition, Veterans and Super Veterans will climax with over 550 Amateur Golfers battle for various honours.

The Outgoing Club Captain, Distinguished Senator Emmanuel Anosike while assessing the 4-day event, was excited that the Championships have lived up to its expectations.

” With all indications, you can see that all our projections are what we are getting. From the onset, our target is to play about 500 golfers. We have about 36 professionals playing here, about 125 guest players and 350 members of the club, we’ve been playing over 4 days now, on Saturday the big boys will play from the handicapp 1-12 in conjunction with the sponsors and guests.

” We will cap it up with one of the exciting, play hole-in-one in hole 2 where Kia motors has given us a Car that anybody that played hole-in-one takes the Car, also hole 16 is where Hallmark insurance pledged to give anyone that played hole-in-one, 10 million naira worth of insurance. So a lot of excitement as there are so many things to win”, he said.

Senator Anosike said the organising planning committee under the former Attorney-General of the federation and Minister of Justice, Bayo Ojo, SAN, planned to do what has never been done in the history of the prestigious Club which is invited golfers, the world over, to the event without playing qualifiers.

” Yesterday players from Cotonou arrived, we have players from Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya etc so the environment is exciting”, the outgoing Club captain boasted.

Saturday’s official tee-off is expected to be performed by the Honourable Minister, Youth and Sports Development, Chief Sunday Dare as well as other distinguished invited guests.

Senator Anosike believed that he has created a good platform for the incoming captain by using his position as a politician to attract good things to the club.

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Drogba, Amuneke, Eguavoen Lead African Legends’ Arrival in Lagos

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20 hours ago

November 7, 2026

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

With just one day to the much-anticipated Legends of Africa Football Game, Ivorian football icon Didier Drogba has arrived in Lagos, joining an impressive assembly of former African internationals already in the city ahead of Sunday’s star-studded encounter.

Drogba’s arrival further heightens anticipation for the game, which will bring together some of the continent’s most celebrated football figures at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan, Lagos.

Also in Lagos are Nigerian football greats Mobi Oparaku, Emmanuel Amuneke, Emmanuel Babayaro, Garba Lawal, Austin Eguavoen and Mutiu Adepoju, alongside other members of the legendary Super Eagles generations of 1994 and 1996.

The African contingent also features distinguished names including Togo’s Emmanuel Adebayor, Senegal’s El-Hadji Diouf, Ghana’s Stephen Appiah and Cameroon’s Rigobert Song, among other former international stars.

The excitement will extend beyond the legends’ reunion, with popular Nigerian entertainers and celebrities preparing for a special Celebrity Match as part of the event. Yhemolee, Sheggz, Jeriq, Teddy A and Charles Okocha are among the personalities set to feature in the celebrity fixture, scheduled to begin at 1:30pm.

The Celebrity Match will form part of a wider programme of activities designed to give fans a full day of football, entertainment and celebration before the main legends’ fixture, which kicks off at 5pm. Gates open at 1:30pm.

Organized by Toptier Sports Management in collaboration with Afreximbank and CANEX as part of CANEX WKND 2026, the game will feature 15 Nigerian legends taking on 13 African icons in a celebration of the players whose achievements helped shape the history of football on the continent.

Beyond the match, the programme includes a football clinic involving 500 young players, entertainment and special recognition for the heroes of African football.

The Legends of Africa Football Game promises a memorable gathering of football royalty, bringing together generations of fans to celebrate the enduring legacy of the continent’s finest players.

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