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Ikeja Youth Games: Winners emerge in Snooker, Table, Tennis, Draughts

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2 years ago

January 23, 2023

…As Football Quarter final pairings released

The Snooker event of the Honourable James Abiodun Faleke Ikeja Games has been won by a 37 year old clearing and forwarding agent Babatunde Oladimeji who defeated Aremu Ibrahim to clinch the top price .
While the third place went to Ikusika Victor.

The Ogba, Ikeja based winner said he started playing the game about sixteen years ago when he came third at the Lagos State Rothmans Snooker competition.
Oladimeji defeated Salami Habeeb in the semi final, while Aremu Ibrahim outplayed Ikusika Victor.In the third place game, Victor Ikusika outplayed Salami Habeeb.

In Scrabble, 16 year Faidat Bello, student of Oregun Senior High school who started playing scrabble at the age of 11 years was the center of attention as she emerged in the 5th position out of 100 schools, 50 public and 50 private schools. She was the only public school student that got to the final stage of the competition held at Chris Land school, Okpebi, Ikeja.

In table tennis, Adeboye Adekoya won the pro event, while Rasheed Balogun came second with Bolaji Asekun finishing in the third positionIn the female category, Ayo Udoh out stroked Aliya Adedeji.

Draughts game have Sunday Amoo as winner, with Abiodun Ojo and Femi Daniel Olanipekun finishing in the second and third place respectively.

The quarter final pairings of the football event have been released by the National Institute for sports- led Technical Committee. According to the draws, Agidingbi representatives of Ward B will slug it out with Oregun Ward C team.

In the other pairings, Seriki Aro/ Ipodo of Ward E will be up against Onilekere Ward D, while Ward F of Oluwole Sogunro battle against Aguda/ Oke Ira Ward G .

The last pairing is between Opebi and Police Barracks GRA.

The matches will be played between 28th – 29th of January across different venues in Ikeja.

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Kenyans dominate Enugu City International Marathon as Koros Ken emerges overall winner

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22 hours ago

May 3, 2025

The Gleamer

Kenyan Runner Koros Ken has emerged the winner of the first edition of the Enugu City International Marathon, going home with 15,000 Dollars as Prize Money, in a total kenyan dominance in both the male and female categories.

Steve Rasway also of Kenya finished second with a prize money of 10,000 dollars while his country man Bernard Sang went home with 5000 dollars for finishing third.

It was a similar story in the women category when Shauline chepkiru koech of Kenya won the first prize.

Nigerian runner Davou Ezekiel from Jos finished first amongst the Nigerian runners winning the three million Naira Prize money allotted for the indigenous athletes.

The Marathon which lived up to the pre-event hype with the turn out of runners, fans and the level of organisation, had all the spices of a world class race.

Governor Peter Mbah who had colour to the event by participating in the 10km race said the race exceeds every expectation and he is very satisfied with both the participation and competition of the race.

” This race has shown us the power of Sports and what sports can do in galvanising our youth. I am really impressed with what i have seen and it has only motivated us as a state to put more efforts to make the race better and bigger next year”.

Over one hundred International Elite Athletes participated in the race with thousands of Nigerian runners also taking part and making history as the maiden Edition of the Enugu City International marathon ended in grand style.

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