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Missing African athletes in Australia jump to 13

Daily Dispatch April 12, 2018

African athletes committing vanishing acts at the Australian Commonwealth Games have increased to 13, with five more from Uganda and Rwanda also disappearing. Eight competitors from Cameroon were suspected to have fled on Wednesday, before the confirmation today that athletes from Rwanda and

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Roma upset Barcelona, Liverpool demolish City

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2018

Roma staged a stunning comeback from 1-4 in the first leg of the UEFA Champions quarter final pairing with Barcelona to beat the former champions and the Spanish leaders 3-0 and qualify for the semi-finals on goals aggregate. Bosnia’s Edin Dzeko started Roma revival in the 6th minute and in the second half, De Rossi […]

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Liverpool ended Guardiola’s UEFA dream

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2018

Mohamed Salah ensured Liverpool’s return to the Champions League semi-finals for the first time in a decade as a 2-1 win at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday took them through 5-1 on aggregate and ended Manchester City’s European dream for another season. On a night of high frustration for free-spending City, manager Pep Guardiola was […]

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Commonwealth Games: Ezuruike, 3 others win gold in powerlifting

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2018

Ibrahim Abdulazeez, Roland Ezuruike, Esther Onyema and Ndidi Nwosu made it a clean sweep of gold medals for Team Nigeria in the Para-Powerlifting event on Tuesday at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdulazeez emerged tops in the men’s heavyweight category with a lift of 191.9kg to […]

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Nigerian Breaks World Record At Commonwealth Games, Wins Gold

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2018

A Nigerian weightlifter, Esther Onyema, on Tuesday won Nigeria’s first gold medal at the ongoing Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.The medal was won in weightlifting.Onyema won with a lift of 141.6kg in the under-50kg to win gold and set a new world record.

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FIFA appoints Nigerian medical doctor Doping Control Officer

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2018

A former medical doctor in the Nigerian U-17 football team, Dr Ayodeji Olarinoye, has been appointed Doping Control Officer by the world soccer governing body, FIFA. Olarinoye, who graduated from the University of Ilorin, is now the country’s first FIFA doping control officer, the university’s weekly bulletin said on Tuesday. According to the publication, Olarinoye […]