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Undisputed Bout: Between Cat And Gypsy King

Daily Dispatch May 16, 2024

By Kunle Awosiyan Saudi Arabia will make a record on Saturday when the WBC and Lineal Champion,Tyson Fury will face the unified champion, Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed status in the boxing heavyweight division. This is coming over two decades that British Lennox Lewis captured this title

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Abiodun congratulates Tobi Amusan on Jamaican invitational triumph

Daily Dispatch May 13, 2024

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has congratulated the World record holder, Tobi Amusan, for emerging as the fastest woman in the women’s 100m hurdles this year after running a blistering 12.40s to win the first Jamaica Athletics Invitational in Kingston. Amusan won the race ahead of Jamaican and World Champion, Danielle Williams. Abiodun, in […]

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Abiodun Appoints Tunde Onakoya Sports Ambassador

Daily Dispatch April 25, 2024

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has appointed Mr. Tunde Onakoya, the National Master of Chess and the current Guinness World Record Holder for the longest Chess Marathon in history, the Sports Ambassador of the State. Governor Abiodun, who made this known on Thursday when he received Mr. Onakoya in his office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, […]

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Trilogies of Heat, Hate And Love

Daily Dispatch April 23, 2024

By Kunle Awosiyan It was the anniversary of Nigeria’s independence on October 1, 1975 but a celebration of slugfest in Phillipine between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Dubbed Thrilla in Manila, the epic fight changed the face of boxing when two gladiators, Ali 33; Frazier 31 stepped into the ring as young men but left […]

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Akpabio hails Tunde Onakoya, new world chess record holder

Daily Dispatch April 21, 2024

President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, CON has congratulated Nigeria’s Tunde Onakoya for setting a new world chess record and etching the country on the world map. Akpabio’s congratulatory message was signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh and released on Sunday in Abuja. The Senate President described […]

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The Charm Joshua Needs From Ali

Daily Dispatch April 19, 2024

By Kunle Awosiyan In my years of fraternity with boxing, I have come to a conclusion that what made Mohammad Ali the greatest goes beyond skills, it encompasses his charm. Of course he is one the gifted boxers, his charming life created a deep and wide gully that separated him from other boxers. A few […]