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World championship: Buhari celebrates track superstar, Amusan

Daily Dispatch July 25, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed heartfelt congratulations to Tobi Amusan for winning the women’s 100m hurdles gold for Nigeria at the World Athletics Championship 2022, setting a new world record in the semifinals of the athletic event and becoming the first Nigerian to win a World

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2023 Women’s World Cup: Buhari hails Super Falcons’ qualification

Daily Dispatch July 15, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigeria’s Female Football team, the Super Falcons, for qualifying for the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 after their emphatic quarter-final victory at the ongoing Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, in Morocco. Super Falcons, the record nine-time title holder and defending champions of WAFCON,

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Breaking: Afcon 2023 moved to 2024

Daily Dispatch July 3, 2022

The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Cote d’Ivoire in 2024, and not 2023, BBC reports Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Patrice Motsepe as saying on Sunday. The tournament was to be hosted in June-July 2023, which is the height of the rainy season in Ivory Coast. “We cannot take the risk,” the South African said in

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Sex outside marriage during World Cup attracts 7 years jail term, Qatar govt warns

Daily Dispatch June 22, 2022

The Qatar government has banned sex-outside-marriage by players and fans during the forthcoming 2022 World Cup Tournament and prescribed seven years’ imprisonment for anyone who is found guilty of the directive. The country prohibits anyone from having sex outside of marriage, and World Cup fans are by no means exempted from this. Qatar also has […]

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Osimhen grabs four goals as Super Eagles wallop São Tomé and Principe

Daily Dispatch June 13, 2022

Nigeria’s Super Eagles beat hosts São Tomé and Principe 10-0 at Agadir in Morocco on Monday in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Qualifiers. Victor Osimhen scored four of the goals, while Terem Moffi grabbed a brace in the Match Day 2 fixture played before a very sparse crowd at the Stade Grande. Each […]

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Super Eagles gets new foreign head coach

Daily Dispatch May 15, 2022

The appointment is with immediate effect, subject to the signing of agreed terms between the NFF and Peseiro. José Vitor dos Santos Peseiro, 62, is a Portuguese who played as a striker in his days and has wide and varied experience coaching top Clubs and National Teams across four different continents, such as Europe, Asia, […]