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The 2025 Gombe Inter Secondary Schools Athletics Championship and Grassroots Football Competition will commence tomorrow Tuesday at the Patani Stadium. The participating athletes, officials and other stakeholders, including journalists, have arrived Gombe, the state capital city ahead of the sports fiesta. According to the event programmes released by the organisers, the Governor Inuwa Yahaya is topping the list of dignitaries invited for the opening ceremony of the championships being put together by the Gombe State Athletics Association under leadership of Ahmed Gara Gombe in collaboration with the Green White Green (GWG) Sports Center Limited. His Royal Highness, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III the Emir of Gombe, who is also the chairman of Gombe State Council Of Emir will serve as the royal Father of the Day during the opening ceremony of the competition featuring athletes from 73 schools in 11 local government areas of the State. Other distinguish guests expected...

Arrays of football stars would be on parade to showcase their talent , at the 3rd edition of the annual Ibrahim Galadima cup, which kicks off on January 4th 2025 at Sani Abacha stadium, Kofar Mata. Kano by 4pm. The football tourney is organized annually to celebrate the former chairman of the now defunct, Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Ibrahim Galadima , to applaud his sacrifices and contribution towards the development of sports in Africa’s largest footballing nation. The chairman media and publicity committee of the competition, Ado Salisu disclosed that 16 teams would trade tackles in group A, B, C, and D . Ado hinted that prominent clubs enlisted in the chase for glory, in this year’s edition includes, Proline fc, Clever Warriors, Azhuba fc, Kano Pillars fc(junior), Super Stars Sheka, Kwankwasiyya fc. According to him, the usual fun fare attributes that distinct the competition is been sustained , adding that clubs from outside Kano jurisdiction would be i...

Nigerian Football Federation NFF has been urged as a matter of urgency to deploy the use of VAR in Nigeria premier leagues. This call was initiated as the result of some happenings in the ongoing premier league matches. Reacting on the recent match involving Katsina United and Abia Warriors, the former chairman Media and Publicly of Galadima soccer competition, Ado Salisu said the centre referee awarded a goal to the visitors and later disallowed it after consultation with othe match officials in Katsina.  ""It’s time to senitise our league and compete with the rest of the world in running the activities of football.  Where NFF did not get it right is the live streaming of our league? From what is happening in our league today it’s not good for the game, we’re just showing our lapses to the world, the fans, referees, players and all stakeholders attitude is not what the world wants to see."" ""NFF should have deployed the VAR in the first i...