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2022 CWG: Laidi sets record, wins Silver Medal in Weightlifting
Twenty-year-old Taiwo Laidi on Tuesday won Nigeria’s fifth medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games after finishing second in the women’s 76kg weightlifting event.
Laidi lifted 96kg in snatch and her 120kg in clean and jerk took her to a total of 216kg, qualifying for a silver medal and a Junior Commonwealth Games record.
Meanwhile, Nigeria lost 0-3 to England in the bronze medal’s match in the men’s team event of the table tennis competition.
The event’s doubles game had seen the duo of Tom Jarvis and Paul Drinkhall beating Nigeria’s Bode Abiodun and Olajide Omotayo 3-0 (11-6 11-7 11-7).
The singles games saw Quadri Aruna losing 1-3 (9-11 11-9 10-12 6-11) to Liam Pitchford, and Omotayo 0-3 (4-11 2-11 4-11).
Newsmen report that Team Nigeria will now focus on the singles and doubles events of the table tennis competition which begin on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in the Games’ athletics competition, Nigeria’s Anabel Orobosa has qualified for the final of the women’s shot put event.
Orobosa finished fifth in Group B of the qualification round, throwing over 16.27 metres to secure a spot in the final.
Joy Udo-Gabriel also booked a spot in the semi-finals of the women’s 100m, after running a season’s best 11.43 seconds to finish third in heat 5.
Rosemary Chukwuma ran 11.02 secs to win heat 4 and qualify easily for the semi-finals.
In men’s boxing, Abdul-Afeez Osoba lost 0-5 in his Round of 16 bout in the 67kg-71kg light middleweight category to Welsh boxer Garan Croft.
Newsmen report that Team Nigeria currently have five medals in the Games, all from weightlifting.(NAN)
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Results of Match Day 2 Fixtures in 2024/2025 NPFL
Following are the results of Match Day 1 fixtures in the 2024/2025 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), played on Sunday and dates of the remaining fixtures:
Akwa United FC 1-1 Abia Warriors FC
Bayelsa United FC 1-1 Kano Pillars FC
Katsina United FC 1-1 Bendel Insurance FC
Niger Tornadoes FC 0-0 Nasarawa United FC
Shooting Stars FC 1-1 Plateau United FC
El Kanemi Warriors Vs Kwara United FC (postponed )
The following Match Day two fixtures
Would be played on Sept.
25:Ikorodu City FC Vs Enugu Rangers international FC
Enyimba international FC Vs Lobi stars FC .
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Match Day 1 Remaining Results in 2024/2025 NPFL
Following are the results of remaining Match Day one fixtures played on Sunday in the 2024/2025 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL)Heartland FC 1-3 Enyimba international FCKwara United FC 1-2 Niger Tornadoes FCBendel Insurance FC 0-0 Rivers United FCPlateau United FC 1-0 Katsina United FCKano Pillars FC 3-0 Ikorodu City FCSunshine Stars FC 3-0 Bayelsa United FCAbia Warriors FC 0-2 Remo Stars FCNasarawa United FC 1-1 Shooting Stars FC.
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Morocco 2025: Super Eagles can Beat any Team, Eguavoen Boasts
The interim coach of the Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, said his team can beat any team with the quality of players in the team.
Eguavoen stated this after his team spanked the Cheetahs of Benin Republic 4-0 in the 2025 African Cup Of Nations (AFCON) at the Godswill Akpabio stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom on Saturday.
“We have quality players to beat any team but we respect team anyway.
Any coach can come in and do the same job with the Super Eagles.“It is a mindset, we have the potential and how you perceived your opponent, given the information about them and then go out and do the job,“he said.
Equavoen attributed the victory to the formation adopted by the technical crew, adding that any formation could be used to ensure that the team was successful.
“We can decide to use any system. It is something we discussed and I slept over it. I know with the caliber of players that we have, we can decide to play any formation.
“Football is about you win, lose and draw, I don’t believe we have a poor result,” he said.
He, however, said that the former Super Eagles coach didn’t do a good job but it has to do with believe, what is at stake and what you want to achieve.
“Psychologically as a group, we are agreed, where we are and where we are going to be. We will definitely achieve it,” Equavoen said.
He commended the performance of the defence , describing it as superb, adding that the team had been training together for one week.
The coach said that asking six players to warm up for the second half was to buy time, adding that there was no need to rush to change.
He said the Cheetahs of Benin Republic were a good team, adding that they came with a good game plan.
Report says that Eguavoen was appointed interim coach after the deal between the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) and coach Bruno Labbadia failed.
NFF explained in a statement that it failed due to the stringent regulations of German tax authorities.(NAN)