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Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
A record 87,000 spectators filed into Johannesburg’s Soccer City Stadium for South Africa’s season-opening Charity Cup on Saturday, less than a month after the arena hosted the World Cup final.
The country’s Premier Soccer League (PSL) said it had sold 80,000 seats for the one-day tournament, which features four teams in three separate matches, and handed [...]
Rivers State Social rehabilitation committee in conjunction with Fash Football Challenge is to organize “Football talents show” at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium on Friday through Sunday.
John Fashanu, the co-ordinator of the project, in an exclusive interview with Tidesports on Monday, said the talent show is to discover hidden talents from the grassroots and develop [...]
Nigerian athletes have been urged to shun the use of performance enhancing substances.
The advice was made by Nigeria’s Certified Doping Officer, Femi Ayorinde in an interview with Tidesports source in Lagos.
He told Nigerian athletes preparing for the October 3 to October 14 Commonwealth Games in India to train well, rest, eat nutritious diets and stay [...]
Rivers State swimming team for the 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt are training hard despite the one-week break granted to members of the Team Rivers by the Local Organising Committee.
When Tidesports Visited the Alfred Diete-Spiff Sports Complex on Monday, some of the athletes were seen training in different syles under the guidance of [...]
The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) is working hard to ensure that all members of the Super Eagles who won the 1994 African Nations’ Cup get the houses which the Federal Government allocated to them.
The sports source recalls that the Super Eagles defeated the Chipolopolo of Zambia to lift the African Cup of Nations’ trophy that [...]
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday said it has arrested a professional tennis player and a businessman for drug trafficking.
In a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs, Mr Mitchell Ofoyeju, NDLEA said that the 30-year-old tennis player was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja.
The agency said that the [...]
Ghana captain Stephen Appiah has joined newly-promoted Italian Serie A side Cesena from rivals Bologna.
The 28-year-old signed a one-year deal with the option of another year if the club stays in the top flight.
“I’m happy with the agreement with Cesena because they showed how much they wanted me to join them when we started negotiating,” [...]
Morocco striker Mounir El Hamdaoui has signed for Ajax from their Dutch rivals AZ Alkmaar on a four-year contract, for an undisclosed fee.
El Hamdaoui helped Alkmaar to win the Dutch title in 2009 as he finished as the league’s top scorer with 23 goals.
He scored a total of 50 times in 80 league matches for [...]
Frenchman Robert Nouzaret has signed a two year deal to coach the national team of the DR Congo.
The 66-year-old’s main task in the job will be to guide The Leopards to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
However failure to reach the Nations Cup, will trigger a clause [...]
Governments at the various tiers have been urged to revive school sports as a necessary ingredient for sporting excellence in Rivers State and Nigeria at large.
A cross section of sports fans in Port Harcourt told Tidesports that school sports should become an integral part of every government educational policy.
They reasoned that most private schools in [...]
