Hosts Kwara will battle Osun State in the final of the men's football event of the National Youth Games in Ilorin.

Kwara had earlier won gold in rugby and table tennis and will be seeking to add the men football gold to their collections.

Zamfara, Yobe, Kebbi and Enugu States are yet to register a single medal at the ongoing Games.

The Federal Capital Territory(FCT) have moved up to 4th position on the medals table with 7 gold medals already in their kitty.

Team Delta still sit comfortably on the top of the log with a total number of 70 medals followed by Team Edo with 22 medals .

Chika Chukwumerije, Former Technical Director, Nigeria Taekwondo Federation (NTF), has disclosed that he is taking a break from the sport after two decades of active service, both as an athlete and administrator.

The Kaduna International polo tournament is set to begin on Saturday, according to the President, Kaduna Polo club, Alhaji Suleiman Abubakar.

Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC) and some fans have applauded the Super Eagles over the revenge victory on Les Fauves of Central Africa Republic (CAR) in Doula, Cameroon.

Former Governor of Abia state and Pillar of Sports in Africa, Dr Orji Kalu, has described the 1-0 victory of Enyimba football club of Aba at the Confederation of Africa (CAF) cup competition as well-deserved and commendable.

The Super Eagles of Nigeria bounced back from their first-leg defeat to the Central Africa Republic to record a two-zero win in the return leg of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers played at the Japoma Main stadium, Yaounde, Cameroon on Sunday.

Manchester United are capable of producing a good run against tough opponents in the coming weeks to soothe the disappointment of Saturday’s 4-2 Premier League defeat at Leicester City, midfielder Nemanja Matic said.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare is very desirous of seeing the newly inaugurated Sports Federation Presidents impart the nations sports development by focusing on the job at hand.

Ifedayo Akindoju, the President of Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), on Friday in Abuja said the Federation would soon host two wheelchair tennis competitions.

Akindoju told the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) the competitions would be staged in Lagos from Nov. 7 to Nov. 10 and Benin city from Dec. 1 to Dec. 4.

“The Lagos event is the VEMP Wheelchair National Tennis Open Championship, while the Benin event is the Exquisite Wheelchair Tennis South-South Closed,” he said.

The NTF President said this would be the first time the Federation would be hosting two maiden editions of wheelchair tennis events in Nigeria.

The star-studded Super Eagles of Nigeria were stunned by lowlly-rated Central Africa Republic, CAR in their Second Round, Group C Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying match played at the Onikan Stadium, Lagos on Thursday.

The Main Organising Committee (MOC) of the 6th National Youth Games (NYG) holding in Ilorin, the Kwara capital, has enjoined participating states, who are yet to arrive the venue of the games, to do so on or before Wednesday, Oct. 13.

Raoul Savoy, Head Coach, Les Fauves of the Central African Republic, on Thursday described the 1-0 victory over Nigeria’s Super Eagles in Lagos as the best thing to have happened to the team.