TEAM LAGOS EMERGES TOP AT 23RD NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL SOUTH WEST ELIMINATION. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.
TEAM LAGOS EMERGES TOP AT 23RD NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL SOUTH WEST ELIMINATION Lagos State athletes proved their dominance in the South West by edging out regional competitors and emerging top in the five team events contested at the elimination series qualifier for the 23rd National Sports Festival later this year in Enugu. The elimination series featured team events in volleyball, basketball, football, beach volleyball, and cricket in male and female categories. While the team clinched only the female football ticket by topping their group, they showed dominance in three other sports by winning both the male and female tickets. Team Lagos took first position in the volleyball male and female categories. The male team defeated their counterparts from Ondo in the finals by 25-18, 24-26, 25-20, and 25-20, while the female team defeated Team Oyo by 25-18, 22-25, 28-26, 16-25, and 15-8. The Osun basketball team fell to the superior firepower of the Team Lagos male team in their last ...
The United Nations and local activists said today monday that fourteen humanitarian workers have been kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.U.N mission in Congo's humanitarian coordinator Mamadou Diallo said ''The employees of a Congolese non-governmental organization were abducted on sunday in the Rutshuru region in North Kivu province.The kidnapping confirms the fragile security situation in which the various humanitarian organizations work and whose victims are the local population.I call for the liberation of these humanitarian workers''.Diallo did not say what organization the workers belonged to or who is believed to be responsible for the attack.A local activist group,the Centre of Study for the Promotion of Peace,Democracy and Human Rights,said in a statement today monday that the aid workers were taken in the town of Makoka,60 miles northeast of the provincial capital Goma,by a dozen armed men.The statement blamed the attack on rebels from the Democratic Force for the Liberation of Rwande {FDLR},a Hutu militia based in eastern Congo since fleeing the neighboring country after the 1994 genocide.One more photo below.
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