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WE’RE READY TO HOST MAIDEN NATIONAL INTERMEDIATE SPORTS FESTIVAL, SANWO-OLU. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 WE’RE READY TO HOST MAIDEN NATIONAL INTERMEDIATE SPORTS FESTIVAL, SANWO-OLU •Governor inspects ongoing renovation work at Teslim Balogun Stadium   The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Saturday, expressed the State's readiness to host the inaugural National Intermediate Sports Festival, scheduled from 1 to 15 October. Governor Sanwo-Olu stated that Lagos accepted the opportunity to host the first National Intermediate Sports Festival after the National Sports Commission awarded the hosting rights to the state. He described the event as a chance to enhance grassroots sports development and motivate young athletes to stay in the country. The Governor revealed that about 14,000 to 15,000 athletes are expected to participate, with facilities such as Rowe Park and other sports centres across the state to be utilised. The Governor made these remarks on Saturday during an inspection of the ongoing rehabilitation works at Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, in prepar...

PHOTOS FROM THE CRASH SITE OF GERMANWINGS PLANE CRASH.

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                      Images from the first rescue helicopters to reach the crash site showed wreckage scattered across hundreds of metres of mountainside,with some debris looking like a size of a car.According to todays report,the Germanwings flight 4 U 9525 were shroud in mystery today after air traffi controllers claimed they received no SOS,despite the jet nosediving 32,000ft in just eight minutes.All 144 passengers and six crew were today presumed dead after the Airbus A320 crashed in a remote region of the French Alps enroute from Spain to Germany.Two babies were among 45 Spanish on board and 16 children from the same school on an exchange trip were among some 100 Germans also feared to have died.Earlier reports quoted aviation sources in France as saying the pilots issued a mayday distress signal and requested an emergency descent minutes before it hit the ground.However,civil aviation authorities later denied that air traffi...

INEC WILL TOMORROW,BRING OUT BALLOT PAPERS FOR SATURDAY POLLS,FROM ALL CBN VAULTS.

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                According to the Chief Press Secretary to the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} Chairman,Mr Kayode Idowu said ''On Wednesday {tomorrow},ballot papers for this saturday's Presidential and National Assembly Elections will be moved from the Central Bank Vaults.All the non sentitive materials have been distributed while the ballot papers have been kept in the vaults of the CBN branches across the country.The Ballot papers for the different positions and locations had been customised in such a way that it would be difficult to be faked by anybody''.The Chairman of  INEC,Prof Attahiru Jega has also revealed that about 56.7 million voter cards had been collected.In a stakeholders meeting hosted by Jega on tuesday,Prof Jega said that the card collected represented about 82% of the registered electorate by the close of distribution ahead of the March 28 election.