It was celebration galore at the closing ceremony of the 2nd Annual Inter-primary School Sports Festival concluded over the weekend at Dr. David Burgess stadium, Olashore International School (OIS), Iloko-Ijesa, Osun State just as the Local Authority Primary school, Iloko-Ijesa emerged overall winner of the event.The 2014 edition of the sports festival closing ceremony witnessed the presence of Osun State Commissioner for Youths, Sports and Social Needs, Hon. Stephen Kola Bolagun; NASCOM chairman, Yemi Idowu who also was the special guests of honour of the event while the Chairman of the OIS Governing Board, Prince Abimbola Olashore led the top management staff to the stadium.
At the end of the event, Iloko-Ijesa based government primary school showed the doggedness in them in topping the medals table of the two days energy sagging sports festival by winning five gold and two silver totaling seven medals to lead other nine private schools that took part in the event.The Ibadan-based Subuola Memorial nursery and primary school placed an distant second with two gold, four silver and one bronze medal, also, Rosebud nursery and primary school, Ado Ekiti settled for third position having won a gold, two silver and four bronze medals.While delivering his closing remark, Mr. Derek Smith, the OISPrincipal and CEO commended the performances of all the participating pupils athletes and their teachers for exemplary displayed of good character and talents during the two days event, while congratulated the winner for making the community proud in their quest to attain greater heights in the near future.Meanwhile, the highlights of the day was the presentation of medals to all individuals and teams winners while the top three schools went home with trophies and other valuable items for their efforts.
Road to Onikan waterfront hot-up. The road to the Legendary Onikan Waterfront Stadium for the Finals of the 2013/2014 Lagos FA Cup is becoming stiffer by the day with the quarter finals holding this morning (Monday) from 8:00AM at Agege Stadium, Agege.
The Winners Golden Bet.Com powered Lagos FA Cup will see 2011/2012 Finalist, FAME FC taking on Collins Edwin in the first match of the day that has all the tapping of a highly entertaining and explosive match given the way the two sides play.Bridge football Club will confront their Metro Pro league counterpart AS Racine FC in another match that looks very attractive, where brotherliness between the chairmen of both clubs, Godson Uti of Bridge FC and Emmanuel Ibru of AS Racine may likely be set side for 90 minutes or more depending on how the first 90 minutes go.Young and enterprising NATH Boys football club will taking on last edition’s Runners up, MFM Football Club, the NNL side also parades young and talented players hence the reason why it is a Must Watch match for soccer fans across the state.Meanwhile former champions, First Bank Football Club has booked its place in the semi finals after seeing off Clique Sports FC, the side that accounted for the exit of the defending champions, COD United in the round of 16 beating them by 2 goals to nothing. They lost narrowly by a lone goal to exit the championship.
Lookman Oshun head coach of First Bank FC stated that the match was very tough as the score line shows, saying they had to prepare extra hard the match when they read in the media how the side that parades arguably the youngest team in the championship stopped the defending champions, COD United who are playing in the NNL like First Bank.”Lagos FA Cup is a championship in which any team can beat any other irrespective of what league you belong, Yes Clique Sports is a grassroots team but the tradition of this over 60 years old competition is that unknown clubs so to speak year in year out come out and stop the so-called big teams, hence my warning to my players before the match, which yielded our desired result”. He revealed.Assistant General Manager of the sponsor, Winners Golden Bet, Deji Breefcout expressed satisfaction over the standard of the championship, urging the remaining club sides to continue to maintain the highly level of discipline noted in the competition so far.He praised the Seyi Akinwunmi led board for being above board with the way the championship is run with a level playing ground all the clubs.
