Serie A: Bologna v AC Milan postponed over heavy rain, flooding sees 

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Heavy rain and flooding in northeast Italy has forced the postponement of Saturday’s Serie A match between Bologna and AC Milan, local officials announced. Torrential downpours have already claimed the life of a 20-year-old man whose car was swept away by the rush of water south of Bologna, firefighters said. “The match between Bologna and…

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, scrapped the Federal Ministry of Sports Development and replaced it with the National Sports Commission (NSC). Tinubu announced the scrapping of the sports ministry alongside four others in a mini-cabinet rejig, yesterday.

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Football agent and global brand strategist Andrew Uyioghosa Ogbomoide, widely known as Drew Uyi, has thrown his support behind the newly appointed Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Shehu Dikko, in a bid to revitalise the Nigerian sports industry for enhanced efficiency and performance. Drew Uyi, based in the UK, expressed confidence in Dikko’s…

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The newly elected African Table Tennis Federation (ATTF) Executive Council has signed a pact with Ethiopian Airlines to develop the sport in the continent.

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Former President of the Nigeria Football Federation and Nigeria’s member of the FIFA Council, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his choice of Mallam Shehu Dikko as chairman of the reinstated National Sports Commission (NSC).