Thursday, November 21, 2024

Jigawa, Taraba End 20th National Sports Festival Without Medal 


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  Jigawa, Taraba End 20th National Sports Festival Without Medal By Niyi Busari Team Jigawa and Team Taraba are the only states that are yet to win any medal at the ongoing 20th National Sports Festival, BSNSports.com.ng reports. All sporting events at the ongoing Edo 2020 will end today and both states are not participating in any of the events whose finals will be played today. Events like boxing, table tennis and few others will take place today as curtain draws on this year's National Sports Festival whose closing ceremony comes up on Wednesday.   Meanwhile, Team Delta as at Monday leads the Medals table with 257 medals consisting of 103 gold, 82 silver and 72 bronze medals and followed by the hosts, Team Edo who has 88 gold, 80 silver and 73 bronze Medals. Bayelsa, Rivers, Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Oyo and Cross Rivers completed the top ten. However, Kebbi, Benue, Zamfara and Adamawa States won only two medals each in this year's National Sports Festival.
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Niyi Busari

Award winning journalist, Niyi Busari, the Publisher and CEO of BSN Sports Concepts is one of the most celebrated Nigerian sports journalist of his generation. A"cross-over" professional, he combines the talents and abilities of a print and electronic journalist in a manner that is rare, even though his specialization is print. A graduate of Economics from the University of Abuja where he obtained his Bachelor Degree in 2015.

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