Nigeria’s Raymond Ekevwo won the gold medal in the men’s 100m final at the ongoing 12th African Games in Rabat Morroco on Tuesday.
The fastest Nigerian man ran 9.96s to become the 10th Nigerian male sprinter to grace the sub-10 sec barrier.
20-year-old Raymond Ekevwo from Nigeria won the men’s 100m final in a new personal best time of 9.96 seconds wind +1.6m/s. Arthur Cisse Gue of Côte d’Ivoire took silver in 9.97 seconds as Ese Itsekire of Nigeria won the bronze in 10.02 seconds.
Security and youth entrepreneurship - the twin flagship programmes at the centre of the development agenda of the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration, were, on Tuesday, re-energised with the constitution of new board members for the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF) and Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF).
Eyewitnesses have narrated how Joshua Rogers, a Channels Government House Correspondent in Rivers, was abducted at about 9 p.m. on Thursday after returning at his home in Rumuosi, Obio/Akpor area of Port Harcourt, the State capital.