ARTISTIC TRIBE

Enoch and Grace Win at Athletics Federation of Nigeria Evaluation Competition(AFN) Enoch Adegoke and Grace Nwokocha claimed the men and women’s 100m titles respectively at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Evaluation Competition held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure on Saturday. The event, which had the Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, in attendance, was organised by the Olamide George-led faction of the AFN. Adegoke, who also won the AFN All Comers event at the same venue with a World Lead time in January, claimed a second victory with a time of 10.36s ahead of Fakorede Adekalu and Jerry Jakpa in second and third places respectively, with a time of 10.51s and 10.57s. Nwokocha beat Joy Udo-Gabriel and Praise Idamadudu to second and third positions respectively with a Personal Best time of 11.23s, with Udo-Gabriel clocking 11.64s and Idamadudu returning in 11.67s. In the men’s 110m hurdles, Wisdom Musa clocked a PB time of 14...

Sport and Coaching in Africa. Sport is a physical activity that tests our athletic abilities. It a kind of  physical exercise in which we compete with the opponent/s solely for the purpose of entertainment and sound health.. Basketball, football, cricket, volleyball, hockey are some of the most well known sports. Sports have many physical and psychological advantages on the participants as well as the viewers. They result in a better physical stamina and improved reflexes along with other advantages. But the most important aspect of sport that we lack in this part of the world is the role of a coach/manager . A piece in the sporting world with which Africans generally lack is the effect coaches bring into the sport world. Most coaches lack proper knowledge of the game they are venturing into; some even go online to learn one or two things to which is bad but the proper implementation might go wrong. The sporting desk on our budgets schemes are nothing to write home abou...