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In front of a capacity crowd at the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium, Lagos, on Sunday, Oto “Joe Boy” Joseph, national lightweight champion, was named the best boxer at GOtv Boxing Night 9. The honour was accompanied by a cash prize of N1.5million and the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial Trophy. To win the award for the third time, Joe Boy, defeated Ghana’s Richard “Desert Warrior” Amefu via unanimous decision in an eight round international challenge contest. In the other international challenge duel of the night, Olaide “Fijaborn” Fijabi, national light welter-weight champion, defe-ated Raphael “Iron King” Kwabena of Ghana via a split decision. GOtv Boxing Night also yielded a new national cruiserwight champion in Idowu “ID Cabasa” Okusote, who dethroned Ekeng “Fighting Policeman” Henshaw by a sixth round knockout. Similarly defeated was the colourful Jude “Great Jude” Iloh, the national light heavyweight champion, who was knocked out by Adewale “Masevex” Masebinu in their ...

Former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh has claimed that Arsenal’s young winger Alex Iwobi has the potential to become the “best” player in the world from Africa. During the game on Sunday between Arsenal and Burnley, a match the Gunners won 1-0 in the very last minute, Oliseh made the prediction whilst watching Iwobi for the 71 minutes he was on the pitch. Iwobi, at the age of 20, has played a fair amount of games for Arsenal after breaking through in 2015/16 and Oliseh – who was capped 54 times by the Super Eagles – thinks the only way is up. Iwobi, a Nigeria international himself now, has made seven chances in five appearances for the Gunners this season and should he manage to fulfil Oliseh’s prediction, he would follow in the footsteps of Didier Drogba, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Yaya Toure as winners of the African Player of the Year award. Iwobi’s Arsenal now sit third in the league, two points off of Manchester City at the top.

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Police Command, weekend, arrested a club girl, who allegedly stole one of her male customers’ Automated Teller Machine, ATM, while the latter was sleeping. The suspect said she stole the money to stock her shop and take care of her daughter. At the time of the arrest, she was discovered to have successfully withdrawn N250.000.00 from the account. Arrested alongside the 24-year-old suspect, identified as Bamigboye Imoleayo, were three accomplices, among who was her boyfriend. Two Android phones, eight pairs of trousers and shirts, suspected to have been bought with the illegally-withdrawn money, were recovered from the suspects. The victim, identified simply as Alli, visited the club on September 23, where he met the suspect. Apprehension, according to him, set in next day, after he received an SMS debit alert of N92,000 on his phone. Alli said: “While I was still contemplating on how to deal with the issue, I got another deb...