Afolabi Gambari

Lagos

Journalist at TheCable

Journalist, Writer, Editor, Biographer, Sociologist, Psychologist, Environmental scientist.

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Articles

D'Tigress to face Kenya, Togo in test matches ahead of Afrobasket

2 weeks ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) has lined up D’Tigress, the national women’s team, for a three-nation tournament in Abuja from July 18 to 20. In a statement, the federation said the tournament, which would have Togo and Kenya participating, is designed to prepare D’Tigress for the 2025 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket championship, which is billed for July 24 to August 3 in Côte d’Ivoire.
Basketball: Ujiri, Zaria court and other matters

4 weeks ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

For one week in July this year, the Amahoro National Stadium, Kigali, Rwanda, will be a beehive as former basketballer, Masai Ujiri, focuses world attention on the eastern African country as his NGO, Giants of Africa, launches Zaria Court that would be a new mixed-use sports, entertainment and cultural district.
Ikoyi Club to host third edition of South African Golf Cup

1 month ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

The third edition of the South Africa Cup, an 18-hole golf tournament, will take place on May 4 at the golf section of Ikoyi Club 1938 in Lagos. The one-day tournament is part of South Africa’s 31 years of democratic rule. The competition brings together amateur golfers from the Nigerian and South African business communities, including prominent business leaders and community figures.
'We won't disappoint Nigerians' -- Junior Yellow-Greens vow to get U-19 cricket W'Cup ticket

2 months ago | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

Kareem Gafar, captain of the Junior Yellow-Greens of Nigeria, has promised that the team will not disappoint at the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) under 19 men’s World Cup African qualifiers. The qualification tournament is billed to be held in Lagos from March 28 to April 6. Kenya, Uganda, Namibia, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and host Nigeria will compete for Africa’s sole ticket to the World Cup during the 10-day tournament.
Fresh hope for Almajiris, adolescent out-of-school girls

Mar 10, 2025 | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

Keen observation provided a 13-year-old Maryam Ibrahim, whose indigent parents live in Dange Shuni Local Government in Sokoto State, some 10 kilometers north of the capital, with a rare view into her own future. She had watched how girls of her age were sent into early marriage and also saw how they ended up without any education and life skills, leading to them not being useful to society.
NSC’s strident call and NDDC’s swift response

Feb 19, 2025 | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

On the day the new Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Shehu Dikko, assumed office in October 2024, he hammered it home to all and sundry that the days of consumption – whereby Nigerians only looked forward to seeing the country’s athletes mount podiums to receive medals – were over. The new dawn, according to Dikko, must see to the conscious and deliberate efforts by all sports stakeholders in Nigeria to produce and nurture the athletes that would mount the podiums.
The IBB memoir, at long last

Feb 14, 2025 | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

The months, weeks, days, hours and even minutes leading to June 12, 1993 have proved so vital to how Nigeria has evolved in the last 32 years. If the foregoing statement is said to be debatable at all, whoever is calling for the debate would have a lot of explanation to make. And what an explanation that would have to be.
When Amaechi broke the ice

Feb 2, 2025 | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

Having not succeeded in his attempt to win the ticket to contest for the 2023 presidential election under the banner of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and having earlier followed the moral route to resign from his ministerial post before purchasing the party’s nomination form for the APC presidential primary election, Rt Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi could only wait for the tenure of the immediate past president Muhammadu Buhari, in whose government he served for eight years as...
As the Lagos international polo horses set for galloping

Jan 29, 2025 | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

It is not an exaggeration that polo is the oldest competitive sport in Nigeria, headlining the 20th century. History shows that although the earliest games were played in Ikoyi on a strip of land between the Lagos Polo Club and Ikoyi Club, the first major competition was held in 1914, featuring British Nigeria and German Cameroon and both competed until 1960 for a trophy known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Cup, donated by a prominent German philanthropist Wilhelm Solf in honour of Wilhelm.
Women’s U-19 cricket W/Cup: Nigeria miss out on semi-final slot despite defeating Ireland

Jan 29, 2025 | thecable.ng | Afolabi Gambari

The Junior female Yellow-Greens of Nigeria defeated Ireland by six runs at the ongoing 2025 ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup in Malaysia. Despite the win, the match was Nigeria’s last at the competition as the team narrowly missed out on a semi-final slot. The Junior female Yellow-Greens finished third best team in the Super Six Group 2, just one point below the qualification spot. Nigeria’s nervy victory over Ireland on Wednesday completed the country’s fairy tale outing at the maiden World Cup.