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Afolabi Gambari

Lagos

Journalist at TheCable

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

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  • Basketball: Ujiri, Zaria court and other matters

    1 week 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

    2 weeks 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

    1 month 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

    2 months ago | 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

    2 months ago | 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.

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Afolabi Gambari
Afolabi Gambari @AfoGambari
6 Sep 22

RT @LDNFootbalI: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang x Denis Zakaria. 🔥 Chelsea debuts… 🔜💙 https://t.co/HxuB89KKvq

Afolabi Gambari
Afolabi Gambari @AfoGambari
25 Aug 22

Mr. Peter Obi of 2022 is not dissimilar to Major General Muhammadu Buhari of 2014 - both always appealing to crass emotion of would-be voters who have grown so frustrated as to believe that anything slightly better is the best.

Afolabi Gambari
Afolabi Gambari @AfoGambari
24 Aug 22

Remembering MJ... The following three lines in Michael Jackson's "Liberian girl" track in his 1987 album "Bad" are striking me at this moment... "Liberian girl More precious than any pearl Your love so complete..." What could have inspired MJ? Only he knew!