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National Sport Festival KADA GAMES

February 21st 2009
 

Mr. Patrick Ikeji, director of Nigerian Sports Commission witnesses the final of the polo edition of the national sports festival, tagged KADA games 2009.

 

Kano emerged the winners of the kada games Gov's cup By  winning the gold medal. Lagos state grabbed the silver and the winner of the kada games kada cup.F.C.T grabbed the bronze medal.

Some of the players of the kada games who were giving additional trophies for outstanding performances include N0 1 polo player in Nigeria, Bello Buba, Tajo Danjuma, Bishir Mangal, Jamilu Umar, Ahmedu Bakori and the Sectary General of Nigerian polo Association, Baba Kyari.

 

February 19th 2009


Reports from the National Sports Festival kada 2009 polo matches show that kano state team walloped kaduna state the host state with 6 goals to 1.The trio of Buba bello,Tajo dantata and Ali barjiwa dazzled the host state with unimaginable mallet strokes and outstanding goals.


In an interview with Bello buba by our Kada 2009 correspondent Joseph Odika, Buba said he was still warming up, that he is yet to unleash his master skills. He has promised his state that, with the team spirit of his team mates, they are going to win the gold medal. He also went ahead saying that they are lifting the additional Governor's cup and KADA cup respectively.
 
Mohammed Babangida, son of an erstwhile military President and the patron, of the famous undisputed champions EL-AMIN team  thrilled spectators with his high sense of horsemanship and dramatic goal jubilation. There was a long standing ovation for this handsome man who captained the F.C.T team after scoring the last goal of their explosive match against the mighty Katsina team.
The Kaduna polo pitch remains the center of attraction in this year's National Sports Festival
despite the fact that it is being played for the first time. Just yestreday, there was a mammot crowd gathered around the pitch from the first match of the day  to the end. We recall that yesterday's match also paraded great players like the Honourable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon, Dimeji Bankole, who played alongside Mohammed Babangida for the F.C.T team. Although, they lost 5 goals to 6 against Katsina.

 

February 18th 2009

 

Polo matches were played in the prestigious Murtala square where the Kaduna polo club is situated.Among the dignitaries that saw the opening match were the Gov.of Kaduna state,the chairman Nigerian Polo Association,Secretary Geneneral of NPA to mention a few.

The festival's polo game also paraded top polo players like no1 polo player Bello Buba and other big players such as Mohammed Babangida, Ibrahim Mohammed, Babangida Hassan, Baba  Kyari, Dawule Buba etc. It was a very colorful event as sponsors and foreign nationals trooped out enmasse to watch the game.

This is the first time polo is played in the National Festival thus,
the massive turn out.The huge turn out of spectators and their enthusiasm during the last match between Kano state and FCT made it electrifying. The game ended in a 6-goals tie.

 
2009 Lagos Polo Tournament

February 7th 2009

  

 

El-Amin wins 2009 Majekodunmi

 

Hon Hadi Serika, responding very rapidly to treatment after sustaining a shoulder fracture during his last match.

 

Lagos Caverton II wins DANSA cup.

 

Bello Buba promises to destroy MRS in todays final quest for the most coveted MAJEKODUNMI CUP

 

Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Wadada,Chairman Sportslink Online Ltd pays his fellow legislator Hon Hadi Serika a get well soon visit at the Hospital.

 

Kaduna Keffi pony wins the lagos cup sponsored by Promasidor nig ltd by 7 goals to 6 1/2.

 

 

Bello Buba

Bayo Amusan

Atedo Peterside

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 4th 2009

The honorable speaker of the house to play tomorrow at 4pm.

King Sunny Ade to entertain guests tomorrow at the cocktail party

The man popularly called "THE HEAD GROOM" patron of Katsina Hajara Farms, Alhaji Bashir Yaradua has promised to beat the defending champion El Amin in todays majekodunmi cup "cracker".

Hon. Ahmed Aliyu Wadada occupies the exalted position of Chairman Board of Directors SPORTSLINK ONLINE LTD.

Sani Dangote dazzles spectators with master horsemanship at the ongoing Lagos international tournament.

 
Atedo Peterside, CEO  StanbicIBTC Bank, at the ongoing Lagos Polo Tournament

 

03/02/2009

Last match of the day,we saw defending champions El-Amin carrying the day as they beat Katsina Hajara Farms 18-8 in a high-goal six chukka match. The El-Amin team which boasts of such great players as  Nigeria's number one Bello Buba, his immediate younger brother Hamisu Buba, Mohamed Ibrahim, and the argentine wizkid Roman had a very smooth cruise over their counterparts leaving no one in doubt that they remain the team to beat in the highly coveted Majek cup .It was indeed an absolute show of first class horsemanship and unequalled mastery of the game. They walloped Katsina Hajara Farms.

Bayo Amusan, the President of the Lagos polo Club is a legend of Nigerian polo, having won most of the high-goal titles available in the country.

Bayo as he is fondly called has played the game of kings for over two decades and the passion for the game runs deep in the family. His elder brother Tayo Amusan has seen it all too both here in Lagos and around the country, where he led the foremost Lagos Abakan in quest of polo titles around the country.
Before ascending the exalted position as the powerful president of the Lagos Polo club, Bayo had left a mark in the noble game of kings that made a landfall in Lagos some 105 years ago. To his credit, Bayo who leads Lagos Excalibur/Thisday team in the ongoing Lagos' 2009 International Polo Tournament, has won all the major cups in Lagos, with the most memorable being the Majekodunmi Cup in that titanic final in 1994,which remains one of his  memorable moment of his career.

Last year, Bayo was on duty, leading Lagos Ikoyi in their quest for the Kaduna International Polo Tournament that stakes the 223 years old Georgian Cup as its biggest prize.

 

The speaker of the house of reps Rt Hon DIMEJI BANKOLE,
One of the finest polo player of our time storms the lagos international polo tournament. We recall that Early in january 2009 at the  TRAPCO New Year Tournament He won the most
coveted cup.

Lagos International Polo Tournament enjoys maximum security and prompt medical services courtesy of Nigerian Police and Lagos state medical team.

Kanyinsola Owoeye aka KOINZ,Bola Adeyemi"thierry Henry"  and Farida,all members of the Ibadan dream team storm Lagos international polo tournament.