This year’s Lagos Country Club elections have produced a new set of officers to run the club for the next one year. In the keenly contested balloting, those elected were Seyi Adewumi, President, Tunde Bajela, Secretary General and Ose Lato, Social Secretary. They are replacing incumbents, Messrs. Funmi Bamkole, Adegboyega Oduwole and Segun Kuti whose […]
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo SAN, GCON became the poster boy of intellectual discourse in the Recreation community where he traversed with warm admiration in his eight years in office as Vice President. With speeches upon speeches on national issues, he honored several invitations of most social clubs and gave cerebral lectures that drew wide applauses. Below […]
The emergence of Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria could signal a new meaning to the titular Grand Patron reserved for every sitting president by Recreation Clubs. Of all the presidents Nigeria has had, Senator Tinubu has the closest affinity to the ideals and functions of the […]
The IBB Golf and Country Club came alive at the weekend, as Isaiah Okonofua was declared winner of the 2022 Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor’s Golf Cup. A total 160 players featured in the one-day competition decided in a ‘stroke play – shot gun’ format, with all the golfers teeing-off at the same time, […]
No fewer than 200 golfers are expected to participate in the 2022 edition of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor’s Golf Cup scheduled to take off today in Abuja. Speaking about the tournament in Abuja, the CBN’s spokesperson, Osita Nwanisobi said the 15th editionof CBN Governor’s Golf tournament would hold at the IBB Golf […]
Ibadan Recreation Club is currently playing host to the second edition of the South West Local Government Trade Fair otherwise known as Ajelewa 2.0, at the Club’s exhibition ground in Adamasingba, Ibadan. Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Barr. Bayo Lawal, represented by the State’s Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye, performed […]
The Island Club of Lagos is one of the oldest recreation clubs in Nigeria. It was established on Friday, October 29, 1943, to create and promote interracial harmony in an otherwise discriminatory Lagos. The Club has grown from its original 50 members to over 7,000 members spreading all over Nigeria. It has welcomed a lot […]
The 61st edition of the Lagos Open Golf Championship which teed off on Friday in Ikoyi Club, has ended with the Benin-based Emmanuel Ojeabulu winning the 2022 edition of the tournament. Playing three- shots off the pace going the last 18 holes, Ojeabulu produced one of the best golf of his life, maintaining steady pars […]
Top Nigerian polo patrons and players have concluded plan to converge on Abuja for a historic polo tournament to promote the candidacy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The event which is tagged, “Ride for […]