{"id":470355,"date":"2011-07-29T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T07:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/29\/nigeria-maryam-babangida-tennis-serves-off-in-minna\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T07:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T07:05:57","slug":"nigeria-maryam-babangida-tennis-serves-off-in-minna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/29\/nigeria-maryam-babangida-tennis-serves-off-in-minna\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Maryam Babangida Tennis Serves Off in Minna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.404102195\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Egbokhan<\/p>\n<p>29 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The 1st Maryam Babangida Memorial junior tennis tournament serves off tomorrow on the courts of the Minna Tennis Club, Niger State. It climaxes on August 6 at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing this yesterday, Chairman of El Amin Foundation, Mohammed Babangida, said that the event was aimed at unearthing talented players from the nooks and crannies of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Babangida said that the Foundation was compelled to sow into the tennis event because of the poor state of the game in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the tourney will cater for youths in two age groups ; 12 and under, 14 and under which is further broken into four categories of 12 and under boys and girls, and 14 and under boys and girls respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes to be given to winners will include tennis racket bags, tennis rackets, tennis wears and a scholarship for the winner in each category.<\/p>\n<p>Provision has been made for free feeding and accommodation for all the players and their coaches throughout the period of the championship.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> John Egbokhan 29 July 2011 The 1st Maryam Babangida Memorial junior tennis tournament serves off tomorrow on the courts of the Minna Tennis Club, Niger State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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