UPDATED: January 30, 2021 11:29 IST
P V Sindhu
Seventy-three years after India won the coveted hockey gold medal at the 1948 London Olympic Games and 46 years after it won the inaugural World Cup Hockey championship (1975) in Kuala Lumpur, the country is now struggling to make it to the top three slots in India’s ‘national game’. And though, over the decades, cricket has totally upstaged hockey in India and taken over the minds and hearts of both aspiring sportspersons and the general public here, it has a very faint global footprint.
According to a report titled ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Revenues of World Cricket and Indian Sports’, authored by Sundar Raman, former COO of the Indian Premier League (IPL), cricket accounts for almost 85 per cent of the Indian sports economy (IPL being a major contributor), followed by football and kabaddi competing for second place. The bulk of Indian sports revenue comes from broadcast and sponsorship, contributing 65 per cent and 30 per ce
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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, South- East Nigeria, presided over by Justice Rosemary Dugbo Oghoghorie has convicted and sentenced one Mr. Okoro Tochukwu Joseph to eight months imprisonment for impersonation and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of $15,000 (Fifteen Thousand US Dollars).
The convict, who is a final year student of the Institute of Management Technology, (IMT) Enugu was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the anti-graft agency.
One of the five-count charges against him read:
“That you, Okoro Tochukwu Joseph (alias Donald Wood), on the 11th day of March, 2020, in Enugu, Enugu State, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, while representing yourself to be Donald Wood, a financial investor in crypto currency, by means of a computer system, knowingly sent a message through your Hangout, knowing the same to be false, for the purpose of causing needless anxiety to Lisa Spiller and there