Athletics
3 Mar
World silver medalist, long jumper, Ese Brume, has shifted her focus to the fast approaching All Africa Games in Ghana after she failed to make it to Glasgow, Scotland, for the 2024 World Indoor Championships.
1 Mar
Nigeria’s contingent to the 2024 World Indoor Championship is expected to arrive in Glasgow, Scotland today for the event, which begins this evening.
28 Feb
Former Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Omatseye Nesiama, has been appointed as referee for the athletics events of the Africa Games holding in Accra, Ghana.
24 Feb
A total of 18 Nigerian track and field athletes based in the United States of America are expected to join Nigeria’s camp in Accra, Ghana, for the 2024 Africa Games scheduled to hold in three Ghanaian cities next month.
23 Feb
Top athletes and dignitaries joined hundreds of mourners at the funeral on Friday of Kenya's world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum in the nation's athletics heartland where he was born, trained and died.
23 Feb
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has invited 33 athletes (17 men and 16 women) to camp ahead of the 13th African Games scheduled to hold in three Ghanaian cities of Accra, Cape Coast and Kumasi, next month.
21 Feb
A day after he was ejected from the 100m final due to a false start, rave of the moment, sprinter Consider Ekanem, won the men’s 200m of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) African Games trials, which ended at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba, yesterday.
20 Feb
One of the biggest upsets of the ongoing 2024 Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) national trials for the Africa Games in Asaba was recorded in the women’s 400m final yesterday.
18 Feb
Race favorite, Consider Ekanem, disappointed athletics fans, who came to watch him run at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) African Games National Trials, yesterday, in Asaba, as he was ejected from men’s 100m final because of false start.
18 Feb
The Nigerian Medical Association is set to stage the 7th edition of the NMA Games. It will begin tomorrow and end on Saturday, February 24, at the University of Lagos Sports complex as well as the Ikeja Golf Course.
18 Feb
MTN ’Making Of Champions, Champs Season Two competition, flagged off at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba, Delta State, with over 1000 athletes from 100 public and private schools students in various categories registered in the five days athletic events.
17 Feb
President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Chief Tonobok Okowa, has said that this year’s National Trials to select athletes that will fly the nation’s flag at the Africa Games in Ghana could spring some surprises.
Sport
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The Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) has provided an opportunity for Heartland of Owerri to fight to save their season by lifting the ban, albeit provisionally, on Dan Anyiam Stadium.
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Arsenal Manager, Mikel Arteta, says he must show his Arsenal side “support and love” after Bayern Munich knocked them out of the Champions League, reports BBC.
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Apart from showing boxing fans why he is the best pound-for-pound fighter on the scene currently, lightweight star, Emmanuel ‘Ability’ Abimbola, also wants to pocket the Mojisola Memorial Ogunsanya trophy and the N1 million cash prize for the best boxer at GOtv Boxing Night 31.
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Nigerian Boxing Federation (NBF) President, Gen. Kenneth Minimah (Rtd), the country’s first world boxing champion...
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The National Institute for Sports (NIS), Lagos and the Adamawa State government have started a five-day capacity training workshop for coaches, sports administrators and games masters, as well as Physical and Health Education teachers in the North East state .
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Liverpool were knocked out of the Europa League by Atalanta with the Italian side reaching the semi-finals 3-1 on aggregate on Thursday.
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Bayer Leverkusen's Nigerian striker, Victor Boniface, has been nominated for the 2023/24 Bundesliga Team of the Season. Bundesliga announced the nominees on their X handles on Thursday, 18 April l, 2024. Boniface is one of eight Leverkusen players, which includes former Arsenal midfielder, Granit Xhaka, that were shortlised. He, alongside Harry Kane of Bayern Munich…
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Mikel Arteta has urged Arsenal to use the "pain" of the Champions League quarter-final exit against Bayern Munich to fuel their Premier League title bid.
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At 58, Brazilian football legend Romario has quite a resume: World Cup winner, senator, president of his favourite club, America of Rio de Janeiro. Now, 15 years after hanging up his boots, the iconic striker has decided to add another entry to his CV, coming out of retirement to rejoin America as a player. The…
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Nigerian budding footballers, who want to combine their sport career with education, now have the opportunity as English Championship side, Coventry City Football Club, has provided that chance for the skilful lads.