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12 Mar
World 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, has been included in Team Nigeria's relay squad for the ongoing 13th African Games holding in Ghana. In the final list of athletes released by the AFN
12 Mar
President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa, yesterday, urged track and field stars to go for gold at the ongoing 13th African Games in Ghana as the federation celebrates its 80th-year anniversary.
8 Mar
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will today release its final list of athletes that will fly the nation’s flag at the 13th African Games in Ghana.
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.
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.
19 Feb
Before the commencement of the Africa Games National Trials organised by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) in Asaba, Delta State, not much was known of the new 100m sensation, Israel Sunday Okon.
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.
5 Feb
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s (AFN) first pre-Africa Games competition ended in Abuja at the weekend with the federation’s Technical Director, Samuel Onikeku, rating the athletes 85 per cent ready for the continental fiesta billed for Accra, Ghana.
3 Feb
A member of the Technical Committee of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Seigha Porbeni, has said he is very optimistic that the federation’s President, Tonobok Okowa, has nothing to hide, particularly, as it concerns its financial records.
3 Feb
Chairman of the Competitions Organising Committee of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Commodore Omatseye Nesiama (rtd), has urged all stakeholders to join the federation achieve its ambition of delivering best-ever results at the fast-approaching Africa Games in Ghana and the Olympic Games slated for Paris, France.
29 Jan
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has described Tobi Amosun’s record breaking performance at the Astana Indoor Meet, where she set a new African record in 60 metres hurdles, as a sign of good things to come at the Africa Games and the Paris 2024 Olympics.

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