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Olympics 2012: Day Thirteen For Team Nigeria.

24 year-old Doreen Amata cleared her season best height of 1.90m in the Women’s High Jump event but it wasn't enough to thrust her into the final round of the competition as she finished in 17th position.

Olympics 2012: Day Twelve For Team Nigeria.

Selim Nurudeen clocked 13.55 seconds in the semi-finals of the Men's 110m Hurdles event thus did not make it to the final showdown. Odumosu Muziat Ajoke finished in last position in the Women's 400M Hurdles final. She cleared all the

TOP 10: Nigerian Players In The History Of The English Premier League

With or without the consent of the European football governing body, UEFA, the English Premier League is the best and most exciting football league on planet earth. People from all over the world are glued to their television sets to

Olympics 2012: Day Eleven For Team Nigeria.

Day 11 seems to be a success as some athletes scale towards the chance to be on the podium. Tosin Oke cleared 16.83m in Men's Triple Jump semi-final to book a place in the final.

Olympics 2012: Support The Medal Hunt!

Within the last couple of weeks, Nigerians have witnessed setbacks in the ongoing Olympic competition, before then, sports stakeholders, administrators and Journalists have raised hopes of Nigerians, assuring the sports enthusiasts of our ability to win a couple of medals.

Olympics 2012: Day Ten For Team Nigeria Filled With Hope!

In Basketball, San Antonio spurs star, Tony Parker had a quiet game as the French beat Nigeria's D'Tigers 79-73 to book a place in the Quarter-finals as second seed. Nicolas Batum scored 23 points and Mickael Gelabale added 11points while

Olympics 2012: Days Eight And Nine For Team Nigeria

For Day Eight; In Athletics, Nigeria's hopes of an Olympic medal were dashed yesterday as the athletes failed to build on their previous performance. Obinna Metu, Egwero Ogho-Oghene and Emelieze Peter all failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the

Olympics 2012: Day Six For Team Nigeria.

The Nigerian Men's Basketball team, D'Tigers squared off against their United States counterparts captained by NBA star, Kobe Bryant of Los Angeles Lakers yesterday.

Olympics 2012: Team Nigeria’s Medal shyness

The London Olympic Games has gone one week and yet team Nigeria has not even a bronze in our medal basket. When some countries are already counting double figures of Gold medal, Team Nigeria is still some distances away from

Olympics 2012: Day Four For Team Nigeria.

Team Nigeria is yet to have a competitor in the final round of any competition so far and our awful showing continued yesterday as the D' Tigers lost to Lithuania 72-53.

Olympics 2012: Day Three for Team Nigeria.

There wasn't too much activity for Team Nigeria on this day. With some of our hopefuls losing out in other sports we are anxiously waiting for the athletics events to start and also for Chika Chukwumerije to show us again

Olympics 2012: Days One and Two For Team Nigeria.

First day at the Olympics, Nigeria participated only in Tennis with veteran Segun Toriola going head to head with Sweden's Jorgen Persson, who has played tennis at the Olympics since Seoul 1988 and Quadri Haruna squaring off against Spain's Carlos

Olympics 2012: D’ Tigers Victorious against African champion, Tunisia!

In the early hours of the Sunday morning, D' Tigers took to the court to face the Tunisian Basketball team. The game which ended with Nigeria on the winning end saw Alade Aminu scoring 15 points and nine rebounds while

Factory78TV Meets Nigeria’s Basketball Team, D’Tigers!

Factory78tv had the privilege of joining the historic Nigerian Basketball team D'Tigers for a training session in London right before the competition started. The players were in full competition mode after a dramatic and inspiring win against The Dominican Republic

Olympics 2012: Full List for Team Nigeria!

The opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games kicks off today. Out of the 26 sports which will be taking place in 28 venues, Nigeria will participate in 13 of the 26 sport events at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Olympics 2012: British Born Canoeist, Johny Akinyemi, Set To Make History!

With the world watching, British-born Nigerian, Johny Akinyemi will make history as the first canoeist to represent the West African nation at The Olympics.

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