Olympic Update: Ese Brume Wins Nigeria’s First Olympic Long Jump Medal In 13 Years
It is good news for Team Nigeria at the Olympics. After 13 years of wait, Nigeria has finally won a medal in an athletic event in the Olympics. The last medal winner was Blessing Okagbare, who finished third in the final at the Beijing Olympics, 2008. Read more about Sports Long Jump specialist, Ese […]
Sanwo-Olu Presents House Gift To Chioma Ajunwa After 25 Years Wait
On Thursday, June 24th, 2021, Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, fulfilled the 25-year-old promise of the state government by handing the keys of a 3-bedroom flat to Nigerian Olympic medalist, Chioma Ajunwa. Read more about Sports Ajunwa at the Atlanta 1996 won a gold medal in the long jump event, making her the first […]
Golden Moment In Sports: When Ese Brume Retained Her Long Jump Title At the 2017 All Nigeria T&F Championships
Day 1 of the 2017 All Nigeria Track and Field Championships (ANT&FC) in Abuja, was just another opportunity for Nigerian long jump queen, Ese Brume, to exercise her dominance on the field. Brume, who was at the time the reigning Commonwealth and African Long Jump Gold medalists, shrugged off every doubt in her ability when […]
National Sports Festival: Ese Brume Sets New Long Jump Record
Reigning African champion, Ese Brume, has leapt to a new Championship record in the Women’s Long Jump event at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Abuja. The Nigerian leap-queen, who is competing for Team Delta, made a sensational jump of 6.62m on Tuesday, to win the gold medal, while also smashing the former record of […]
Did You Know? Nigerian Olympic Gold Medalists
Nigeria made her first Olympic appearance in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland, and the country has participated in every Summer Olympic Games (except for the boycotted 1976 Olympics) ever since. Nojim Maiyegun A total of 25 medals have been won by Nigerians at the Olympics with our nation’s first by veteran boxer Nojim Maiyegun, who won […]
Okagbare Wins IAAF Diamond League
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare has won the long jump event at the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) Diamond League in Monaco. Okagbare, who’s one of Nigeria’s medal hopefuls at the Moscow 2013 IAAF World Championship, cleared 7.04m to record her personal best of the season. She left Russia’s Darya Klishina and Britain’s Proctor Shara in her […]