Coronavirus: Nigeria Open Tennis Tournament Cancelled
As the coronavirus pandemic continues threatening the resumption of major sporting activities across the globe, leading to the cancellation of some sporting events in the world, the Nigerian sports world has equally been dealt a great impact by the pandemic which has put competitions like the Nigeria Professional Football League and National Sports Festival on […]
11-Year-Old Nene Yakubu Leads Team Nigeria To Victory At CAT Qualifiers
Nigerian young tennis player, Nene Yakubu, has continued to make the wave as she helped Nigeria clinch gold at the recently concluded qualifiers for the West/Central Africa Tennis Championships (CAT). Read more about Sports Yakubu captained Nigeria’s U-12 team to the competition where she won all her games and equally assisted her teammates, Khadijat Mohammed […]
Nigerians In Sports: Aruna Quadri Delighted At Joining German Bundesliga Club
Africa and Nigeria’s number one table tennis player, Aruna Quadri, has signed a deal to join German Bundesliga Table Tennis league top club, TTC RhönSprudel Maberzell Fulda from next season (September 2020), a deal that will see the Nigerian compete in the elite division. Quadri, ranked 18th on the global table tennis ranking was unveiled […]
2019 Sports Highlights
Nigeria, undoubtedly rich in talents in the field of sports finishes every year with laurels won by her talented and hardworking athletes in various fields of sports. Below is how Nigerian athletes fared this year. Football Nigeria witnessed a third-place success at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations hosted in Egypt earlier this year (June-July, […]
Golden Moments In Sports: When Nigeria’s Junior Tennis Team Stunned Africa At The 2016 ITTF
Nigeria’s victory at the 2016 ITTF Junior Circuit, tagged ‘Egypt Open’, was not an easy one for the tennis junior team who had their work cut out for them from the preliminary stages of the continental event. Tennis stars Junior players, Amadi Omeh and Azeez Solanke, won Nigeria’s first gold medal at the tournament, after […]
CBN Junior Tennis: Top Seeds Qualify For Semifinal
The top seeds at the on-going CBN Open Junior Tennis Championships were met with great difficulty as they fought their way through tough opponents to the semifinal round of the tournament. In the Girl 16, top seeds, Rebecca Ekpenyong, Omolayo Bamidele, Omolade Aderemi and Favour Moses, had the biggest challenge of the day. Mary Udofa from […]
Lagos Open Tennis Tickets Available For Sale Online
Tennis lovers can now purchase tickets for the Lagos Open International Tennis Championships online at Ariyatickets. The announcement was made by the Central Working Committee, as they also ensured that the tournament will be the best experience yet for both players and fans. Following on their plans to use social media as a tool to […]
ITTF Salutes Nigeria’s Win Over Egypt
Its only been a few days since the Nigeria men’s team put an end to Egypt’s prolonged reign at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) African Championships, held in Mauritius, and the victory is yet to grow cold as the ITTF president has issued a congratulatory message to the Nigerian team for a job well […]
Did You Know? Yoruba Tennis Club
Walking through Onikan Road during the early hours of Saturday morning, I laid sight on what should be one of Nigeria’s monumental sports sights, the Yoruba Tennis Club, a symbol of our identity and brotherhood; a treasured possession we would fight to protect in the years leading to our independence. However, the washed out paint […]
Weekend Highlights
2018 NBA Africa Game: Team World Edge Team Africa 96-92 Team World edged Team Africa 96-92 at the 2018 NBA Africa Game on Saturday at Sun Arena at Time Square in Pretoria, South Africa. The 2018 NBA Africa Game was played in support of national hero, Nelson Mandela’s foundation as part of the 2018 Basketball […]
Did You Know? 5 Nigerian Super Junior Smashers
Nigeria has many promising youngsters that have significantly risen to continental recognition. According to a profiling done by NT, here is a list of very promising Nigerian junior smashers. Oyinlomo Quadri At 14, Oyinlomo Barakat Quadri is inarguably Nigeria’s most talented junior lawn tennis player in Africa. Watching her grow into the tennis protege she […]
Quadri Emerges Africa’s Best
Nigerian Table Tennis star, Aruna Quadri on Monday emerged the males singles winner at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Africa Top 16 in Khartoum, Sudan after defeating Egypt’s Omar Assar 4-1 in the final. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) after the victory, Quadri expressed his delight in overpowering […]
Nigeria Wins ITF/CAT U16 Tennis Championship
Nigerian tennis starlets put up a commanding performance to emerge the overall winners of the ITF/CAT U16 Championship which was concluded at the weekend in Togo. Team Nigeria took home seven gold medals and one bronze medal at the tennis tournament. Oyinlomo Quadri grabbed the headlines as the star player of the tournament, upsetting three […]
Nigerian Tennis Players Impress in Togo
According to Punch Newspaper, three Nigerian youth tennis players have qualified for the finals of various categories at the ongoing International Tennis Federation West and Central African Circuit in Togo. Martins Abamu earned a hard-fought win over Frederick Coulibaly of Benin Republic 6-4, 7-5 in the semi-finals of the boys’ U-16 category to set up […]
Serena And Venus Williams To Play Exhibition Matches In Nigeria
By Arinze Ude. The most successful siblings in the world of tennis, Serena and Venus Williams will embark on an African tour of Nigeria and South Africa next month. The Williams sisters are billed to visit the industrial capital of Nigeria, Lagos on the 30th of October. While in Lagos, the dynamic tennis sister will […]