Archives Tag: Tobi Amusan

SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  The 2024 Paris Olympics in France will officially commence today, and Team Nigeria will be represented by 88 athletes; 23 men and 65 women across 12 sports. Read more about Sports Nigeria’s highest representation comes in athletics, with 18 male and 18 female representatives totalling 36 athletes. Football has the second-highest representatives, with 18 … Continue reading Team Nigeria at the 2024 Paris Olympics

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Nigerian sprint queen, Tobi Amusan, has been officially named as the flagbearer of Team Nigeria for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Read more about Sports Nigeria Olympic Committee’s spokesperson, Tony Nezianya, announced in a statement on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that African badminton king, Anuoluwapo Opeyori, would captain team Nigeria, while … Continue reading Tobi Amusan is Nigeria’s Flagbearer for the 2024 Olympics Opener

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Oluwastobiloba Amusan has been in blistering form since the turn of the 2024 athletics season. In January, she broke Gloria Anozie’s 25-year-old record with a time of 7.77 seconds at the Astana Indoor Meet in Kazakhstan. Tobi Amusan, at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, on the 5th of February, broke the African … Continue reading Tobi Amusan Dominates the African Games in Accra

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

In a recent turn of events, Nigerian track and field sensation Tobi Amusan has been given the green light to compete at the highly anticipated 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest, Hungary. The decision comes after a thorough investigation by World Athletics (WA) that found her not guilty of doping offences, effectively putting an end … Continue reading Tobi Amusan Cleared for World Athletics Championship

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FinTech TECH

April 19, 2022

  Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, launched its mobile app, $endmobile on Friday, 18th of November. The app will facilitate the faster and easier transfer of funds from the Diaspora to the African continent.  Read more about Tech In a statement seen by Connect Nigeria, the FinTech giant also signed the Nigerian field and … Continue reading Flutterwave Launches $endmobile, Signs Tobi Amusan As Ambassador

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Amusan beat Jamaica’s Britany Anderson and Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn to win the event. Read more about Sports Nigerian sprinter Tobi Amusan made history in the early hours of Monday, July 25, 2022 (WAT) after beating the World Record in the women’s 100m hurdles event at the World Athletics Championship in Eugene, Oregon. Amusan clocked … Continue reading Tobi Amusan Breaks World Record, Wins Nigeria’s First World Athletics Championship Gold

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Nigerian sprinter, Oluwatobilola Ayomide Amusan, popularly known as Tobi Amusan has established herself as one of the finest sprinters Nigeria has ever seen at just the age of 24. Born on April 23rd, 1997, the 100 metres hurdle specialist was raised in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, and showed signs of greatness on the track … Continue reading Women In Sports: Tobi Amusan

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

  Super Eagles of Nigeria striker, Victor Osimhen, continued his fine goalscoring form for SSC Napoli after grabbing a brace in their 4-1 victory over Spezia in the Italian Serie A on Saturday, May 8, 2021, to help the Gennaro Gattuso men move to fourth on the league table. Osimhen has now scored 10 times … Continue reading Weekend Sports Roundup: Oshoala Wins LaLiga

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

Nigerian athletes at the ongoing All Africa Games in Morocco have continued to impress with record-breaking performances. Tobi Amusan is the rave of the moment after breaking a 20-year-old All African Games record that was previously held by another Nigerian, Gloria Alozie. On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, Amusan won the 100m Hurdles event, setting a … Continue reading 12th AAG: Tobi Amusan Breaks 20-Year Record

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SPORTS

April 19, 2022

100m World Youth Olympics gold medallist, Rosemary Chukwuma, is determined to prove her strength when she meets the world’s best runners at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Relays in Yokohama, Japan. The sprinter told newsmen in a brief interview before her departure for the championship, that she is prepared to bring out … Continue reading IAAF World Relays: ‘I hope to bring back a medal’ says Chukwuma

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