2018 NSF: 11 Year Old Long Distance Runner, Ojurongbe, Eyes 800m Gold
A JSS II student of the Federal Government College Ilorin, Ayooluwa Ojurongbe, who will be competing in Saturday’s 800m race alongside well-versed athletes, is confident she will stun her opponents to a gold medal finish at the ongoing 2018 National Sports Festival in Abuja. For an 11-year-old, Ojurongbe’s courage is quite reassuring of Nigeria’s future in […]
Golden Moments In Sport: When Laurrita Onye Broke The World Record Twice In One Event
Laurrita Onye was the star of the show in the women’s Shot put F40 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where she defied all odds to win Nigeria’s first Track and Field medal on Day 4 of the competition. Onye was clearly on a class of her own — breaking two World Records (WR) in […]
“2018 National Sports Festival Will Go On As Planned” – Dalung
Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, has said that the 19th edition of the National Sports Festival will go on as planned with athletes and officials all set for the 10-day event. Contrary to speculation that the festival may be delayed due to some logistic challenges at the National Stadium in Abuja, the […]
Publicize National Sport Festival, Says Former NFF President
A former president of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Sani-Lulu Abdullahi, has called on the organizers of the 2018 National Sport Festival to amplify publicity for the event. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, Abdullahi said given the longstanding history of the NSF, the organizers ought to have taken publicity a lot more seriously. […]
Golden Moments In Sports: Seye Ogunlewe’s Sensational Qualification To The Rio 2016 Olympics
Having to run on a wet track — more-so on an average course — is an athlete’s greatest fear and performance inhibitor. With just a little amount of moisture, friction between the track and the shoe is reduced, and more energy diverted into forward motion. However, for a fully wet track, the runner has to […]
Golden Moments In Sports: The First Nigerian To Win A World Championship Silver Medal
Over the years, women like Mary Onyali, Chioma Ajunwa and Blessing Okagbare have done Nigeria proud in more ways than one. With more collective medals than we can keep count of, Nigerian women have, in recent times, become a force to reckon with in the nation’s sports industry. Little wonder, a Nigerian woman won Nigeria’s first […]
Glasgow 2014: Okagbare’s Phenomenal 200m Gold Win
It was Thursday 31st July, 2014 and none would have imagined that Team Nigeria would be celebrating two gold medal wins at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Hampden Park in Glasgow. First Ese Brume put up a remarkable display in Long Jump to claim the gold medal, then Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor followed minutes later with another gold […]
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 […]
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 […]
Blessing Okagbare and Others Inducted into the African Athletics Confederation Hall of Fame
Blessing Okagbare and many other Nigerians have been distinguished with the honour of being inducted into the African Athletics Confederation (CAA) Hall of Fame at the ongoing African Senior Athletics Championship in Asaba, Delta State. A total of 16 athletes including world 800m champion, Caster Semenya were inducted. Amongst the inductees were: Africa’s fastest man […]
AFN Release Timetable & Qualifying Standards for 2018 All-Nigeria Championships
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has released the Timetable and Qualifying Standards for athletes expected to compete at the 2018 All-Nigeria Senior Athletics Championships scheduled to run from 5th to 7th July at the Abuja National Stadium.