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One of the main features of the 18th African Athletics Championship (AAC) which kicks off today at the Stade d’Lamite in Port Novo, Benin Republic will be the rekindling of the age long rivalry between Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya in the track...
The Bauchi State Commissioner of Youth and Sports, Alhaji Muhammad Adamu Lassi has confirmed that athletes from the state that won medals at the last National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt are yet to be rewarded by the state government. This is comi...
Nigeria at the weekend selected 44 athletes and six coaches to represent the country at the 18th African Senior Athletics Championships scheduled to begin on Wednesday, June 27 at the Stade d’Lamite in Port Novo, Benin Republic. The Team Nigerian...
Gay and lesbian athletes from dozens of countries that outlaw homosexuality, should seek asylum in Britain during the Olympic Games in London to escape persecution or even death at home, a prominent human rights activist said on Tuesday. The advice cam...
National Sports Commission (NSC) has reaffirmed its position that Team Nigeria contingent to the forthcoming summer Olympic Games in United Kingdom would not be an all comers affair, stating that only athletes that are capable of winning medals would b...
Master Emmanuel Dauda Luka of Kwali Area Council of FCT, Abuja, Nigeria has been given the opportunity of a lifetime to run with the Olympic Torch. This comes as a result of his involvement in London 2012’s international sports legacy programme, ...
Nigeria’s brightest medal hope at the 30th Olympic Games later this summer in London, Blessing Okagbare was in impressive form at the weekend at the 54th annual Mount San Anthonio (Mt Sac) Relays in California, USA. Okagbare, bronze medal winner ...
Twice Olympic and four-times world 10,000 metres champion Haile Gebrselassie may run his final competitive track race over the distance in Hengelo, Netherlands, next month. The Ethiopian, who will turn 39 tomorrow, dominated over 25 laps in the 1990s b...
Daniel Igali, the Technical Adviser, Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF), on Thursday restated that the preparation of his wards for the Olympic Games had not been taken seriously for Nigeria to make a difference. Igali told the News Agency of Nigeria (...
The Federal Government has promised to assist the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) towards a successful outing at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Supervising Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, made the pledge on Tuesday in Abuja during the ...
As part of preparations to ensure a successful outing for Team Nigeria at the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games, Nigerian sprinters are expected to join their other African and South American counterparts for the tune-up relay races which kicks off...
Long jump bronze medallist in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Blessing has said she is full of high hopes for this season. She said she is not full of expectations because it’s an Olympic year but because the year is important to her career....
The United Kingdom (UK) has announced that it would start the processing of visitors visas for people coming from outside the country to watch the Olympic and Paralympic games from January 1 2012. The Games, according to a statement made availabl...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has inaugurated a 17-man committee to review its planned proposal to host the 2018 Youth Olympic Games. The advisory committee is also to advise if the games could be hosted without much cost to the g...
In well over 100 years, there have been only 25 men who have tasted the Olympian heights and laid claim to the title “Fastest Man on Earth”. It is elite and also an eclectic club. The stories of these fast men are an extraordinary blend of ...