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The National Sports Commission (NSC) on Tuesday in Abuja supervised elections into executive positions of 21 national sports federations against the 22 earlier planned.
Edo Governor Adams Oshiomhole presents a cheque to Timothy Toroitich from Uganda, 2nd prize winner with time of 29 mins, 44 seconds at the Okpekpe Road Race 10km.
Kenyan Moses Masai won the first ever IAAF-certified road race in Nigeria held on Saturday May 4, at Okpekpe, Edo State, which attracted seven hundred top athletes from Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria.
WizKid has released his much awaited collaboration single featuring top Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti, titled 'Jaiye-Jaiye'. The song was produced by Sarz.
AFN Technical Director Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama with President Solomon Ogba.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria issued a communique at the end of its meeting with club owners in Abuja on Tuesday April 30th still insisting that clubs and state AAAs must re-register their athletes for the 2013 Athletics season.
The breaking news this week was the palace coup by MTN to convince Etisalat's brand icon Hafiz Oyetoro aka 'SAKA' to port his line to MTN.
Elections into two local government areas of Edo, Oredo and Ikpoba Okha local government were yesterday cancelled by the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) due to the lack of electoral materials.
According to a statement issued by the ...
Rivers State Governor, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar to intervene in the judgement Justice Ishaq Bello of Abuja Federal High Court, which declared Mr Felix Obuah and Mr Ibibia Opuen...
Two aged women have been confirmed killed and 30 houses razed on Friday night when suspected gunmen attacked Dakum and Jol villages in Riyom local government area of Plateau State.
The bandits allegedly struck when the residents were asleep and set the...
Barely two weeks after a lecturer with Kogi State Polytechnic narrowly escaped abduction, another one stabbed to death by some irate students.
The lecturer, Mr. Anthony Abimaje, met his untimely death on Friday night when he went to pick his wife, who ...
Governor Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna State yesterday asked the media to be objective in their reportage and declared that anyone found to be causing confusion in the state would not be spared by his administration.
He said emphasis should be on what would u...
The Gombe State government has spent over N10 billion for the construction of its College of Education, Billiri, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gombe, School of Health Technology, Kaltungo, and two Schools of Remedial Studies in Dukku, and Kumo in Ak...
All is not well with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State. Factions loyal to governor Chibuike Amaechi and Mr. Nyesom Wike, the current minister of state (Education) are locked in a supremacy battle for the soul of Rivers state pol...
He inherited a political party that was faced with both internal and external crises. In a self appraisal after weathering the storm in his first year in office, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur in an in...
Mutiu Sunmonu Managing Director, Shell Petroleum Development Company, Nigeria says the 2013 Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/Shell Golf tournament in Port Harcourt will reach out to wider golf community.
Sunmonu said this when the competi...
No fewer than 120,000 pupils from public and private primary schools on Saturday sat for placement examination into JSS 1 in Lagos State.