The annual FCT handball Championship starts today at the Old Parade in the nation’s capital. The championship which is being organised by the FCT Handball Association in collaboration with Centre for Children and Youth Excellence in Sports will s...
The Abuja Unity Polo Tournament packaged by the Abuja Guard Polo club in collaboration with some corporate organisations will gallop off next week at the Abuja guard brigade Polo club. The tournament is the third edition in series of the annual Unity p...
The London 2012 Olympics Ant-Doping Laboratory on Monday received the seal of approval from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). ``With the approval, the London 2012 Anti-Doping Laboratory will be able to operate and attain the highest standards of sam...
The 2012 Lagos International Polo Tournament has opened with record team entries for some of the cups. MTN is the main sponsor of the tournament but more than half the event’s N80million revenue was donated by subsidiary sponsors such...
With exactly six months to the London 2012 Games, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has handed over the Olympic and Paralympic Village site to the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG). Four-time Olympic gold medalist, Matthew Pinsent, helped to ...
Former President, Nigeria Weighting Federation (NWF), Ajibade Fashina-Thomas has decried the poor treatment of weightlifters that will represent the country at the London Olympic Games. Fashina-Thomas, said in Lagos that weightlifting was a verit...
Beijing long jump bronze medalist, Blessing Okagbare, has high expectations for the coming season, and not just because it’s an Olympic year. Last year was a difficult one with injury dampening the expectations of an athlete who until then had be...
Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF) has promised that the year 2012 will experience a positive turn-around in the sport. It said the fruits of its hard work and reforms will compel a change for improved performance in the New Year. In a statement m...
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has won the 30th edition of the Annual Public Service Games tagged ‘Calabar 2011.’ The games came to a climax last Sunday in Calabar, Cross Rivers State capital. NSCDC emerged the overall win...
Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON) last weekend showed that the moribund state of the nation’s sports sector can be revived, if every stakeholder in the sector can pull together and function as a team. The body spared no effort in its com...
The Grand finale of the 2011 edition of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) sports and cultural festival has commenced with 22 states taking part in various sporting events, drama, dance and comedy. The event which was declared open by the Chief of...
In deciding whether to embark on charity work, perhaps the first question to ask yourself is, “What is my aim?” It is important one asks what the aim of his or her career is going to be. Is it to make money or to assist others who do not ha...
Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF) has called on the National Sports Commission (NSC) and the host state of the 18th National Sports Festival, Lagos to include Scrabble as a medal winning sport for the bi-annual championship. NSF president, Olobatoke Ak...
Local boy Greg Chalmers survived a fine late run by Tiger Woods to win his second Australian Open. The 38-year-old, who first won the title in 1998, carded a three-under final round of 69 to finish 13 under, one and two shots clear of comp...
Nigeria’s beach volleyball men team A and B, yesterday brightened their chances of playing at the 2012 London Olympic Games with a two straight set defeat of their Burundian counterpart in the opening match of the zonal phase in round two of the ...