Category Archives: Sports

Nigeria’s Oyinlomo Crushes Russian Top Seed To Win 1st Ever Grade 3 Ju...

April 22 Sports no comments

Nigerian tennis sensation, Oyinlomo Quadre, has won the Grade 3 ITF Junior Circuit in Tunisia. She managed this incredible feat after crushing Maria Bondarenko, the tournament’s number six seed, in three hot sets of 6-7,...

Tiger Woods Wins 2019 Masters To Claim 15th Major

April 16 Sports no comments

Tiger Woods produced a scintillating finish to win a fifth Masters title and end an 11-year wait to claim a 15th major. There were raucous celebrations around the 18th green as Woods finished with a two-under-par 70 to w...

FIFA Women’s World Cup On Tour Of Nigeria

April 11 Sports no comments

Officials from world football –ruling body, FIFA arrived in Nigeria with the original FIFA Women’s World Cup for a trophy tour scheduled for Thursday, 11th April 2019 in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Acting Presi...

Nigeria Beat Egypt To Win Beach Volleyball Bronze Medal

April 10 African Sports, Sports no comments

Nigeria’s male volleyball team won a bronze medal at the recently concluded U-21 Beach Volleyball championship held in Cairo, Egypt. Nigeria defeated hosts, Egypt 2-1 (21-18, 20-22 & 15-13) in the third place ...

Nigeria Qualify For U-19 Cricket World Cup

March 24 Sports no comments

Nigeria’s U-19 Cricket Team, the Junior Yellow Greens have picked the country’s first ever spot at the Cricket World Cup after topping the weeklong qualifying series held in Windhoek, Namibia on Saturday March 23, 2019. ...

Yakmut Gets All Africa Games Role

March 5 Sports no comments

The former Director-General of the National Sports Commission Mallam Alhassan Yakmut has been appointed Team Nigeria’s Chief de Mission to the 12th Africa Games in Rabat Morocco later in the year. The Minister of Youth a...

D’Tigers Slip In Clash With Cote D’Ivoire

February 23 Sports no comments

Nigeria’s male team D’Tigers suffered their first loss at the on-going 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifiers against Cote d’Ivoire by 72-46 points at the Palaise des Sports arena on Friday. In what was going to be a night...

2019 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Expo Begins

January 23 Sports no comments

Hundreds of runners from all walks of life including important personalities from within and outside the sports industry on Tuesday thronged the Molade Okoya Thomas Hall at the Teslim Balogun Stadium as the 2019 Access B...

NBBF Banks On Stakeholders For Better 2019

January 2 Sports no comments

The leadership of Nigeria Basketball Federation has tasked all stakeholders to brace up for another roller-coaster ride in 2019 as the federation gets ready to hit the ground running. Despite landmark achievements in 201...

Why Edo State Won 2020 Sports Festival Hosting Rights -Dalung

December 18 Sports no comments

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development Barrister Solomon Dalung has explained why the Ministry gave the hosting right for the next National Sports Festival to Edo state. The Minister made the explanation in an excl...

Bet9ja Lagos Women Run Holds 10 November

November 8 Sports no comments

The 3rd edition of the Bet9ja Lagos Women Run will hold on November 10, 2018 from 6.30 am and will start off from the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos Island and finish at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere. The Lagos Women...

MFM Basketball Club Dunks To S/Final

October 30 Sports no comments

Mountain of Fire Ministries (MFM) Women’s Basketball Club have qualified for the semi final of Nigeria Women’s Premier League. The game, played on Tuesday in Enugu, saw the Shade Olukoya Queens beat Delta Force of Asaba ...

150,000 Athletes Expected At 2019 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon

October 16 Sports no comments

No fewer than 150,000 athletes both locally and internationally are expected to participate in the 4th edition of Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode said on Monday. Addressing a pr...

Ghana’s Lamptey Vows To Demolish Oladosu At GOtv Boxing Night

October 10 Sports no comments

.File photo from a previous edition of GOtv Boxing Night – Crack Ghanaian boxer, Benjamin Lamptey, has vowed to demolish Nigeria’s Rilwan “Real One” Oladosu and end his winning run when they clash for the West Afri...

D’Tigress Move Up 15 Spots In Latest FIBA Ranking

October 5 Sports no comments

Nigeria’s female senior basketball team, D’Tigress have moved up 15 places in the latest FIBA Women’s ranking to 19th spot in the world after their 2018 World Cup participation. At the last world cup, Nigeria...

Aiteo Cup Q/Final Fixtures

September 30 Sports no comments

The Nigeria Football Federation has releaed the 2018 AITEO Cup 2018 Quarter–Final Fixtures for men and women. Men Enyimba FC Vs Kano Pillars – Gombe (Date TBD) Kwara United Vs Katsina United – Lagos (03/10) Nasarawa Unit...

Bet9ja Lagos SWAN Week Kicks Off with Hospital Visitation and Draw

September 28 Sports no comments

The Sport Writers Association of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter resumes its annual Bet9ja SWAN week festivities on Friday September 27, 2018 with a visitation to the Randle General hospital Surulere at 10am. As part of the openi...

Nigeria Beats Turkey In World Basketball Championship

September 24 Sports no comments

Nigeria’s senior female Basketball team, D’Tigress defeated their opponents from Turkey 73-65 points in the opening match of 2018 FIBA World Championship.

Joshua Floors Povetkin To Retain Boxing Belts

September 23 Sports no comments

Nigerian-born British boxer, Anthony Joshua knocked out his mandatory challenger, Russia’s Alexander Povetkin in the 7th round, to retain his WBA, (Super) IBF, WBO and IBO belts Saturday at Wembley Stadium. Povetkin’s pr...

Sports Minister Mourns Reverend Ilo

September 17 Sports no comments

The Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung has expressed sadness over the death of a one time President of the Cycling Federation of Nigeria Rev. (Dr) Moses Iloh on Sunday 16, 2018. While mourning Reverend...

Nigeria Battles Cameroon, Others As Volleyball Nations Cup Begins In A...

September 12 Sports no comments

Nigeria male volleyball team will confront Cameroon, Rwanda and Tunisia in Group A of the 2018 Men’s U-21 Africa Nations Cup that begins on Wednesday, 12 September in Abuja. Chad will take on Morocco in an opening match ...

Awogu, Iwuala, Obot, Others Back Lagos SWAN Cup

September 11 Sports no comments

With the 2018 Lagos SWAN Week/SWAN Cup scheduled to begin on 28 September at the National Stadium in Surulere, four senior members of the body; Felix Awogu, Harry Iwuala, Bimbo Adeola and Tony Obot have promised to spons...

Lagos SWAN Week/SWAN Cup Begin 28 Sept.

September 11 Sports no comments

The Executives of Lagos Chapter of Sports Writers Association on Nigeria (SWAN) say preparations are in top gear to hold its annual Lagos SWAN Week/SWAN Cup. Eyeonthenews.com gathered that this year’s edition is sc...