Category Archives: Sports

Nigeria Federation To Hold AGA & Elective Congress On Friday

September 29 Sports no comments

The 78th Annual General Assembly of the Nigeria Football Federation will hold on Friday in Benin City, capital of Edo State alongside elections of a new Executive Committee to steer the affairs of the nation’s supreme fo...

Mo Farah Out Of London Marathon!

September 28 Sports no comments

Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has withdrawn from Sunday’s London Marathon with a hip injury. It would have been the 39-year-old’s first full marathon since 2019. The six-time world champion won the Big ...

NBBF Mourns Ex-Olympian Amaka Adibeli

August 23 Sports no comments

The Nigeria Basketball Federation has condoled the family and friends of former Nigerian international, Amaka Adibeli who passed on last week. In a statement by the NBBF president, Engr Musa Kida, the federation describe...

Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Names Dapo Sotuminu Media Director

August 23 Sports no comments

The Access Bank Lagos City Marathon has named top flight Sports Journalist, Mr. Dapo Sotuminu, as the new Director of Media for the marathon event. The announcement was made at the weekend by the Chief Executive Officer ...

Weekend Of Woes For Nigerian Sports

August 22 Sports no comments

.As Joshua, Kamaru, Falconets Are Beaten In International Events It was a weekend of defeats and agony for Nigerians and Sports lovers of the country as Nigeria-British born Anthony Joshua, Kamaru Usman and National U-20...

Nigeria Wins 4×100m Relay Gold At Commonwealth Games

August 7 Sports no comments

Nigeria’s Women’s 4x100m relay team have won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Nzubechi Nwokocha returned in an African record of 42.10sec. I...

Bomb Blast Rocks Cricket League

July 31 Sports no comments

There were reports of a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s biggest cricket league at the weekend. According to initial reports by the officials, four people were injured, though no harm to the players or the cricket staff...

Lawal Wins Commonwealth Gold For Nigeria

July 31 Sports no comments

Rafiatu Lawal won Nigeria’s second gold medal at the ongoing Birmingham Commonwealth Games after emerging tops in women’s weightlifting. In the 59kg category, Lawal broke three games’ records to lift a combined total of ...

Ordega, Ashleigh, 26 Others Arrive Falcons Camp

June 22 Sports no comments

Francisca Ordega and Ashleigh Plumptre are among the 28 players who have arrived in the camp of Nigeria’s Super Falcons ahead of the 2022 Women African Cup of nations slated for Morocco next month. More details lat...

CAF Names Referees For 2022 Women AFCON

June 17 Sports no comments

The names of the 40 match officials that have been selected for the Total Energies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2022 have been announced by CAF on Friday, 17 June. The tournament will be played between 02 July a...

Kyari & Peter Win Tinubu Estate Ramadan Badminton Open

May 3 Sports no comments

By Tunde Oyedele – The pair of Kyari & Peter on Tuesday 2nd May, emerged winners of the 2022 Ramadan Badminton Open organized by Tinubu Estate Sports Club in Odonla, Ikorodu, Lagos State. Kyari and Peter, won ...

Ramadan Badminton Open Lights Up Tinubu Estate

May 3 Sports no comments

Skills and techniques are currently on display, as Tinubu Estate Sports Club in Odonla, Ikorodu, holds the 2022 Ramadan Badminton Open on Tuesday, 2nd May. The tournament, holding at the Badminton Court of Tinubu Estate,...

D’Tigress’ World Cup Slot Excites Kida

February 13 Sports no comments

Engr Musa Kida has praised D’Tigress of Nigeria for sealing a place at the 2022 FIBA Women World Cup with another victory against Mali. The game which lived up to its expectation saw the team hold out against a des...

Ethiopians Grab Access Bank Money At 2022 Lagos City Marathon

February 12 Sports no comments

.Winner: Ethiopian Ulfata Geleta crosses the finish line at the 2022 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon held on Saturday, 12 February. – Ethiopian runners showed class on Saturday; winning the men and women’s categori...

Access Bank Lagos City Marathon Retains Elite Label Race Status

December 20 Sports 1 comment

.File photo of previous Access Bank Lagos City Marathon. – Africa’s biggest one-day event, the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon retained its Elite Label Race Status in Category ‘A’ as World Athletics released its 20...

Elonu, D’Tigress Eye Another Afrobasket Title

September 26 Sports 1 comment

Nigeria captain Adaora Elonu who made her D’Tigress debut at the FIBA Women’s AfroBasket 2015 in Yaoundé, Cameroon will lead the Nigerian ladies out against Mali on Sunday. Thistime though, she won’t be chasing a d...

Olympics: Igali Assures As Nigeria Wrestlers Hit Camp

May 13 Sports 1 comment

Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Hon. Daniel Igali is hopeful Team Nigeria wrestlers will get the right kind of preparations that ‘would get them over the hurdle’ at the Tokyo 2020 ...

Tunisia Afrobasket: Unstoppable D’Tigers Battle Mali On Friday

February 19 Sports 1 comment

Nigeria continued its dominance on the continent with another emphatic 64-51 points win over Rwanda at the ongoing 2021 FIBA Afrobasket qualifiers in Tunisia. The win which was hard fought came on the heel of a solid def...

7th Nigeria Pitch Awards Holds 22 December

December 10 Sports no comments

Organizers have announced plans to hold the 7th Award Ceremony of the prestigious Nigeria Pitch Awards on 22 December 2020 at the Ibis Hotel Ikeja, Lagos. Speaking to journalists in the nation’s capital Abuja, the Presid...

Access Bank Lagos City Marathon: Organisers Eye Gold Label

December 2 Sports no comments

Although, the number of runners that will participate at the 2021 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon has been pegged at 10,000 instead of the over 100,000 that normally grace Africa’s biggest one-day event due to Covid-19, ...

Chima Moneke In Tears As He Enters D’Tigers

November 12 Sports no comments

D’Tigers invitee, Chima Moneke is over the moon after being named in the 2021 FIBA Afrobasket 20-man provisional list. In an interview with NBBF media, Moneke revealed that he got emotional and cried when he was co...

‘Slim Access’ To Runners At 2021 Lagos City Marathon

November 7 Sports 1 comment

The organizers of the annual Access Bank Lagos City Marathon has announced two major changes to the 2021 edition of the Silver Label race. Bukola Olopade, the race consultant and CEO for Nilayo Sports Management Company ...

Randy Waldrum Named Super Falcons Coach

October 5 Sports no comments

The Nigeria Football Federation has announced the appointment of Mr. Randy Waldrum as the new Head Coach of the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons. Waldrum, an American who played as a midfielder, has worked large...