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Nigeria is already late in beginning its preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to be hosted by Brazil, Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Patrick Ekeji has said. He said this at a reception hosted by Dr Dalhatu Tafida, the ...
As the 2012 Paralympic Games rounded off in London on Sunday, no fewer than 10 African countries made the medals table, winning a total of 112 medals over the 11 days of the Games, Aug. 29 to September 9. African nations’ performance at the Games...
Nigeria Football Federation officials have expressed disgust over the desperation exhibited by the Liberia Football Federation (LFA) to win the Nations Cup qualifier against Nigeria. The poor treatment included taking the team to a dilapidated hotel an...
Nigeria dominated Powerlifting at the London 2012 Paralympic Games with six gold medals in their 12-medal haul from 20 events.
Loveline Obiji became the fourth Nigerian woman to claim gold at the Paralympic Games in Powerlifting after claiming victory in the -82.50kg competition.
Ronaldo scored his 149th and 150th goals in 149 games for Madrid in a 3-0 win over Granada on Sunday evening but pointedly refused to properly celebrate at the Bernabeu. When quizzed by journalists in the mixed zone following the Liga game, Ronaldo spa...
Chelsea new boy Victor Moses and Obiora Nwankwo have hit the Super Eagles training camp in Abuja ahead of Saturday’s AFCON clash in Liberia. Moses arrived the camp yesterday morning after he tweeted Sunday night he was at the airport in London on...
Nigeria international, Kalu Uche has laid down the marker and announced his presence in Turkey’s Super Lig with a brilliant hattrick on match day three of the competition. The former RCD Espanyol man hogged the headlines for the right reasons as ...
Nigeria’s Falconets have shifted focus on dead-ball kicks and penalties shootout in today’s semifinal clash against USA at the Fifa Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan. The coach Edwin Okon led crew appears not to be taking chances si...
Skye Bank began their defense of the Bankers Games football title on a flying start with a 1-0 defeat of a resilient Stanbic-IBTC on the opening day of the 2012 Nigeria Bankers Games (NBG). The official opening match came on the heels of a novelty All-...
Sharapova won a nail-biter 6-1 4-6 6-4 against her fellow Russian to set up a clash with Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli. France’s 11th seed Bartoli upset fifth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova 1-6 6-2 6-0. Petrova led 2-0 in the third set when rain halted ...
Nigeria moved to 10th place on the medals table at the end of proceedings on Friday in London at the 2012 Paralympic Games with two gold and two silver medals. After winning a gold medal on the first day of competition on Thursday through Yakubu A...
Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan has taken gold for Nigeria in the men’s -48kg powerlifting with a world record lift of 180kg. Adesokan was a full 10kg ahead of silver medallist Vladimir Balynedc of Russia, while Taha Abdelmagid of Egypt claimed b...
Nigeria have won their way into a second successive FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup semi-final with a hard-fought 1-0 extra-time victory over a resilient Mexico in Tokyo, Japan
Yakubu Adesokan of Nigeria this afternoon bettered his World Record set in qualifying to take the first Powerlifting gold of the London 2012 Paralympics Games in the Men’s 48kg with a lift of 180kg.