Eight men who were plotting to launch a series of bomb attacks during the last staged Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil have been served jail sentences...
African and Nigeria queen of the tracks, Blessing Okagbare, has urged the Athletic Federation of Nigeria to on stop on the recruitment of incompetent American athletes...
Super Eagles and Arsenal striker, Alex Iwobi, says he has put behind his absence from the football event of the Rio Olympics describing it as a...
Immediate past U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has given the Nigeria Football Federation a two-week ultimatum to pay his outstanding four -month salaries while threatening to...
Super Eagles captain John Obi Mikel is ready to quit Chelsea in January if the London club fails to offer him a new deal as he...
Super Eagles skipper John Mikel Obi has rated his Rio Olympics football bronze medal same as winning the 2013 AFCON and UEFA Champions League with Chelsea...
The power tussle between the Ministry of Youth and Sports and Nigeria Football Federation has taken another dimension as Sports Minister has ordered for a probe...
The leadership of Nigeria upper chambers, the Senate, has concluded plans to probe Nigeria’s dismal outing and shameful scandals at the just concluded 2016 Rio Olympics....
Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski, who took silver at the Rio Olympics, said that he auctioned off his medal this week to fund treatment for a...
By Okey Ndibe… Nigeria went to Rio, Brazil and, as the world looked on, gave a thoroughly embarrassing account of itself. Don’t get me wrong: this...
Nigeria beat Honduras 3-2 on Saturday to secure the bronze medal courtesy of two goals from Sadiq Umar and one from Aminu Umar at the Men’s...
Three days to the end of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Team Nigeria took delivery of the much awaited kits after most of the athletes had concluded...
Nigeria men basketball team D’Tigers on Monday were eliminated from the on-going Olympics Games after losing to hosts Brazil 86-69 in their final Group B match....
Usaid Bolt of Jamaica set a new record as he coasted home ahead of the pack in 9.81 seconds to win the gold medal in the...
By Reuben Abati… In some other countries of the world, a bronze medal at the Olympics is not something to be talked about or celebrated. Not even...
A private organization, Frot Group, on Wednesday rewarded Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri Quadri with a cash of $2500 for his heroic feat of setting a new African...
Defending champion Serena Williams is out of the Olympics after losing to Ukrainian Elina Svitolina in the third round of the women’s singles. Williams lost 6-4...
Twenty-one Olympic gold medals, more than twice as many as anyone else in history, maybe more to come. With Michael Phelps it can all seem so...
Nigeria’s senior male basketball team, the D’Tigers early Wednesday morning suffered their second defeat at the ongoing 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil after losing narrowly to...
Nigeria U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has concluded plans to rest his key players when Nigeria battle Colombia in Wednesday’s Group B final game at the...
After several weeks of hitting hard on the U-23 Eagles, Nigeria’s Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, has apologized to players and officials of the country’s...
Top seed Novak Djokovic was beaten in the first round of the Olympic men’s singles by Juan Martin del Potro. The Serb, who lost to Del...
U-23 Eagles coach Samson Siasia has said that the team is not thinking of playing against host Brazil but poised on defeating Colombia in their last...
The rapturous applause that attended his exit from the Table Tennis event of the Rio Olympics could have been mistaken for a victorious ovation. Nigeria’s legendary...
A first half goal by Sadiq Umar has propelled Nigeria through to the quarterfinals of the Rio Olympics after they defeated Sweden 1-0 for their second...
By Reuben Abati… “ I hear we are no longer Nigeria, but the United States of Nigeria” “You didn’t hear anything. Stop being hypocritical, my friend.”...
It was a good start for Nigerian athletes competing at the on-going Rio Olympics as the trio of Chierika Ukogu, Funke Oshonaike and Edem Offiong qualify...
Basking on the euphoria of Friday’s 5-4 win against Japan, Nigeria U-23 team’s Head Coach, Samson Siasia has charged his players to go for kill when...
The four goal –hero in the 5-4 victory of the Nigeria U-23 team against Japan, Oghenekaro Etebo has said his target is to help the team...
Ireland’s Olympic team has been thrown into turmoil on the eve of the Rio Games after it emerged that a boxer has failed a doping test....
The 11 Russian boxers qualified for the Rio Olympics have been cleared to compete in the Games by an International Olympic Committee review panel, the International...
Saudi Arabia will send four women to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, doubling its female participation after two women competed for the first time at the...
Rafael Nadal is currently in Brazil with the Spanish tennis team and he is also due to be his country’s flag bearer. Rafael Nadal has conceded...
The management of English club, Birmingham has explained the rationale behind the club’s refusal to release Nigerian striker Viv Solomon-Otabor to the U-23 Eagles for the...
The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation Mr Ben Akabueze on Monday confirmed that the Ministry of Youth and Sports will receive its budgetary allocation...
Nigeria fastest sprinters Blessing Okagbare and Seye Ogunlewe top the list of Team Nigeria athletes to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. In a statement signed by...
Argentina coach, Gerardo Martino has added his resignation to that of captain Lionel Messi’s, citing a leadership vacuum that was posing problems in picking a team...
Embattled U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has confirmed the availability of Chelsea’s midfielder, John Obi Mikel, for the Rio 2016 Olympics billed for next month in...
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has decided to fast-track the Russian Olympic Committee’s (OCR) petition in defence of track and field athletes who want...
Manchester City striker, Kelechi Iheanacho, has expressed disappointment on his non-availability to play for Nigeria at the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil. Iheanacho made his City...
Coach Samson Siasia will have to continue with his Rio Olympics plans without one of Nigeria’s brightest talents Kelechi Iheanacho who has opted to stay back...
Ireland’s golfer, Rory McIlroy has announced that he will not participate at this summer’s Olympic Games due to risk of infection from the Zika virus. The...
Former Canadian Olympic champion and President of Nigeria Wrestling Federation, Daniel Igali, has told Nigerians not to expect any medal from the country’s athletes at the...
Chippa United of South Africa keeper, Daniel Akpeyi, has been listed by Nigeria U-23 coach, Samson Siasia as first choice goalkeeper ahead of Emmanuel Daniel for...
Nigeria women’s basketball team, the D’Tigress on Wednesday crashed out of the race to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics after group rivals, Korea defeated Belarus...
It was a fierce battle at the Sapele Township Stadium at the weekend when Nigerian athletes continued their quest to run the qualification standard for the...
Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor on Sunday competed in her second 100m race of the season at the Rabat Diamond League, Morocco, finishing second in 11.11secs, her Season’s Best,...
Neymar is desperate to win Olympic gold in his home country this summer. The Brazilian striker might just have helped his club claim yet another La...
U-23 Eagles Coach Samson Siasia on Monday met with SuperEagles captain, Mikel Obi, and Watford striker, Odion Ighalo, in London ahead of the football event of...
Argentina captain, Lionel Messi, admitted he would have liked play at the Olympic Games after he was left out of the squad in order to take...
