Powerlifter Folashade Oluwafemiayo ended the country’s campaign at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on a high note on Sunday. The Team Nigeria captain won a gold medal...
A group of 23 Nigerian athletes is set to compete for medals as the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games kick off with an electrifying opening ceremony at...
Team Nigeria is set for action as the table tennis event of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games begins on Thursday, August 29. The team has been...
Team Nigeria have yet to make a podium finish at the ongoing Olympic Games in Paris, and the games have gone on for 13 days. Medal...
Freestyle wrestler, Blessing Oborodudu failed to win the bronze match of the women’s 68kg wrestling event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Oborodudu had begun her...
Nigeria’s Favour Ofili finished in sixth place in the women’s 200m final of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Tuesday night. Ofili, who made it to...
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have officially kicked off on Friday with the opening ceremonies featuring so much glamour during the parade of athletes. The ceremony...
Team Nigeria’s mixed 4x400m relay quartet clinched silver at the African Championships in Douala, Cameroon. The team, consisting of Emmanuel Ojeli, Ella Onojuvwevwo, Dubem Nwachukwu, and...
Team Nigeria had a good finish at the 13th edition of the African Games held in Accra, Ghana between March 8 and 23, 2024. The Games...
Nigerian boxers displayed great courage at the African Games holding in Accra, Ghana, securing most of the gold medals on Friday. In a show of grace...
Team Nigeria emerged the overall champion of the 2023 ITTF African Para Championships which ended on Saturday September 23, 2023 in Giza, Egypt. The three-day tournament...
Team Nigeria won the majority of the tickets to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games at the ITTF African Para Championships taking place in Giza, Egypt. Host...
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has praised the Nigerian contingent to the just concluded African U18/20 Athletics Championship in Zambia. The second...
The qualification for the curling competition of the Gangwon 2024 Youth Olympic Games, ha been finalized, and Team Nigeria will be featuring. The World Curling Federation...
Team Nigeria has arrived in Lohja, Finland to compete in the World Junior-B Curling Championships scheduled to take place from December 8-19, 2022. The Nigeria Junior...
The Presidential reception for the victorious Team Nigeria athletes to the just concluded 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham has been scheduled to hold on Thursday, September...
Team Nigeria have bagged more medals at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, with Goodness Nwachukwu and Folashade Oluwafemiayo winning gold medals in their sports. Nwachukwu...
Team Nigeria could not make a podium finish in the women’s 4x100m relay event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships as the quartet finished in fourth...
Sports Minister Sunday Dare is optimistic Team Nigeria will be very competitive at the 2022 Commonwealth Games starting in Birmingham, United Kingdom next week. The Minister...
Team Nigeria bagged yet another gold medal on Friday at the ongoing African Athletics Championships in Mauritius as Sprint hurdler, Tobiloba Amusan led the women’s 4x100m...
Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare and the Special Assistant on Sports to President Buhari, Daniel Amokachi led the rousing welcome for the first batch...
Team Nigeria have won their first medal at the ongoing rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Paralympics after Latifat Tijani won gold in the women’s powerlifting on Thursday. Competing...
Youth and Sports Development Minister, Sunday Dare along with three of his colleagues in the Federal Executive Council have hosted the triumphant Team Nigeria contingent to...
Team Nigeria finshed on third spot in the final medals table at the World Athletics U-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya which came to an end on...
Nigeria’s 4x400m mixed relay team have won the gold medal at the ongoing World Athletics U-20 Championship taking place in Nairobi, Kenya. The Nigerian team won...
Team Nigeria’s hopes of claiming a medal in the Shot Put event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were dashed on Thursday morning when sole representative,...
Team Nigeria have gotten another finalist at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games after Chukwuebuka Enekwechi scaled through to qualify in his sport. The 28-year-old made it...
Team Nigeria now have two medals at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games after Blessing Oborodudu won a silver medal in the 68kg wrestling final on Tuesday....
Team Nigeria’s hopes of bagging a medal in the men’s 200m race at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games have been dashed after Divine Oduduru The 24-year-old,...
Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru has shrugged off the disappointment in the men’s 100m race at the Tokyo Olympic Games to reach the semifinals of the 200m race....
Team Nigeria have finally clinched a medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games after Ese Brume won a bronze medal in the women’s long jump event....
Team Nigeria are now certain of at least a medal at the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games after wrestler Blessing Oborodudu reached the final of her event....
Disqualified Team Nigeria athletes will now also get the gifted Samsung Galaxy S21 phones given to all athletes participating at the Tokyo Olympics. The athletes, who...
Some of the disqualified Team Nigeria athletes at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have taken to the streets to protest their situation. The athletes, who...
Twenty athletes, including 10 from Nigeria, will not be allowed to participate in track and field at the Olympics because they did not meet anti-doping testing...
The Tokyo Olympic Games have not been very rosy for Team Nigeria, who are already out of the race for medal in five of the 10...
It was a day of mixed fortunes for Team Nigeria’s table tennis representatives at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics as only one player started with a win....
The rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have officially kicked off on Friday with the opening ceremonies featuring so much glamour during the parade of athletes. The...
President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) Engineer Habu Ahmed Gumel has urged Team Nigeria to make sure they compete clean at the Tokyo Olympic Games...
Team Nigeria captain Quadri Aruna has been listed among the top 15 seeded players in the men’s singles of table tennis event at the rescheduled Tokyo...
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are finally set to begin in six days having been postponed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Team Nigeria...
Table tennis sensation Aruna Quadri will lead Team Nigeria to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. For the Paralympic Games, Para powerlifting star, Lucy Ejike...
Team Nigeria’s women 4x400m relay team will be among the 16 nations that will file out for the event at the delayed 2020 Olympics after the...
Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare has expressed his delight over the performances of Nigerian athletes at last week’s Olympic trials. The Minister was thrilled...
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has reiterated its confidence in Team Nigeria ahead of this summers Olympic Games in Tokyo. The quadrennial sports fiesta...
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has unveiled a comprehensive plan for Team Nigeria towards a podium success at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. According to...
The Minister of Youth and Sports development, Sunday Dare has revealed where the Nigerian contingent to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics would be camping. Dare, who spoke...
As it stands, only Team Egypt will represent Africa in the Table Tennis team events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games having picked the sole tickets....
Team Nigeria finished the 12th All Africa Games in Rabat, Morocco as the second on the medals table behind Egypt. The Nigerian contingent finished with a...
Team Nigeria finished on 3rd position behind Kenya and South Africa at the Senior African Athletics Championship in Asaba, Delta state capital, which concluded on Sunday....