Another calamity: Okagbare suspended, violates doping rule
July 31, 2021 The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has provisionally suspended Team Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare with immediate effect after a sample collected from the sprinter tested positive for human growth…
Nigerian athletes at Olympics short paid; Aruna joins Okagbare to blast officials
July 30, 2021 Team Nigeria’s captain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Quadri Aruna, is not satisfied with the treatment of athletes at the Games. Aruna, Africa’s top ranked table tennis…
Olympics Basketball: D’Tigers lose to Germany, hope dims for medal
July 28, 2021 Days after losing their first game, Nigeria’s D’Tigers lost steam in the fourth quarter of their second game at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to lose 92 –…
Olympics Day One: China tops table with 3 Gold; Full list of winners
July 24, 2021 Following are the medal winners at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday: Shooting: Women’s 10m air rifle Gold: Yang Qian, China Silver: Anastasiia Galashina, Russia Olympic Committee…
Olympics tennis: Oshonaike out; Offiong Edem marches on
July 24, 2021 Multiple Olympic Games participant Funke Oshonaike has been sent packing from the Tokyo 2020 Games in the preliminary round. The 45-year-old Oshonaike lost 1-4 to Juan Liu…
8 more coronavirus cases at Olympics, including one athlete, cases now 75
July 21, 2021 Another eight coronavirus cases have been recorded by Olympics organisers, they said on Wednesday in a daily report. One athlete who is not staying in the Olympic…
Meet three Nigerian-American sisters set to rock basketball at the Olympics
When the Olympics kicks off in Japan, all eyes would be on Team Nigeria especially in basketball where three sisters, Nneka, Erica and Chiney Ogwumike would be flying the Nigerian…
Twitter account of International Olympic Committee hacked
Twitter said on Saturday that an official Twitter account of the Olympics and the media Twitter account of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had been hacked and temporarily locked. The…
Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, leap to gold medal — Coach
February 13, 2018 An Athletics Coach and Head, High Altitude Athletics Club, Jos, Stephen Nuhu, on Tuesday said that the just-concluded Access bank Lagos City Marathon should be a step…