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Flag Football: Lagos Athletics top contender for SFFL title

Showtime Flag Football League leaders, Lagos Athletics Flag have what it takes to go all the way to win the maiden title according to the SFFL commissioner, Adebare Adejumo, PUNCH Sports...... Read more Nigerian athletes may be barred from Paris 2024 Olympics

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has warned that Nigerian athletes may be disqualified from competing in the 2024 Olympics in Paris if the Nigerian Anti-Doping Committee (NADC) does not follow the...... Read more Youth Olympics: Funds threaten Nigeria’s participation

With less than 68 days to the start of the Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Republic of Korea, the Nigeria Curling Federation is still battling to secure the funding it needs...... Read more 2023 Onitsha City Marathon finally cancelled

The twice-postponed Onitsha City Marathon has finally been cancelled. This contained a statement released on November 9, 2023, by a member of the Organising Committee (MOC), Philip Balepo. No reason was...... Read more Organisers clarify Ijebu Sprints/Relays hurdles no show

Former Nigerian sprinter, Abiola Onakoya, has explained that hurdles race wasn’t included in both boys’ and girls’ event at the just concluded second edition of the Abiola/Amusan Ijebu Sprints and Relays due...... Read more Onakoya, Amusan inspire young athletes

No fewer than 128 athletes who took park in the second edition of the Abiola/Amusan Ijebu Sprints and Relays which was held last Friday and Saturday went home with spike shoes, which...... Read more Organisers unveil improved packages for Lagos Women Run competitors

The winner of the open category of the eighth Lagos Women Run will take home N1.5m, while the champion of the veterans category receives N500,000, organisers of the annual race, which...... Read more 7,000 athletes battle for 1,000 medals at MTN CHAMPS

Over 7,000 athletes and 500 schools are set to compete for over 1,000 medals and 32 school team titles in the first edition of the MTN CHAMPS, The PUNCH reports. The...... Read more Youth Games end today in Asaba

The curtains are set to fall on the 7th edition of the National Youth Games in Asaba on Saturday (today) and Delta State are leading on the medals table poised to...... Read more NYG: Anambra wins gold, bronze in karate, romps to 200m semi- final

Team Anambra state contingent, Master Goodluck Njoku, Thursday, won gold medal after defeating Delta state's reps Ehiziube Joshua with 6-0 score in Karate (male kumite). The team's combat fighter, Miss Ukamaka...... Read more Ekiti athletes get new kits, state Assembly probes officials

Team Ekiti on Wednesday unveiled their new kits at the ongoing National Youth Games in Asaba in what is a reparation for their show of shame at the opening ceremony of...... Read more NYG: Anambra Rakes Wins Gold, Silver Medals

Anambra team to the 7th National Youth Games (NYG) in Asaba, the Delta state capital has begun their medal haul with five medals.The team won two gold medals through Chibuikem Oranye...... Read more Anambra wonder kid wins 4 gold in gymnastics at NYG

Stephanie Onusiruka, 12 years old wonder kid from Anambra state has won four gold for Delta state in the gymnastics event at the ongoing National Youth Games (NYG) in Asaba. Onusiruka...... Read more NYG athletes lament poor conditions, maltreatment

It’s not all fun and sports at the ongoing seventh National Youth Games in Asaba, Delta State following complaints by athletes and coaches over poor accommodation and feeding arrangements at the...... Read more Asian Games: Over 150 athletes test negative for doping

Between 150 and 200 Asian Games athletes have already been tested for doping, the Olympic Council of Asia said on Monday, with no positive results so far. Speaking at an anti-doping...... Read more Amusan unfazed by AIU appeal

Former world champion and three-time Diamond League winner Tobi Amusan seems unbothered by the latest move by the Athletics Integrity Unit to challenge her racing status after the body appealed their disciplinary...... Read more Amusan is off the hook as Athletics Integrity Unit’s appeal period lapses

The 30-day period of appeal opened to the Athletic Integrity Unit (AIU) to contest World Athletics’ lifting of the provisional ban on Tobi Amusan has lapsed this Saturday. When last August...... Read more Tobi Amusan triumphs at Diamond League finals in Eugene

Nigeria sprinter, Tobi Amusan, clinched her third Diamond League trophy in the Women’s 100m Hurdles with a time of 12.33 seconds. Punch Online reports that she made this feat on Sunday...... Read more Amusan drops eight places in WA rankings

World 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, has dropped eight places from 25th to 33rd in the women’s overall weekly rankings released by World Athletics ahead of this weekend’s Diamond League...... Read more Amusan, Nathaniel qualify for Paris Olympics

Former World 100m hurdles champion, Tobi Amusan, and 400m hurdler, Ezekiel Nathaniel have secured their spots at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, France. Last December, World Athletics revealed the pathway...... Read more Amusan: Despite losing the 100m hurdles title we are with you -- NOC

The Board of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) is reaching out to offer you, Tobi Amusan, some comforting words in the light of your race in Budapest at which you lost...... Read more AIU suspension affected Amusan in Budapest, says stakeholders

…back hurdler to bounce back Stakeholders and former athletes strongly believe that dethroned women’s 100m hurdles world champion, Tobi Amusan, will bounce back better despite her inability to successfully defend her...... Read more ‘Well done’ – Mrs Tinubu encourages Amusan despite World Athletics Championship loss

Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has congratulated World Hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan after relinquishing her World Championship title to Jamaican Danielle Williams ( 12.43s). The first lady wrote, “Well...... Read more ‘I’ll be back stronger,’ Amusan says after 100m world title defeat

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan says she will be back stronger next year after losing the world women’s 100m hurdles crown to Jamaica’s Danielle Williams on Thursday in Budapest. In an interview with...... Read more Budapest 2023: Amusan eases into hurdles semis

World women’s 100m hurdles champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan, returned to the tracks with a bang and is on course to successfully defending her title, after easing into the semi-finals of...... Read more