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Tobi Amusan Celebrates Home Coming with Pop, Pageantry, Glamour and Hold

Sport management outfit, Plug Sports hosted a befitting Homecoming Dinner for reigning African, Commonwealth and World Champion, Tobi Amusan OON on Wednesday in Lagos. The well-attended dinner, which was held at...... Read more World Athletics Officially Ratifies Amusan’s World Record

The 12.12 secs world record set by Commonwealth and world champion Tobi Amusan (OON) at the world championship in Oregon USA has been officially ratified by the World Athletics. The cheering...... Read more World Athletics Ranking: Enekwechi Ranked Africa’s Best

Nigeria’s shot put sensation Chukuwebuka Enekwechi has been ranked among the best athletes in his event by the World Athletics. World Athletics has undertaken to create a global ranking system where...... Read more Amusan, Brume Make Quantum Leaps In World Athletics Women Chart

Nigeria’s track sensations Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume have made giant leaps in the World Athletics Women Chart. From being ranked 43rd in September 2021, Tobi Amusan is now in the...... Read more Diamond League Fallout: Amusan $30,000 Richer

After last week’s riveting end to the 2022 Wanda Diamond League season at Weltklasse Zurich, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan is US$30,000 richer. The Commonwealth Games record breaker equally has in her kitty...... Read more Again,Tobi Amusan Wins Another Diamond League Trophy

Tobi Amusan has won the women’s 100 meters hurdles at this year’s Diamond League in Zurich.Amusan clinched the trophy on Thursday evening after she got to the finish line in 12.29...... Read more Amusan eyes another victory in Zurich on Thursday

Nigeria’s biggest athlete of the moment, Tobilola Amusan, believes she is in prime position to continue her winning streak in Zurich on Thursday. The World and Commonwealth Games 100m hurdles champion...... Read more Amusan Strikes Gold Again In Germany

Reigning World and Commonwealth champion, Tobi Amusan won the women’s 100mH at the 2022 ISTAF World Continental Tour Silver meeting in Berlin, Germany on Sunday. Amusan breasted the tape at 12.45s...... Read more Ese Brume gets chance to make Diamond League history

Olympics, World long jump medalist and Commonwealth Games champion, Ese Brume, will get the chance to make history next month in Zurich as the first Nigerian field athlete to win a...... Read more ‘I will break Yusuf Alli’s 33-year old long jump record soon’

United States-based long jumper, Joseph Edafiadhe, is still disappointed about not being included in Nigeria’s contingent to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Edafiadhe jumped 7.84 metres to win the...... Read more Four Nigerian athletes get ANOCA scholarships ahead Paris 2024 Olympic Games

After excelling at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where Team Nigeria topped the African medals table, the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has changed gear towards ensuring another podium finish by securing...... Read more I am aiming for Olympic gold – George

Patience George, Commonwealth Silver Medalist and Gold Medalist in the All African Games said she has her eyes in winning Olympic gold before quitting the sports that brought her fame. George,...... Read more ‘If well nurtured, Nigeria’s athletes will sweep medals at Paris 2024 Olympics’

Last batch of athletes to leave Birmingham tomorrowFormer athlete, Seigha Porbeni, has said that the performance of the country’s track and field stars at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in England is...... Read more Golden Sunday for Team Nigeria as Brume, relay teams win on final day

• Amusan sets new games record, inspires 4x100m women to gold, new African mark Nigeria rounded off its participation at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, yesterday, with a big splash on the...... Read more Brilliant Brume hits women long jump final

Oregon 2022 World Athletics Championships’ silver medallist, Ese Brume, will attempt to win her second Commonwealth Games medal tomorrow evening, as the women’s long jump final holds in Birmingham. Brume, who...... Read more Nigeria appeals disqualification of two ‘late comers’ as Ofili, Chukwuma, Nwokocha make 200m semifinals

Team Nigeria has appealed the disqualification of two of its para powerlifting athletes, Onyinyechi Gift Mark and Latifat Tijani, for arriving late to the venue of their event. Mark and Tijani,...... Read more Nigeria Rowing team battles U.S., Ukraine, 65 others at ICF Caneo Sprint in Canada

A team of six athletes, two coaches and some officials of Nigeria Rowing arrived in Canada, Tuesday, to battle with rowers from 67 other countries in the 2022 ICF Caneo Sprint...... Read more U.S.-based duo of Damilare, Onwuka hit Cali to boost Nigeria’s medal chances

The arrival of two United States-based Nigerian junior athletes, triple jumper Okolosi Damilare and 400 metres runner, James Onwuka, has boosted the nation’s chances of winning medals in the ongoing World...... Read more Team Nigeria’s camp erupts in excitement as Amusan, Brume arrive Games Village By Guardian Nigeria

Members of Team Nigeria were, yesterday, thrilled by the presence of two of the country’s brightest hopes for medals at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume....... Read more Big challenge for Nigeria’s male athletes in Birmingham

In today’s sports, Nigeria’s male team seem to have taken the back seat, allowing the women to dominate the stage. From football to athletics, male competitors are no longer the force...... Read more All eyes on Amusan, Brume as XXII Commonwealth Games begin

• Team Nigeria’s 93 athletes arrive in Birmingham For the next two weeks, beginning from today, Nigerian sports lovers will be in for some great moments as the country’s athletes vie...... Read more AFN explains spelling ‘error’ on kit as Amusan departs for England

Brume’s coach, five U.S.-based athletes still battling to secure UK visas Less than 24 hours to the beginning of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, some important members of Team...... Read more Nigerians lambast Michael Johnson for questioning Amusan’s world record

Retired American athletics sports champion, Michael Johnson, has found himself in hot waters after he questioned the accuracy of the clocks at the World Athletic Championships in Oregon, which saw a...... Read more Miller-Uibo of Bahamas wins women’s world 400m title

Two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas finally bagged world gold in the women’s 400m in Eugene on Friday, signing off on the one-lap event to re-focus on her favoured...... Read more Disquiet in Nigeria’s camp as athletes grumble over allowances

• Trip to Colombia for World U-20 championship under threatThere are strong indications that all is not well in Nigeria’s camp at the ongoing World Athletics Championships, holding in Eugene, United...... Read more