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On July 28th, 2023, Filbert Bayi, OLY, former Tanzanian middle distance runner, one of Africa’s greatest athletes in history will be in Lagos.

Team Nigeria has brightened their chances of retaining their title at the World English Scrabble Players Championship, with former world champion, Wellington Jighere, winning the North American Scrabble Championship during the week. The World English Scrabble Players Championship will begin in Las Vegas today and end on July 26. At the North American Championship, which…

Sixteen teams have qualified for the national finals of the Nigeria Secondary Schools Flag Football League (NSSFFL), which will hold from July 31 to August 5 at the Sunshine Stadium, Akure, Ondo State.

Edo women’s rugby team has won the inaugural Nigerian Rugby Football Federation’s (NRFF) Sevens Women's National Championship, which ended in Asaba, Delta State, at the weekend. The team went unbeaten throughout the tournament to emerge champions of the tournament. Team Edo secured victory in the tournament by defeating Imo Pyramids, Abia and Delta B team…

The 2023 National Youth Games, which Delta State is set to host, will hold from for September 7 to 17, the organisers have said. Speaking at the 7th National Youth Games Joint Technical Meeting in Asaba, yesterday, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Alhaji Abubakar Ismaila, commended Delta State for accepting to…

For the first time in over 10 years, Nigeria’s women basketball national team, D’Tigress, will be entering a major championship without 90 per cent of the players that have won several competitions for the country.

Over 500 women rugby players from across the country are participating in the two-day Nigeria Women Rugby 7's Championship, tagged Asaba 2023.

It happened on Thursday night at the Yar’Adua Conference Centre, Abuja. Some of the most outstanding athletes in Nigeria's Olympic sports in the past six decades (therefore all Olympians), assembled for a special bi-annual re-union organised to remind their government and prick the conscience...

A total number of 22 Scrabble players and five officials from Nigeria have arrived in the United States for the 2023 World English Scrabble Players Association Championship (WESPAC). It will hold from July 22 to 26 at Westgate, Las Vegas Resorts & Casino.

Ludwig Kirchner and Makosi Musambasi have emerged champions of the men’s and women’s categories of the yearly International Diplomacy Stableford Golf Tournament held at the IBB Golf and Country Club, Abuja.

The University of Jos (UNIJOS) has begun plans to establish a sports institute as part of its strategy to become a sports hub in Nigeria.

Former international and football legend, Segun Odegbami, has commended Air Peace for the proposed Diplomacy Wall of Fame initiative to be unveiled in Lagos on July 28.