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27 Feb
Nigeria’s quest to return to the Olympic Games women’s football for the first time since 2008 got a boost yesterday when the Super Falcons defeated the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon 1-0 in the second leg of their third round qualifying tie at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja.
3 Feb
Chairman of the Competitions Organising Committee of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Commodore Omatseye Nesiama (rtd), has urged all stakeholders to join the federation achieve its ambition of delivering best-ever results at the fast-approaching Africa Games in Ghana and the Olympic Games slated for Paris, France.
24 Nov
Former international athlete, Seigha Porbeni, has described as ‘big distraction’ a report by an audit committee set up by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) to investigate its finances, which is now causing ripples among board members.
11 Sep 2023
After failing to make the Japan 2020 Olympic Games, a Nigerian boxing team is in Dakar, Senegal, fighting to win slots in the Paris 2024 edition of the Games.
15 Jul 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...
3 Jun 2023
It was in 1992, at the finals of the 4x100 metres relay race of the Barcelona Olympic Games in Spain.

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