Athletics
2 days ago
Retired and other classes of Nigerian athletes have been given an opportunity to acquire knowledge that would keep them afloat when the curtain falls on their careers.
2 days ago
Organisers of the maiden Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF) have said that they have made reasonable progress in the upgrade of some sporting facilities identified for the festival.
4 days ago
The first Olympic sporting event to be held on African soil will take place in Dakar, Senegal, next year. It is the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) Dakar 2026, which will run over two weeks from October 31, 2026, bringing together 2,700 of the best young athletes from around the world.
4 days ago
Sapphire House and Onyx House have won the primary and secondary categories respectively of the eight Lead Forte Gate Schools’ biennial inter-house competition held at the University of Lagos Sports Centre last weekend.
4 days ago
Reigning double National Sports Festival sprint champion, Tima Godbless, will this weekend take her first big step towards becoming the first Nigerian woman to win the NCAA Division 1 Indoor Track and Field championships 60m title in 15 years.
28 Feb
Organisers of the maiden Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF) have announced a slight adjustment in the programme of the festival with the extension of deadline for registration from February 28 to March 7.
28 Feb
Desirous of getting top runners in its quest for gold label status, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has unveiled an exclusive prize money incentive for runners from the region participating in the 2025 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon.
26 Feb
The 20th World Athletics Indoor Championships holding in Nanjing, China, may present Nigeria’s 4x400m men’s relay team an opportunity to redeem its image following the disappointment at the Paris 2024 Olympics
26 Feb
Nigeria’s foremost marathon and road races club, High Altitude Athletics Club of Jos, Plateau State, is sending a strong field of elite runners to the 2025 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon, which will hold on Saturday.
26 Feb
Defending champion of the National Sports Festival, Team Delta, and other states in the South-South region have started the zonal elimination for ball games in Benin, Edo State capital.
25 Feb
After a very competitive, but colourful event, Oluwole House (Purple) won the 2025 CMS Grammar School yearly inter-house competition held at the school grounds, on Thursday.
Sport
1 hour ago
Newcastle striker Alexander Isak's home was raided by a "professional group of travelling burglars" who stole his car and jewellery worth £68,000 ($87,000), a court heard on Wednesday. The Sweden international was not in his house in Northumberland, in northeast England, when the gang broke in through a glass door last April, Newcastle Crown Court…
8 hours ago
Real Sociedad are hoping to forget their struggles this season and compound Premier League giants Manchester United's when they meet on Thursday in the Europa League last 16. The Basque side host Ruben Amorim's tormented Red Devils in San Sebastian before the second leg at Old Trafford next week. Real Sociedad suffered a 4-0 thumping…
9 hours ago
Carlos Alcaraz will take a softly-softly approach as he vies to become just the third man to win three straight titles at Indian Wells, where he could find a member of that exclusive club, Novak Djokovic, standing in his way in the quarter-finals. "I will try not to think about it," Alcaraz said of his…
9 hours ago
Women's World Cup winner Yuki Nagasato, who made history with a brief spell playing for a men's team, said she had given "every last drop" as the Japanese striker announced her retirement from football. The 37-year-old, part of the Japan team that lifted the World Cup in 2011, brought the curtain down on a 23-year…
10 hours ago
LeBron James became the first player in NBA history to score 50,000 career points on Tuesday, extending his lead as the league's all-time record scorer by reaching a milestone tally that may never be surpassed. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar went into the game against the New Orleans Pelicans with 49,999 regular and postseason points…
10 hours ago
Real Madrid claimed a small edge on city rivals Atletico Madrid with a tight 2-1 Champions League last-16 first leg win on Tuesday. Julian Alvarez levelled for Atletico after Rodrygo Goes sent the hosts ahead, but Brahim Diaz stroked home the winner for the record 15-time winners to delight the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. "I think…
10 hours ago
Arsenal's talented teenage duo Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri combined on Tuesday to help the Gunners to an imperious 7-1 Champions League last-16 first leg advantage over a shambolic PSV Eindhoven. The Premier League side were on a different level to the struggling Dutch champions, who were condemned to their worst-ever defeat in European football.…
11 hours ago
In-form Bayer Leverkusen forward, Nathan Tella, former captain, Ahmed Musa, Gabriel Osho of France’s Auxerre and Kelechi Iheanacho, who now plays for Middlesbrough in the English second-tier league, are among 39 players listed in Coach Eric Sekou Chelle..
12 hours ago
The Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial Foundation (DOAMF) has announced the 14th Annual Charity Golf Tournament is set to hold on March 8, 2025, at the Golf Section of Ikoyi Club 1938, Lagos. Since its inception, the Foundation has committed to enabling the health and education of the less privileged. It has since touched over 95,000…
12 hours ago
The national play-off of the 2025 President Federation Cup will kickoff today with giant killers, Ahudiyannem FC of Abiriba, Abia State, tackling Imo State’s OISA FC at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.