Other Sports
22 Jan 2018
The Lagos State Chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has commended the Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung...
22 Jan 2018
The maiden Dolphin Swimming League inter-school competition, which kicked off during the weekend has been hailed by the Chairman of the Lagos State Sports Commission...
20 Jan 2018
Head coach of Nigeria Powerlifting, Feyisetan Are, has declared that the team would capture enough gold medals to put Nigeria in an enviable position in this year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Are spoke yesterday at the National Stadium in Lagos during the handover ceremony of the renovated power gymnasium by Peak Milk. For…
20 Jan 2018
The first edition of Dolphin Swimming League inter-school competition will begin today at the Lagos Preparatory School (LPS) in Ikoyi. Host, Preparatory School, and other five teams will be participating in the championship with President of the Nigeria Aquatics Federation, Babatunde Fatayi-Williams, Chairman Lagos State Sports Commission, Kweku Tandoh, among other dignitaries in attendance. According…
20 Jan 2018
More than 30 competitors withdrew from last weekend’s Siberian Indoor Championships in Irkutsk when drug testers arrived at the two-day event. Russia’s anti-doping agency Rusada will be given the names of the athletes who left the regional competition, according to BBC Russian. Sergey Shubenkov, the 2015 world 110m hurdle champion, tweeted: “Doping control drove in.…
19 Jan 2018
The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) yesterday revealed its programme for the year and other activities including the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia.
19 Jan 2018
Nigeria’s wrestling sensation, Odunayo Adekuoroye, will be on the spotlight in February, as the United World Wrestling (UWW) has perfected plans to record a documentary on the Commonwealth champion.
18 Jan 2018
A Portuguese club, RC Montemor, has signed a player of Cowrie Rugby Football Club of Lagos, ThankGod Okafor. The club said that the Black Stallions center and winger had been in top form since he began playing for them.
16 Jan 2018
Following the recent arguments on who controls the Nigeria basketball league and national teams in the country after FIBA’s December communique...
16 Jan 2018
The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has given its backing to the maiden Dolphin Swimming League as the inter-school tournament officially kicks off on January 20 at the Lagos Preparatory School in Ikoyi.
13 Jan 2018
I am a worried man. I love Nigeria and Nigerians with all my heart and might. That’s, why I am very worried about the state of both of them.
12 Jan 2018
About 160 teenage girls have been empowered with education, leadership and basketball skills at the just concluded Hope4Girls Africa National Basketball development camp in Lagos.