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One of the nominees for the Sportsville Awards, scheduled to hold on March 1, Otunba Segun Runsewe, has commended the organisers of the event for providing an avenue for recognition of those who contribute to the country’s sports development.

Lagos State Judo Association (LSJA) Chairman, Sheriff Hammed, believes that Sambo will soon become the fastest growing sport in the country given how dedicated its practitioners are in driving its development.

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BetKing, Gossy Ukanwoke, has said celebrating the company’s sixth anniversary with an exhibition match between the Kingmakers FC and BetKing Agents was a fantastic idea.

Simidele Adeagbo will make history for Nigeria this weekend as the first African athlete to compete in bobsleigh at the BMW IBSF World Championship in Winterberg, Germany.

The ‘new’ Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Eno, is an enigmatic, silent operator. You hardly see him, yet, quietly, he is impacting Nigerian sports in a big way.

The final weekend of the prestigious NPA/GTCO 2024 Lagos International Polo Tournament provided another wave of triumphs, disappointments and astounding athletic achievements with Lagos-based teams letting out the biggest roars, dominating on all fronts.

South South U-17 teams’ coach, Theophilus Ibodeme, has described his zone’s continued dominance of the country’s youth cricket as a reward for meticulous planning and investment in grassroots development.

The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), which on Wednesday, announced that it was withdrawing the men’s national team from participating in the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers, which begins in Tunisia this weekend, yesterday said it had started moves to get the team to feature in the competition.

The Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) is now making last-minute attempts for the men’s national basketball team D’Tigers to play the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers. D’Tigers late Wednesday night said that they had withdrawn from the AfroBasket qualifiers due to issues related to money. "Despite several 2020 Olympians committing, D’Tigers will forfeit this AfroBasket Qualifiers window due…

The Main Organising Committee (MOC) of the fifth Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) Women’s T20 Invitational Tournament has announced that Tanzania will participate in the four-nation event scheduled to hold from February 23 to March 3 in Lagos.

Former Nigerian MMA star, Lovethpatra Ekufu, has revealed that she is in a partnership with some Nollywood actors and social media content creators to launch a first-of-its-kind celebrity Global Fight Concert on Friday at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

Former champions, D’Tigers of Nigeria, have pulled out of the 2025 FIBA AfroBasket qualifiers billed to start in Tunisia this weekend. Nigeria is drawn in Group B of the 2025 AfroBasket qualifiers alongside Cape Verde, Libya and Uganda.