African Games
12 Mar 2024
President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa, yesterday, urged track and field stars to go for gold at the ongoing 13th African Games in Ghana as the federation celebrates its 80th-year anniversary.
9 Mar 2024
Nigeria’s male football team last won the gold medal of the African Games far back in 1973, when Nigeria hosted the Games in Lagos. That was 51 years ago. Not even the COJA 2003 Games held in Abuja could change the situation.
8 Mar 2024
Nigeria’s U-20 national team, Flying Eagles, will take on their Ugandan counterpart in the football event of the ongoing African Games, which begins officially today.
6 Mar 2024
Veteran table tennis star, Offiong Edem, yesterday, became Nigeria’s first athlete to earn a medal at the 13th African Games by finishing third in the women’s singles of the event holding at the Accra International Conference Centre.
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