For the fourth time in a row, Edo State young athletes are not taking part in the National Youth Games, which fourth edition began yesterday in Ilorin. The opening ceremony of the Games, which provides a level playing field for young athletes ...

A member of the board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Brown Ebewele, may have preserved the country’s pride by halting an alleged move by some officials of the federation to boycott the ongoing 2018 African Senior Athletics Championships in Asaba.

A board member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Brown Ebewele has told the Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung to stop ‘harassing’ board members of the federation with suspension and probe panels.

A board member of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Brown Ebewele has predicted that his federation would only make up the numbers...

For some Nigerians, athletics was almost the sole reason they paid attention to sporting activities. The sport had rescued the nation at many international competitions...

While the AFN, the country’s second biggest sports federation, is still struggling for identity, Team England yesterday named 75 athletes as part of its contingent for next year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

The board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) was inaugurated same time alongside other sports federations in Abuja.

Former Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Brown Ebewele has described Nigeria’s participation at the on-going London 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championship as fraudulent.

Brown Ebewele has began what has been termed an underground campaign in his bid to wrestle the federation’s presidency from Alhaji Ibraham Gusau in the bye election slated for Friday in Abuja.

Among the federations affected was the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), where the committee sacked Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau, who was elected AFN president on June 13.

On her part, Rosa Collins, who was earlier elected on the platform of National Association of Women in Sports (NAWIS), had her name replaced with Gloria Obajimi on the day of the election.

In the build up to the election, Adeleye, a former 400m runner emerged as the Athletes Representative into the AFN board, where 256 athletes voted between him and Henry Okorie just before an AFN All-comers meet in Abuja.