NUGA Games
11 Apr 2022
By the time the curtain was drawn on the 2022 NUGA (Nigerian University Games Association) Games on Saturday, March 26th, the question on the lips of some members of the audience during the event’s opening ceremony parade when the Nile University contingent made their appearance had been emphatically answered.
3 Apr 2022
Last weekend marked the end of the 26th edition of the NUGA Games with the flag for the 27th edition, scheduled for 2024, handed over to the University of Jos, UNIJOS. Hours after UNIJOS won the hosting rights ahead of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, UNIJOS Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Tanko Ishaya, revealed his vision for the…
30 Mar 2022
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos, Professor Tanko Ishaya, has said that the University of Jos will host one of the best editions of the Nigerian University Games Association
27 Mar 2022
Says hosting rights, a welcome development The University of Jos, Plateau State have been awarded the hosting rights of the 2024 edition of the Nigeria University Games. UNIJOS defeated Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, while the University of Calabar withdrew its bid for the Games. A proud Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos, Professor Tanko Ishaya,…
26 Mar 2022
As the 10-day NUGA2022 Games come to an end today, host university, UNILAG, still look to snatch victory from their arch rival, University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), with a late charge for gold medals across various categories yesterday.
11 Nov 2021
Boxing has been accepted by the Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) Council as one of the recognised sports in the tertiary institution games that is hosting the University of Lagos from March 15 to 27, 2022.
30 Apr 2017
Dr Omeche Onoja, Chairman, NUGA games medical and sanitation sub committee confirmed the incident. The name of the student was not disclosed.
23 Apr 2017
The Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) has temporarily suspended the national university Games which began on Saturday in Makurdi, over it called “technical hitches”.
23 Jan 2017
It was thrills and glamour for basketball lovers at the weekend, as the final of the 2017 Olumide Oyedeji Intercollegiate Basketball competition ended at the Indoor Sports Hall of University of Lagos.
Latest
NOW
In the 2018 gunshot which led to the death of the upcoming rapper known as XXXTentacion, a Florida jury convicted three young men. The artist, whose true name was Jahseh Onfroy, was 20 years old when he was shot and killed in Deerfield Beach, close to Miami, in broad daylight. With "?" XXXTentacion peaked at…
25 mins ago
Labour Party (LP) has filed a petition at the Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, contesting the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the presidential election. The respondents in the petition are president-elect Tinubu, his running mate Senator Kashim Shettima, APC, and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Tinubu…
26 mins ago
Davido has teased fans about his next album "Timeless". The singer who has been away for a while after the death of his son wrote in a tweet that, "There is a time for everything. A time to Grieve and a time to Heal. A time to Laugh and a time to Dance. A time…
35 mins ago
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has asked former Anambra State governor Senator Chimaroke Nnamani to stop "senseless and unsubstantiated" bigotry allegations to dent his image. Nnamani, who lost his Senate bid to the Labour Party’s candidate, Kelvin Chukwu, on Sunday, accused Obi of playing wicked and dangerous politics. “Peter “Gringory” Obi…
59 mins ago
For residents of Aponmu in Akure South Local Council of Ondo, it was like a scene in a Nollywood movie when an elderly woman in the community set her son, daughter-in-law, and her two grandchildren ablaze. The grandmother, identified as Iforiti, who used to live with her deceased son, Victor, set the family of four…