Team Nigeria
1 Nov
Team Nigeria, at the weekend, won nine gold and three silver medals, totalling 12 medals at the just concluded African Open Championships in Cairo, Egypt
21 Oct
Nigeria's national scrabble team arrived in Lusaka on Tuesday, ahead of the 14th African Scrabble Championship, which begins today and ends on October 24 in the Zambian capital.
16 Sep
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Abuja approved conferment of national honours and cash awards of N200 million for Team Nigeria contingents to the 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Athletics Championships.
7 Sep
Team Nigeria’s performance at the recent 22nd Commonwealth Games tagged ‘Birmingham 2022’ is without doubt, the best the country’s assembled athletes have put up in the competition; going by the number of gold medals won, which surpasses their achievement in any previous major championship.
3 Sep
A member of the Nigerian women's 4x100m team competing at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has tested positive for drugs, putting the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) in the midst of a new doping crisis. With a new African record time of 42.10s, the team, which included Tobi Amusan, Rosemary Chukwuma, Favour Ofili, and Grace…
20 Aug
The Federal Government will host members of Team Nigeria’s contingent to the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on September 15, the Ministry of sports has disclosed.
14 Aug
Former international, Sam Sodje, has said the excellent feat of Team Nigeria athletes at the just-ended Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the United Kingdom reflects the possibility of the country’s potential
8 Aug
Nigeria rounded off its participation at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, yesterday, with a big splash on the medals pool, with the ladies, once again, leading the country’s march for glory...
8 Aug
Cross River State-born table tennis star, Edem Offiong, has attributed the calm environment and early resolution of issues by the Ministry of Sports and Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF)
7 Aug
Team Nigeria recorded more medals yesterday at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, as the duo of Eucharia Iyiazi and Ugochi Alam won gold and bronze respectively in the women’s F55-57 Shot Put final.
5 Aug
Para-athlete Goodness Nwachukwu set two world records in the women’s F42-44/61-64 Discus Throw on Thursday to win the gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
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The medical consultants under the auspices of the Medical and Dental Consultants' Association (MDCAN) have raised the alarm that the migration of the medical workforce from the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), is seriously affecting the survival of the tertiary health institution.
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Further to its commitment to the ban on commercial motorcycles within the nation's capital, Abuja, the joint enforcement team of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) crushed 432 seized motorcycles on Thursday.
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The Boko Haram insurgency terrorising the Northeast part of the country is the handiwork of foreigners who penetrated the region in the guise of seeking to acquire Quranic education, Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar El-Kanemi, has said.
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The senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Kano central, Abdulsalam AbdulKareem (popularly known as AA Zaura) has vowed that he would rather remain stronger in the face of political "detractors" bent to tarnish his hard-earned reputation.
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Eminent Nigerians from the Southeast under the authority of the Igbo Elders Consultative Forum have urged Southeast residents to reject the five-day sit-at-home declared by Finland-based Simon Ekpa, a protege of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The South-East elders described Ekpa's draconian order as the height of insensitivity to…