Team Nigeria
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When the Nigerian Contingent sets sail to the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Team Nigeria will be dominated by the womenfolk.The 2024 Olympic Games will run from July 26 to August 11, in Paris.
23 Mar
Nigeria has finished top in the final medal standing in athletics at the African Games 2023. It is the 11th time out of the 13 editions of the African Games that Nigeria will finish first in the final medal table. At this year's competition, Nigeria got a total of 22 Medals which includes 11 gold,…
18 Mar
Nigerian athletes and officials at the boxing event of the ongoing African Games in Ghana were, yesterday, forced to protest the reversal of Yakubu Ibrahim’s victory over Morocco’s Barbari Hamza.
14 Mar
Team Nigeria is currently in the second position behind runaway leaders, Egypt, but the country is being trailed by Algeria and South Africa, who are third and fourth respectively on the medals table.
13 Mar
Team Nigeria’s weightlifters have been at their imperial best at the ongoing African Games in Ghana. Nigeria was fourth on the medals table at the weekend before the lifters took centre stage on Monday and yesterday, weighing in with 15 gold medals to raise the country’s haul to 22 gold medals. The weightlifting events are…
12 Mar
Team Nigeria has moved to second position in the medals table at the African Games 2023 in Accra, Ghana. Nigeria's leap is not unconnected to its gold medal rush in wrestling and weightlifting. Currently, Team Nigeria has 16 gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze medals. Team Egypt tops the medals table with 48 gold, 19…
8 Mar
Team Nigeria clinched two Silver medals in the Team event of Table Tennis at the ongoing African Games 2023. In Friday's fixtures, Team Nigeria lost to Egypt in both final matches of men and women's categories. In the men's category, Egypt defeated the Nigerian side 3-0. Also for the women, the Egyptians recorded another 3-0…
1 Mar
Nigeria’s contingent to the 2024 World Indoor Championship is expected to arrive in Glasgow, Scotland today for the event, which begins this evening.
7 Oct 2023
The Defending champions Team Nigeria, said that they are very happy with their opening-round 168 at the ongoing West and Central Africa Challenge Trophy at the exotic Lakowe Lakes Golf Estate and Resort in Lagos.
7 Sep 2023
Nigeria went into the championship hoping to better her performance at the last edition of the event in Oregon, U.S., where it won a gold medal and a silver, as well as creating a world record.
21 Aug 2023
.I was jumping alongside Ese Brume' Nigeria's Ambassador to Hungary, Dr. Modupe Enitan Erele, yesterday paid a visit to the Park Inn hotel Radisson of Team Nigeria to motivate them. The Ambassador told the athletes that President Bola Tinubu is appreciative of their efforts in trying to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians, both…
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The Kaduna State House of Assembly Ad-Hoc Committee has set up a committee to investigate the administration of former Governor Nasir El-Rufai. The committee, established during the Assembly's sitting on April 16th, has requested a comprehensive set of documents from the state commissioner of finance. The probe will include details of all loans acquired during…
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Hearing in two separate money laundering suits filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against British national, James Nolan, could not proceed on Wednesday at a Federal High Court, Abuja.
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Iranian goalkeeper Hossein Hosseini has been banned by the Iranian Football federation for Hugging a female fan after a football game. The goalkeeper was banned and fined of approximately #6.2Million for his actions which is against the country's policy as far as both genders are concerned. The incident unfolded when a female supporter's hijab slipped,…
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President Bola Tinubu has called on the nation’s Judiciary to embark on reforms that will ensure functional justice system and support economic growth.
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Dr. Umar Ganduje, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that the party would provide solutions to the challenges bedevilling the country. Ganduje stated this during the APC grand finale campaign and the presentation of party flags to the 11 local council chairmanship candidates, on Wednesday in Gombe. The News Agency…
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Nigerian chess master and founder, ‘Chess in Slums Africa’, Tunde Onakoya has returned to Nigeria after he broke the Guinness World Record for the longest time playing chess without losing a game. Onakoya broke the record of Norwegian players, Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad, who played for 56-hour, 9-minute in 2018. He made his…
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The Rivers Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Isaac Kamalu, resigned his appointment on Wednesday. He is the second commissioner to resign from the cabinet on Wednesday after Gov. Siminialaye Fubara, announced a slight cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. The first to resign was Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice. In the cabinet reshuffle, the governor…
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In furtherance of efforts to sanitize the mining sector, the federal government has revoked 924 dormant licences spanning exploration, mining, small-scale mining, and quarrying Licenses, six months after revoking 1,663 licences. The revocation licences include 528 exploration licenses; 20 mining licences; 101 quarry licenses, and 273 Small Scale Mining Licenses (SSML). Minister of Solid Minerals…
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Donning hijabs and floor-length abaya gowns over shorts and tank tops, Chinese students at an e-commerce school perform into a smartphone camera as they learn how to sell the clothes to overseas TikTok users. It is the final day of a two-week course on selling products abroad via the short video app -- which despite…
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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) said over 2.5 million Nigerian students have so far enrolled on its Tertiary Education, Research, Applications and Services (TERAS) platform. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Arc. Sonny Echono stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at the Second Registrar's workshop and 75th business meeting of the Association of Registrars of…