Team Nigeria is set to take part in the first 2019 Africa Beach Games scheduled to hold at the Santa Maria Beach in Sal Island, Cape Verde from June 14 to 23. According to the organisers, 54 countries and 1000 athletes from across Africa will participate in 11 sports at the maiden Africa Beach Games…

It was high level of competition at COWLSO Villa Hotel, Lekki, Ajah Lagos at the weekend when 26 top ranked players from all parts of Nigeria gathered to jostle...

University of Agriculture, Makurdi (UAM) Coach, Priscilla Vande, whose team at the weekend won the maiden Higher Institutions Football League (HIFL), has been appointed Team Nigeria’s coach to the FISU football championship slated for Naples, Italy next year. She will coach a team made up of the best players from the HIFL to the world…

President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) Daniel Igali, has given reasons for the unimpressive results recorded by Team Nigeria at the just- concluded...

Nigerian cyclists at the weekend showed their prowess in the sport by dominating the International West Africa Cycling Championship held in the stretch of Kwahu Eastern region of Ghana. The team, led by Kurotimi Abaka beat Ghana’s Solomon Tagoe to the second position, while Burkina Faso’s Guigmde Arnaud came third at the one-day event. The…

One of the major sponsors of sports in Delta State, Zenith Bank has charged Team Nigeria’s athletes preparing for the forthcoming Senior African Athletics Championships...

A hurriedly assembled team by the Minifootball Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Abuja left the country for Libya at the weekend hoping to excel in the maiden African Minifootball Cup Tournament scheduled to hold from Saturday to May 12 in Tripoli. While announcing the team’s departure, president of MAN, Andy Elewere said the journey in…

Despite failing to win the gold medal battle against Singapore’s Gao Ning, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri has described his silver medal as a just reward for his efforts at the just concluded Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Australia. Having come from 2-0 down against the experienced Singaporean, Quadri succumbed to the two–time silver medalist…

There was joy in Team Nigeria’s camp yesterday when female boxer, Ayisat Oriyomi, who was rushed to hospital after being battered by Northern Ireland’s Carly McNaul in a quarterfinal bout at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, returned to the Games Village.  

Chairman of Phidel Group of Schools, Lagos, Deacon Ayo Phillip Adelusi, believes Team Nigeria has the quality to excel at the ongoing Commonwealth Games. The sports philanthropist also trusts the contingent to enhance the reputation of the country through excellent behaviour at the Games, which is featuring all the members of the former British Empire.…

Organizers of the XXI Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, officially held a welcome ceremony for Team Nigeria at the Games village yesterday. Teams’ arrival at the Games Village is not officially acknowledged until a welcome ceremony is held for the various contingents.  The athletes were entertained by a dance troupe from the Munujali tribe.…

Bizimor Kelvin Sariki and Stephen Tope Akintewe yesterday increased Team Nigeria gold medal haul by triumphing in their weights of the cadet cadre at the on-going African Wrestling Championship in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In the 45kg weight class, Sariki defeated his opponent, South Africa's Decan Jantjies 8-2 to clinch the gold, while Akintewe (60kg)…