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)…

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), says the nation’s contingent to the fast approaching Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia would not suffer any form of visa hitches.

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), says the nation’s contingent to the fast approaching Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia would not suffer any form of visa hitches. The 2018 Commonwealth Games will hold from April 4 to 15, and the NOC assured yesterday that all logistics had been put in place by the Nigerian government…

On this day last year, Team Nigeria arrived Rio, Brazil, for Paralympics 2016. Fourteen days later, they landed Nigeria’s Abuja Airport to a cheering crowd of dancers and onlookers who gathered for a glimpse of the champions and their medals.

Oyinlomo Barakat Quadri was the standout player in the three-leg circuit, which served off on September 6 in Cotonou.

39-year-old Lucy Ejike is wheelchair bound due to childhood polio. She is also the five-time Paralympian and the captain of Team Nigeria, who set a Paralympic and World record by winning the women’s 61kg powerlifting...