Team Nigeria
8 Jan
Team Nigeria, yesterday, arrived in Togo for the African Junior Tennis Championship, with the players vowing to win gold medals in the competition. The players who said that they were in Lome to better their last performance, and right the wrongs after Nigeria failed to win many gold medals in the last competition. Yahaya Sani,…
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.
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A study carried out by Network of Female Professionals in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (FEMinWASH), has revealed that Nigeria looses N207 million ($517,524) annually to the non-functionality of boreholes. According to the study, the non -utilization of the national strategy for Village Level Operation and Maintenance (VLOM) by contractors and technocrats has resulted in waste…
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In a move to curtail farmers/herders clashes in the country, the National Agricultural Laded Development Agency (NALDA) has established 100hectares farm integrated farm estates in Sokoto state to boost animal husbandry and crop production. The farm estate among others has a modern animal husbandry farm with a cow milking parlour with a capacity of 200…
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