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Unless urgent steps are taken by the Federal Government, the nation’s hope of making an appreciable impact at the fast-approaching Paris 2024 Olympic Games may have wane.
22 Mar
Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) President, Tonobok Okowa, believes that Team Nigeria athletes will live up to expectations when the battle for medals begin at the Paris 2024 Olympics Games later this year.
12 Mar
President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa, yesterday, urged track and field stars to go for gold at the ongoing 13th African Games in Ghana as the federation celebrates its 80th-year anniversary.
6 Mar
The country was recently jolted by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) referral of Nigeria and Venezuela to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS), for allegedly failing to comply with anti-doping measures stipulated for
23 Feb
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has invited 33 athletes (17 men and 16 women) to camp ahead of the 13th African Games scheduled to hold in three Ghanaian cities of Accra, Cape Coast and Kumasi, next month.
4 Feb
In their determination to have a sports technocrat as replacement for the outgoing chairman of Delta Sports Commission, Tonobok Okowa, the state athletes have called on Governor Sheriff Oborevwori not to be deceived by some of the aspirants
3 Feb
A member of the Technical Committee of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Seigha Porbeni, has said he is very optimistic that the federation’s President, Tonobok Okowa, has nothing to hide, particularly, as it concerns its financial records.
24 Jan
Seven aspirants jostle for Delta Sports Commission’s top job
3 Jan
Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s (AFN) First Vice president, Tafida Gadzama, has said that only the federation’s board has the power to decide whether its recent audit committee report is inconclusive or not.
2 Jan
Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has said that it would, this week, roll out its plans for this year’s African Games holding in Ghana. AFN President, Tonobok Okowa, stated yesterday that the body would meet this weekend..
29 Nov
Nigeria’s only representatives at the 2023 African Club Hockey Championships in Malawi, Delta Queens Hockey Club, returned to the country as the third best team of the event.
10 Nov
Sticking to its tradition of inviting top dignitaries to the finals of the yearly Government College Ughelli (GCU) Relays, the fifth edition is harvesting from riches of prominent and distinguished Nigerians, who have made their marks in different fields of endeavor.
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