Weightlifter Edidiong Umoafia has won a bronze medal in the men’s 67kg category at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. It’s Nigeria’s second medal at the event, after Adijat Olarinoye, another weightlifter, claimed gold and setting a Games record late Saturday night. Details
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By Bishop Edwins. When Tobi Amusan climbed the stage of the 2022 World Athletics Championships to pick up the Gold medal.. she had no tears streaming down her eyes...Then the national anthem of Nigeria was played.. Tears rolled down her eyes!.Tobi Amusan remembered how a country that refused to sponsor it’s athletes were enjoying stolen […]
By Kunle Awosiyan Her victory smile gradually dissolved into tears as the echo of our National Anthem took over the stadium. Oluwatobiloba Amusan just broke a world record in hurdles with 12.06 seconds at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, US. Her compatriot, Ese Brume also won Silver at the event. This happened a few […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed heartfelt congratulations to Tobi Amusan for winning the women’s 100m hurdles gold for Nigeria at the World Athletics Championship 2022, setting a new world record in the semifinals of the athletic event and becoming the first Nigerian to win a World Championship. The president said he joined millions of Nigerians […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Nigeria’s Female Football team, the Super Falcons, for qualifying for the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 after their emphatic quarter-final victory at the ongoing Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, in Morocco. Super Falcons, the record nine-time title holder and defending champions of WAFCON,
The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Cote d’Ivoire in 2024, and not 2023, BBC reports Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Patrice Motsepe as saying on Sunday. The tournament was to be hosted in June-July 2023, which is the height of the rainy season in Ivory Coast. “We cannot take the risk,” the South African said in
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