Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare (left); President Muhammadu Buhari; Chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Football 10-year Development Masterplan, Ibrahim Galadima and NFF’s First Vice President, Seyi Akinwunmi, during the presentation of the document at the State House, Abuja… yesterday. Photo: Philip Ojisua Directs Ministry to implement football 10-year masterplan Document […]
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The first batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja…yesterday Amusan, Brume jet out to U.S., AFN officials, remaining athletes return today How Ofili wanted to pull out of C’wealth Games The first batch of Team Nigeria athletes to the just concluded Commonwealth Games […]
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Long jumper Ese Brume on Sunday helped sixth-place Team Nigeria record their best ever outing at the Commonwealth Games in 72 years, after her record-breaking leap of 7.00m at the ongoing edition of the Games in Birmingham. On course to winning the country’s 12th gold medal of the event, Brume achieved it in style, breaking […]
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Nigerian wrestling dynamite, Odunayo Adekuoroye, has claimed Nigeria’s sixth gold at the 2022 ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Friday. She won the gold in the Women’s 57kg Freestyle Wrestling after beating Anshu Malik of India. The 2018 Commonwealth champion defeated her opponent 6-4 in the final to successfully defend the crown she won in […]
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Weightlifter Rafiatu Lawal has won Team Nigeria’s second gold medal in the women’s 59kg category of the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Sunday. She clinched gold by lifting a combined total lift of 206kg – 110kg in snatch and 116kg in Clean and Jerk- to win the women’s 59kg weightlifting event and also set […]
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By Segun Odegbami Gold medalist Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s 100m hurdles during the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on July 24, 2022. (Photo by Jim Watson / AFP) There was a celebration among the stars. It had been long in coming. […]
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Oregon 2022 World Athletics Championships’ silver medalist, Ese Brume, has disclosed that most athletes cry while receiving medals on the podium, especially when the national anthem of their country is being played, because their joy overflows. When asked why athletes usually cry at that moment, she said simply: “Athletes cry because they can’t contain their joy. […]
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Members of Team Nigeria were, yesterday, thrilled by the presence of two of the country’s brightest hopes for medals at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume. Team Nigeria’s Coordinator in Birmingham, Yusuf Ali, has expressed delight over the arrival of the World Championships medallists, who were among the last batch […]
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In this interview, Mr Kehinde Amusan, father of the hurdler and world champion, Tobi, tells Johny Edward why he never supported the athlete in the early stages, his dream job for her and how paucity of funds almost thwarted her dreams of becoming a world-class athlete How would you describe watching your daughter Tobi break […]
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Tobi Amusan (left) and Ese Brume will lead Nigeria’s quest for medals at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, which begins… on Thursday Team Nigeria’s 93 athletes arrive in Birmingham For the next two weeks, beginning from today Thursday, Nigerian sports lovers will be in for some great moments as the country’s athletes vie for honours […]
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