Category: Sports

Lionel Messi cries at the start of a press conference at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona after announcing he would be leaving the club. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort) Lionel Messi fought back tears Sunday as he began a press conference at which he confirmed he is leaving Barcelona, where he has played his entire career. […]

The Tokyo 2020 Games were declared closed on Sunday by IOC chief Thomas Bach, who said it had been the “most challenging Olympic journey” after a year’s pandemic delay and threats of cancellation.Bach called the Tokyo Games “unprecedented” as he addressed the 68,000-seat Olympic Stadium, which was empty of spectators as Japan battles a record […]

Eliud Kipchoge produced a marathon masterclass and the USA edged China at the top of the Tokyo Olympics medals table as the curtain fell on the biggest sports event since the pandemic on Sunday. This is as Nigeria finished 74th on the medal table with two medals – bronze and silver. While Ese Brume won […]

Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare (left); Tokyo 2020 Olympics Bronze Medal, Ese Brume and Female Freestyle Wrestling Silver Medalist, Blessing Oborududu, arriving to a rousing reception at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja …yesterday Dare Praises Medalists As Sango Hails Team Nigeria, Minister Nigeria’s Tokyo 2020 Olympics medalists, Blessing Oborududu and Ese […]

Photo by Jewel Samad / AFP) Junior Athletes For World Championship To Emerge On Wednesday Samuel Onikeku Is New Technical Director Determined to make a bold step at Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) says it will commence its preparation by assembling a crack squad for the World Junior Athletics Championship […]

Blessing, after the win Nigeria’s Blessing Oborududu suffered a 1-4 loss to Tamyra Marianna Stock Mensah of the United States in the final of Tokyo Olympic women’s wrestling event to claim a silver medal. Oborududu has won a Gold medal at the African Wrestling Championships every year for the last 11 years, except for 2012 […]

Nigeria’s first medalist at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, Ese Brume, has said she intends to wear her bronze medal on the general overseer of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo. Brume disclosed her plans to celebrate after winning the bronze medal in the women’s long jump event in the early hours of Tuesday. “I […]

Blessing Oborududu of Nigeria celebrates after winning Photo: Reuters / Leah Millis Aminat Adeniyi begins her quest for glory in 62kg class Nigeria’s long wait for an Olympics medal came to an end yesterday on the mats of Makuhari Messe Hall, Tokyo, where wrestler, Blessing Oborodudu, ensured that the country would end the games with […]

Nigeria’s Ese Brume competes in the women’s long jump final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on August 3, 2021. (Photo by Andrej Isakovic / AFP) Long jumper Ese Brume has won Nigeria’s first medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after clinching bronze in the final event of the […]

Former Nigerian footballer Nwankwo Kanu celebrate his team’s win during the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) quarter final football match between Nigeria and South Africa at Cairo international stadium on July 9, 2019. (Photo by Khaled Desouki / AFP) Football fans in Ebonyi on Sunday celebrated the birthday of former Nigerian international and Arsenal […]