Category: Sports

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria has said it received with great shock the press release by the Athletics Integrity Unit suspending Blessing Okagbare for a doping rule violation. The Federation, in a statement yesterday, said it is in the process of obtaining the relevant details of the announcement after which a full reaction would be […]

Blessing Okagbare of Team Nigeria competes during round one of the Women’s 100m heats of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: AFP Track and field events began yesterday at the Tokyo Olympics, and for the first time since London 2012, two Nigerian athletes will be running in the semifinals of the women’s 100 meters. The […]

Youth and Sports Development minister, Sunday Dare on Friday saved the situation after he intervened to calm frayed nerves following a protest by Nigerian athletes in Tokyo, venue of the 2020 Olympic Games. The athletes staged a protest in Tokyo after 10 of them were disqualified from taking part in the track and field events […]

Nigerian athletes protest on the streets of Japan There is little or nothing to celebrate for some Nigerian athletes who were at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after their dreams of performing at the World’s biggest sports games tumbled. Nigerian athletes are protesting local authorities’ “incompetence” during preparations for the Tokyo Olympics. Some Nigerian athletes, who […]

There were various anti-Olympic protests in the Japanese capital as the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Games got underway at the national stadium on Friday. Dozens of people, surrounded by police, gathered at the city hall with banners saying “Put out the Olympic torch”, “No Olympics”, and one which called the Games a “Global crime […]

Hundreds of people gathered at the Olympic Stadium before the opening ceremony in Tokyo. Andrej ISAKOVIC/AFP Hundreds of people gathered outside the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Friday, hoping for a glimpse of an opening ceremony that will take place behind closed doors because of strict anti-coronavirus rules. Only a few hundred dignitaries and officials […]

Performers assemble the Olympic Rings during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, at the Olympic Stadium, in Tokyo, on July 23, 2021. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP Algeria’s flag bearer Amel Melih (R) and Algeria’s flag bearer Mohamed Flissi lead the delegation during the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic […]

61 Nigerians take on world’s best athletes Today in Tokyo, Japan, the best athletes from across the world will gather in various centres to compete for medals and cultivate new relationships. It is the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the 32nd edition of the global festival, which was originally billed to hold last year, but was […]