President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa, has appealed to Nigerian athletes participating in the ongoing World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, to go for medals. Okowa, who spoke at the team’s Park Inn hotel, Radisson, in Budapest, on Monday, said that […]
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The World Athletics Record holder in 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, has declared that she has put behind her the trauma of her suspension by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), over the Whereabouts Failures charge. Amusan began training for the title defence on Monday morning at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary. She had already […]
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– Urges track queen to put trauma behind Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) President, Tonobok Okowa, has described as a ‘big relief’ the clearance of World Record holder in 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, to compete in the ongoing Budapest 2023 World Championships. A panel of Disciplinary Tribunal cleared Amusan of three whereabouts failures charge on […]
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The Athletics Integrity Unit, AIU, has cleared tracks queen, Tobi Amusan of the doping charges against her. This was contained in a statement by the AIU on Friday. The panel which sat on Thursday, found Amusan not guilty of “Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period.” The statement read, “A […]
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Tobi Amusan, the reigning World 100m hurdles champion will get the chance to defend her title in Budapest, Hungary if she is cleared of her whereabouts failures, World Athletics has declared. The world governing body for the sport has included the 26-year-old in the list of athletes that will compete for Nigeria but her participation […]
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Tobi Amusan, Nigeria’s queen of the tracks and Women’s hurdles world record-holder has dismissed a doping rule violation charge leveled on her by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU). “I am a clean athlete, and I am regularly; (maybe more than usual) tested by the AIU,’’ the 26-year-old athletics sensation posted on her Instagram page on […]
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After being conferred with the National Award of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic by former President Muhammadu Buhari, Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen has received yet another honour from the world football body, FIFA. Osimhen has been an example for many young footballers since his emergence onto the international scene in 2015 […]
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Tobi Amusan – (Photo by Andy Astfalck / Orange Pictures / DPPI via AFP) World record holder, Tobi Amusan of Nigeria, will headline the 100m hurdles event at the Racers Grand Prix, which makes its return to Jamaica’s National Stadium on June 3, in what is expected to be an afternoon of world-class track and […]
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Minister for Sports and Youth Development, Sunday Dare, has revealed that fixing the National Stadium, Lagos would cost about N40 billion. The national edifice, which was constructed in 1972 ahead of the 1973 All Africa Games hosted by Nigeria, has been in bad shape since the Federal Government abandoned it after the construction of the […]
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When the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos, was commissioned by General Yakubu Gowon’s regime in 1972, sports journalists and administrators across the globe called it ‘the new Mecca of sports’. And true to type, the colourful arena hosted the 1973 African Games, where Nigeria emerged as the champion for the first time. It hosted the […]
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