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Nigeria took its turn in the Queen’s Baton Relay ahead of the Commonwealth Games coming up next year in Birmingham as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN received the Baton on behalf of President Mohammadu Buhari at the weekend. At the reception ceremony, Osinbajo reminded member-nations of the strong bonds uniting the 72 countries and territories that are members of the …

Edo State First Lady, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, has declared open the Betsy Obaseki Women Football tournament at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City. The competition, with the theme, “Promoting the Girl Child,” is aimed at harnessing sporting talents in the state and tackling the scourge of irregular migration among teenage girls. While declaring the tournament open, Mrs. Obaseki said, …

Team Nigeria lived up to expectations at the Kasarani Stadium in Kenya, yesterday, as the nation’s athletes won two gold and one bronze medal to join other leading countries on the medals table. Imaobong Nse Uko opened the floodgate with a superlative race in the 400m final to claim gold in 51.55 seconds, thereby setting a new personal best. Poland’s …

Team Nigeria’s Imaobong Nse Uko on Saturday won the gold medal in the women’s 400m event of the World Athletics U-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. Nse Uko came to the Championships with the fastest time among the contenders following the 51.70secs she ran at the Edo 2020 National Sports Festival in April. She lived up to pre-race hype by becoming …

Chinecherem Nnamdi will be hoping to make history later today when he files out for the final of the men’s javelin event at the ongoing World Athletics U-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. The 19-year-old is one of the favourites to win the event’s gold after throwing himself into contention on the opening day of the championships with a massive 78.02m …

There is hardly any top sporting competition in the world that Nigerian names don’t pop up even if the Green and White flag of the country is conspicuously absent. From the American Super Bowl to the NBA and even the recent Euro 2020, participants with Nigerian lineage are always present. The situation was not any different at the 2020 Tokyo …

Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, has joined millions of Nigerians in congratulating his constituent, Ese Brume, who on Tuesday won a medal for Nigeria at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Ughelli-born athlete gave Nigeria her first medal at the Olympic Games with a bronze medal in the women’s long jump final. Brume recorded a 6.97 metres jump in the …

Ese Brume has won the first medal for Nigeria at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. She won bronze in women’s long jump. Germany’s Malaika Mihambo soared to gold in the women’s long jump, snatching victory from former champion Brittney Reese with her last leap of the competition. Mihambo was lying in the bronze medal position ahead of her final jump, …

Edo State Government has commended the outstanding performance of Olympics 100m athlete, Enoch Adegoke, who took part in the final 100m track event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games. Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu who addressed journalists in Benin City, on the performance of Adegoke noted that if not for the bad luck that hit the athlete, he was on the path to claim a medal for Nigeria at the event. He said despite the outcome of …

Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs claimed Olympic gold in the men’s 100m on Sunday, breaking retired Jamaican star Usain Bolt’s 13-year hold on the blue riband event. Jacobs, 26, timed a European record of 9.80 seconds, with American Fred Kerley taking silver in 9.84sec in one of the most understated major 100m races in recent times. Canada’s Andre de Grasse, a …