Author: Jennifer Okoye

Nigeria’s U20 girls, Falconets set a World Cup group stage perfect record for themselves after beating Canada 3-1 in Alajuela on Thursday morning to finish with a perfect nine points out of nine in Group C. Head Coach, Chris Danjuma Musa said before the encounter that his girls would seek to win even as a… Continue reading U-20 WWC: Falconets floor Canada, to meet Netherlands in quarter-finals

Ese Brume wins a record breaking Commonwealth Games long jump Gold Long jumper Ese Brume secured one more gold medal for Team Nigeria at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, after leaping 7.00m. Ese, who is a World Athletics championships silver medallist, was not in the Gold Coast, Australia, to defend her title four years ago but… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games: 

Team Nigeria women’s 4x100m quartet of Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Grace Nwokocha made history Sunday afternoon at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham by becoming the first women’s relay team to win a Commonwealth Games gold. The quartet achieved this feat in record breaking fashion, running 42.10 seconds to break the barely one… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games: Team Nigeria Wins First Commonwealth Games Women’s 4x100m Title

Nigerian Tobi Amusan has won the 100 metres hurdles title with 12:29s making it Ten Gold for team Nigeria. Amusan beat Jamaica’s Britany Anderson who finished second and Olympic Champion from Cuba, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn who came third. Favour Ofili earlier claimed the silver medal in the women’s 200m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games: Tobi Amusan is the 100 Metres Hurdles Champion

Favour Ofili has claimed the silver medal in the women’s 200m at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The 19-year-old who overcame COVID-19 before the start of the tournament showed no sign as she battled to her first ever medal outside Africa. Ofili clocked 22.51 to claim the silver medal while Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah claimed… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games: Favour Ofili wins 200m Silver to increase Team Nigeria medals tally to 30

Team Nigeria Captain Blessing Oborududu clinched gold medal in Women’s Freestyle 68kg Wrestling event as she defeated Canada’s Linda Morais to win Nigeria’s 2nd medal in wrestling. Oborududu, a Tokyo Olympics silver medalist did it in style as she beat the Canadian 5-1 (Points without the opponent scoring 1). Star girl, Odunayo Adekuoroye also won… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games: Oborududu and Adekuoroye win Gold In Women Freestyle Wrestling For Nigeria

Tobi Amusan of Nigeria finished first (12.40 sec) in the Women’s 100m Hurdles, Round 1 Heat 3, to qualify for the final event, coming up on Sunday. In another development,Nasiru Sule and Ifechukwude Ikpeoyi are through to the final of their respective Table Tennis Singles Classes. Both won 3-1. In Paralympic ,Ifechukwude Ikpeoyi defeated Sonalben Patel… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth: Tobi Amusan qualifies for Hurdles final round 

England’s Lawrence Okoye, who left athletics for American Football after London 2012, won his first senior medal with Commonwealth discus silver. 30 year old Okoye, returned to discus in 2019 after his NFL career ran out of steam. He failed to make the final at last year’s Tokyo Olympics or the 2022 World Championships, but… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games: Lawrence Okoye wins discus silver 

Nigeria’s hope of surpassing the feat achieved in 1994 seems to have been boosted with more success in Birmingham. it was double delight for Team Nigeria as Folashade Oluwafemiayo broke the World Record in women’s Heavyweight Powerlifting event, lifting a series of: 130kg, 150kg & 155kg to score a cumulative 123.4 points, winning yet another… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games: Nigeria Soaring higher with More Medals

Nigeria’s Ogunkunle Isau defeated Raj Aravidan of India 3-1 to win his opponent in the men’s Para Table tennis game. In Game 1, Ogunkunle won 11-9, game 2 ended 4-11 to India’s Raj while Ogunkunle won Game 3 and 4 with 11-6 and 11-8 score respectively. There was no medal for Nigeria.Rosemary Chukwuma who finished… Continue reading 2022 Commonwealth Games:Nigeria currently have 8 Medals