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 […]
Read MoreTeam 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 […]
Read MoreTobi 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 […]
Read MoreEngland’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 […]
Read MoreNigeria’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 […]
Read MoreThe Federal Government and global internet company, Google, are collaborating to curb the excesses of subversive YouTube channels, being used to spread hate speech and misinformation against Nigeria. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Thursday during a courtesy call on him by a delegation from Google in Abuja. He […]
Read More….As UK court says trial will commence fully on May 2, 2023 The Central Criminal Court in the UK has adjourned the alleged organ harvesting case involving Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy president of the senate. The judge handling the case is going to hear pretrial applications on October 31, but the trial will commence fully […]
Read MoreNigeria’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 […]
Read MoreTima Godbless sped to a new 11.09 seconds to set Nigeria U-20 record to qualify for the semifinal of the women’s 100m at the World Athletics U20 Championships on Tuesday morning in Cali, Colombia. 18 year old Godbless, withdrew from the Nigerian Commonwealth Games team and won her first round heat in style by breaking […]
Read MoreTeam Nigeria increased its medal haul at the on-going Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, with two podium finishes in the women’s Discus event. Phenomenal Onyekwere Chioma grabbed the Gold medal after series of outstanding throws while another bright light, Amaechi Obiageri finished on the podium with a Bronze medal in the same event.
Read More
