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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

Tima 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… Continue reading Tima Godbless Breaks 100m 23-year Record At World Athletics Championship

Team 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.

Team Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel has qualified for the final of the men’s 400m hurdles of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. He finished second in the first semi final with a time of 50.38s to book his place in the final. Esther Oshoba also qualified NIGERIA to the quarterfinal of the Women’s 54kg-57kg Featherweight Boxing event… Continue reading Nigeria is gaining more attention in Weightlifting and 400M while Table Tennis Medal struggle continues