As the 15th edition of the NNPC/Shell football competition drew to an end at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos State, recently, one thing was certain: Nigeria can produce athletes that could compete against the best in in every sport if there was adequate corporate sponsorship. The youngsters that participated in the tournament proved they [...]
For an average Nigerian, being known in the American college game is enough fame and achievement to relish throughout one’s entire life. But for Tolu Omotola, a power forward at the Liberty University in Virginia, USA there is no limit to humans dreams. Born in London, England, to Nigerian parents, before moving to the United [...]
Dosu Joseph was the goalkeeper of Nigeria’s gold medal winning team in the football event of the Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta, U.S.A. He remains till now the only man to ever stand between the posts on a day a Nigerian team defeated Brazil at any major international football contest. A former Julius Berger of [...]
Though Nigeria could not record any meaningful achievement in normal sports in the outgoing year, the country’s contingent to the London 2012 Paralympic Games however, wiped out tears streaming on the faces of sports-loving Nigerians as a result of the dismal showing of Nigerian athletes at international tourneys during the year. The special athletes won [...]
After many decades of trial without a success, Nigeria’s national basketball team, D’Tigers, finally qualified for their first appearance at an Olympic basketball event during the third quarter of the outgoing year. Despite all the odds, the Ayo Bakare-tutored team recorded an impressive outing at the Olympic qualifying tournament held in Caracas, Venezuela from 2–8 [...]
Reports say former Nigerian basketball player Chinedu Onyeuku has been shot dead after ‘trying to rob home in Texas with an accomplice’. It was gathered that the former D’Tigers of Nigeria player, was shot dead in a botched burglary in Texas before Thanksgiving. Onyeuku, 29, was trying to break into a home in Plano on [...]
Although a new sport in Nigeria, Head Coach of the Golden Martial Art Academy, Henry Kurumeh, has predicted that karate will be a major sport in the country in the near future. In a chat with P.M.News, Kurumeh said a time will come when karate will win laurels for the country at international tournaments. “The [...]
