Tag: Athletes
Coach Urges Administrators To Motivate Athletes
Emilia Oyase, the Discus Coach of Team Oyo, says athletes should be motivated with incentives and urged sports administrators to…
NOC Wants Database For Athletes
The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has urged the National Sports Commission (NSC) to focus on building an athletes’ database from…
Coach Wants Institute For Talent-Building
Feyisetan Are, the National Head Coach of Nigeria Para-power lifting Federation (NPPF), has called for the establishment of an Institute…
Athletes Rue Blackout At Unilag Hostel
The athletes at the hostels of the University of Lagos are not finding it easy with life, as epileptic supply…
Athlete Complains Over Poor Welfare
A ping ponger in the Ogun State camp, Sola Oyekanmi, has carpeted the Local Organising Committee, LOC, of the ongoing…
Andy Warns Opponents
Collins Andy, a Para Table Tennis Player for Team Akwa Ibom has warned his opponents not to underrate him in…
Osun Targets Golden Tourney
Mr Akin Adio, the General Manager of Osun Sports Council, has declared that Team Osun will end the games with…
Athletes Groan Over Menu At Unilag Hostel
The Kaduna State contingent to the 18th National Sports Festival (NSF) have decried the poor menu provided by organisers of…
Retired Athlete Wants All-Comers Games
A retired athlete, Mr Joshua Kio, has urged sports administrators in the country to give all Nigerian athletes the opportunity…
Athletes Mob Nollywood Stars
Majority of the athletes at the glamorous opening ceremony of the 18th National Sports Festival, NSF held at the Teslim…
Sports Festival: Rivers, Oyo Clinch Cycling Gold Medals
Few hours to the official opening ceremony of the 18th National Sports Festival, NSF, tagged ‘Eko 2012’, Rivers and Oyo…
Imbibe Spirit Of Sportsmanship, Past Hero Charges Athletes
A lecturer at the National Institute for Sports (NIS), Solomon Gan’nda, yesterday advised participants at the 18th National Sports Festival…
Gov Ahmed Charges Team Kwara On Discipline
Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed of Kwara has advised the athletes who would represent the state at the 18th National Sports Festival…
National Sports Festival: Plateau To Present 399 Contingent
The Plateau Commissioner for Sports Development, James Yakubu, said that a contingent of 399 athletes and officials would represent the…
Team Oyo Target Top 3 Finish
Adedapo Lam-Adeshina, the Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, has challenged Team Oyo to do the state proud…
Kickboxing Will Adhere To Rules
Technical Director of Kickboxing Federation of Nigeria, KFN, Emmanuel Peters has restated the federation’s determination to ensure that the rules…
131 Athletes To Fly Zamfara’s Flag
Ahead of the 18th National Sports Festival (NSF), the Zamfara State Government announced this week that it will be represented…
MOC Yet To Release Accreditation List
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos has assured stakeholders that the names of…
Team Rivers Storm Lagos With 1,000 Athletes
Rivers State Director of Sports, Daobu Harry, has revealed that no fewer than 1,000 athletes and officials will represent the…
‘Games ’ll Be Secured’
All Athletes and officials of the 36 states of the federation that will participate at the 18th National Sports Festival,…
Unilag, Yabatech Ready For Athletes
Officials and athletes of the 2012 National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012 will get the best of accommodation facilities, Chairman,…
Adopt-A-Talent Boxer Gets LASU Admission
Athletes under the Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme of the Lagos State government have continued to reap the dividends of the talent…
Shortchanged Paralympians To Petition Jonathan
Crisis looms between the country’s athletes to the recently concluded London 2012 Paralympic Games and the officials of the National…
Coaches Groom Athletes For Calabar 2014
There are strong indications that some of the athletes who were part of the just concluded summer holiday camping of…
Enugu Budgets N69m For Sports Festival
The Enugu State Government is to spend N69 million in preparing the state’s contingent to the forthcoming Eko 2012 National…
Nigeria Would’ve Won More Medals
Despite a glorious outing recorded by Team Nigeria at the just concluded 2012 Paralympic Games held in London, Nigeria would…
Eko 2012’ll Be A Grand Show In Nigeria -Adefulire
Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope Adefulire has said that the forthcoming National Sports Festival, tagged ‘Eko 2012’…
Omawunmi, Neato C To Thrill Fans At Wazobia Village
The Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC and one of their marketing partners, IMPC have concluded plans to entertain Nigerians in London…
Yaba LCDA Honours Ibile Games’ Champions
More than hundred of athletes who represented Yaba Local Council Development Area, LCDA in the last Lagos State Sports Festival…
Rogge’s Reign As IOC Boss Ends
Jacques Rogge will not do anything different at the final Games in his function as International Olympic Committee president –…