Tag: Athletics
Athletics: 300 Schools For Premier Lotto Lagos Tourney
At least 300 schools from the six education districts in Lagos State will feature in the maiden Premier Lotto Lagos…
Cocaine Trafficking: Ex-Nigerian Player Docked
Former Nigerian footballer, Daddy Augustine Okeke is in trouble in faraway Malta over an alleged trafficking in cocaine. According to…
NOC Wants Early Preparation For Commonwealth Games
The Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC,is planning to start early preparations for the athletes that would represent the country at the…
Lagos To Recruit Coaches For Sports Associations
In its bid to consolidate on the success recorded at the last National Sports Festival, Lagos State Government is set…
How Athletics Can Rise In Nigeria Again
When it comes to athletics in Nigeria, you are a force to be reckoned with, how do you feel? It…
AYC: AFN Won’t Select Overage Athletes
The Athletic Federation of Nigeria, AFN has said it has put in place measures to guard against age-cheats at the…
Nigeria Athletics Stakeholders plan for 2013
Nigeria fared woefully in athletics fared in 2012 and as year 2013 knocks at the door, the stakeholders say there…
Africans win Brussels last IAAF event
Kenya’s Gilbert Kirui and Ruti Aga of Ethiopia, both teenagers, have won the men and women’s events, respectively, at the…
End Of Year Review (3rd And 4th Quarters): Okagbare, Others Fumbled
The London 2012 Olympic Games, which fell into the third and fourth quarter of the outgoing year under review, will…
Nigeria’s Paralympians Are Hero Of 2012
Though Nigeria could not record any meaningful achievement in normal sports in the outgoing year, the country’s contingent to the…
Bolt, Allyson win athletes of the year
(AFP) – Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix were named the International Amateur Athletics Federation’s athletes of the year on Saturday.…
Bolt eyes more gold at Commonwealth Games
Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt now wants to add Commonwealth Games gold to his medal haul after…
Ekiti’s 150-Man Team Ready
The Ekiti State Director of Sports, Olukayode Adewunmi, said that Team Ekiti’s compact 150-man contingent for the 18th National Sports…
‘Sports And Education Should Go Together’
Team Nigeria’s 200m athlete to the last London 2012 Olympic Games, Noah Akwu has advised the Federal Government to work…
Americans don’t like Jamaican speedsters, says Blake
Americans need to get used to Jamaica’s men dominating the global sprinting scene, because it will not change soon, Jamaican…