Tag: team Nigeria
Team Nigeria Athletics Intensify preparations In Asaba as Commonwealth games camp enters week two
As the countdown continues, the mood in camp remains focused and optimistic, a clear signal that Nigeria’s track and field…
Team Nigeria stun the world, dethrone USA to become kings of scrabble in Accra
Head coach Anthony Ikolo added, “This team gave everything. Toppling the USA after their 19-player strength shows the heart of…
Islamic Games: Team Nigeria banks on young stars to win medals
The Islamic Solidarity Games will be held from November 7 to 21 at the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Sports City…
WESPAC 2025: Team Nigeria switches into battle mode as scrabble camp ignites in Lagos
Team Nigeria has officially gone into battle mode ahead of the 2025 World English Scrabble Players Association Championship (WESPAC), with…
World Scrabble Championship: History made as Team Nigeria reach Podium finish
Kenya's best player at the end of the Championship is Dalton Njenga at number 113 position with the 12 wins…
World Scrabble Championship: Impressive Start for Team Nigeria
Members of Team Nigeria at the World Youth Scrabble Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia started their quest for honours on…
Team Nigeria wins second edition of CAA Region 2 Senior Athletics Championships
Nigeria topped the medal table with 15 gold, 8 silver and 2 bronze bringing the team's total medal haul to…
Pay our athletes grants to motivate them coaches plead with NSC
The National Sports Commission (NSC), has been urged to speed up the payments of grants to elite Nigerian athletes ahead…
Second edition of CAA Region 2 Senior Athletics Championships begins today
The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Chief Tonobok Okowa who spoke to the athletes Sunday after their…
Team Nigeria makes clean sweep of Pan African Youth Scrabble Championships titles
Team Nigeria made a very bold statement in the mind sport of scrabble in far away Kenya as they took…
Athletics in crisis: Poor planning, missing stars hurt Nigeria’s Tokyo chances
The men’s 4x100m and women’s relay teams also had strong athletes available, but poor planning by the AFN led to…
Team Nigeria maintains lead at African Youth Scrabble Championships
The star girl from the City of Aquatic Splendor - Sophia Ekeruche is in a class of her own in…
Team Nigeria dominant on opening day of African Youth Scrabble Championships
The President of the Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF), Engineer Olobatoke Aka, had some pleasant words for the Kwara State government…
Ten players to represent Nigeria at the Pan African Youth Scrabble championship
Four of the players are sponsored by Kwara State government, two other players are heading to Nairobi on the bill…
Bolaji wins first medal for Nigeria at Paris Paralympics
With this feat, Bolaji became the first African to win a medal in para badminton. Team Nigeria is parading 24…
Why Nigerian Athletes failed woefully at Paris Olympics – Sports Minister
Onoh said he was also reminded that the Olympic Games is the world's supreme sports competition, and countries required at…
Paris Olympics: Peter Obi expresses displeasure over Team Nigeria’s performance
According to him, "This is over N136 million (about $85,000) spent on each of the 88 Nigerian contingents to the…
Nigeria fails to reach Women’s 4 x 100m Relay final
The Nigerian quartet of Justina Eyakpobeyan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma and Tima Godbless finished 6th in heat 2 of women's…
More woes as Nigeria crashes out of Men’s 4 x 100m Relay
The United States of America (USA) won the race in a time of 37.47 seconds to advance to the final…
Tinubu sends important message to Team Nigeria at 2024 Paris Olympics
A statement issued by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale on Friday said Tinubu assured these bold and courageous ambassadors representing the…
Olympics: Team Nigeria ready to compete among world’s leading athletes
Nigeria will also be represented in Basketball, Badminton, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Football, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Weightlifting and Wrestling at the…
Paris Olympics: Tinubu approves full budget for Team Nigeria
The Minister said that the approval of the entire budget submitted for the Olympics and Paralympics was a sign of…
FG hails gallant Team Nigeria’s performance at African Games
“As your Sports Development Minister, dubbed Nigeria’s GamesMaster General, I sure will be with you all the way, ” he…
Team Nigeria jets out to New Zealand for World Squash Team Championship
Team Nigeria on Tuesday jetted out of Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to participate in the Men’s World Squash Team…
Tinubu salutes Team Nigeria after Commonwealth Games success
Team Nigeria won 35 medals, including 12 gold to finish seventh at the Commonwealth Games which ended on Monday.
Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria finishes 74th, trails Kenya, Uganda, others
Team Nigeria was placed 74th at the end of the 2020 Tokyo Games on Sunday and eighth-best among the 54…
Tokyo 2020: Team Nigeria arrive Abuja
It was a dismal outing for Team Nigeria, failing to reach the medal zone in most of the games they…
Team Nigeria ends Tokyo Games with another loss
Idris's match was Team Nigeria’s last competitive involvement in the Tokyo Olympics which ends on Sunday.
Bad Day for Team Nigeria in Tokyo as D’Tigers lose again
Team Nigeria suffered another setback in Tokyo Saturday after its highly ranked basketball team D'Tigers crashed out of the games.
Team Nigeria will compete in Tokyo to win medals – Dare
Minister of Youth and Sports Development Sunday Dare said Team Nigeria would be competing for medals at the Tokyo 2020…