Mr Eludini is a Nigerian-based journalist and news researcher with a passion for athletics and football. Tunde is a staff reporter for Premium Times newspaper, and also a regular contributor to AthleticsAfrica.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, on Thursday announced the appointment of former Olympics and World champion, Maurice Greene, as the relay coordinator of Team Nigeria track and field athletes.
Nigerian youth coach Rauf Abass has commenced plans to contest his life ban by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Athletics-Africa.com has learnt.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) is expecting a huge turn-out of Nigerian athletes at its maiden competition of 2014, the Over-Distance Races and Distance Relays, today at the Ijebu-Ode Stadium in Ogun State. As at noon on Friday, over 500 Nigeria-based athletes have registered to participate in the one-day AFN event which starts 9.00 am and […]
There’s little or no sympathy for convicted former Nigerian athlete Ambrose Monye among Nigerian residents in South Africa, AthleticsAfrica findings has revealed. Speaking with a cross-section of Nigerians abroad including the President of the All Nigerian Nationals in the Diaspora (ANNID) South Africa branch, Emeka Johnson Ukwuoama, the consensus was that Monye deserved what he […]
More athletes are set to take part in the second edition of the Le Marathon International des Oliviers de Sfax on December 15, 2013 in Sfax Tunisia. The Marathon, which was inaugurated in December 2012, has already attracted top elite athletes across the world including thousands of running enthusiasts that will gather on Tunisian soil to […]
Five African countries will compete for the US $65,000 at stake at the 5th African Mountain Running Championships which will hold alongside the Obudu international mountain race on Saturday, November 23 at the Obudu Ranch Resort in Obudu, Cross River state. Sir William Archibong, chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the race, said that […]
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will open a conditioning camp for athletes based in Nigeria on Sunday in a bid to ensure that her athletes make podium appearance at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. According to a statement signed by Head, Communication Media of AFN, Olukayode Thomas, a total of 74 male and female […]
The technical director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore [link id=”148″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Omatseye Nesiama” target=”_blank”], has declared that the recent successes for Nigeria in continental athletics championships are no fluke but dividends of concerted efforts by the Federation as well as other concerned government sports institutions. The AFN technical chief was speaking […]
The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Solomon Ogba, has explained the rationale behind dropping nine out of the 35 athletes originally selected to represent the nation at the [link id=”6830″ text=”2013 Africa Junior Athletics Championship”] in Bamboo, [link id=”173″ tax=”am_venues” text=”Mauritius”] this week. According to Ogba, who addressed journalist in Lagos, the dropped athletes were […]
The dwindling fortunes being witnessed in Nigeria’s athletic scene could soon be a thing of the past with the newly activated Nestle/IAAF Kids Athletics programme, stakeholders have posited. At the official launching of the global initiative in Lagos Nigeria on Thursday July 25, 2013, the Nigerian Sports Minister, Honourable Bolaji Abdullahi, challenged the Athletics Federation […]
The last batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to this year’s IAAF World Youth Championship arrived Donetsk, Ukraine late Tuesday after spending about eleven hours in Istanbul, the Turkish capital. The delegation led by the Vice President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tunde Abdulkareem left Lagos on Monday evening to join the athletes and […]
At a time when most athletes are searching for greener pastures and seeking to run for other developed countries, US born, from Newark, NJ, Ugonna Ndu has dared to be different. Ndu, who turns 21 today, won her first national 100m hurdles title in her maiden appearance at the recently concluded All Nigeria Athletics Championship. For […]
The 67th CRS/AFN All Nigeria Athletics Championships have come and gone but the memories will surely linger on, writes Babatunde Eludini. While old guns like Blessing Okagbare, Ajoke Odumosu and Doreen Amata all held their own in their respective events; some new faces like Ugonna Ndu; a fast improving hurdler, Ese Brume in the jumps […]
Blessing Okagbare eased to victory in the women’s 200m in 22.65 seconds to complete a sprint double on the final day of competition at the 67th CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar, Cross Rivers State. The duo of Miriam Bassey (23.74) and Janeth Amposah of Ghana (23.79) made it to the podium with the Beijing […]
Blessing Okagbare won her fifth successive Nigerian women’s 100m title in 11.25 seconds on Wednesday at the ongoing All-Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar. Okagbare who held the pre-championship best in the 100m (11.00), 200m (22.31) effortlessly exerted her dominance in yesterday’s final race inside the UJ Esuene Satdium in Calabar, becoming the first woman in […]
Nigeria’s sprint queen and Beijing Olympics Long Jump bronze medallist, Blessing Okagbare has made a damming claim of neglect by the country’s administrators, labelling the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) ‘a big shame’. Whilst the thinking among the media and public was that Okagbare gets better attention from the AFN than her other colleagues, the […]
Former national 400m champion, Folasade Abugan, today made her much anticipated return to the tracks after serving out a 2-year doping ban. Abugan, a former World Junior champion ran in the Heat 2 of the 400m women’s event but failed to make it to the nextround after running a poor time of 55.01 seconds which […]
Nigerian athletes cruised to victory in virtually all the events at the 2nd edition of the Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix held in Warri, Delta State last Friday. The Meet held inside the magnificent Warri City Stadium had athletes from the United States, United Kingdom, Fiji Island, St. Vincent and a couple of other African countries […]
A new national record of 63.79m was set by Queen Obisesan in the Women’s Hammer event at the fourth leg of the AFN/Solid Works Golden League Meet held at the Sports Complex of the University of Ilorin. Nigerian Sports minster and chairman of the National Sports Commission, Bolaji Abdullahi was there to witness Obisesan erase […]