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Nigerian champion Favour Ofili says Team Nigeria officials failed to register her for the women’s 100m event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Commonwealth Games champions Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume are among the 35 athletes named on the Nigerian team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games...
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The Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) dismissed the appeal for sanction sought by World Athletics and WADA against Nigerian athlete Tobiloba Amusan.
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Blessing Okagbare smashes the Commonwealth Games 100m record to give Nigeria her first Athletics gold medal of the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on...
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Africa’s fastest woman, Blessing Okagbare, will lead the Nigerian athletics team to the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month and the Africa Athletics...
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New Nigerian athletics champions, Mark Jelks, Tosin Oke and Nicole Denby, have all set medal targets for themselves at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in...
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Nigerian athletes Nicole Denby and Amaechi Cristian Cuevas Morton were among the winners at the 4th Warri Relays/Golden League meet held at the Warri...
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Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare sets two meet records on her way to victory in the women's Long Jump and 200m at the IAAF Diamond League...
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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has selected 20 athletes to compete at the 2014 Mt.Sac Relays this weekend at the historic Hilmer Lodge...
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Aderemi Kazeem of the Nigerian Police broke the Nigerian record in the 20km Men’s Walk race at 1st leg of the Athletics Federation of...
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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, on Thursday announced the appointment of former Olympics and World champion, Maurice Greene, as the relay coordinator of...
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Up and coming track star and renaissance man Amechi Egbe is crowd-funding in order to realise his dream to represent Nigeria at the Rio...
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The Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama, delegated to oversee the successful hosting of the first AFN...
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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.
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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has announced the National Stadium, Abuja as the venue to kick off the 2014 Golden League series and...
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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...
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Former Nigerian athlete [link id=”383″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Ambrose Monye”] and co accused Andre Gouws have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Chanelle Henning...
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The board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) presented to the media American Eric Campbell as the high performance director in Abuja on Tuesday....
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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will hold the 2014 AFN All-Comers Over-distance and Distance Relays at the Gateway Stadium in Sagamu, Ogun-State on...
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Nigerian 400m champion Regina George clocked an African indoor record of 1:25.76 to win the women’s 600m, by almost four seconds, at the Arkansas...
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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...
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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) will open a conditioning camp for athletes based in Nigeria on Sunday in a bid to ensure that...
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Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday hosted [link id=”158″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Blessing Okagbare,”] Nigeria’s double silver medallist at last month’s IAAF [link id=”144″ tax=”post_tag” text=”World...
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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...
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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...
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Blessing Okagbare spoke with the IAAF tv after winning the silver medal in women's Long Jump at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics...
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Video Interview with Nigeria’s sprinter champion and African record-holder, [link id=”158″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Blessing Okagbare”], after the women’s Long Jump qualification at the 14th IAAF...
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Video Interview with Nigeria’s 400m runner Omolara Omotosho at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday.
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Video Interview with Nigeria’s 800m runner Leoman Momoh at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday.
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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...
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Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare twice lowered the African women’s 100m record to beat a star-studded line-up at the Sainsbury Anniversary Games – IAAF Diamond League meeting...
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Nestle Nigeria will launch the Nestlé/IAAF Kid’s Athletics Programme, in partnership with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), in Lagos on July 25. The...
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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...
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The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has released a provisional list of 19 athletes to represent Nigeria at the 2013 IAAF World Athletics championship in Moscow,...
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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...
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Ogho-Oghene Egwero won Thursday’s top race with victory in the men’s 100m in 10.18 secs on day-two of the CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships in...
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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...
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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...
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