Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) manages track and field in Africa’s most populous country – Nigeria, West Africa.
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 […]
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. AFN President, [link id=”271″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Solomon Ogba” target=”_blank”] also used the occasion to [link id=”7507″ text=”announce the federation’s 2014 programmes”] as well as inaugurates a new Technical Committee to work with […]
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 the weekend of February 14-15, 2014. According to a statement signed by the AFN’s assistant secretary, Umar Lambu, the events to be competed for include: 150m, 300m, 600m. 1000m, 300m hurdles, 4x400m […]
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 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, Russia from August 10-18. As expected, Blessing Okagbare, who won three gold medals at the recently held All -Nigeria Championships and selection trials in Calabar lead the team, with many athletes […]
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 […]
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 […]
A handful of fairly impressive performances were over the weekend recorded in the third leg of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria /Solid Works Golden League held inside the University of Benin Sports Complex in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The new track sensation on the home-front and 400m Women hurdler, Kemi Adekoya continued her steady rise […]
Tiaan Smit (WPA) broke the SA Record in the junior men’s 110m hurdles when he crossed the line in 13.51sec on the third day at the SA Sub-youth, Youth, Junior and Under 23 Championships at Pilditch stadium in Tshwane. The previous record of 13.71 was set by Tshepo Lefete’s on 3 April 2011 in Germiston. […]