Asaba 2018: CAA delegates arrive in Nigeria
Delegates from the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) arrive in Nigeria for an inspection tour of the facilities to host the 21st African Senior Championships in Asaba this August.
Delegates from the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) arrive in Nigeria for an inspection tour of the facilities to host the 21st African Senior Championships in Asaba this August.
Some of the world’s top marathoners as well as the IAAF President, Lord Sebastian Coe are expected to participate at the maiden edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon scheduled for February 6, 2016.
The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the maiden edition of the Access Bank Lagos International Marathon was unveiled on Tuesday in Lagos, Nigeria.
Athletics Federation of Nigeria adds three new meets to its Golden League series to further prepare the national athletes for the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing and the African Games in Brazzaville.
The 2015 Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix has been rescheduled to July 24, 2015 at the Warri Township stadium in Delta-State, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has confirmed.
Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) have selected a team of 27 athletes for the second CAA Africa Youth Championships 2015 in Reduit, Mauritius from April 23 – 26, 2015
Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) names 40 young athletes and 9 seniors for preparation camps ahead of the 2015 CAA African Youths, IAAF World Youths and IAAF World Relays championship events.
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 Championships, in Marrakech.
Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s Technical Director, Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama, spoke to AthleticsAfrica about the gains of Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix and other issues in Nigerian athletics.
In an interview with AthleticsAfrica’s Tunde Eludini, AFN’s Technical Director, Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama says the Athletics federation expect better results at the 2nd AFN Golden League meet in Ilorin this weekend.
The Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Navy Commodore Omatseye Nesiama, delegated to oversee the successful hosting of the first AFN Golden League meeting in Abuja on Saturday.
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has announced the National Stadium, Abuja as the venue to kick off the 2014 Golden League series and the creation of a new ‘Athletics Twilight Meetings’ series.
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 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 […]
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 […]