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Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, President Tonobock Okowa will lead Team Nigeria"s contingent to this weekend's World Athletics Indoor Championships holding in Belgrade, Serbia. The team is expected to depart the Murtala Mohammed…

World and Olympics long jump bronze medallist Ese Brume tops the list of six athletes the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, has announced for the World Athletics Indoor Championships which runs from 18-20 March, 2022 in Belgrade,…

Pamodzi Sports Marketing, organisers of the historic Okpekpe international 10km road race has expressed shock over the death of Dr. Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase, founder and executive chairman of Complete Communications Limited, publishers of…

Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has appointed its technical director, Samuel Onikeku and foremost athletics coach, Tony Osheku as technical delegates to the Silver-Label Lagos City Marathon which holds this weekend in Lagos.…

Nigeria athletics legend Yussuf Alli has restated his earlier stance that his role in Nigeria sports, especially in athletics, is advisory. Speaking against the backdrop of a newspaper publication that he has been nominated to serve as a…

World Athletics, the international governing body for athletics has confirmed Saturday, May 28, 2022, for the eighth edition of the silver label Okpekpe international 10km road race. The race, the first road running event to be granted a…

An Olympic sprinter, Alex Quinonez, has been killed outside a shopping centre at the age of 32. According to The Sun, the athlete was allegedly killed in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador on Friday when he was attacked by an unknown killer.…

Panel set up by the Honourable Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare to probe why 10 Nigerian track and field athletes failed to complete the mandatory three out-of-competition tests which subsequently led to their…

Eight Nigerian track and field athletes with outstanding out of competition tests (OCT) have taken the tests Monday and are now awaiting the results Tuesday before returning to the Olympic Village in Tokyo in time for the start of the…

Blessing Okagbare’s experience and bright performances will be a tonic to the track and field athletes of Team Nigeria when they begin competing on Friday, July 30th. Alongside Okagbare are eleven other athletes namely : Oluwatobi…

Mo Farah's Olympic career is over after he failed to make the grade for Tokyo. Britain’s four-time Olympic champion had one final shot before Sunday’s midnight deadline to secure his spot on the Team GB plane heading to Japan next month.…

Blessing Okagbare has set a new African record at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Olympic Trials in Lagos. The America-based athlete will be heading to Tokyo Olympics in the best form of her life after running the second-fastest time…