The Paris Olympics Games, July 26 – August 11 began on a tentative note, but it has turned out to be a memorable, successful, sensational event,...
Olajide Omotayo and Offiong Edem are Nigerian table tennis stars who have qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games billed to hold in Paris this summer. A...
Super Falcons of Nigeria have secured qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games after beating Banyana Banyana of South Africa on aggregate. The Falcons had failed to...
Nigerian athlete Blessing Okagbare has been handed a 10-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) over a doping scandal that has been on since last...
The House of Representatives has confirmed an investigation into the causes of the failure of Team Nigeria at the Tokyo Olympics regarding doping tests. Accordingly, the...
On this edition of SportsBusinness, we take a look at the progress being made by the U-20 athletes representing Nigeria at the World Athletics U-20 championships...
Former African champion Olufunke Oshonaike has been inducted by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) into the exclusive club of seven time Olympian known as the...
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has warned Nigerian athletes that anyone who fails to show up for the national trials will not...
Olympic champion and Jamaican sprinter, Yohan Blake has said he would rather miss the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games than get the Covid-19 vaccine. The Olympics, originally...
Russia’s initial four-year ban from all major sporting events has been reduced to two folloing a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The European...
The world Athletics governing body has handed a two-year ban to World 100m champion, Christian Coleman after the American missed drugs tests. This was announced by...
Super Falcons player, Chidinma Okeke has apologised to fans and well wishers of the team following their failure to progress in the race to the 2020...
Breakdancing is set to become an Olympic sport in 2024 if the proposal by Paris Olympics organizers is granted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Under...
Two years after Aruna Quadri became the first African to reach the quarterfinals of the table tennis event at the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee...
Nigeria’s Olufunke Oshonaike is looking to quit Table Tennis on a high note by fulfilling her dream of participating at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in...
Women’s long jump second runner-up at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, Blessing Okagbare, is set to be awarded the silver medal after the supposed silver medalist...
Nigerian Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung on Thursday that he was against Nigeria’s participation at the World Cup, because the global football competition...
FIFA’s six-year run as cooperating partner of the Ballon d’Or Award is over, and France Football is changing some things in how they handle the honor...
Kenya faces a ban from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after Hassan Wario, the Sports, Arts and Culture Cabinet Secretary disbanded the National Olympic Committee of...
Hope Solo has received a six-month suspension for calling the Swedish football team “a bunch of cowards”. The U.S. Women’s goalkeeper made the comments in the...
The President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has ordered the detention of its athletes who just returned from the 2016 Olympics in Rio for not winning a...
Gold medalist of the 2nd Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation (CCSF) International Taekwondo Opens, Niger Republic’s Issoufou Alfaga Abdoulrazak, has followed up his 2013 exposure by winning...
Usain Bolt ended his Olympic career by claiming an unprecedented ‘triple triple’ and his ninth gold as Jamaica won the 4x100m relay final in Rio. Bolt,...
Nigerian athletes have been promised better preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with Team Nigeria yet to register its name on the medals table after...
Three days to the end of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Team Nigeria took delivery of the much awaited kits after most of the athletes had concluded...
Nigeria’s woeful performance at the ongoing Rio Olympics in Brazil continued early Thursday morning with the exit of the duo of Divine Oduduru and Ese Brume...
International Olympic Committee has awarded Nigeria an Olympic silver medal from the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The IOC said Nigeria’s silver medal was as a result of...
Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles continued their superlative run at the ongoing Rio Olympics by beating Denmark 2-0 and setting up a semifinal battle against Germany. Led by...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Friday, praised Nigerian youths, declaring that they were responsible for making the country the largest economy in Africa during his tenure as...
Following the non-arrival of the official kits by the Sports Ministry, Team Nigeria athletes have opted to shop for kits to compete in their various competitions...
As the athletics events considered as the powerhouse of the Olympics begin, one of Team Nigeria’s coaches, Gabriel Okon, has sounded a warning to athletes to...
Technical Director of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation, Daniel Igali has finally expressed his joy that at last, training partners have been approved to join his wrestlers...
The exploits of American born Nigerian Rower, Chierika Ukogu at the on-going Rio 2016 Olympics has caught the attention of many Nigerian’s who are applauding her...
Nigeria and African champion, Aruna Quadri early Wednesday morning crashed out of the Rio Olympics after suffering a 4-0 defeat to China’s star and world number...
As scandals continue to rain on Team Nigeria like a deluge, the presidency, we gathered, has noted all the unpalatable events down and is expected to...
Manu Ginobili got his fourth Olympics started with 12 points and an easy victory, as Argentina beat Nigeria 94-66 on Sunday in the final Olympic men’s...
A stray bullet cut through the plastic roof of the equestrian media center on Saturday, alarming journalists and underlining concerns about the host city’s ability to...
Elegant Table Tennis star, Funke Oshonaike would lead out Team Nigeria at the Opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, at the Maracana stadium on Friday, August...
Representatives of Team Nigeria would take the centre stage on Wednesday(August 3) by 10 a.m. when the Mayor of Rio, Eduardo da Costa Paes among other army of...
Officials of the Nigeria Football Federation have expressed disappointed over stories making the round that Team Nigeria captain, John Obi Mikel, on Thursday donated the sum...
Super Eagles captain and Chelsea midfielder, John Obi Mikel and Table tennis star, Funke Oshonaike, have been chosen to lead Team Nigeria to the 2016 Olympic...
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has said it did not direct foreign-based athletes going to the Olympic Games in Rio to buy their own...
World number one Serena Williams, a double Olympic champion in 2012, her sister Venus and the Bryan brothers lead the US tennis team named Friday for...
Nigeria U-23 Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has sent a passionate appeal to President Mohammed Buhari to help to salvage the financial crisis rocking the Olympics team....
Over 50 foreign-based athletes mostly from Europe and the United States of America have arrived in the country ahead of this week’s All-Nigeria Championships billed for...
The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed that the U-23 Eagles will battle the Mexico U-23 national team in a friendly match billed for Saturday, 2nd July...
The groups and schedule for the Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament at the Rio 2016 Games have been finalised following the conclusion of the 2016 FIBA Women’s...
Andy and Jamie Murray will lead Great Britain’s bid for more Olympic tennis glory after the brothers were officially named in the squad for the Rio...
The Nigeria U-23 squad will on Monday begin its final preparations for the men’s football tournament of this year’s Olympics, when the delegation departs Nigeria for...
Turkish giant Fenerbahce has indicated interest in Super Eagles and Celtic of Scotland defender Efe Ambrose but the Nigerian will wait to see what happens at...
