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Aug 5, 2024

Confirmed: Team Nigeria knocked out of 10 events at Paris 2024 Olympics

Team Nigeria’s performance at the ongoing Paris Olympics continues to disappoint, with athletes bowing out of 10 events. The only…
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Jul 20, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympics: Team Nigeria to participate in 11 games [see full list]

With just five days to go until the Paris 2024 Olympics, Team Nigeria is set to compete in 11 games,…
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Aug 12, 2021

FIFA Ranking: Super Eagles fall seven places in August table

The Super Eagles of Nigeria dropped seven places to 34th position in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. The three-time African…
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Aug 6, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Team Nigeria lose again in women’s wrestling

Nineteen-year-old Nigerian, Adijat Idris, was defeated by Ukraine’s Oksana Livach in the quarter-final of the wrestling women’s 50kg freestyle at…
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Aug 5, 2021

Team Nigeria suffers additional blow as they crash out of another big event at Olympics

Nigeria’s hopes of winning medal in the women’s 4×100 meter category at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been decimated after…
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Aug 5, 2021

PUMA terminates $2.67m contract with Nigeria after Olympics drama

German sportswear manufacturing giants PUMA has terminated its four-year contract with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria. The AFN under the…
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Aug 5, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria’s Enekwechi loses in men’s shot put final

Team Nigeria’s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi fails to win a medal in the men’s shot put final at the ongoing Tokyo 2020…
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Aug 4, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Anything can happen in shot put final, Enekwechi insists

Shot put athlete Chukwuebuka Enekwechi believes anything can happen in the final of the men’s shot put event of the…
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Aug 4, 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Nigeria’s medal favourite, Odunayo Adekuoroye knocked out in wrestling

Nigeria’s Tokyo Olympics medal favourite, Odunayo Adekuruoye has been beaten in the women’s 57kg freestyle wrestling. Team Nigeria’s Odunayo Adekuroye crashed out…