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Tokyo 2020: Buhari Unveils Team Nigeria’s Official Outfit, Wants repeat of 1996, 2000 Feats

0 comments, 14/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports in Athletics, Basketball, Boxing, News, olympics, Tennis

President Mohammadu Buhari has charged Team Nigeria to replicate the performances of past Nigerian Olympians, noting, ‘you stand on the shoulders of giants.’ Speaking while officially unveiling Team Nigeria’s outfit to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Buhari recalled the exploits of past Nige... Read more...

Uniben Student Wins Apemiye Open Rapid Chess Championship

0 comments, 13/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports
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Special Cup: We Are Motivated to Do More – Olumide Aturu

0 comments, 12/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports
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Tokyo Olympics: Anyanacho Battles Two-time Medalist In Taekwondo

0 comments, 10/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports
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The Day Nigerian Sports Scored Another Own Goal

0 comments, 10/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports
Posted in Athletics, Basketball, Football, Grassroots, Investigation, News

Bunmi Haruna Calls For Inclusion Of SWAN On National Sports Commission Board

0 comments, 08/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports in Athletics, Basketball, Boxing, Football, Grassroots, News

Bunmi Haruna, chairman of Sports Writers' Association of Nigeria (SWAN) FCT chapter, has called for the inclusion of the body on the National Sports Commission (NSC) board. The newly elected chairman stated this in his presentation at the Senate Committee on Sports public hearing on the bill see... Read more...

Osun Unveils State’s Sports Festival

0 comments, 07/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports in Athletics, Boxing, Football, Grassroots, News

By Our Correspondent Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State yesterday unveiled Osun Sports Festival. Speaking on behalf of the governor at a press conference in Osogbo, the state capital, Osun Commissioner for Youths and Sports Festival, Yemi Lawal said that the state had concluded plan... Read more...

Okagbare Bags New 100m Personal Season’s Best In Hungary

0 comments, 07/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports in Athletics, News, olympics

Nigerian fastest woman of all-time and 8 time national 100m queen, Blessing Okagbare, raced to a new 10.89 seconds personal season’s best to place fourth in the 100m event Tuesday at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial Meeting in Budapest, Hungary. The Nigerian, looking to make it a hat-trick of 100m w... Read more...

Tokyo 2020: Customs Hold Basketball Teams To Ransom, Demand N35 Million To Clear Kits

0 comments, 05/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports in Athletics, Basketball, Investigation, News

By Agency Report The joy of Nigerians to watch their male and female senior basketball teams perform well at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could be dashed as the Nigeria Customs Services, NCS have refused to clear the teams' kits and other sports equipment in preparation for the Games at Lagos seaport... Read more...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: 25 Athletes Begin Camping In Abuja

0 comments, 05/07/2021, by Best Choice Sports in Athletics, Grassroots, News, Tennis

25 Athletes and 10 coaches have began camping in Abuja, Nigeria's federal Capital in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games scheduled to commence 24th July. Athletic Federation of NIgeria, AFN Secretary-General AFN, Adisa Beyioku, in a letter dated July 2 and addressed to the Director, Federatio... Read more...