By Our Correspondent The Department of Secret Services DSS has cleared the President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Engr Ibrahim Shehu Gusau of any criminality in the PUMA contract signed by the former AFN board. This followed a report to the DSS after widespread false information fab... Read more...
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17/07/2021,
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Agency Report Eyebrows have been raised following different attire worn by members of Team Nigeria contingent in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games despite the announcement of AFA Sports as the country’s official kits supplier. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had on Monday in Abuja unveiled AFA Sports a... Read more...
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10/07/2021,
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By Wole Oyebade To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it – J. Jenkins Wise men learn from other men’s mistakes, fools by their own – H.G. Bohn Nigerian team heading to the forthcoming summer Olympics in Tokyo last week tripped over th... Read more...
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...
By Tosin Oluwalowo World Athletics has disqualified the Nigerian women’s 4x400m team from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics following some technical errors in the race where they secured qualification at the Lagos Open Athletics Championships on June 24. The Nigerian quartet – Nse Imaobong, Favour ... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo The appointment of Dr Ibrahim Abdul as the Chairman, Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, NWF Caretaker Committee, signals a new dawn in the development of the sport in the country. Though appointed for a limited three months' period, his emergence as the number one weightlifter ... Read more...
Wind stopped Blessing Okagbare from becoming the joint-fastest woman alive when she ran a time of 9.63m at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria National Trials held at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos on Thursday. The Punch reports that Okagbare stood out among other runners at the women’s 100... Read more...
By Ebube Dike The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Engr Ibrahim Shehu Gusau is hopeful that some Nigerian athletes will be able to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo ahead of today’s National Trials holding at the Yaba College of Technology Sports Complex on Thursday.... Read more...
By Amaechi Agbo Engr Ibrahim Shehu Gusau has been re-elected President of the Athletics Federation of Nigerian, AFN at the 2021 Elective Congress held in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi state on Monday June 14. He polled 20 votes while Uche Muoma got just two votes from the 22 delegates present at the ve... Read more...
Hope is not over for Nigeria's participation in the upcoming 2021 World Athletics Relays billed to hold in Silesia, Poland from April 26 to May 2,2021 following the condition given by officials of the African Athletics (CAA) and World Athletics (WA) on Tuesday in Abuja. A source told our corres... Read more...