By Chika Chukwumerije Nigeria's Elizabeth Anyanacho stoically lost out to double Olympic Medalist and former world champion, Nur Tartar of Turkey in the taekwondo event of the ongoing 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan, Bestchoicesport.com.ng can report The duo, competed in the female -67kg, kick-... Read more...
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22/07/2021,
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By Agency Report The last batch of Nigeria's contingents for the 32nd edition of the Summer Olympics holding in Japan's capital city, Tokyo left the shores of the country on Wednesday. But despite what outsiders could see as a contingent with good preparations though limitedly, the Team Niger... Read more...
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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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...
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 minister of youth and sports, Sunday Dare has vowed to make public the ministry's and federal government's financial support given to former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia when he was initially banned for life by world football umpire, FIFA. In 2019, the former Eagles p... Read more...
By Our Correspondent “And the minister called me and said, ‘coach, I know about your problem, but we don’t have money,” Siasia Samson Siasia, former Super Eagles Star, have expressed disappointment on how the minister of youth and sports, Sunday Dare, his former Teammates and Nigerian... Read more...
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24/06/2021,
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By Amaechi Agbo The minister of youth and sports development, Mr Sunday Dare's insistence that the team Nigerian to the July 2021 Olympic games would be successful and consequently benchmarked with the 1996 Olympic success has been described as a joke, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report. For... 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...
By Amaechi Agbo President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF President, Amaju Pinnick to hunt for and develop talents in the country as well as use the home-based players in national assignments, Bestchoicesoprts.com.ng can report. The president who gave the cha... Read more...