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AFN shifts Commonwealth Games trials over delayed arrivals

The Athletics Federation of Nigeria has rescheduled the start of the 2026 Commonwealth Games national trials by one day to enable athletes affected by severe weather disruptions in the United States...... Read more Adeshina doubtful for Commonwealth Games

Nigerian record holder in the women’s high jump, Temitope Adeshina, is still not certain about competing at the upcoming 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, despite enjoying a successful season in the...... Read more W’Cup Olise, Barcola shine as Mbappé double powers France past Senegal in 3-1 thriller

The Nigeria Olympic Committee has unveiled a national safeguarding policy for sports and directed all national sports federations to domesticate and implement the framework to protect athletes from abuse, harassment, discrimination...... Read more Unbeaten Adeshina completes NCAA sweep

Nigerian record holder Temitope Adeshina capped an undefeated season by claiming her first NCAA outdoor title on Sunday at the NCAA Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon....... Read more Nnamdi wins Nigeria’s first NCAA javelin title

Young Nigerian thrower Prosper Nnamdi made history on Thursday, becoming the first Nigerian male athlete to win the NCAA men’s javelin title after a dominant display at the NCAA Championships in...... Read more Ajayi, Ogazi win NCAA titles

Nigerian athletes Kayinsola Ajayi and Samuel Ogazi claimed the men’s 100m and 400m titles, respectively, at the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Championships in the early hours of Friday at Hayward Field in...... Read more AFN VP pledges N1.6m reward for C’wealth Games trials

The Second Vice President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Akuchukwu Aghazu, has introduced a performance-based reward scheme to motivate home-based athletes ahead of the Commonwealth Games Trials in Lagos next weekend, PUNCH...... Read more Olopade charges federations ahead of 2026 Commonwealth Games

National Sports Commission Director General Bukola Olopade has challenged Nigeria’s sports federations to raise their standards as Team Nigeria enters the final stretch of preparations for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in...... Read more Ofili, Nathaniel lead Nigerian entries for Lone Star Grand Prix

Four Nigerian athletes, including 150m world record holder Favour Ofili, African 400m hurdles record holder Ezekiel Nathaniel, Rosemary Chukwuma and African indoor 400m record holder Ella Onojuvwevwo, are set to compete at...... Read more SWAN urges Kano to immortalise 22 deceased athletes

The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Kano State chapter, has urged the state government to immortalise the 22 athletes who died in a road accident while returning from the Ogun Gateway...... Read more Amusan drops to third in world rankings

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, the women’s 100m hurdles world record holder, has slipped to third place in the latest global athletics rankings despite improving her points tally with strong performances at two Diamond...... Read more ‘Amusan deserves apologies over world record hate’ Former American middle-distance runner Kyle Merber believes those who questioned Tobi Amusan after her women’s 100m hurdles world record in 2022 owe the Nigerian an apology, following the growing belief that the...... Read more Elite athletes arrive for 11th Okpekpe Int’l 10km Road Race Ethiopian star Lemi Teshome and Kenyan runner Fridah Ndinda are among the top international elite athletes expected to arrive in Lagos on Wednesday en route to Auchi for the 11th edition of...... Read more NBF eyes Commonwealth Games redemption after Olympics failure The Nigeria Boxing Federation has set its sights on six gold medals at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as the body looks to recover from the administrative turmoil that undermined its...... Read more Lagos woos Otedola to champion cycle fest

The Director General of the Lagos State Sports Commission, Lekan Fatodu, has called on business mogul and philanthropist Femi Otedola to champion the upcoming Lagos Cycle Fest after the billionaire recently attracted...... Read more African Open: Onyinyechi smashes world record as Nigeria wins 49 medals

Nigeria finished second overall at the African Open Para-Powerlifting Championships in Oran with an outstanding haul of 49 medals after Onyinyechi Mark smashed both the world and African records on the final...... Read more Okpekpe Int’l 10km Race gets broadcast deal

The Okpekpe International 10km Road Race, the first road race in West Africa to earn World Athletics Label status, will be broadcast live worldwide on May 30, organisers have announced. The race,...... Read more African athletes possess NFL traits in abundance — Umenyiora

Two-time Super Bowl champion and Head of NFL Africa, Osi Umenyiora, talks about the NFL’s International Player Pathway Programme, discovering Nigerian prospect Uar Bernard, the growing influence of African athletes in...... Read more 270 athletes begin journey to stardom in Edo

Over 270 young athletes from 20 schools participated in the 2026 Discovering Tomorrow’s Star talent hunt programme at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin, Edo on Thursday. The athletes won medals in athletics,...... Read more Tabugbo eyes Commonwealth Games success

Nigeria’s Adaobi Tabugbo has shifted her attention towards the Commonwealth Games following her breakthrough performance at the African Athletics Championships in Accra, where she won bronze in the women’s 100m hurdles behind...... Read more Amusan targets World Ultimate Champs qualification

Nigeria’s sprint hurdler Tobi Amusan has set her sights on qualification for the World Ultimate Championships after opening her 2026 season with a strong start, following a gold-medal win at the...... Read more Ezechukwu eyes double gold in African Champs

Teenage Nigerian sprinter Miracle Ezechukwu has set her sights on winning both the 100m and 4x100m relay titles at the 24th African Athletics Championships in Accra, while also targeting a new personal...... Read more International Sambo Federation hails blind Nigerian athletes

The International SAMBO Federation has praised Nigeria’s growing influence in blind sambo, highlighting the country’s recent string of podium finishes as evidence that its visually impaired athletes have yet to reach their...... Read more Adeshina bags Texas Tech student-athlete award

Nigeria’s high jumper and national record holder, Temitope Adeshina, has won the International Student-Athlete Excellence Award in the women’s category at the 2026 Red & Black Gala of Texas Tech, PUNCH Sports Extra reports....... Read more Ikoyi Club set to host inter-school swimming league

The Chairman of the Swimming Section of Ikoyi Club 1938, Akinbulejo Onabolu, has assured participants of an exciting competition at the first leg of the second edition of the Quomodo Inter-School Swimming...... Read more