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Ekiti athletes get new kits, state Assembly probes officials

Team Ekiti on Wednesday unveiled their new kits at the ongoing National Youth Games in Asaba in what is a reparation for their show of shame at the opening ceremony of...... Read more NYG: Anambra Rakes Wins Gold, Silver Medals

Anambra team to the 7th National Youth Games (NYG) in Asaba, the Delta state capital has begun their medal haul with five medals.The team won two gold medals through Chibuikem Oranye...... Read more Anambra wonder kid wins 4 gold in gymnastics at NYG

Stephanie Onusiruka, 12 years old wonder kid from Anambra state has won four gold for Delta state in the gymnastics event at the ongoing National Youth Games (NYG) in Asaba. Onusiruka...... Read more NYG athletes lament poor conditions, maltreatment

It’s not all fun and sports at the ongoing seventh National Youth Games in Asaba, Delta State following complaints by athletes and coaches over poor accommodation and feeding arrangements at the...... Read more Asian Games: Over 150 athletes test negative for doping

Between 150 and 200 Asian Games athletes have already been tested for doping, the Olympic Council of Asia said on Monday, with no positive results so far. Speaking at an anti-doping...... Read more Amusan unfazed by AIU appeal

Former world champion and three-time Diamond League winner Tobi Amusan seems unbothered by the latest move by the Athletics Integrity Unit to challenge her racing status after the body appealed their disciplinary...... Read more Amusan is off the hook as Athletics Integrity Unit’s appeal period lapses

The 30-day period of appeal opened to the Athletic Integrity Unit (AIU) to contest World Athletics’ lifting of the provisional ban on Tobi Amusan has lapsed this Saturday. When last August...... Read more Tobi Amusan triumphs at Diamond League finals in Eugene

Nigeria sprinter, Tobi Amusan, clinched her third Diamond League trophy in the Women’s 100m Hurdles with a time of 12.33 seconds. Punch Online reports that she made this feat on Sunday...... Read more Amusan drops eight places in WA rankings

World 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, has dropped eight places from 25th to 33rd in the women’s overall weekly rankings released by World Athletics ahead of this weekend’s Diamond League...... Read more Amusan, Nathaniel qualify for Paris Olympics

Former World 100m hurdles champion, Tobi Amusan, and 400m hurdler, Ezekiel Nathaniel have secured their spots at next year’s Olympic Games in Paris, France. Last December, World Athletics revealed the pathway...... Read more Amusan: Despite losing the 100m hurdles title we are with you -- NOC

The Board of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) is reaching out to offer you, Tobi Amusan, some comforting words in the light of your race in Budapest at which you lost...... Read more AIU suspension affected Amusan in Budapest, says stakeholders

…back hurdler to bounce back Stakeholders and former athletes strongly believe that dethroned women’s 100m hurdles world champion, Tobi Amusan, will bounce back better despite her inability to successfully defend her...... Read more ‘Well done’ – Mrs Tinubu encourages Amusan despite World Athletics Championship loss

Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has congratulated World Hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan after relinquishing her World Championship title to Jamaican Danielle Williams ( 12.43s). The first lady wrote, “Well...... Read more ‘I’ll be back stronger,’ Amusan says after 100m world title defeat

Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan says she will be back stronger next year after losing the world women’s 100m hurdles crown to Jamaica’s Danielle Williams on Thursday in Budapest. In an interview with...... Read more Budapest 2023: Amusan eases into hurdles semis

World women’s 100m hurdles champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan, returned to the tracks with a bang and is on course to successfully defending her title, after easing into the semi-finals of...... Read more Sunday Dare congratulates Amusan on AIU clearance

… Urges her to defend Women’s 100m title boldly in Budapest The immediate past minister of Sports and Youth development, Chief Sunday Dare, CON, has described Thursday’s ruling of an arbitration...... Read more WA Championships: Brume, Usoro begin Team Nigeria’s medal quest

Athletics fans across Nigeria are turning their attention to the World Athletics Championships which starts today in the Hungarian capital Budapest, Saturday PUNCH reports. At last year’s event in Oregon, Team Nigeria finished...... Read more Budapest: Amusan Nigeria’s medal hopeful if cleared, say stakeholders

Ahead of the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which begins on Saturday in Budapest, Hungary, athletics enthusiasts in Nigeria believe reigning world champion and women’s 100m hurdles record holder, Tobi Amusan, will...... Read more Ban: No decision taken on Amusan yet, says WA

The World Athletics has disclosed that women’s 100m hurdles world champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan, has not yet been cleared to compete at this year’s World Championships, which begins this...... Read more Amusan missing as AFN releases World Championships list

World women’s 100m hurdles champion and record holder Tobi Amusan was conspicuously missing from Team Nigeria’s list of 26 athletes to the World Athletics Championships, which was released by the Athletics...... Read more Doping violation ban: Can Amusan scale this hurdle?

Five days before her women’s 100m hurdles world title and world record clock a year; and exactly one month to the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which holds from August 19 to...... Read more Amusan wins again, Brume second at Hungary meet

World record holder, Tobi Amusan, recorded her second consecutive victory in three days after winning the women’s 100m hurdles at the Gyulai István Memorial in Hungary with a time of 12.35secs...... Read more Hurdles world record-holder, Amusan, charged with anti-doping violation

Women’s hurdles world record-holder, Tobi Amusan, on Wednesday said she has been charged with an alleged anti-doping rule violation, casting doubt on her participation in next month’s world championships. “Today the...... Read more World Championships: Women’s relay team in, men out

Team Nigeria have secured one more qualification spot for the relays event of the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which holds from August 19 to 27 in Budapest, Hungary, after a mixed...... Read more Parents dashed my dream of becoming world 100m champion –Onyema

Air Peace boss Allen Onyema talks about his love and passion for sports, how he missed the chance to become a world champion, his humanitarian activities in the sports world and...... Read more