Latest news and results from Nigeria – Live updates from the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) events and national meetings.
Video Interview with Nigeria’s sprinter champion and African record-holder, Blessing Okagbare, after the women’s Long Jump qualification at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday. She jumped…
Video Interview with Nigeria’s 400m runner Omolara Omotosho at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday.
Video Interview with Nigeria’s 800m runner Leoman Momoh at the 14th IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Russia yesterday.
The dwindling fortunes being witnessed in Nigeria’s athletic scene could soon be a thing of the past with the newly activated Nestle/IAAF Kids Athletics programme, stakeholders have posited. At the…
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare twice lowered the African women’s 100m record to beat a star-studded line-up at the Sainsbury Anniversary Games – IAAF Diamond League meeting in London today. Okagbare first erased…
Nestle Nigeria will launch the Nestlé/IAAF Kid’s Athletics Programme, in partnership with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), in Lagos on July 25. The programme, aimed at promoting the development…
The last batch of Team Nigeria’s contingent to this year’s IAAF World Youth Championship arrived Donetsk, Ukraine late Tuesday after spending about eleven hours in Istanbul, the Turkish capital. The…
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has released a provisional list of 19 athletes to represent Nigeria at the 2013 IAAF World Athletics championship in Moscow, Russia from August 10-18. As expected,…
Blessing Okagbare eased to victory in the women’s 200m in 22.65 seconds to complete a sprint double on the final day of competition at the 67th CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships…
Ogho-Oghene Egwero won Thursday’s top race with victory in the men’s 100m in 10.18 secs on day-two of the CRS/All Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar, Cross-Rivers State. The day produced…
Blessing Okagbare won her fifth successive Nigerian women’s 100m title in 11.25 seconds on Wednesday at the ongoing All-Nigeria Athletics Championships in Calabar. Okagbare who held the pre-championship best in…
Nigeria’s sprint queen and Beijing Olympics Long Jump bronze medallist, Blessing Okagbare has made a damming claim of neglect by the country’s administrators, labelling the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN)…
Former national 400m champion, Folasade Abugan, today made her much anticipated return to the tracks after serving out a 2-year doping ban. Abugan, a former World Junior champion ran in…
Top Nigerian athletes arrive in Calabar this week to compete for places in the team for the IAAF World Athletics Championships holding in Moscow, Russia from August 10 – 18,…
Nigerian athletes cruised to victory in virtually all the events at the 2nd edition of the Warri Relays/CAA Grand Prix held in Warri, Delta State last Friday. The Meet held…
A new national record of 63.79m was set by Queen Obisesan in the Women’s Hammer event at the fourth leg of the AFN/Solid Works Golden League Meet held at the…
A handful of fairly impressive performances were over the weekend recorded in the third leg of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria /Solid Works Golden League held inside the University of Benin…
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