Tag: African Games

Nigeria’s last round opponents’ Benin Republic pulled out at the last minute, citing a lack of travel funds

Ijeoma Ukpabi has been selected to captain the team while Jummai Bitrus is the newly selected assistant captain

Ofili finished with an impressive 21.96 seconds to break Okagbare’s 22.04 seconds record that was set in 2018.

Team Nigeria got their first victory in Tokyo in the women's table tennis event

A second top Nigerian athlete faces a similar disqualification.

Oyesade Olatoye won a gold and a bronze medal at the African Games.

Okagbare is the country’s sole representative in the Women’s 100 and 200 metre events.

Team Nigeria made some in-roads into some new sports, consolidated its dominance in others but lost grip in a few ...

The Nigeria Flying Eagles were beaten 2-0 by their Burkina Faso counterparts.

The Falconets won the gold medal on Thursday in the women's football event of the African Games concluded in Morocco.

Nigeria, as of Thursday night, had gathered a total of 103 medals (40 gold, 28 silver and 35 bronze medals).

More gold medals are trickling in for Nigeria at the ongoing African Games in Morocco as the country has now ...

Amusan on Wednesday set a new Games Record when she won the 100m Hurdles event with a time of 12.68secs.

The next awards will be announced as the athletes conclude their events.

The athlete lifted 90kg in her first attempt before breaking the Africa record in her second attempt with 92kg.

Cynthia Aku scored two first-half goals before Zainab Olapade added another in the later stage.

Nigeria narrowly defeated Mali to win gold in women's basketball.

The Nigerian record holder also speaks on Nigeria's preparations for the African Games.

The female team, the Falconets, are also through to the semi-finals.

Nigeria presently has one gold and four bronze medals at the games.

Nearly 100 athletes from 20 countries are competing in the IPC Powerlifting event as part of the 2015 All African ...