Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare has charged the Implementation Committee of the Report of the Ministerial Taskforce on National Stadium Surulere, Lagos to...
Nigeria’s Sports Minister, Sunday Dare has been hailed over his determined move to resuscitate long distance running in Nigeria after years of neglect. Ezra Gunnen, a...
Community Sport and Educational Development (CSED) Initiative has rolled back the years in a bid to use sports to promote literacy in Nigeria. This is following...
Nigeria had a glorious closing moment as the curtain was about to fall on the Atlanta ’96 Olympic Games. It was landmark Olympic Games, being held...
After various setbacks in her career, Police woman, Chioma Ajunwa on this date, 2 August 1996, shot into global limelight when she became the first black...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA On this date, 29 July 1996, Falilat Ogunkoya became Nigeria’s first individual woman Olympic medallist when she won bronze medal in 400 metres...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On this date, 25 July 1992, the Nigerian camp at the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games was set agog when the unusual happened. The...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On this date, 19 July 1952, the XV Summer Olympic Games opened in Helsinki, Finland. It was the first Olympic Games in which...
BY KUNLE SOLAJA. On this date, 16 July 1988, American sprinter, Carl Lewis broke the 10 seconds barrier in the 100 metres race when he ran...
European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen, who suffered a stroke in March, has passed away at the age of 74. Hansen died at his home in...