Chidiebere Nwobodo explains CBN’s move to stop act of robbing Peter to pay Paul In a bid to streamline the nation’s forex market and bring sanity in the foreign exchange system, the regulatory watchdog of Nigeria’s monetary system, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, displayed uncommon supervisory courage with the recent embargo placed on weekly […]

By Tony Ubani, Tokyo Nigerian sprinter and 2008 Olympics long jump silver medallist Blessing Okagbare’s Tokyo Games ended abruptly on Saturday morning after she was provisionally suspended following a positive test for human growth hormone, the Athletics Integrity Unit said in a statement. The 32-year-old, who has also won world championship medals in the 200m […]

This is far from the truth. The athletes were only declared ineligible to compete because they did not complete the three out-of-competition tests that would have made them eligible for only the Tokyo Olympic Games.

After ten of her athletes were declared ineligible to compete at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics Games by the Athletics Integrity Unit, the image of Nigeria suffered further battering yesterday when some of the athletes took to the streets of Tokyo to protest their fate. Other countries were celebrating heroic feats, struggling for more medals in […]

Nigeria may yet again be engulfed in another round of international embarrassment unless good reason prevails and the Ministry of Sports backpedals on its stand concerning the Puma kitting contract with the AFN.