Federal University of Technology Akure athletes for the forth-coming Nigeria Univer-sity Games, have stepped up their preparations with all eyes on Babajide Okulaja. Okulaja is a four hundred level physics student who is primed to win the long jump event because of his longstanding performance at the national level. He will be leading other FUTA students who also are medal potentials in the event that will be hosted by Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State February 12-22.

Nigeria’s 2014 athletics season begins on February 14, when the All Comers meet holds in Sagamu, Ogun State and athletics coaches and officials are expecting the athletes who have been in the Commonwealth Games camp in Abuja to put up a show and prove that the training they recieved was not a wasted exercise.

The delegation of Ghana’s national under-17 women Ghana football team on Friday arrived in Abuja for the team’s international friendly match with their Nigerian counterparts.

Babatunde Fatayi-Williams, the President of the Nigeria Aquatics Federation (NAF), on Friday in Lagos said the body would make the sport more productive in 2014.

By Jacob Ajom Sports Minister, Hon Bolaji Abdulahi yesterday hailed the resilience of the Super Eagles at the on-going CHAN African Nations tournament in South Africa, declaring that Nigerians from President Goodluck Jonathan to the common man on the streets appreciate the team. Speaking when he addressed the team at their President Hotel and Conference Centre […]