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FA licensed agent, Dr Drew Uyi, has stressed the need for African athletes and sports practitioners to embrace sports branding, saying it’s a gateway to competing at the top level and planning for life after retirement. Uyi advised African athletes to engage brand experts with a knowledge of their backgrounds, countries, cultures, inclinations and conditions,
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By Ben Efe Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, performance director, Gabriel Okon has said Nigerian athletes who may want to apply for the World Athletics, WA Covid-19 grants shouldn’t harbour any fear of missing out. The WA announced a $500,000 grant to be given to athletes as compensation for the coronavirus worldwide postponement of sporting
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A former Commonwealth and British Light heavyweight boxing champion, Peter Oboh has advised athletes to keep themselves busy while in self isolation in order to remain in good during this period of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Despite the postponement of the National Sports Festival and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics due to the outbreak of COVID-19, Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has assured that the ministry was monitoring the athletes. According to him: “The Nigerian authorities through the Sports Ministry called off the National Sports Festival as a
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It’s not all the time that National Federations get commendations from their international bodies. Recently, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria received commendation letters from the IAAF President Sebastian Coe, the President of the Confederation of Athletics Hamad Kalkaba Malboum and the President Nigeria Olympic Committee Engr. Habu Gumel.
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Excessive athletic training can not just make the body tired, it can tire out the brain too. A link was recently established between mental and physical effort when researchers imposed an excessive training load on triathletes.
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Sports Ministry’s permanent secretary, Olusade Adesola’s threat to ban Blessing Okagbare, Tobi Amusan, Divine Oduduru and others from the 2020 Olympic Games has been faulted by ex-internationals, Adewale Olukoju and Olusoji Fasuba.
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With only three weeks to the start of the 12th All Africa Games billed for Rabat, Morocco, Nigerian athletes and officials are faced with the possibility of missing the games.
Read More The organising committee of the first JAC Motors 10km road race billed for the Ogun State capital, Abeokuta is in a dilemma over the swelling number of athletes that have registered for the event holding on 3rd November, 2019.
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Inspite of the downpour at the Yaba College of Technology, venue of the the 2nd Making of Champions (MoC) Grandprix, athletes and coaches defy the rain to jostle for medals.
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