It was amazing hearing Barrister Solomon Dalung, the immediate past minister of sports make what would ordinarily be regarded as a constructive critique of Nigeria’s woeful performance in the just-concluded Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. In the face of the fact that Nigeria won only one medal in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games supervised […]

Former Commonwealth and British boxing champion, Peter Oboh, has said Sunday Dare, the Minister of Youths and Sports, should not be blamed for the financial, technical and logistics woes that befell Nigerian athletes at the just-concluded Tokyo 2020 Olympic games in Japan.

By Tony Ubani, in Tokyo Odunayo Adekuoroye was Team Nigeria’s hope and face at the Tokyo Olympics. She was so good that she was described as good as gold. Nigerians looked eagerly to her fight with high hopes.  But the unexpected happened yesterday as Adekuoroye was beaten flatly through a pinfall after romping to an […]

Unknown to millions who watched Blessing Oborududu wrestle her way to win Silver in the 68kg freestyle women wrestling event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, she actually defied a nagging knee injury to become the first Nigerian to win medal in Wrestling. According to the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the Nigerian Wrestling Federation […]

Abiola Ogunbanwo stunned the pool on Wednesday at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre to win heat 1 of the women’s 100 metres freestyle event of the 2020 Olympic Games’ swimming competition. Running from lane 3 in the four-competitor heat, Ogunbanwo emerged st the finish lane after 59.74 seconds to qualify for the event’s semi-finals. The 17-year-old […]