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Team Nigeria

August 28, 2024

Paris 2024: Sports minister urges paralympic athletes to restore Nigeria’s pride

Mr Enoh expressed confidence in the athletes and their potential to achieve greatness.

Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan-Enoh
August 23, 2024

Paris 2024: FG announces improved bonuses for Paralympic athletes

Enoh emphasised the need for the athletes to do better than Team Nigeria’s poor performance at the just concluded Olympic Games.

Nigerian Paralympic athletes
August 21, 2024

Athlete urges early preparation for Nigeria ahead of 2028 Olympics

Mr Godwin said Nigeria did not perform well at the Olympics because its athletes didn’t have adequate training ahead of the Olympics,

PARIS OLYMPICS
August 13, 2024

Stakeholders urge early preparations of Team Nigeria ahead of 2028 0lympics

Mr Solanke said Nigeria’s disappointing results at global sporting don’t reflect its potential and abundant talents.

Scenes of team Nigeria at the Paris Olympics
August 12, 2024

Ex-Ebonyi commissioner urges Nigeria to learn from Olympics failure

“The Olympics should not be the only area of focus but sports in general,” he said.

Team Nigeria for Paris Olympics
August 8, 2024

Team Nigeria’s 4x100m relay teams run season’s best records, yet fail to qualify

The two teams couldn’t qualify for the next round in their events in the opening round at the Stade de France.

Nigeria's Olympic team (credit: PT)
July 29, 2024

Paris Olympics: Edem crashes out as Team Nigeria suffers another loss

Offiong Edem lost to Brazil’s Bruna Takahashi 4-0 on Sunday to add to Team Nigeria’s losing run at the ongoing Olympic Games in Paris.

Offiong Edem
March 11, 2024

African Games: Nigerian wrestlers sweep gold in Ghana

Team Nigeria recorded a clean sweep of gold medals on Sunday at the ongoing African Games in Ghana after six female wrestlers won in their various categories.

MEDALS TABLE
March 10, 2024

African Games: Team Nigeria book semi-final ticket in cricket

“Though we lost to South Africa, all that matters is the semi-finals qualification.’’

Nigeria under-17 female volleyball team
February 7, 2024

Weightlifting: Umoafia wins two more medals for Team Nigeria

The 2022 Commonwealth bronze medalist competed in the 73kg men’s category to claim the two silver medals.

Edidiong Umoafia