Nigeria’s Segun Toriola versus Singapore’s Ning Gao at 2014 Commonwealth Games This happened during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games but we decided to bring it to you as one of the Unmissable Moments in Nigerian sports for the year 2014. Amazing scenes at the Scotstoun Sports Campus as Nigeria’s Segun Toriola produc…

–Nigerian star begins campaign for honour Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri has been seeded number five at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour tagged Belgium Open and the African champion is expected to begin his campaign on Thursday from the main draw (round of 64) of the championship, which served off on…

IN 1973, the people of Ikorodu rolled out a red carpet to celebrate one of their own, Modupe Osikoya, after she emerged the star athlete at the All-Africa Games, which Nigeria hosted for the first time in Lagos. Several years on, another female star from the area has put the country, and indeed Africa, on the World map…

African champion, Aruna Quadri, became one of the biggest movers in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) rankings for the month of September when he jumped from number 111 to 73 in the men’s category. Quadri who caused two major upsets at the last Czech Open when he defeated world’s number 24 and 38 to make…

–Man City star training with MLS side to keep fit Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho scored a hat-trick for Major League Soccer side, Columbus Crew yesterday in their 5-1 demolotion of the team’s USL Pro affiliate Dayton in a scrimmage friendly. Midfielder Ben Speas scored the other two goals. Iheanacho is train…

Super Eagles have shown their readiness to ensure that Nigeria qualify for the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Morocco as they defied the heavy rain in Calabar yesterday to train ahead of the Saturday’s encounter with the Red Devils of Congo Brazzaville. The players who would have ordinarily stayed back in their hotel r…

Nigeria’s track queen Blessing Okagbare will go head to head against America’s track jewel Felix Allyson in 200m as Brussels hosts the second of two finals for the 2014 IAAF Diamond League series. Sixteen more Diamond Race winners will be crowned on Friday, September 5. The closest battles will come in the women’s 200m…

It’s been drumming hard in Calabar, the Cross River State capital in terms of rainfall and the Super Eagles seem to have shown that they are up to rain ball by the way they trained on Wednesday evening in the Canaan City. Head Coach Stephen Keshi, his technical crew and even backroom staff were all out in the rain as t…

Lunch time in Calabar for the Super Eagles technical crew was a delight on Tuesday, as camp suddenly upped to 17, with more players expected before training in the evening after only nine players trained in the morning training session.Head Coach Stephen Keshi and his assistants were grinning from ear to ear as Ahmed M…

Reigning African and Commonwealth 100m Champion, Blessing Okagbare is in contention for the USD$40,000 bonus and the Diamond Race trophy on offer this Friday at the Memorial Van Damme Diamond League meeting in Brussels,Belgium,the final meeting of the 14-leg IAAF Diamond League series. The six time Nigeria 100m queen i…