As the 2024 Olympic Games opened in Paris, France yesterday, President Bola Tinubu on behalf of all Nigerians, has sent best wishes to Team Nigeria at the event. A total of 88 Team Nigeria athletes, including 63 women and 25 men, are flying Nigeria’s flag in 12 sports at the games. They form part of the 10,714 athletes from 205 …

World record holder Tobi Amusan has been selected as the country’s flagbearer for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This appointment marks a historic moment for Nigerian athletics, as Amusan becomes the first track and field athlete in two decades to receive this honour. A tweet by Making of Champions on social media platform X on Tuesday …

The House of Representatives on Wednesday announced the donation of N100 million to Nigeria’s 2024 Olympics and Paralympics contingent to the forthcoming Games billed for Paris, France. Deputy Speaker, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, who presided over the plenary, disclosed this when the House hosted the Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Enoh, who was in the Green Chamber to unveil Team …

Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna has been confirmed by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) as one of the 86 players who will take part in the men’s singles event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by world ranking. The 35-year-old will be making his fourth appearance at the Olympics having previously represented Nigeria in 2012, 2016 and 2020, reaching the quarter-finals …

Nigeria’s quartet of Samuel Ogazi, Ella Onojuvwevwo, Chidi Okezie, and Esther Elo Joseph competing in the mixed 4x400m event of the ongoing World Relays in the Bahamas have qualified for the Paris Olympics holding later this year. The time ran a time of 3:13.79 in Heat 2 to finish second behind the United States of America to book one of …

Team Nigerian will begin their quest for tickets to all five relay events of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in other countries at the World Athletics Relays, which begins on Saturday (today) in Nassau, Bahamas. The two-day global event will see 893 athletes from 54 countries vie for slots at the centenary games on Saturday and Sunday, as confirmed by …

Bayana Bayana goalkeeper Kaylin Swart admits playing against the Super Falcons is a Herculean task but says she and her teammates are ready for their crucial final Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifiers against their familiar foes. Both sides have forged an intense rivalry over the years and are seen as the toast of Africa following recent successes, but it’s been …

The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) has hailed Team Nigeria’s taekwondoist star, Elizabeth Anyanacho, for her qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympics Games. The 24-year-old, one of the beneficiaries of the International Olympic Committee scholarship, and who was the second Nigerian female taekwondo athlete to compete at the Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020) after Princess Dudu at Athens 2004, has created another …