Tuesday 30 August 2016

Super Eagles Camp Bubbles Ahead Of AFCON Qualifier Against Tanzania




SuperEagles line-up
The camp of the Super Eagles of Nigeria came alive Tuesday with  the arrival of London quartet of team captain   ,Mikel Obi ,his vice ,Ahmed Musa,Kelechi Iheancho and Victor Moses  at the Le Meridien Hotel ,in Uyo,Akwa Ibom State,South South Nigeria.

Sunday 28 August 2016

NFF Not Joking With AFCON Qualifier Against Tanzania



Sanusi.Thanks to the Nff.com for the pix
General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation,Dr. Sanusi Mohammed has  underlined the importance of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Tanzania ,despite Nigeria exiting from  Africa biggest soccer show piece.

Azeemah Wants More For The Sport Of Gymnastics





Azeemah Shehu middle with other young gymnast displaying their medals.
Gold medal winner at the recent African Junior Gymnastics Competition at the High Performance centre  in South Africa and captain of team Nigeria to the event,Azeemah  Shehu says the sport needs better encouragement in the country.

Oshoala Grabs A Brace For Aresenal

Oshoala rounding goal keeper  Megan Walsh for second.
A double from Super Falcons attacker  Asisat Oshoala  on Sunday saw the  Arsenal Ladies triumph 2-0 over Notts County Ladies  in the Women’s Super League to boost their chances of securing Champions League football next season, despite having only 10 players for the last half hour.

Friday 26 August 2016

Nigeria's D'Tigers Leapfrog In The Lataest FIBA Ranking






Nigera's D'Tigers celebrating.
BY PATRICK OMORODION:
The national men's Basketball team,  D'Tigers may not have qualified for the quarter-finals at the just concluded 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil but they have emerged better than they were before the Games following figures released by the sport's world governing body, FIBA .

Sunday 21 August 2016

20 Nigerian Ping-Pongers Set For World Juniors Camp



Twenty Nigerian Youngsters are expected to start open camping in Lagos from Monday  for the International Table Tennis Federation World Junior Championships in Cape Town, South Africa.

No Show For Nigerian Wrestlers At The Olympics




Amas Daniel.
Nigeria’s poor performance in wrestling at the Rio  Olympics continued in the men’s event Sunday with team captain Amas Daniel going down  to Georgia’s Zurabi Iakobishvili.

Tuesday 16 August 2016

Nigerian Footballer Dies In Azerbaijan.


Michael In Green and White.Photo By Pulse.

A Nigerian footballer, Michael Umanyika on Monday, August 15 died while training with his club in Azerbaijan.

Sunday 14 August 2016

D'Tigers In Historic Feat At The Olympics




Against the Croates.
Nigeria’s D’Tigers earned their first win at the 2016 Olympics men’s basketball event by pulling off the biggest upset to date in the competition with a 90-76 defeat of Croatia on Saturday.

CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE:Don't Rule Us Out,Enyimba ,Coach Paul Declares





Enyimba's coach Paul Aigbogun is upbeat about the chances of his team against homers, El-Zamalek of Egypt when both team clash in the reverse fixture of the group B in CAF champions League.

Sports Ministry Pays Back Mikel .......Dogara Applauds Team


Thank You Father,Mikel seem to be saying

The Nigeria Football Federation,the NFF,has revealed that the Ministry of Youth and Sports has refunded to Captain Mikel Obi the sum of  $4,600 US Dollars,the amount  he paid for the team in São Paulo on their way to Salvador.

Blessing Disappoints in Women's 100m,As Jamaicans Continue to Rule




A Disappointed Blessing.
Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare failed to make it to the finals in the women’s 100m.after returning in a time of 11.09s behind eventual winners Elaine Thompson of Jamaica and English Gardner of Great Britain in heat three, Sunday.

Saturday 13 August 2016

RIO 2016: Chierika Rowers Into Second Place In The Women's Final



Chierika.
Nigeria's emerging Force in Rowing Chierika Ukogo ended her chase for honours at the 2016 Olympics on a high when she finished 2nd in the Women's Singles Sculls in the Rowing event.

Okagbare In Olympics 100m Semi Final



Blessing.
Nigeria's sprint sensation,Blessing Okagbare made it to the semi finals of the women's 100m dash in a time of 11:16s which placed her second in heat 3 behind America's Tori Bowie who braised the tape in 11:13s.

Wednesday 10 August 2016

Nigeria Women's League Body Raise Alarm Over Growing Match Boycott




The Nigeria Women’ Professional Football League, the NWFL ,is still in shock over the recent huge walk over of matches recorded in both the Women’s elite and Professional Leagues in the second stanza of the  2015/16 season.

Paudits Pour In For Historic Aruna Quadri



Gumel
Rio 2016 history maker ,Aruna Quadri has continued to  received  plaudits for his exploits at the 31st Olympiad Table Tennis event where became the first Nigeria and African to reach the quarter final in the men's singles event.

Sports Ministry's Half A Loaf For Igali !


Igali managing half a loaf
President of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation,Daniel Igali is making do with what he called "half a loaf" following the delayed decision by the sports Ministry in Nigeria to approve partly  the  Sparing partners for his wrestling contingent for the Rio Olympics.

World Number One Ping Ponger Tips Aruna To Rule The World

 
The man who ended the fairy tale run of Africa's numero uno ping ponger,Aruna Quadri in the quarter final showpiece that produced the longest rally strokes,Ma Long of China,has labelled Aruna an emerging force in Table Tennis.

Sunday 7 August 2016

Abimbola Labels Nigeria's Dream Team Unruffled

Sina.
The  Nigeria's Dream Team VI,have settled down  after unpleasant tales of late arrival  to Rio and ordeals they went through  from their pre camp base in  Georgia,Atalanta,the USA,head of Sports and Outside broadcasts of Radio Nigeria,Sina Abimbola has stated.

Aruna Romps Into Round Four At The Olympics


Aruna with astonishing performance
Nigeria and Africa's top Table Tennis player,Aruna Quadri earlier today stunned 5th seed,Chuang Chil-Yuang of Chinese Tapei  4-0 to zoom to the 4th  round (sixteen) in the men;s singles of the Rio 2016 Table Tennis event.

Rio 2016:Quadri Makes It To Round Three In Table Tennis

Nigeria’s last man standing in the Men’s Table Tennis Singles event at the ongoing Olympic Games in Brazil, Aruna Quadri secured a well-deserved 4-1 victory over Slovakia’s Yang Wang on Sunday evening at the Riocentro Pavilion 3.
The continent’s best player only resumed his Olympics action today, having secured a bye into Round 2 of the Men’s Singles. However he gave a good account of himself in the game, digging deep to dismiss the threat posed by the Slovakian.
Quadri won the first game 11-7, before going down by the same margin in the second. However he held fort, winning the next three games 11-7, 11-9 and 11-6 to advance to Round 3 of the competition.
Quadri will be excited by his performance tonight, considering that his London 2012 campaign ended in Round 2, after he succumbed to a 4-2 defeat in the hands of Turkey’s Bora Vang.
He will face Taipei’s Chih-Yuan Chuang by 9pm tonight.
- See more at: http://www.makingofchamps.com/2016/08/07/aruna-quadri-advances-to-round-3-of-the-mens-singles-at-rio-olympics/#sthash.KFz1MMfb.dpuf
Nigeria’s last man standing in the Men’s Table Tennis Singles event at the ongoing Olympic Games in Brazil, Aruna Quadri secured a well-deserved 4-1 victory over Slovakia’s Yang Wang on Sunday evening at the Riocentro Pavilion 3.
The continent’s best player only resumed his Olympics action today, having secured a bye into Round 2 of the Men’s Singles. However he gave a good account of himself in the game, digging deep to dismiss the threat posed by the Slovakian.
Quadri won the first game 11-7, before going down by the same margin in the second. However he held fort, winning the next three games 11-7, 11-9 and 11-6 to advance to Round 3 of the competition.
Quadri will be excited by his performance tonight, considering that his London 2012 campaign ended in Round 2, after he succumbed to a 4-2 defeat in the hands of Turkey’s Bora Vang.
He will face Taipei’s Chih-Yuan Chuang by 9pm tonight.
- See more at: http://www.makingofchamps.com/2016/08/07/aruna-quadri-advances-to-round-3-of-the-mens-singles-at-rio-olympics/#sthash.KFz1MMfb.dpuf
Nigeria’s last man standing in the Men’s Table Tennis Singles event at the ongoing Olympic Games in Brazil, Aruna Quadri secured a well-deserved 4-1 victory over Slovakia’s Yang Wang on Sunday evening at the Riocentro Pavilion 3.
The continent’s best player only resumed his Olympics action today, having secured a bye into Round 2 of the Men’s Singles. However he gave a good account of himself in the game, digging deep to dismiss the threat posed by the Slovakian.
Quadri won the first game 11-7, before going down by the same margin in the second. However he held fort, winning the next three games 11-7, 11-9 and 11-6 to advance to Round 3 of the competition.
Quadri will be excited by his performance tonight, considering that his London 2012 campaign ended in Round 2, after he succumbed to a 4-2 defeat in the hands of Turkey’s Bora Vang.
He will face Taipei’s Chih-Yuan Chuang by 9pm tonight.
- See more at: http://www.makingofchamps.com/2016/08/07/aruna-quadri-advances-to-round-3-of-the-mens-singles-at-rio-olympics/#sthash.KFz1MMfb.dpuf
Nigeria’s last man standing in the Men’s Table Tennis Singles event at the ongoing Olympic Games in Brazil, Aruna Quadri secured a well-deserved 4-1 victory over Slovakia’s Yang Wang on Sunday evening at the Riocentro Pavilion 3.
The continent’s best player only resumed his Olympics action today, having secured a bye into Round 2 of the Men’s Singles. However he gave a good account of himself in the game, digging deep to dismiss the threat posed by the Slovakian.
Quadri won the first game 11-7, before going down by the same margin in the second. However he held fort, winning the next three games 11-7, 11-9 and 11-6 to advance to Round 3 of the competition.
Quadri will be excited by his performance tonight, considering that his London 2012 campaign ended in Round 2, after he succumbed to a 4-2 defeat in the hands of Turkey’s Bora Vang.
He will face Taipei’s Chih-Yuan Chuang by 9pm tonight.
- See more at: http://www.makingofchamps.com/2016/08/07/aruna-quadri-advances-to-round-3-of-the-mens-singles-at-rio-olympics/#sthash.KFz1MMfb.dpuf


Quadri.
Nigeria's Aruna Quadri will take on his Chinese Tapei opponent,Chih-Yuang Chuang  in the 3rd round of the men's singles event in Table Tennis at the ongoing Rio 2016 Olympic games .

Saturday 6 August 2016

Rio 2016:Nigeria's Coco Advance to Quarter Final In Rowing


Coco
American - born Nigerian professional rower,Chierika”Coco” Ukogu made it to the next round-quarter final  after a  3rd effort finish in hit 5 of the women's sculls.

Rio 2016 :Oshonaike,Offiong Shine In Opening Game





Funke In Action
Assistant captain of team Nigeria Funke Oshonaike has advanced to the next round of the Women’s singles event in Table Tennis after defeating his opponent from Lebanon,Mariana Sahakian 4-3,today.she wil next play Puerto Rican,Adrian Diaz .

NFF To Unveil Gernot Rohr As Super Eagles Tecnical Adviser


Rohr.

Sixty three year old German coach,Gernot Rohr has been handed the job of the Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles by the Nigeria Football Federation,the NFF.

Friday 5 August 2016

Rio 2016 Nine Goal Thriller:Sam John Hails Dream Team's Fighting Spirit


Veteran Sam John

Sports analyst and marketer,Sam John is holding the can do spirit of the average  Nigerian responsible for the victory of the Nation’s Olympic team over Japan in the Rio Olympic.

Thursday 4 August 2016

Pharmacists Council Of Nigeria Wants Clean Bill For Team Nigeria At The Olympics


 
PCN Registrar,Mohammed.

The Pharmacist Council of Nigeria ,PNC, has backed Olympic sanctions imposed by the world Anti Doping Agency,WADA,on erring athletes ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics .

Tuesday 2 August 2016

Nigerian Cricketers Get Deadline To Report To Camp Ahead Of ICC Africa



The Nigeria Cricket Federation,NCF, has set Wednesday as deadline for  invited players to report to their Abuja camp ahead of  preparation for the Under Nineteen, ICC Africa Div. 2 to be hosted by South Africa.

Nigeria's Opponents In Olympics Table Tennis To Emerge Wednesday


Aruna with eyes on the Egg

Team Nigeria will on Wednesday, August 3, at the Riocentro Pavilion 3 in Rio know her opponents in the team and singles events of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.