Tag: Tokyo 2020

The recently concluded 2020 Tokyo Olympics which was held in Japan, again, showed how people of Nigerian descent have continued to win big for other nations. While Nigeria only returned ...

German sportswear manufacturing titan, PUMA, wants to sue the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) and the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports. The development happens as the sportswear manufacturer cancelled ...

Canada women's national team defeated Number 1-ranked USA in the semi finals of the Olympic football with a penalty kick goal to advance to the final match against Sweden.  The ...

Blessing Okagbare and 10 other athletes have been cleared by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) to compete in the athletics event of the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Okagbare who is ...

Former African table tennis champion, Olufunke Oshonaike has been inducted into the exclusive club of seven time Olympian known as the ‘Club 7’ by International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Oshonaike ...

For the first time in the history of the nation, Zimbabwe is sending a Black swimmer to the Olympics. Donata Katai, 17, won African youth titles and broke youth records ...

The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee has sacked the director of the opening ceremony, Kentaro Kobayashi because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. President of ...

24-year-old Uche Eke has made history by becoming the first Nigerian gymnast at the Olympics since 1952 when the country started participating in Olympics. In view of his qualification for ...

A Nigerian Olympic official has been admitted to the hospital after testing positive for Coronavirus on arrival in Japan. A local Television Station, TV Asahi revealed that he tested positive ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has praised the Nigeria men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, for creating history as the first African team to defeat the United States. ...