The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has announced the reopening of flight operations at the Port Harcourt International Airport (PHIA) to the general public. Mrs Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, of the FAAN, said on Sunday in Lagos that the airport was on
Athletics
The recently concluded IAAF World Championships in London have come and gone, and in their wake, they have brought up familiar recriminations among Nigerians. Unfortunately, we tend to ask these questions at the wrong time, and as always, we ask questions that we have answers to. Nigeria ended the tournament without any medals despite competing […]
Salwa Naser, a 400m silver medalist at the World Athletics championship in London, says she is happy to have chosen Bahrain ahead of Nigeria. The 19-year-old set a new Bahraini record to win both her heat in 50.57 seconds and the semi-final in 50.08 seconds. After the race, Naser was asked if she had any […]
The Chairman of Air Peace, Barrister Allen Onyema has said that airlines in the country were designed to fail with the kind of operating environment in Nigeria, ranging from double taxation, lack of facilities for night flights and other issues. Onyema, who was speaking at the Aviation Round Table (ART) 2nd Quarter Breakfast Meeting on […]
Nigeria has been known to produce sprinters who dominated the world stage during their era. Ironically, the country remains one of the most affected in terms of losing her home grown talents to other countries, or her inability to attract world-class athletes of Nigerian heritage in the Diaspora. In 2014, five world-class athletes of Nigerian […]
Jamaica’s Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will run his last race on home soil at June’s Racers Grand Prix before retiring from competition two months later, he said on Friday. The 30-year-old has already said he plans to retire from the sport after the Aug. 5 to Aug. 13 world championships in London having won […]
Ibtihaj Muhammad stood beaming on the podium in Budapest in 2013, flashing a bright smile, a world championship bronze medal and the red, white and blue hijab that perfectly encapsulated who she is as an athlete and a person. Muhammad, a New Jersey-born fencer, is a proud Muslim and an equally proud American. And this […]
While the eyes of the sporting world were fixed on boxing’s much-touted “fight of the century” in Las Vegas on May 2, the two fastest men on the planet renewed a rivalry on the track. Six-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt and American arch-rival Justin Gatlin took to the blue track of the Thomas A. […]
A tearful Paula Radcliffe admitted emotion almost got better on her London Marathon farewell. The 41-year-old returned to the scene of her finest hour to bring the curtain down on a glorious career on Sunday. The world record holder shouted her thanks to the crowds lining the route and linked hands with a club runner […]
Sprint superstars, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, head Jamaica’s 44-strong squad that will go across the Caribbean to the IAAF/BTC World Relays, Bahamas 2015, which will be staged in Nassau in May 2-3. Jamaica finished second to the USA in the Golden Baton standings at last year’s inaugural edition of the event, when their men’s […]
Usain Bolt, the world record holder in 100 metres and six-time Olympic gold medallist has assured that he will run at the Rio 2016 Olympics and will also run in the Bahamas next month at the IAAF/BTC World Relays. Bolt, who also holds the 200 metres world record, ran only three races last year as […]
Coach Glen Mills has charged Usain Bolt to protect his legacy, ahead of his three-year swansong, which gets going with a return to Beijing for this year’s IAAF World Championships. Now with six Olympic gold medals, 10 World Championships medals (8 gold), records in the 100m (9.59), 200m (19.19) and the 4x100m (36.84) to his […]
British double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah will open his Diamond League campaign in Doha on May 15, organisers said. Farah will compete in the 3000 metres in the opening leg of the 14-meet series, marking the 32-year-old’s first appearance in Doha. “I’ve heard so many great things about the track, the crowd and […]
Britain’s Mo Farah has become embroiled in a new race row after Spain’s Fabian Roncero said the Olympic star’s new European record does not count. Farah, who was born in Somalia before moving to Britain aged eight, became the first British runner to break the hour-mark when he broke the European record in a time […]
Ahead of Rio 2016 Olympics, a Lagos-based athlete’s development outfit, “Making of Champions” has begun a two-day talent hunt of young grassroots athletes in the South East of Nigeria. The event, according to the initiator of the programme, Bambo Akani, is aimed at discovering scores of young talented athletes in parts of South East, Nigeria, […]
Former 400m world champion Amantle Montsho has revealed she will appeal against the two-year ban handed down to her for doping after testing positive at last year’s Commonwealth Games. The 31-year-old from Botswana tested positive for the stimulant methylhexaneamine after the 400m final in Glasgow, where she finished fourth. Her “A” and back-up
The world’s two leading one-lap runners will go head-to-head for the first time in 2015 at the Shanghai IAAF Diamond League meeting on May 17. World 400m champion LaShawn Merritt and Olympic champion Kirani James will clash at the second meeting on this year’s IAAF Diamond League calendar with important bragging rights to be won […]
Zimbabwe’s top female long distance athlete Sharon Tavengwa’s fairytale run began in an unorthodox fashion in Chirumhanzu when she pretended to be a boy for her talent to be recognised. Tavengwa’s chance to be noticed came when one of the boys making up the four by 400 metres U-12 relay team scheduled to compete in […]