BY ANDREW OROLUA Association of Haji and Umrah Operators of Nigeria, AHUON, has called for immediate amendment of National Hajj Commission, NAHCON, Act of 2006. Unanimously, members of AHUON at its annual zonal conferences held between August 19 and 28 agreed that “the current NAHCON Acts
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The league organisers have announced a new cash reward for the Nigeria topflight kings as the current campaign come to an end this weekend The League Management Company has announced that the Nigeria Professional Football League champions will receive forty million naira as prize money. Leaders Enugu Rangers and closest rival Rivers United are the […]
Auchi town in Edo North is a beehive of activities as over 5000 athletes, officials and top government functionaries that includes Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has besieged the sleepy town for the third Okpekpe Race billed for Saturday. 26 foreigners from Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Morocco, Norway Ghana and host country, Nigeria, are set […]
The Nigeria Scrabble Federation (NSF) has invited 19 players for the fifth Scrabble Meet scheduled for May 28-31, in Umuahia, Abia State. The players invited are Eta Karo, Wellington Jighere, AyorindeSaidu, Emmanuel Jose, Denis Ikekeregor, Prince Omosefe, OltundeOuwole, Rex Ogbakpa, Rasheed Balogun, OnotaOjiru, AzuOgbogu, Cyril Umbiye and NsikamEtim. Others invited are
The Sports Minister,Tamuno Danagogo, and Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) President, Engineer Habu Gumel, has poured encomium on Nigeria volleyball teams (men and women) for qualifying for the All Africa Games (AAG) billed for Congo in September. Danagogo said it is a thing of joy for Nigerian volleyball teams to have qualified for the AAG. “I […]
With less than 60 days to kick off of the 7th FIFA/Women World Cup in Canada, the Super Falcons are yet to begin meaningful preparation for the biggest and best women’s tournament despite the fact that Nigeria is drawn in ‘The group of death’ that included USA, Sweden and Australia. A cross section of the […]
Over 3000 runners are expected to participate in next month’s 3rd Okpekpe 10km road race scheduled to hold in Okpekpe, Auchi in Edo State,organisers of the race have confirmed. Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) Technical Director Yusuf Alli said a lot of entries have come from across the world for the Okpekpe race. “We are […]
Top Nigeria Table Tennis Star ArunaQuadriwill lead Team Nigeria to 2015 ITTF QOROS World Table Tennis Championship (WTTC) taking place in Suohou, China, from April 26 to May 3. Sources close to the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation (NTTF) said Aruna will be joined by OjoOnoalopo, KazeemMakanjuola and SegunToriola in the male category, while FunkeOshonaike and […]
Edo FA Cup final, earlier scheduled to hold on April 5 in line with Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) directive will now hold on Wednesday, April 8, at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City. The clash is between two unknown teams, as last year’s finalists, Insurers of Benin and Dynamites, have all crashed out. The […]
Team Nigeria Para-athletics contingent came back from Tunisia, recently, with their heads high, after winning 13 gold, two silver and a bronze medal to place third behind Tunisia and Algeria at the 9th International Paralympics , Para-athletics Grand Prix in Tunisia, despite going with only eight male athletes. The Nigerian contingent had to be pruned, […]
The coast is now clear for the Team Nigeria Basketball team, D’Tigers, to defend both the All Africa Games (AAG) gold it won four years ago in Mozambique and the elusive AfroBasket tourney, as the national basketball coach, Sanni Ahmed, has vowed to involve more NBA players in the competition. Ahmed, who led the team […]
The President of the Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF), Engineer Habu Gumel, has expressed great optimism that Nigeria male and female volleyball teams will qualify for the next All Africa Games (AAG) holding in Congo Brazzaville in September this year. Speaking with Extra Time, the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) President said, all hands were on deck […]
President of the Nigeria Cycling Federation (NCF), Alhaji Mohammad Nur Sheriff, has won a seat into the Federal House of Representatives from Kata Badge Ngala and Bama constituency of Borno State under the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket. Mohammed Bashir, the Technical Director of the Federation, told Extra Time that the president promised to use […]
Top athletes have signified their intention to arrive early for this year’s 10-kilometre Okpekpe Race holding in Edo State on May 16. Extra Time investigation revealed that top international marathoners from Kenyan Ethiopia, Morocco and other parts of the world are planning to arrive early in the country in order to get acclimatised. Over $75,000 […]
Team Nigeria cyclists are expected to commence camping in May immediately after the National Sports Festival in Calabar, for the 3rd edition of ECOWAS Cycling Tour. Team Nigeria’s Technical Director, Mohammed Bashiru, told Extra Time that they will go into camping in May immediately after the National Sports Festival to start preparation for the biannual […]
The Coordinator of Annual Okpekpe race Yusuf Alli has said this year’s race will take a new dimension, as Nigerian athletes will have to go through some local races that will fine tune and help prepare them for the race that comes up in May. Alli, Technical Committee Chairman of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) […]
Nigeria’s male basketball team, D’Tigers, are set to out-dunk Burkina Faso team today in a rescheduled AfroBasket/All Africa Games Qualifier in Ouagadougou. The qualifier was earlier billed to hold last Saturday in the country’s capital but was moved to today by the hosts, for logistics reasons. Nigeria‘s 18-man squad arrived the West African country on […]