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3,000 athletes set for Anti-Corruption marathon in Abuja

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 12 October 2024 0

No fewer than 3,000 athletes have registered and set to take part in the 2024 Anti-Corruption half marathon slated for Abuja on Dec. 7. The fifth edition of the race is geared towards raising awareness on the scourge of corruption and how to collectively tackle the menace. The National

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Edo 2020: 186 Athletes to represent Adamawa

Ihesiulo Grace 17 February 2020 0

Mrs Esther Dominic, Acting Director, Adamawa State Sports Council, says no fewer than 186 Athletes will represent the state in the forthcoming National Sports Festival in Edo. Dominic said that the state government had prepared for the festival tagged; “Edo 2020’’, when the Torch of Unity arrived Yola, on Monday.  The festival is scheduled to hold […]

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Ex-Nigerian female athletes plan mini sports festival for youths

Ihesiulo Grace 7 February 2020 0

Abuja – The Association of Former Female Athletes of Nigeria (AFFAN) says it will organise a mini sports festival for boys and girls in primary and secondary schools in the country to help curb crimes in the society. Mrs Esther Aluko, President of AFFAN said this in Abuja during a press briefing to sensitise the […]

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Chioma Ajunwa: Why Nigerian athletes are struggling

Ihesiulo Grace 12 April 2019

Nigerian Olympic champion, Chioma Ajunwa, has blamed the decline in Nigeria’s dominance in athletics to the way the country abandon her athletes after every tournament. “The problem is huge,” Ajunwa, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, said that they were abandoned and it is affecting the upcoming ones that are supposed to take after them. “Here […]

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150 Ekiti athletes for National Sports Festival

Ihesiulo Grace 13 November 2018 0

No fewer than 150 athletes will represent Ekiti State at the forthcoming National Sports Festival scheduled to hold in Abuja in December. General Manager of Ekiti State Sports Council, Deji Samo, said the athletes would participate in 17 events including athletics, para-athletics, weightlifting, golf, badminton, boxing, chess, gymnastics, judo, karate, kick-boxing,

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Abroad Is Good ! 5 Cameroonian Athletes Disappear In 2018 Commonwealth Games In Australia

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2018 0

Five Cameroonian athletes have gone missing from their accommodation at the Commonwealth Games in Australia.   Press attache, Simon Molombe told the BBC that officials viewed it as “desertion” and that the missing athletes had been reported to Australian police.   The three weightlifters and two boxers were last seen at different times on Monday […]