By Ben Alaiya with agency reports Nigeria’s multi-talented female athlete, Blessing Okagbare, has entered the Guinness Book of World records, apparently the first by any Nigerian living or dead. Okagbare, was listed as the athletes who appeared in most diamond leagues among her peers in the
Ahead of the seventeenth edition of the IAAF World Athletics Championships, scheduled to be held between 27 September and 6 October 2019 in Doha, Qatar the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has made a list of qualifying athletes. Nigeria has joined the growing list of countries that had named its contingent for the 2019 IAAF […]
Nigerian athlete, Blessing Okagbare, turned up with an impressive 22.04secs in her 200m race at the Wes Kittley Invitational Track and Field Meet at the Abilene Christian University, which erased the 22-year-old previous African record of 22.07secs set by Mary Onyali at a Meet in Switzerland in 1996. Apart from becoming the new African record […]