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Olympics: Team Nigeria returns home empty handed

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Monday, August 13th, 2012

The London 2012 Olympic Games ended on Sunday with Team Nigeria returning home with no medal, raising questions over the N1.9bn budgeted for the Nigeria’s participation at the Games. It was an unusual record compared to the nation’s achievements at the Games in the past two decades. It was one that reminded Nigerians of the […]

African Youth Championship: Flying Eagles beat Tanzania 2-0

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, August 12th, 2012

Flying Eagles on Sunday defeated the Ngorogoro Heroes of Tanzania 2-0 in the second leg of their qualifiers for the 2013 African Youths Championship. Nigeria have thus advanced to the third round of the qualifiers on a 4-1 aggregate having won the first leg 2-1 in Dar es Salaam two weeks ago. The match, which […]

Olympics: Bolt reignites Lewis feud after double

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Thursday, August 9th, 2012

LONDON (AFP) – Sprint king Usain Bolt said he had lost all respect for Carl Lewis after the US sprint legend restated his concerns over the toughness of Jamaica’s drug-testing policy. Speaking after winning the 200m at the London Olympics to seal a second consecutive sprint double, Bolt said he held sprint icon Jesse Owens […]

Eaglets’ 5-1 victory excites Amuneke

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Calabar – Golden Eaglets’ Assistant Coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, has expressed joy at his team’s 5-1 spanking of Diamond Stars Academy FC in a friendly at St Patrick’s College, Ikot Ansa, Calabar on Wednesday. The national U-17 team is currently camped in Calabar, ahead of the 2013 CAF U-17 qualifier against Niger Republic in September, this […]

Olympics: Help us find our athletes, Cameroon beg British police

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Cameroon Olympic officials have asked for help in tracking down seven of their athletes who have gone missing during the London Olympics, organisers said on Wednesday. The seven, including five boxers, a swimmer and a football player, have disappeared from the Olympic village in east London and are suspected of having left to stay in […]

Olympics Basketball: Nigeria’s D’Tigers: So gallant in defeat

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

The buzzer sounded the end of the fairy tale, and the Nigerian team limped off the court in slow motion, unwilling, unable to let go. As they filed into the tunnel, the crowd stood in unison and cheered the team they call D’Tigers. D’Tigers lost again on Monday, this time to France, standing ovation […]

Picture: Nigerian player dies on Romanian pitch

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, August 6th, 2012

A Nigerian player, Henry Chinonso Ihelewere, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a friendly match between Romanian second division teams CS Delta Tulcea and FC Balotesti on Sunday. Delta’s Ihelewere, 21, collapsed with no-one around him only 15 minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. The game was played in the town […]

Olympics: Picture: Williams sisters win tennis gold

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Monday, August 6th, 2012

Serena Williams followed her own Golden Slam by teaming with big sister Venus on Sunday to continue their dominance of Olympic women’s doubles tennis. The American sisters beat Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4 under the roof on a rainy afternoon at the All England Club for their third Olympic […]

Usain Bolt defends 100m gold at London Olympics

Posted by admin Sports, Track & Field Monday, August 6th, 2012

Usain Bolt of Jamaica has retained his Olympic 100m title in a hotly contested race which saw seven men finished the race in less than 10 secs. Bolt, though has a poor reaction to the gun set an Olympic record of 9.63 sec at the London Olympic to win the highly anticipated race. “I was […]

Olympics: Nigeria’s medal hopes dashed as Okagbare claims last place in women’s final 100m race

Posted by admin Headlines, NNP News, Sports, Top Stories, Track & Field Saturday, August 4th, 2012

By NNP Filed by NNP – Nigeria’s woes at the on-going London Olympic games continued unabated Saturday as the only hopeful for a medal, 23 year-old Blessing Okagbare, finished last (11:01 secs) in the final women’s 100m race that was won by 32-year Jamaica’s Shelly-ann Frazer-Pryce (10:75 secs) with America’s Carmelita Jeter claiming silver (10:78 secs) while Jamaica’s Veronica […]