All roads will lead to the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos State, on Saturday, May 22nd, for the inaugural edition of the AFN/MoC Invitational which will feature a total of 312 Athletes competing across 16 Track &...

Nigerian sprinter Enoch Olaolu Adegoke has been promised a Sports Utility Vehicle if he wins gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria Shehu Ibrahim Gusau issued the promise...

Olympic 3000m steeplechase champion Ruth Jebet has been banned for four years after testing positive for banned blood booster r-EPO (recombinant erythropoietin), the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced Wednesday. The 23-year-old Bahrain athlete was suspended in February 2018 after failing...

Double Olympic champion Lee Evans has died aged 74 at the Babcock University Teaching Hospital in Ogun State. American Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400m and 4x400m champion had been on life support at the...

The Airtel Ijebu Heritage Half Marathon was concluded successfully on Saturday, 17 July with Kenyans dominating each category of the marathon. The 21km race was won by Hosea Kiplimo who finished in a time...

Sprint legend Usain Bolt has revealed the name of his new born daughter as he posted pictures of her for the first time. The 33-year-old Olympic gold medallist posted pictures of daughter...

Long Jump sensation Ese Brume has set a new African mark in women's long jump after she leapt an astonishing 7.17 metres at the Chula Vista Festival to shatter Chioma Ajunwa's 25-year African record.

Long Jump queen Ese Brume won Nigeria's first medal in Athletics at an Olympics in 13 years as she took bronze in the women's Long Jump in Tokyo on Tuesday. Brume leapt 6.97m to...

Nigerian track legend Gloria Alozie has opened up about the reasons she dumped her birth country to compete for Spain explaining that her decision was borne out of pragmatism rather than a frustration with Nigeria's notoriously...

The African Athletics Championships will no longer hold in Nigeria after the country was stripped of hosting rights by the Confederation of African Athletics after local health authorities declined to approve the event according to reports.