Her impressive weight lift of 167kg capped off Nigeria's outing marked by a total of two gold, three silver, and two bronze ...

Nigeria has again confirmed its status as a force to reckon with in the world after Charity Jatau claimed the gold medal in ...

Nojim Maiyegun, the nation’s first Olympic Games medalist, passed away on Monday in Vienna, Austria largely forgotten by the ...

Nigeria’s first-ever Olympics medalist, Nojim Maiyegun, has been reported dead at 84. This was disclosed late Monday by an ...

Mariam Eniola Bolaji of Nigeria became the first African athlete to win a badminton medal at a Games - Olympics or ...

The athletes need not be blamed for the unfortunate outcomes but the sports administrators for their fabled incompetence.

Nojim Maiyegun, the first Nigerian to medal in the Olympics, winning bronze at light middleweight in the 1964 Tokyo Games, has died at the age of 83 in Vienna, Austria, The Punch reported.

Badminton player, Eniola Bolajii, has won the first medal for Nigeria, at the ongoing Paralympics event in Paris, France.

Eighteen-year-old Mariam Eniola Bolaji is the first African to win a medal in badminton at the Paralympics - a feat yet to be ...

In a stark reminder of how Nigeria often neglects its sporting heroes, Nojim Maiyegun, the country’s first Olympic medalist, ...